Henry listened humbly, attentively and regularly to the sermons preached to his household, and once told his chaplain, Richard Milbourne, that he esteemed most the preachers whose attitude suggested, " Sir, you must hear me diligently: you must have a care to observe what I say.

* 1609 – Richard Bennett, English Governor of the Colony of Virginia ( d. 1675 )

* 1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer ( d. 2010 )

* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )

* 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter ( d. 1782 )

* 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1840 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist ( d. 1902 )

* 1951 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer ( d. 1992 )

* 1913 – Richard Simmons, American actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1878 – Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager ( d. 1963 )

* 1918 – Richard Greene, English actor ( d. 1985 )

* 1913 – Richard Tucker, American tenor ( d. 1975 )

* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1913 – Richard Stone, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

* 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American author ( d. 1916 )

* 1921 – Jean Richard, French actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1957 – Richard Jeni, American comedian ( d. 2007 )

* 1673 – Richard Mead, English physician ( d. 1754 )

* 1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician ( d. 1797 )

* 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian mathematician ( d. 1953 )

* 1900 – Richard Hughes, English novelist ( d. 1976 )

* 1222 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier ( d. 1262 )

* 1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2000 )

* 1694 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect ( d. 1753 )

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

Richard Zouch also Richard Zouche ( c. 1590 – 1 March 1661 ) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624.

He was Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1624 when Thomas Tesdale and Richard Wightwick refounded Broadgates Hall and named it Pembroke College in his honour.

* Richard Bonney, Society and Government in France under Richelieu and Mazarin, 1624 – 1661 1988 With 309 original documents

Richard Boyle, Jr., was knighted on 13 August 1624, at his father's house in Youghal, by Lord Falkland, the Lord Deputy of Ireland.

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

It contains a monument to Richard Nicolls ( 1624 – 1672 ), an Ampthill native, who, under the patronage of the Duke of York, brother to Charles II, to whom the king had granted the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland, received the submission of its chief town, New Amsterdam, in 1664, and became its first English governor, the town taking the name of New York.

* Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset ( 1589 – 1624 )

Richard Senhouse ( died 1626 ) was an English churchman, Bishop of Carlisle from 1624 to 1626.

The tower has three bells, the oldest of which is the tenor bell cast in 1624 by Richard I Purdue, who had foundries in places including Glastonbury and Stoford in Somerset.

Alternate forms are Moswetuset, as in the Moswetuset Hummock where Myles Standish and Squanto first met Chief Chickatawbut in 1621, and Massachusit, as in the Massachusit Fields where Captain Richard Wollaston brought the first settlers of Quincy in 1624.

Among its later members were three brothers, Edward ( 1560 – 1637 ), Richard ( 1564 – 1607 ) and Michael ( 1570 – 1624 ), all members of the Society of Jesus.

* Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset ( 1589 – 1624 ), Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, first husband of Lady Anne Clifford

Rumour noted later by the curious antiquary John Aubrey had it that she was the " concubine " of Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset ( died 1624 ), who had children by her and settled upon her an annuity of £ 500 per annum.

And by her Will and Codicil, both executed in July, 1624, gave her second son, Edward Lathom, the occupation and profit of “ this my hall in Allerton ," and the houses and lands for three years after her death for the better discharging of her debts and to keep her other sons, Richard and John, “ with dyet.

* 1 May 1624: Richard Kaye

In 1624, Thomas Morton emigrated from England to the Plymouth Colony, in the company of Captain Richard Wollaston.

* Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset 10 December 1612 – 28 March 1624

Catherine and Richard Bertie's exile became the basis of a ballad by Thomas Deloney, The Dutchess of Suffolk's Calamity, published before 1607, and of Thomas Drue's play, The Life of the Duchess of Suffolk, published in 1624.

Richard Nicolls ( 1624 in Ampthill, Bedfordshire – 28 May 1672 on the North Sea, off Suffolk ) was the first English colonial governor of New York province.

While he was at Florence he received the news of the death of his elder brother Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, which took place on 28 March 1624 and he thereupon became fourth Earl of Dorset.