In 1970, Richard Young, Alton Becker, and Kenneth Pike published Rhetoric: Discovery and Change, a widely influential college writing textbook that used a Rogerian approach to communication to revise the traditional Aristotelian framework for rhetoric.

* June 27 – Richard Pike Bissell, author of short stories and novels ( d. 1977 )

Director Sam Peckinpah considered many actors for the Pike Bishop role ; Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Sterling Hayden, Richard Boone and Robert Mitchum were all considered before William Holden was cast.

George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Tony Blair James Bond, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, Ozzy Osbourne, Sir Patrick Moore, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Victor Meldrew and Richard Wilson, Brian Sewell, Fourth Doctor ( Tom Baker ), Tenth Doctor ( David Tennant ), Brian Perkins, Simon Cowell, Master Yoda ( on radio )), Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, David Beckham, Chris Tarrant, William Hague, Simon Schama, Russell Crowe & Maximus Decimus Meridius, Ricky Gervais, Michael Buerk, Sir Trevor McDonald ( on television ), George Lucas, Jeremy Clarkson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sir Alan Sugar, David Frost, Ross Kemp, Eminem, Gordon Ramsay, Judge John Deed, Terry Wogan, John Humphrys, Rolf Harris, Charlotte Church ( on radio ), Jonathan Ross, Dale Winton, Jon Pertwee, Chris Eubank, Frank Bruno ( on radio ), Richard Whiteley, Morgan Freeman, Bono, Homer Simpson ( on radio ), John Craven, Griff Rhys Jones, Billy Connolly, Nick Ross, Senator John Edwards, Phil Spencer, Robbie Williams, John Motson, Gary Lineker ( on radio ), Jack Bauer, Dermot Murnaghan, Johnny Vegas, Shane Richie, Liam Gallagher, Captain Jack Sparrow, Jar Jar Binks, Doctor Octopus, José Mourinho, Hugh Laurie & Dr Gregory House, James Blunt, Alex Turner, Noel Edmonds, Justin Lee Collins, Jamie Cullum, Jamie Oliver, Wolverine, Ian Hislop, Jeremy Kyle, Wayne Rooney, Gordon Brown, Michael Owen, Jack Johnson, Captain Jack Harkness, Pete Doherty, Ewan McGregor, Peter Andre, Robin Hood, James Nesbitt, Michael Pike

* Jackboots on Whitehall starring Ewan McGregor, Richard E. Grant, Rosamund Pike & Tom Wilkinson

Richard Hadley, Shaun Hart, Chris Johnson, Clark Keating, Nigel Lappin, Justin Leppitsch, Alastair Lynch, Dylan McLaren, Craig McRae, Mal Michael, Tim Notting, Martin Pike, Luke Power, Chris Scott, Michael Voss, and Darryl White.

* Richard Roundtree as Commissioner Pike

Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell.

The study group included such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower, Allen Dulles, Richard M. Bissell, Jr. and George Kennan.

Novelist and playwright Richard Bissell lived in Darien from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s.

On 18 November 1960, Allen Dulles ( CIA Director ) and Richard Bissell ( CIA Deputy Director for Plans ) first briefed President-elect John Kennedy on the outline plans.

Detailed planning, training and military operations were conducted by Jacob Esterline, Colonel Jack Hawkins and Colonel Stanley W. Beerli under the direction of Richard Bissell, and his deputy Tracy Barnes.

In spite of vigorous rebuttals by CIA management of the findings, CIA Director Allen Dulles, CIA Deputy Director Charles Cabell, and Deputy Director for Plans Richard Bissell were all forced to resign by early 1962.

After the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy had fired CIA director Allen W. Dulles, Deputy Director Charles P. Cabell, and Deputy Director Richard Bissell, and turned his attention towards Vietnam.

* 1955: The Pajama Game – Music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell.

* Richard M. Bissell, Jr., CIA Deputy Director for Plans, Bay of Pigs Invasion planner, father of U-2 ; formed the basis for Matt Damon's character in the The Good Shepherd

In March 1960, under The Cuban Project, a CIA plan approved by President Eisenhower and under the direction of CIA Directorate for Plans, Richard M. Bissell, Gottlieb came up with ideas to spray Fidel Castro's television studio with LSD and to saturate Castro's shoes with thallium so that the hair of his beard would fall out.

The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell.

The original book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell was revised by Peter Ackerman ( screenwriter Ice Age ).

After Richard M. Bissell, Jr. lost his post as Deputy Director for Plans in 1962, Tracy Barnes took over the running of Mockingbird.

In retrospect, Richard M. Bissell, Jr., assistant to the CIA Director, denied that the 1954 Guatemalan coup d ’ état resulted from the conflation of private, multinational, business interests and US Government foreign policy ; he said that there “ is absolutely no reason to believe ” that the Eisenhower Administration ’ s ( 1953 – 61 ) desire to help the United Fruit Company had “ any significant role ” in deciding to depose the elected Guatemalan government of President Jacobo Árbenz.

* Richard M. Bissell, Jr.

From Miami, according to some reports, he and Central Intelligence Agency member Richard Bissell planned an assassination attempt on Castro.

Richard Bissell may refer to:

* Richard M. Bissell Jr. ( 1910 – 1994 ), CIA Director for Plans

Richard Bissell Prosser writes 58 lives for the Dictionary of National Biography, and supplies much material for the New English Dictionary.

* Plans for an invasion of Cuba were presented by CIA official Richard M. Bissell, Jr. for the approval of President Kennedy.

Richard Bissell Prosser ( August 25, 1838-March 18, 1918 ) was a patent examiner and a biographical writer.

* 1913 – Richard L. Bare, American director

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

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

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

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

Examples include K. Ehrenberg's charcoal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern ) ( 1880 ), Richard Wagner's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848 – 1874 ), the Munich, Germany-based Germanic Neopagan magazine Walhalla ( 1905 – 1913 ), and the comic series Valhalla ( 1978, ongoing ) by Peter Madsen, and its subsequent animated film of the same name ( 1986 ).

* December 6 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1913 )

* German — Gottowt, John: The Black Lottery Ticket, or Pierrot's Last Night on the Town ( 1913 ); Löwenbein, Richard: Marionettes ( 1918 ); Piel, Harry: The Black Pierrot ( 1913, 1926 ); Wich, Ludwig von: The Cuckolded Pierrot ( 1917 ; view The Cuckolded Pierrot ).

: Mon Ami Pierrot: Songs and Fantasies ( 1917 ; illustrated by Will Bradley ); Beswick, Katherine: Columbine Wonders and Other Poems ( c. 1920 ); Bodenheim, Maxwell: " Pierrot Objects " ( 1920 ); Breed, Ida Marian: Poems for Pierrot ( 1939 ); Burt, Maxwell Struthers: " Pierrot at War " ( 1916 ); Burton, Richard: " Here Lies Pierrot " ( 1913 ); Chaplin, Ralph: Maybe, Pierrot ... ( c. 1918 ); Crane, Hart: " The Moth That God Made Blind " ( c. 1918, pub.

John Newton Mitchell ( September 15, 1913 – November 9, 1988 ) was the Attorney General of the United States from 1969 to 1972 under President Richard Nixon.

In 1913, Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, the chamber of commerce was set up, a library opened as part of the school, and avocado trees were first planted.

There were only a handful of settlers in the area in 1913 when Ransom Eli Olds decided to purchase on the northern tip of Tampa Bay from Richard Peters in what is the present-day Oldsmar.

* Richard Nixon ( 1913 – 1994 ) and Pat Nixon ( 1912 – 1993 ), 37th President of the United States and his wife.

* Richard Nixon ( 1913 – 94 ), former Vice President and President of the United States of America who summered here when he was Vice President.

Richard McGarrah Helms ( March 30, 1913 – October 22, 2002 ) was the Director of Central Intelligence ( DCI ), June 1966 to February 1973.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

In 1913, along with his brother, Richard B. Mellon, he established a memorial for his father, the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, as a department of the University of Pittsburgh.

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching ( 21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985 ), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was chairman of British Railways and a physicist and engineer.

* Richard L. Bare ( born 1913 ), American director of television shows and movies

Born in Vincennes, Indiana, Richard Skelton was the fourth son of Ida Mae ( née Fields ) and Joseph E. Skelton ( 1878 – 1913 ).

William Richard Tolbert, Jr. ( May 13, 1913 – April 12, 1980 ) was the 20th President of Liberia from 1971 to 1980.

Richard Dyer-Bennet ( October 6, 1913, Leicester, England-December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts ) was an English-born American folk singer ( or his own preferred term, " minstrel "), recording artist, and voice teacher.

Richard Simmons ( August 19, 1913 – January 11, 2003 ), also known as Dick Simmons, was an American actor.