* 1976 – Richard McCourt, English comedian and actor

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

* The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins ' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

* Vernon, Richard ( 1976 ).

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group that included David Lander, Richard Beebe and Michael McKean.

* 1976 – Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player

* Hartzler, H. Richard ( 1976 ).

* 1976 Richard Bellman

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from the popularization of Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

In his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene, arguing that replication also happens in culture, albeit in a different sense.

In 1976, Richard Posner and William Landes coined the term " super-precedent ," in an article they wrote about testing theories of precedent by counting citations.

The 1976 British-American film Robin and Marian, starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, portrays the figures in later years after Robin has returned from service with Richard the Lionheart in a foreign crusade and Marian has gone into seclusion in a nunnery.

A year later, in early 1976, Hell quit The Heartbreakers and started Richard Hell & the Voidoids with Robert Quine, Ivan Julian and Marc Bell.

They include " Indiscreet ( 1958 ), John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Airport ( 1970 ), Woodstock ( 1970 ), Carrie ( 1976 ) and More American Graffiti ( 1979 ).

* 1899 – Richard Arlen, American actor ( d. 1976 )

* Root, Waverley and Richard de Rochemont, Eating in America, A History, William Morrow, New York, 1976

* 1976 – Richard Marsland, Australian comedian, writer, and radio host

by Richard C. Meredith ( 1976 )-an Alternate United States defeats a Nazi Germany which came much closer to world domination than in our history, but in the aftermath falls under the power of a ruthless home-grown " Prophet ".

The first presidential aspirant to announce his selection for Vice President before the beginning of the convention was Ronald Reagan who, prior to the 1976 Republican National Convention announced that Richard Schweiker would be his running mate.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan, who was trailing President Gerald R. Ford in the presidential delegate count, announced prior to the Republican National Convention that, if nominated, he would select Senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate.

* May 15 – Richard J. Daley, American politician ( d. 1976 )

An often cited study done in 1976 by Sherwyn Woods, Some Dynamics of Male Chauvinism, attempts to find the underlying causes of " male chauvinism.

Though only a modest commercial success, the Browne-produced Warren Zevon ( 1976 ) would later be termed a masterpiece in the first edition of the Rolling Stone Record Guide and is cited in the book's most recently revised ( November 2004 ) edition as Zevon's most realized work.

c The confusion stems from an undisambiguated use of the Polish medical term kamica in the cited reference work ( Czapliński 1976 ).

The most frequently cited sketch was the 1976 parody " Went with the Wind ", a send-up of the classic 1939 movie Gone with the Wind.

" ( Both the Bosch and Posada statements were cited in an 18 October 1976 report to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger posted by the National Security Archive on 17 May 2005.

This dissertation was cited by Peter Henderson and James H. Morris Jr. in 1976 page, “ A lazy evaluator ” that introduced the notion of lazy evaluation.

* Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153 ( 1976 ) ( full text with links to cited material )

* Proffitt v. Florida, 428 U. S. 242 ( 1976 ) ( full text with links to cited material )

* Jurek v. Texas, 428 U. S. 262 ( 1976 ) ( full text with links to cited material )

* Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U. S. 280 ( 1976 ) ( full text with links to cited material )

* Roberts v. Louisiana, 428 U. S. 325 ( 1976 ) ( full text with links to cited material )

It began in 1976, when OMC was cited by both the U. S. and Illinois environmental protection agencies for polluting a drainage ditch and Waukegan harbor with polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ).

In 1976, the Department of Commerce presented her with a further Certificate of Appreciation on the 25th Anniversary of UNIVAC I, and then at the 1981 Computer Conference cited her a third time as a " UNIVAC I pioneer.

Vincent Canby's review in the May 20, 1976 New York Times cited " an out-of-control performance " by Brando.

Both were awarded the OBE on 1 January 1976, Harry Corbett being cited " for charitable services ".

This story was maintained in part to excuse a possible mistake of the composer Oscar Esplá ( 1886 – 1976 ), who asserted that in 1924, he had been shown a letter of 1266 authorizing the play, which was preserved in the Municipal Archives of Elche, despite the fact that it has been never seen since or even cited.

The duo's first live performance after Berry's accident occurred at the Palomino Nightclub in North Hollywood on June 5, 1976 ( ten years after the accident ) as guests of Disneyland regulars Papa Doo Run Run.

* The Canadian Encyclopedia-Kain, Karen featuring a clip of Karen's performance in the National Ballet of Canada's 1976 production of Giselle

The 1976 Monty Python Live at City Center performance ended with the slug lines, followed by:

At the Grammy Awards of 1976, the Judy Collins performance of the song was named " Song of the Year ".

Tom Waits and the Nocturnal Emissions toured the United States and Europe extensively from October 1976 until May 1977, including a performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking " on cult BBC2 television music show the Old Grey Whistle Test in May 1976.

After reading an NME review of the Sex Pistols ' first performance, Shelley and Devoto travelled to London together to see the Sex Pistols in February 1976.

The original configuration of The Band ended its touring career in 1976 with an elaborate live ballroom performance featuring numerous musical celebrities.

Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.

As of 2010, CPUs with the best performance per watt each year have been CMOS static logic since 1976.

Krienbühl's best performance was the eighth position on the 10, 000 m at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Haley continued to tour for the next year with a succession of new sax players, but his popularity was waning again and his 1976 performance in London was critically lambasted by music media such as Melody Maker.

Hadlee was an inconsistent performer at test level for several years ; however a breakthrough performance against India in 1976 in which he took 11 wickets in a game resulting in a win by New Zealand cemented his place in the side.

She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1976 film Network.

In 1976 he won the gold medal for the best individual performance on that board.

On several occasions she narrated Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, including a performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga in 1976, conducted by the composer.

Wilson returned to regular stage appearances with the band, alternating between piano and bass and, under Landy's advice, made a solo appearance on Saturday Night Live in November 1976 ; producer Lorne Michaels stipulated Wilson's exclusive performance, much to the chagrin of the other Beach Boys.

Nolte first gained national attention and critical acclaim for his performance in Rich Man, Poor Man, a 1976 television miniseries based on Irwin Shaw's 1970 best-selling novel.

" One of her most notable achievements with the RSC was her performance as Lady Macbeth in 1976.

The group's first public performance, in October 1976, was alongside an exhibit titled Prostitution, which included pornographic photos of Tutti as well as used tampons.

Other changes in appearance and performance came with a " Cobra II " version in 1976 & 1977 and a " King Cobra " in 1978.

He won acclaim for his performance in the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic film 1900 and as the conflicted father in the Academy award-winning family drama Ordinary People ( 1980 ) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton.

Smith has claimed that he was expelled from St. Wilfrid's as an " undesirable influence " after Malice's second live performance shortly before Christmas 1976, which took place at the school and allegedly caused a riot.