* 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 )

* David Wiggins, " Deliberation and Practical Reason " ( Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 76, 1975 – 1976 ; pp 29 – 51.

The Hodges brothers, with Grimes, recorded the 1976 LP On the Loose as Hi Rhythm, and 1994 saw the release of Perfect Gentlemen, featuring a fourth Hodges with the addition of Fred on keyboards as well as Percy Wiggins on vocals, issued on Velvet Recordings of America as by The Hodges Brothers.

During the fall of 1976, he was cast in the role of Mickey " Wig " Wiggins, an airplane mechanic, in the six-episode CBS adventure series, Spencer's Pilots, starring Gene Evans, Christopher Stone, and Todd Susman.

Her film work includes The Wrong Side of the Blanket ( 1970 ), as Miss Wiggins Teape ; The Night Digger ( 1971 ), as district nurse ; The Likely Lads ( 1976 ), as Thelma Ferris ; and Crystalstone ( 1988 ), as Isabel.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.

Niki Lauda, the reigning world champion and only person ever to lap the full Nordschleife in under 7 minutes ( 6: 58. 6, 1975 ), proposed to the other drivers that they boycott the circuit in 1976 because of the safety arrangements.

A State Department document made available by the National Security Archive on 10 April 2010 reveals that a démarche protesting Pinochet's Operation: Condor assassination program was proposed and sent on 23 August 1976 to US diplomatic missions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to be delivered to their host governments but later rescinded on 16 September 1976 by Henry Kissinger, following concerns raised by US ambassadors assigned there of both personal safety and a likely diplomatic contretemps.

In particular, in 1976, Roger Penrose proposed a set of just two tiles, up to rotation, ( referred to as Penrose tiles ) that produced only non-periodic tilings of the plane.

The first formal technology and design effort for a solar sail began in 1976 at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a proposed mission to rendezvous with Halley's Comet.

Motive utilitarianism was first proposed by Robert Adams in 1976.

In 1976 J. Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley proposed a new theory that changed dream research, challenging the previously held Freudian view of dreams as unconscious wishes to be interpreted.

Autosegmental phonology is the name of a framework of phonological analysis proposed by John Goldsmith in his PhD thesis in 1976 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Although it has been proposed that the witch-hunt developed in Europe from the early 14th century, after the Cathars and the Templar Knights were suppressed, this hypothesis has been rejected independently by two historians ( Cohn 1975 ; Kieckhefer 1976 ).

" TrantorCon 23309 " was proposed by Larry Niven at Worldcon in 1976.

* The British government agency, DEFRA, has proposed revising regulations under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 to remove licensing requirements for keeping of Bengal cats in the United Kingdom.

In 1976 Bové joined the Fight for the Larzac, a movement protesting the proposed expansion of a military camp on the Larzac plateau, which would have displaced sheep farmers.

In the 1970s entity relationship modeling emerged as a new type of conceptual data modeling, originally proposed in 1976 by Peter Chen.

In 1976 Norman recorded songs for his proposed Red, White and Blues trilogy, a projected American anthology of three albums for the United States Bicentennial, that would focus on the roots of American music.

In a series of studies held at Stanford University in 1975 and 1976 with the purpose of speculating on designs for future space colonies, Gerard Kitchen O ' Neill proposed Island One, a modified Bernal sphere with a diameter of only 500m rotating at 1. 9 RPM to produce a full Earth artificial gravity at the sphere's equator.

" In urban legend it is proposed that Ronnie Barker got the idea for Open All Hours when he visited the local Riddifords grocer's-however, Open All Hours ran from 1976, following a pilot in 1973, long before the filming and broadcast of " The Worm That Turned " in 1980.

In 1976 there was a disagreement with Robinson Township over proposed sewage treatment fees, which triggered the self-government attempt.

He was offered the title role in The Bodyguard ( with Diana Ross ) when it was first proposed in 1976, but the film did not reach production until years after McQueen's death.

In 1976, in response to environmental concerns and automobile traffic congestion, Flower Mound residents proposed adding a system of recreational and commuter bikepaths around the town.

When the organization was formed in 1976, the original name proposed was " Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and Other Phenomena " which was shortened to " Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that AMS in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the ' best runner-up ' basis used by the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the ' best near-winner ' in each of the state's four regions.

Congressman F. Bradford Morse assisted in the city's selection for " Model Cities " status ; Brendan Fleming, UML, Math Department, faculty member, after his election to the Lowell City Council proposed the first Historic District “ The Mill and Canal District ” which was approved in 1972 ; Gordon Marker, Executive Director of Model Cities and an urban planner, was instrumental in designing the concept for an Urban Park based on Historic Preservation and Economic Revitalization ; Patrick Mogan, Education Administrator and later Superintendent of Schools, was primarily interested in Lowell ’ s children and strongly advocated the preservation and sharing of their cultural experiences ; and the Lowell Historical Society which opened the Lowell Museum in 1976.