* 1979 – Richard Harwood, English cellist

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

* Bornat, Richard, Understanding and Writing Compilers: A Do It Yourself Guide, Macmillan Publishing, 1979.

* Richard F. Lovelace, The American Pietism of Cotton Mather: Origins of American Evangelicalism, ( Grand Rapids, Mich .: American University Press, 1979 ), ISBN 0-8028-1750-5

* 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( b. 1902 )

* 1979 — Richard F. Post ( Deputy Associate Director of Magnetic Fusion Energy at UC Lawrence Livermore Laboratories )

* 1947 – Richard Beckinsale, English actor ( d. 1979 )

In 1979, there was a large increase in conflict in the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA ) under Senator Richard Schweiker, which had re-opened the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, reported that Hoover's FBI " failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President ".

* 1979 – Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer

In 1979 Richard S. Likes filed patent * 4, 307, 343.

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hastings, Richard Hill, The Evolution of the DECsystem-10, in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital, Bedford, 1979 )

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hasting, Richard Hill, " The Evolution of the DECsystem-10 ", in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital Equipment, Beford, 1979 )

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

* Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1979.

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 ).

* 1979 – Richard Dunne, Irish footballer

With Richard Lewontin, Gould wrote an influential 1979 paper entitled, " The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm ", which introduced the architectural term " spandrel " into evolutionary biology.

* Buckle, Richard, Diaghilev, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979

* Richard C. Clark, former United States Senator from Iowa, 1973 – 1979

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US president Richard Nixon visited the country in 1972, restoring relations between the two countries, although diplomatic ties were not established until 1979.

* June 28 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( d. 1979 )

Also, Richard Edwards showed in 1979 that although hierarchy in organisations has remained constant, additional forms of control ( such as technical control via email monitoring, call monitoring ; bureaucratic control via procedures for leave, sickness etc.

Range encoding is an entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic code first introduced by Richard Clark Pasco in 1976.

However, it was opposed by others, including civil-rights leader Bayard Rustin, who argued that the 1979 election had been " free and fair ", as well as senators Harry F. Byrd, Jr. ( I-VA ) and Jesse Helms ( R-NC ).

A. Helms, and F. S. Baker 1979.

Helms left the concert business in 1970 except for managing a few later events: Tribal Stomp at Berkeley's Greek Theater ( 1978 ); Tribal Stomp II at the Monterey County Fairgrounds ( 1979 ); a concert series at San Francisco's Maritime Hall in 1995 under the Family Dog name ; and a 30th Anniversary celebration of the Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park ( 1997 ), a free event attended by 60, 000 people.

In August 1979 Macias ' nephew from Mongomo and former director of the infamous Black Beach prison, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, led a successful coup d ' état ; Macias was arrested, tried, and executed.

Since then, the country has had two presidents: Francisco Macías Nguema, the former mayor of Mongomo under the Spanish colonial government, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo ( Macías's nephew ), who has ruled since 1979 when he staged a military coup d ' état and executed Macías.

The former was supplanted by Dick Wagner, the man whose Reds defeated the Astros to win the 1979 NL West title.

Dan Stone, a former Drexel executive, wrote in his book April Fools that Milken was under nearly-constant scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1979 onward due to unethical and sometimes illegal behavior in the high-yield department.

* 1979 – Ahn Chil-Hyun ( Kangta ), lead singer of the former South Korean group H. O. T.

* 1979 – Chris O ' Dowd, Irish actor and former Gaelic footballer

Crossing the lines between " classic " punk, post-punk, and hardcore, San Francisco's Flipper was founded in 1979 by former members of Negative Trend and The Sleepers.

" In February 1979, former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York.

He was succeeded by his former deputy, Paul Southwell, but Southwell himself passed a few months later, in 1979.

PAM and NRP then formed a coalition government, naming Kennedy Simmonds, a medical doctor and one of the founders of the PAM, premier ( Simmonds had won Bradshaw's former seat in a 1979 by-election ).

In 1979 and 1980, former Somoza supporters and ex-members of Somoza's National Guard formed irregular military forces, while the original core of the FSLN began to splinter.

* September 30 – Park Chung-hee, former president of South Korea, ( d. 1979 )

* March 19 – Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, former President of Ecuador ( d. 1979 )

* July 18 – Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave ( d. 1979 )

In 1979, a group of settlers led by Miriam Levinger moved into the Dabouia, the former Hadassah Hospital in central Hebron, then under Arab administration.

* Nobuki Hara ( born 1979 ), a former Japanese football player

Judge Cesare Terranova, a former parliamentary deputy and Antimafia reformer who had been the main prosecutor of the Mafia in the 1960s, was to have headed this office, but he was killed on September 25, 1979.

When Karmal ascended to power, the Settamites relationship with the government improved, mostly due to Karmal's former good relationship with Badakhshi, who was killed by government forces in 1979.

The railway was installed in 1979 as part of a brownfield reclamation project that transformed a collection of hills containing a former refuse dump into a resort, convention and recreation center.

In fact, as early as the AFRC administration in 1979, Rawlings and his associates had accused three former military leaders ( generals Afrifa, Acheampong, and Akuffo ) of corruption and greed and of thereby contributing to the national crisis and had executed them on the basis of this accusation.

Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson ( born December 25, 1958 ) is an American former baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four stints with his original team, the Oakland Athletics.

He graduated in 1979 from Hope High School, and his father, Gene Ross, is a former administrator in the Hope School District.

In 1979 French troops helped drive Bokassa out of power and restore former president David Dacko.

Choeung Ek ( ), the site of a former orchard and Chinese graveyard about 17 km south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17, 000 people between 1975 and 1979.