* October 6 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* Physics – Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi

Based on discoveries in this new field of X-ray astronomy, starting with Scorpius X-1, Riccardo Giacconi received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.

Seeing a need for longer duration studies, in 1963 Riccardo Giacconi and Herb Gursky proposed the first orbital satellite to study X-ray sources.

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Riccardo Gabriele Patrese ( born 17 April 1954 ) is an Italian former racing driver, who raced in Formula One from to.

Loren was born in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, Italy, daughter of Romilda Villani ( 1914 – 1991 ) and Riccardo Scicolone, a construction engineer of Sicilian and Venetian origins.

* date unknown – Riccardo Broschi, composer ( born c. 1698 )

Dick Wilson, born Riccardo DiGuglielmo ( 30 July 1916 – 19 November 2007 ), was a British-born character actor who played the role of finicky grocery store manager Mr. ( George ) Whipple in over 500 Charmin toilet paper television commercials ( 1965 – 1989, 1999 ).

His main Italian rivals in the period between his debut in 1889 and the outbreak of World War I were: Mattia Battistini, Antonio Scotti, Giuseppe Pacini, Antonio Magini-Coletti, Giuseppe Campanari and Giuseppe Kaschmann ( born Josip Kasman )— and, from a younger generation of verismo opera-influenced baritones, Titta Ruffo, Riccardo Stracciari, Pasquale Amato, Giuseppe De Luca, Eugenio Giraldoni, Mario Sammarco, Domenico Viglione-Borghesi and the promising newcomer Carlo Galeffi.

* Riccardo Zandonai ( born 1883 ), composer

Riccardo Ventre ( born on 20 June 1944 in Formicola ) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs.

Riccardo Azzoli ( born October 19, 1984 ) is an Italian race car driver born in Rome who currently competes in GT Open with Aston Martin DBRS9 of team Villois.

Riccardo Freda ( born in Alexandria, Egypt, February 24, 1909-died in Rome, Italy, December 20, 1999 ) was an Italian film director.

Riccardo Illy ( born 24 September 1955 ) is an Italian businessman and former politician.

Riccardo Illy was born in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

In October 2002, Jansons was named the sixth chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ( KCO, Dutch abbreviation ) of Amsterdam, effective 1 September 2004, succeeding Riccardo Chailly.

* Franz Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E-Major ( 1997 ) -- CD with Riccardo Muti & Wiener Philharmoniker and Chor des Mitteldeutschen Rundfunks, Leipzig

Not only did turbo-charged cars take up the first 6 grid positions, but the utmost proof of this was the slowest turbo qualifier Riccardo Patrese, placing 6th, driving a Brabham-BMW was 3. 1 seconds faster than the fastest non-turbo qualifier, 7th placed Michele Alboreto, driving a Ford-Cosworth powered Tyrrell.

Brabham driver Riccardo Patrese had taken the lead from Tambay with only 6 laps remaining but only held the lead until he crashed at Acque Mineralli just half a lap later.

He took his second and last Grand Prix win in 1983 at Imola, in a very emotional victory in front of the Italian faithful when he drove the # 27 Ferrari ( the car number of Villeneuve ) to the win after Riccardo Patrese crashed out of the lead with only 6 laps to go.

: Stage 6: Riccardo Riccò

* Odabella in Verdi's Attila, recorded 6 – 7 / 89, Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, EMI

* Odabella in Verdi's Attila, recorded 6 / 90, Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, Home Vision

* Verdi's Messa da Requiem, recorded 6 / 87, Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, EMI