* 1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor ( b. 1732 )

Lewis's invention was later developed and improved by Richard Arkwright in his water frame and Samuel Crompton in his spinning mule.

To capitalise upon these advances, it took a class of entrepreneurs, of which the most famous is Richard Arkwright.

* December 23 – Richard Arkwright, English inventor ( d. 1792 )

* Richard Arkwright invents the spinning frame.

In 1771, Richard Arkwright used waterwheels to power looms for the production of cotton cloth, his invention becoming known as the water frame.

Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning frame, was born in Preston.

The modern factory, or ' mill ', system was born here in the 18th century to accommodate the new technology for spinning cotton developed by Richard Arkwright.

Water-power was first introduced to England by John Lombe at his silk mill in Derby in 1719, but it was Richard Arkwright who applied water-power to the process of producing cotton in the 1770s.

Arkwright-type mills were so successful that sometimes they were copied without paying royalties to Richard Arkwright.

The water frame for spinning cotton was developed by Richard Arkwright and patented in 1769.

In 1771, Richard Arkwright took a lease on land in Cromford.

After Arkwright died in 1792 his son, Richard Arkwright junior, took over and sold most of his cotton mills outside Cromford and Matlock Bath.

Richard Arkwright junior was uninterested in the cotton business, and after the death of his father the Arkwright family ceased to invest in the industry.

Belper was already an established village with its own market before Jedediah Strutt began building mills, so he was not required to have as active a role in developing the community into a self-sustaining entity as Richard Arkwright did at Cromford.

In 1788, Richard Arkwright asked William Jessop to estimate the cost of building a canal connecting the mills at Cromford to Langley Mill.

The proposal – backed by William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, Richard Arkwright junior, and several Manchester bankers – was ambitious ; it was expected that steam locomotives would be used on the line, even though the technology was in its infancy and George Stephenson did not build his revolutionary Rocket until 1829.

New Lanark in Scotland – also a World Heritage Site – was directly influenced by Richard Arkwright and the developments in the Derwent Valley ; Lanark was identified as a potential site for a mill on a visit by David Dale and Arkwright in 1784.

Many of the technologies developed in the Derwent Valley Mills endured and were adopted for other textile industries ; until the mid-20th century, carding was still performed with machinery invented by Richard Arkwright.

The Derwent Valley Mills pioneered worker's housing as well as much technology developed by Richard Arkwright, producing an industrial landscape and heralding industrial towns.

In other industries, engine-pumping was less common, but Richard Arkwright used an engine to provide additional power for his cotton mill.

The invention was later developed and improved by Richard Arkwright and Samuel Crompton.

The youngest of three siblings, she had two older brothers: Richard ( who died before her birth ) and Paul, several years older.

Eleanor survived Richard and lived well into the reign of her youngest son John.

Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, well known there for his flower paintings, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three also became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts.

Richard was born at Fotheringhay Castle, the eighth and youngest child of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York ( who was a strong claimant to the throne of King Henry VI ) and Cecily Neville.

Richard honored his brother, Francis Lightfoot Lee ( another signer of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence ), by naming his youngest son after him.

King Henry demanded that Richard give up Aquitaine ( which he was planning to give to his youngest son John as his inheritance ).

He was the third of four sons, with the eldest being Robert Curthose, the second Richard, and the youngest Henry.

They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer ; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England ; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

* November 8 – United States presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard Nixon, to become ( at 43 ) the second youngest man to serve at the President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.

But Richard had no legitimate issue, so in 1199 Anjou passed to his nephew, Arthur of Brittany ( the posthumous son of Henry II ’ s fourth son, Geoffrey ), while the Crown of England passed to Henry II ’ s fifth son and Richard ’ s youngest brother, John.

The king's youngest brother, Richard, ( later Richard III ) was famously killed in battle against Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field.

At 14, Anne was betrothed by her father to Richard, youngest brother of Yorkist king Edward IV of England ; he would later be Richard III of England.

Edward fled to King's Lynn where he took ship for Flanders, part of Burgundy, accompanied only by his youngest brother, Richard of Gloucester, and a few faithful adherents.

Edward's vanguard was commanded by his youngest brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester.

Louis accordingly tried to break the two apart, by offering the hand of his elder daughter, Anne, to Charles, that of his younger daughter, Joan, to Edward's youngest brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and that of his brother-in-law, Philip of Bresse, to Margaret.

After an occasionally tumultuous reign, he died in 1483 and was succeeded by his son as Edward V, and York's youngest son succeeded him as Richard III.

* Richard Plantagenet ( 1476 – 1477 ), youngest child of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence

At the time of the birth of his youngest son, in 1095, Roger I ruled the County of Sicily, his nephew, Roger Borsa, was the Duke of Apulia and Calabria, and his great nephew, Richard II of Capua, was the Prince of Capua.

Richard Owen ( 1810 – 1890 ), Robert Owen's youngest son, came to New Harmony in 1828 and taught school there.

Richard Henry Roper, second and youngest son of Anne, 16th Baroness Dacre, from her second marriage to Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham.