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2000 Beah Richards, actress, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, dies at 74

1995 Joseph Anthony "Joe" Richards, singer and actor (Colorado Ranger), dies at 44

1991 Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon and Marshall

1989 Jeff Richards, actor (Don't Go Near the Water), dies at 66

1986 Viv Richards century off 56 balls vs. England in Antigua Test Cricket

1985 Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 vs. Warwicks cricket

1984 Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG

1984 Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) vs. England, ODI cricket record

1981 Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua

1980 Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, and Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres

1979 Ariana Richards, Healdsburg California, actress, Spaced Invaders, Prancer

1979 Mick Jaggar and Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada

1978 Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto

1978 Cully Richards, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie), dies at 68

1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada

1976 Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in U.S. Tennis Open

1976 Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia

1975 Viv Richards out for 291 vs. England at Cricket Oval

1974 Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 vs. India 20 fours 6 sixes

1974 Paul Richards, actor (Dr. Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50

1974 Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards, at Bangalore

1972 Denise Richards, American Actress

1971 Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense

1970 Evan Richards, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Frankie-Mama Malone

1970 Travis Richards, born in Crystal, Minnesota, U.S. hockey defenseman 1994 Olympics

1970 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six

1970 Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs. Australia, Cape Town

1969 Martha Richards, Hudson WI, LPGA golfer, 1995 Safeco Classic-21st

1967 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence

1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge

1967 Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges

1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for drugs

1966 Dave Richards, NFL guard for the Atlanta Falcons

1964 Kim Richards, LI, New York, actress, Nanny and Professor, James at 15

1964 Paul W. Richards, Scranton, Pennsylvania, astronaut

1964 Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76

1963 Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48

1962 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys

1960 Baltimore manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt

1958 Jack Richards, English cricket wicket-keeper, mid-80's

1956 Charles Richards, Canadian Politician

1956 Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77

1954 Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins

1952 Vivian Richards, West Indian master blaster

1952 Eddie Manion, born in America, Eddie 'Kingfish' Manion, saxophonist, tenor and baritone sax, session musician, member of Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band Tour, recorded and performed with Diana Ross, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, The E Street Band

1950 George Richards Minot, American Scientist

1949 Michael Richards, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian, Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld

1946 Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West, USN/astr, STS-28, 41, 50, 64

1946 Richard Richards, American Astronaut

1945 Barry Richards, extraordinary cricket batsman, 4 Tests for South Africa

1943 Keith Richards, born in England, rock guitarist, Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar

1940 Cliff Richards, Harry Webb, Lucknow India, rock voclist, Suddenly

1934 Renee Richards, Richard Rankind, trans-sexual tennis player

1934 Ian Richards, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, actor, Montgomery-Ike

1933 Ann Richards, born in Lakeview, Texas, American politician, Democrat, Governor of Texas, second female governor of Texas, defeated for re-election by future U.S. President George W. Bush

1928 Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies

1926 Beah Richards, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, actress/playwright, Big Shot, Generation

1926 Robert Eugene Richards, Illinois, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 48, 52, 56

1926 Bob Richards, American Athlete

1924 Paul Richards, California, actor, Kiss Daddy Goodnight

1922 Jeff Richards, born in Portland, Oregon, actor, Don't Go Near the Water

1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)

1915 Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry

1904 Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races

1903 Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro, elected 1961

1893 Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet and critic, Meaning of Meaning,

1893 Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic

1887 Addison Richards, Zanesville, Ohio, actor, Pentagon, Fighting Seabees

1885 George Richards Minot, American Scientist

1879 Charles Richards, Canadian Politician

1878 Joseph John Richards, composer

1868 Theodore William Richards, chemist, atomic weights, Nobel-1914

1842 Ellen Henrietta Richards, U.S., chemist, American Home Economics Association - 1st President

1819 Henry Brinley Richards, British? pianist/composer


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