Richard Erskine Leakey
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~ English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
Richard Kuhn
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~ Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967)
Richard Haldane
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~ Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928)
Richard Jordan Gatling
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~ United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903)
Richard Lovelace
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~ English poet (1618-1857)
Richard Burton
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~ Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984)
Richard E. Byrd
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~ explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)
Richard D'Oyly Carte
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~ English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901)
Richard Coeur de Lion
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~ son of Henry II and King of England from 1189 to 1199; a leader of the Third Crusade; on his way home from the crusade he was captured and held prisoner in the Holy Roman Empire until England ransomed him in 1194 (1157-1199)
Richard Phillips Feynman
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~ United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)
Richard M. Nixon
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~ vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)
Richard Burbage
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~ English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619)
Richard D. Fosbury
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~ United States athlete who revolutionized the high jump by introducing the Fosbury flop in the 1968 Olympics (born in 1947)
Richard Morris Hunt
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~ United States architect (1827-1895)
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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~ United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)
Richard Henry Lee
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~ leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
Richard Burdon Haldane
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~ Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928)
Richard Hooker
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~ English theologian (1554-1600)
Richard II
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~ King of England from 1377 to 1399; he suppressed the Peasant's Revolt in 1381 but his reign was marked by popular discontent and baronial opposition in British Parliament and he was forced to abdicate in 1399 (1367-1400)
Richard Milhous Nixon
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~ vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)