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Bob Richards

Bob RichardsBorn: Feb. 2, 1926Track & Field pole vaulter, ordained minister and original Wheaties pitchman, remains only 2-time Olympic pole vault champ (1952,56).Maurice RichardR -…

Richard Dawson

Name at birth: Colin Lionel EmmBritish comedian Richard Dawson was picked to play Corporal Newkirk in the World War II sitcom Hogan's Heroes in 1965, and a television career was born. Richard Dawson…

Richard Chamberlain

Name at birth: George Richard ChamberlainRichard Chamberlain was a blue-eyed young heartthrob in the mid-1960s when he starred as Dr. Kildare, a sensitive internist learning the medical ropes. After…

Richard Burton

Name at birth: Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr.Richard Burton was a Welsh actor known for his many appearances on stage and in big screen costume dramas, and for being married to Elizabeth Taylor -- twice…

Richard Wright

Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was a best-seller and is still considered a classic of modern American literature. One of the most influential African-American writers of the 20th century,…

Richard Wagner

Name at birth: Wilhelm Richard WagnerRichard Wagner is the 19th century German composer and poet famous for taking opera to new dramatic heights in such works as Der Fliegende Holländer (1841) and…

Richard Scaife

Richard Mellon Scaife was born into the wealth of the American oil and banking Mellon family, and as a young man he oversaw many of their philanthropic foundations. In 1969 he went into the…

Neville, Richard

(Encyclopedia) Neville, Richard: see Warwick, Richard Neville, earl of.