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August 27, 1968

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 21, 1968, covering August 27, 1968.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Wheels Of Fire by Cream

    Wheels Of Fire

    Cream

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  2. 2
    Album cover for Time Peace/The Rascals' Greatest Hits by The Rascals

    Time Peace/The Rascals' Greatest Hits

    The Rascals

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    7
  3. 3
    Album cover for Aretha Now by Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Now

    Aretha Franklin

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    7
  4. 4
    Album cover for Waiting For The Sun by The Doors

    Waiting For The Sun

    The Doors

    Last week
    29
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    3
  5. 5
    Album cover for Beat Of The Brass by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Beat Of The Brass

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    16

Notable Births

Eric "Bobo" Correa

1968Eric "Bobo" Correa, American musician[†]

Eric "Bobo" Correa is an American percussionist and a member of the hip hop bands Beastie Boys, then Cypress Hill and Ritmo Machine as well as the Industrial metal band Sol Invicto. He performed and recorded with the Beastie Boys through the 1990s.

Daphne Koller

1968Daphne Koller, Israeli-American computer scientist and academic[†]

Daphne Koller is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Koller was featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.

1968Michael Long, New Zealand golfer[†]

Michael Richard Long is a New Zealand professional golfer who has played on a number of tours, including two seasons on the PGA Tour and three seasons on the European Tour. He won four times on the PGA Tour of Australasia between 1996 and 2018 and twice on the Nationwide Tour. He won the 2020 European Senior Tour Q-School.

1968Matthew Ridge, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster[†]

Matthew John Ridge is a New Zealand television presenter, and a former rugby union and rugby league footballer.

Notable Deaths

Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark

1968Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (born 1906)[†]

Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent was a Greek and Danish princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. She was a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, and a granddaughter of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece. Princess Marina married Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, in 1934. They had three children: Prince Edward, Princess Alexandra, and Prince Michael.

Historical Context for August 27, 1968

In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]