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July 21, 2006

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 2006, covering July 21, 2006.

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    Album cover for American V: A Hundred Highways by Johnny Cash

    American V: A Hundred Highways

    Johnny Cash

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Loose by Nelly Furtado

    Loose

    Nelly Furtado

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
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    Album cover for Testimony: Vol. 1; Life & Relationship (Bonus Track Edition) by India.Arie

    Testimony: Vol. 1; Life & Relationship (Bonus Track Edition)

    India.Arie

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for Taking The Long Way by Dixie Chicks

    Taking The Long Way

    Dixie Chicks

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
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    Album cover for St. Elsewhere by Gnarls Barkley

    St. Elsewhere

    Gnarls Barkley

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    9

Notable Births

Endrick (footballer, born 2006)

2006Endrick, Brazilian footballer[†]

Endrick Felipe Moreira de Sousa, known as Endrick, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Brazil national team.

Notable Deaths

Mako (actor)

2006Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (born 1933)[†]

Makoto Iwamatsu was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako (マコ), pronounced "MAH-ko". His career in film, on television, and on stage spanned five decades and 165 productions. He was an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and Tony Award nominee.

Ta Mok

2006Ta Mok, Cambodian soldier and monk (born 1926)[†]

Ta Mok, also known as Nguon Kang, was a Cambodian military chief and soldier who was a senior figure in the Khmer Rouge and the leader of the national army of Democratic Kampuchea. He was also known as "Brother Number Five" or "the Butcher". He was captured along the Thailand-Cambodia border in March 1999 by Cambodian government forces while on the run with a small band of followers and was held in government custody until his death in 2006 while awaiting his war crime trial.

Historical Context for July 21, 2006

In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]