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August 15, 2006

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 9, 2006, covering August 15, 2006.

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    Album cover for LeToya by LeToya

    LeToya

    LeToya

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    Album cover for NOW 22 by Various Artists

    NOW 22

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for In My Mind by Pharrell

    In My Mind

    Pharrell

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    Album cover for Highway Companion by Tom Petty

    Highway Companion

    Tom Petty

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    Album cover for St. Elsewhere by Gnarls Barkley

    St. Elsewhere

    Gnarls Barkley

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Notable Deaths

Te Atairangikaahu

2006Te Atairangikaahu, New Zealand queen (born 1931)[†]

Dame Te Atairangikaahu reigned as Māori Queen from 1966 until her death in 2006. Her reign was the longest of any Māori monarch.

2006Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player (born 1955)[†]

Richard (Rick) Bourke was an Australian rugby league footballer. He played for Cronulla-Sutherland and South Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition.

Coenraad Bron

2006Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist and academic (born 1937)[†]

Coenraad Bron was a Dutch computer scientist. He worked with Edsger W. Dijkstra on the THE multiprogramming system. Together with Joep Kerbosch he invented the Bron–Kerbosch algorithm for the clique problem.

Faas Wilkes

2006Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1923)[†]

Servaas "Faas" Wilkes was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Netherlands national team, in which he scored 35 goals. However, for a prolonged period of his career, June 1949 through till March 1955, he was banned from the national team since the KNVB did not allow professional players to participate. He also played for the Netherlands at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Historical Context for August 15, 2006

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