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January 23, 2007

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 17, 2007, covering January 23, 2007.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Dreamgirls by Soundtrack

    Dreamgirls

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  2. 2
    Album cover for Konvicted by Akon

    Konvicted

    Akon

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    8
  3. 3
    Album cover for Daughtry by Daughtry

    Daughtry

    Daughtry

    Last week
    11
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    7
  4. 4
    Album cover for FutureSex/LoveSounds by Justin Timberlake

    FutureSex/LoveSounds

    Justin Timberlake

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    17
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    Album cover for NOW 23 by Various Artists

    NOW 23

    Various Artists

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    9

Notable Deaths

Syed Hussein Alatas

2007Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian sociologist and politician (born 1928)[†]

Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas was a Malaysian academic, sociologist, politician, and founder of social science organisations. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and postcolonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.

E. Howard Hunt

2007E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer (born 1918)[†]

Everette Howard Hunt Jr. was an American intelligence officer and author. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he was a central figure in U.S. regime change in Latin America including the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'Ă©tat and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis, and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration's so-called White House Plumbers, a team of operatives charged with identifying government leaks to outside parties.

Ryszard KapuƛciƄski

2007Ryszard KapuƛciƄski, Polish journalist and author (born 1932)[†]

Ryszard KapuƛciƄski was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. KapuƛciƄski's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel GarcĂ­a MĂĄrquez, and Chilean writer Luis SepĂșlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".

Historical Context for January 23, 2007

In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]