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June 14, 2007

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 13, 2007, covering June 14, 2007.

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    Album cover for Double Up by R. Kelly

    Double Up

    R. Kelly

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    Album cover for It Won't Be Soon Before Long by Maroon 5

    It Won't Be Soon Before Long

    Maroon 5

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    Album cover for Minutes To Midnight by Linkin Park

    Minutes To Midnight

    Linkin Park

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    Album cover for Relentless by Jason Aldean

    Relentless

    Jason Aldean

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    Album cover for Daughtry by Daughtry

    Daughtry

    Daughtry

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Notable Births

2007Bryce James, American basketball player[†]

Bryce Maximus James is an American basketball player, and recent graduate of Sierra Canyon School. He is the second child of National Basketball Association (NBA) player LeBron James and the younger brother of NBA player Bronny James. He primarily plays the shooting guard position. As of March 2024 he is 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall and weighs 185 pounds (84 kg).

Notable Deaths

Ruth Graham

2007Ruth Graham, Chinese-American author, poet, and painter (born 1920)[†]

Ruth McCue Bell Graham was a Chinese-born American Christian author. She was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, Republic of China, the second of five children. Her parents, Virginia Leftwich Bell and L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles (480 km) north of Shanghai. At age 13 she was enrolled in Pyeng Yang Foreign School in Pyongyang, Korea, where she studied for three years. She completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were there on furlough. She graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.

Robin Olds

2007Robin Olds, American general and pilot (born 1922)[†]

Robin Olds was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the United States Air Force (USAF). He was a "triple ace", with a combined total of 17 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general, after 30 years of service.

Kurt Waldheim

2007Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (born 1918)[†]

Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and the president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II, and of his knowledge of Nazi atrocities as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht, raised international controversy.

Historical Context for June 14, 2007

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