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April 15, 2009

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 15, 2009, covering April 15, 2009.

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    Album cover for Defying Gravity by Keith Urban

    Defying Gravity

    Keith Urban

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    Album cover for Lotus Flow3r/MPLSoUND/Elix3r by Prince/Bria Valente

    Lotus Flow3r/MPLSoUND/Elix3r

    Prince/Bria Valente

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    Album cover for Quiet Nights by Diana Krall

    Quiet Nights

    Diana Krall

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    Album cover for NOW 30 by Various Artists

    NOW 30

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for Hannah Montana: The Movie by Soundtrack

    Hannah Montana: The Movie

    Soundtrack

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Notable Deaths

Clement Freud

2009Clement Freud, German-English journalist, academic, and politician (born 1924)[†]

Sir Clement Raphael Freud was a British broadcaster, writer, politician and chef. The son of Ernst L. Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Clement moved to the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany as a child and later worked as a prominent chef and food writer.

LĂĄszlĂł Tisza

2009László Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (born 1907)[†]

LĂĄszlĂł Tisza was a Hungarian-born American physicist who was Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. He was a colleague of famed physicists Edward Teller, Lev Landau and Fritz London, and initiated the two-fluid model of liquid helium.

2009Salih Neftçi, Turkish economist and author (born 1947)[†]

Salih Nur Neftçi was a leading expert in the fields of financial markets and financial engineering. He served many advisory roles in national and international financial institutions, and was an active researcher in the fields of finance and financial engineering. Neftçi was an avid and highly regarded educator in mathematical finance who was well known for a lucid and accessible approach towards the field.

Historical Context for April 15, 2009

In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]