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March 23, 2011

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 23, 2011, covering March 23, 2011.

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    Album cover for Lasers by Lupe Fiasco

    Lasers

    Lupe Fiasco

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    Album cover for 21 by Adele

    21

    Adele

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    Album cover for Glee: The Music; Season Two: Volume 5 by Soundtrack

    Glee: The Music; Season Two: Volume 5

    Soundtrack

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    Album cover for Goodbye Lullaby by Avril Lavigne

    Goodbye Lullaby

    Avril Lavigne

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    Album cover for Collapse Into Now by R.E.M.

    Collapse Into Now

    R.E.M.

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Notable Deaths

Jean Bartik

2011Jean Bartik, American computer scientist and engineer (born 1924)[†]

Jean Bartik was an American computer programmer who was one of the original six programmers of the ENIAC computer.

2011Rosario Morales, Puerto Rican poet and writer (born 1930)[†]

Rosario Morales was a Puerto Rican author and poet. She is best known for her book Getting Home Alive which she co-authored with her daughter Aurora Levins Morales in 1986. She was also significant within the Latina feminist movement and the Communist Party. She describes her own complicated identity in her poem "I am what I am", “I am Puerto Rican I am U.S. American… I am Boricua as Boricuas come… I am naturalized Jewish American… I am what I am. Take it or leave me alone."

Elizabeth Taylor

2011Elizabeth Taylor, American-British actress, socialite and humanitarian (born 1932)[†]

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was an English and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its greatest female screen legends list.

Historical Context for March 23, 2011

In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]