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April 13, 2012

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 11, 2012, covering April 13, 2012.

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    Album cover for MDNA by Madonna

    MDNA

    Madonna

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    Album cover for Tuskegee by Lionel Richie

    Tuskegee

    Lionel Richie

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    Album cover for 21 by Adele

    21

    Adele

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    Album cover for Amaryllis by Shinedown

    Amaryllis

    Shinedown

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    Album cover for The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 And Beyond by Soundtrack

    The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 And Beyond

    Soundtrack

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Notable Deaths

2012Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (born 1941)[†]

Cecil Chaudhry SJ, SBt, PP was a Pakistani academic, human rights activist, and a veteran fighter pilot. As a flight lieutenant, he fought in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and as a squadron leader in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. During the 1965 war, Chaudhry and three other pilots, under the leadership of Wing Commander Anwar Shamim, attacked the Amritsar Radar Station in a difficult operation. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat for his actions during that mission.

2012Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (born 1936)[†]

Shūichi Higurashi (日暮修一) was a Japanese manga illustrator and magazine artist. Higurashi was the cover artist for Big Comic, a Japanese manga magazine, for more than forty years, from 1970 until fall 2011.

Historical Context for April 13, 2012

In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]