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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (born 1926)[†]
Peter Kingsley Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell,, was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1966 until 1992, when he became a life peer. Between 1974 and 1979 he was Solicitor General for England and Wales.
2012Bob Chappuis, American football player and soldier (born 1923)[†]
Robert Richard Chappuis was an American football player who played halfback and quarterback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1942, 1946, and 1947. His college years were interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Chappuis flew 21 missions as a radio operator and aerial gunner on B-25 bombers in the European Theater. His aircraft was shot down in February 1945 in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy. Chappuis parachuted from the plane before it crashed, and Italian partisans rescued him by hiding Chappuis and two other crew members for the final three months of the war.
2012Margie Hyams, American pianist and vibraphone player (born 1920)[†]
Marjorie Hyams was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, and arranger. She began her career as a vibraphonist in the 1940s, playing with Woody Herman, the Hip Chicks, Mary Lou Williams, Charlie Ventura, and George Shearing. She also led her own groups.
2012Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, German pianist and academic (born 1930)[†]
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling was a notable German academic teacher of classical pianists, who trained pianists at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover for careers as performers and academic teachers, particularly in the early training of highly gifted students.
2012Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (born 1945)[†]
Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Filho was a Brazilian filmmaker.
2012Gitta Sereny, Austrian-English historian, journalist, and author (born 1921)[†]
Gitta Sereny, CBE was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who became known for her interviews and profiles of infamous figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp.
In final statements in the trial of the former Goldman director Rajat K. Gupta, prosecutors tried to connect the dots among reams of evidence but defense lawyers said there was no evidence of wrongdoing.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton claimed that Russia shipped attack helicopters to Syria, but the shipment may have been part of routine maintenance rather than a purchase.
Pop Warner Football will limit the amount of contact young players will face in practice, which will affect hundreds of thousands of youth football players, some as young as 5 years old.
Patti LuPone’s “Far Away Places” is the first show at the cabaret 54 Below.
In arguments made against the Obama administration’s health care law, a thread that runs through many of them is an analogy between the health care law and broccoli.
Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino owner, and his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, are by far the most prolific campaign donors in the country.
The Roman Catholic Church has been resisting efforts by some state lawmakers to increase the time in which child sexual abuse cases can be brought.
In Justin Bieber’s new album, “Believe,” he branches out musically while hewing to the persona he created.
A panel of judges also blessed the presidential bid of Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, putting Egypt’s troubled move to democracy in grave doubt.
A federal jury in March convicted R. Allen Stanford of 13 out of 14 counts of fraud in connection with a worldwide scheme over more than two decades.
The need to accommodate bigger airplanes and a growing number of foreign carriers has helped spur many of the new investments.
Paintings on cave walls in northwestern Spain are far older than previously thought — some of them more than 40,000 years old, scientists said, raising a possibility that Neanderthals were the artists.