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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Carl Davis, American record producer (born 1934)[â ]
Carl H. Davis Sr. was an American record producer and music executive, who was particularly active in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. He was responsible for hit R&B records by Gene Chandler, Major Lance, Jackie Wilson, The Chi-Lites, Barbara Acklin, Tyrone Davis and others.
2012Gene F. Franklin, American engineer, theorist, and academic (born 1927)[â ]
Gene F. Franklin was an American electrical engineer and control theorist known for his pioneering work towards the advancement of the control systems engineering â a subfield of electrical engineering. Most of his work on control theory was adapted immediately into NASA's U.S. space program, most famously in the control systems for the Apollo missions to the Moon in 1960sâ1970s.
2012Al Freeman, Jr., American actor, director, and educator (born 1934)[â ]
Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr. was an American actor, director, and educator. A life member of The Actors Studio, Freeman appeared in a wide variety of plays, ranging from Leroi Jones' Slave/Toilet to Joe Papp's revivals of Long Day's Journey Into Night and Troilus and Cressida, and films, including My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, as well as television series The Mod Squad, Kojak, and Maude, and a long-running role on the soap opera One Life to Live.
2012David Rakoff, Canadian-American actor and journalist (born 1964)[â ]
David Benjamin Rakoff was a Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry based in New York City, who wrote humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff was an essayist, journalist, and actor, and a regular contributor to WBEZ's This American Life. Rakoff described himself as a "New York writer" who also happened to be a "Canadian writer", a "mega Jewish writer", a "gay writer", and an "East Asian Studies major who has forgotten most of his Japanese" writer.
2012Carmen Belen Richardson, Puerto Rican-American actress (born 1930)[â ]
Carmen Belén Richardson was a Puerto Rican actress and comedian.
2012Mel Stuart, American director and producer (born 1928)[â ]
Mel Stuart was an American film director and producer who often worked with producer David L. Wolper, at whose production firm he worked for 17 years, before going freelance.
2012Shannon Eastin becomes the first woman to officiate an NFL game.[â ]
Shannon Eastin is a former NFL official; she was the first female official of the National Football League (NFL). She has spent 16 combined seasons officiating for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, high school games, and for the Arizona Cardinals Red and White game.
The setback from the Nexus Q reveals deeper challenges for Google as it tries to move into two new areas: hardware and social technology.
Bundling mortgages and selling them to investors is helping banks make big profits even as they charge lower interest rates.
âBullet for Adolfâ at New World Stages, by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, explores ethnicity as a shifting and surprising equation.
In so-called U-turn transactions before 2008, global banks like Standard Chartered could provide scant information on transfers that passed in and out of the United States.
Analysts say the shadow war has more in common with the cloak-and-dagger maneuverings of the C.I.A. and the K.G.B. during the cold war than the publicity-hungry terrorism campaign of Al Qaeda.
Many of the youngest leaders of the Republican Party are embracing views on some social issues that are at odds with traditional conservative ideology.
A growing movement to legalize Internet gambling and give states the power to regulate and tax online gambling even on reservations is driving anxiety among the Shakopee tribe.
If Chinese officials hoped the trial of Bo Xilaiâs wife would show off a more transparent legal system, they are likely to be disappointed.
Buildings by Wang Shu, the first Chinese architect to win the Pritzker prize, often recall nature, fusing old-world Chinese and modern idioms.
The fourth installment in this franchise is less a thrilling reboot than a salvage mission, with Jeremy Renner taking over from Matt Damon.
Is the open house a useful selling tool or an obsolete waste of time? To find out, a reporter hits the open-house trail.
Generic creams routinely prescribed by doctors have been undergoing rapid price increases, an example of the murky and often illogical world of drug pricing.