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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Russ Alben, American composer and businessman (born 1929)[â ]
Bernard Russ Alben was an American advertising executive and composer. He served as the Vice President and Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather from the early 1970s until his retirement in December 1981. Alben is credited with writing the Good & Plenty's Choo Choo Charlie jingle and creating the Timex watch advertising slogan, "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."
2012Reginald Bartholomew, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1936)[â ]
Reginald Bartholomew was an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon (1983â1986), Spain (1986â1989), and Italy (1993â1997). He was also a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he was also a member of the United States National Security Council staff (1977â1979).
2012Jacques Bensimon, Canadian director and producer (born 1943)[â ]
Jacques Bensimon was a public film and television director, producer and executive in Canada, working primarily with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and TFO, the French-language network of TVOntario. From 2001 until 2006, he was president of the CinémathÚque québécoise in Montreal.
2012Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (born 1940)[â ]
Krzysztof Wilmanski was a Polish-German scientist working in the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics.
Much genetic research is predicated on study subjects being anonymous, but increasingly researchers are discovering things these subjects, or their relatives, might need or like to know.
An unexpected surge of children, some of them barely school age, have been caught by border agents as they tried to cross illegally into the United States.
Roger Clemens started a game for the first time since 2007, pitching for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League.
Mitt Romney is heading into his nominating convention with his advisers convinced he needs a more combative footing against President Obama.
With more than 200 bodies found over the weekend, the assault in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus has begun to look like one of the deadliest short-term raids of the uprising.
Aaron Levie founded the online data storage company Box from his dorm room seven years ago and turned it into one of the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley.
In her novel âNW,â Zadie Smith employs a stream-of-consciousness technique to trace her charactersâ thoughts in a rapidly changing London.
Mark Stadnyk is suing the United States government, aiming to block a patent law that he says is a triumph of corporate lobbying that will hurt lone inventors like him.
If political convention organizers acknowledged that they were putting on reality shows, television networks and viewers might be more inclined to watch.
Gerard Alessandrini is once again feasting on theatrical spoils, shaping his latest spoof, âForbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking!,â which anticipates fodder from shows opening in the fall.
âThe Matchmaker,â Thornton Wilderâs 1954 farce, has been given a rare and loving revival at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival this year.
Tana French puts her career into perspective as her latest murder mystery, â Broken Harbor,â sits on the best-seller list.