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September 8, 2012

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 2012, covering September 8, 2012.

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    Album cover for Chapter V by Trey Songz

    Chapter V

    Trey Songz

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    Album cover for Based On A T.R.U. Story by 2 Chainz

    Based On A T.R.U. Story

    2 Chainz

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    Album cover for NOW 43 by Various Artists

    NOW 43

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for Kiss The Ring by DJ Khaled

    Kiss The Ring

    DJ Khaled

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    Album cover for Believe by Justin Bieber

    Believe

    Justin Bieber

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Notable Deaths

2012Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian and academic (born 1937)[†]

Ronald Hamowy was a Canadian academic, known primarily for his contributions to political and social academic fields. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus of intellectual history at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Hamowy was closely associated with the political ideology of libertarianism and his writings and scholarship place particular emphasis on individual liberty and the limits of state action in a free society. He is associated with a number of prominent American libertarian organizations.

Bill Moggridge

2012Bill Moggridge, English-American designer, author, and educator, co-founded IDEO (born 1943)[†]

William Grant Moggridge, RDI was an English designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. He was a pioneer in adopting a human-centred approach in design, and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline.

Thomas Szasz

2012Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (born 1920)[†]

Thomas Stephen Szasz was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism.

Historical Context for September 8, 2012

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