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September 22, 2012

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 19, 2012, covering September 22, 2012.

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    Album cover for North by Matchbox Twenty

    North

    Matchbox Twenty

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    Album cover for Night Visions by Imagine Dragons

    Night Visions

    Imagine Dragons

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    Album cover for Gravity by Lecrae

    Gravity

    Lecrae

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    Album cover for NOW 43 by Various Artists

    NOW 43

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for Blown Away by Carrie Underwood

    Blown Away

    Carrie Underwood

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Notable Deaths

Hector Abhayavardhana

2012Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and academic (born 1919)[†]

Hector Abhayavardhana was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist theoretician, a long-standing member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and a founder-member of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma.

Irving Adler

2012Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (born 1913)[†]

Irving Adler was an American author, mathematician, scientist, political activist, and educator. He was the author of 57 books about mathematics, science, and education, and the co-author of 30 more, for both children and adults. His books have been published in 31 countries in 19 different languages. Since his teenaged years, Adler was involved in social and political activities focused on civil rights, civil liberties, and peace, including his role as a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education that bears his name.

Juan H. CintrĂłn GarcĂ­a

2012Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (born 1919)[†]

Juan Herminio Cintrón García was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1968 to 1972. Under his administration the city of Ponce saw the construction of the Coliseo Juan "Pachín" Vicéns and the Centro Gubernamental de Ponce on Avenida Las Americas.

Grigory Frid

2012Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (born 1915)[†]

Grigory Samuilovich Frid, also known as Grigori Fried, was a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera.

2012Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (born 1914)[†]

Jan Hendrik van den Berg was a Dutch psychiatrist notable for his work in phenomenological psychotherapy and metabletics, or "psychology of historical change." He is the author of numerous articles and books, including A different existence and The changing nature of man.

Historical Context for September 22, 2012

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