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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (born 1929)[†]
Chadli Bendjedid was an Algerian military officer and politician who served as the third President of Algeria. His presidential term of office ran from 9 February 1979 to 11 January 1992.
2012Anthony John Cooke, English organist and composer (born 1931)[†]
Anthony John Cooke FRCO was a British organist and composer.
2012Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1977)[†]
Nick Curran was an American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist. He has been likened to T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, The Sonics, Doug Sahm, Misfits Eddie Cochran
2012Albert, Margrave of Meissen (born 1943)[†]
Prince Albert Joseph Maria Franz-Xaver of Saxony, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen was the head of the Royal House of Saxony and a German historian. The fourth child and youngest son of Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen and his wife Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis, he was the younger brother of Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, who was his predecessor as head of the Royal House of Saxony.
2012Joseph Meyer, American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (born 1941)[†]
Joseph Brown Meyer was an American politician from the U.S. state of Wyoming.
2012B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (born 1927)[†]
B. Satya Narayan Reddy was a freedom fighter, Socialist politician and a former Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal.
2012J. J. C. Smart, English-Australian philosopher and academic (born 1920)[†]
John Jamieson Carswell Smart was a British-Australian philosopher who was appointed as an Emeritus Professor by the Australian National University. He worked in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. He wrote several entries for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Elsie McCabe Thompson, the president of the Museum for African Art, is leaving after three years of financial problems that have delayed the opening of a new site for the institution.
With gasoline supplies already tight, a power failure at Exxon Mobil’s Torrance, Calif., refinery on Monday crimped production even further, but normal operations have resumed.
Students get more fruits and vegetables under new nutritional requirements for public school lunches, but many children just toss them away.
In a wild contest that featured a disputed infield fly call and Chipper Jones’s final at-bat, St. Louis defeated the Atlanta Braves in baseball’s first play-in contest.
Players at U.S. Soccer-affiliated academies are no longer permitted to play for their high school teams, forcing them into profound choices that can be complicated — and costly — for their families.
Mitt Romney did score some successes beyond his health care legislation as governor of Massachusetts, but critics say he never mastered reaching across the aisle.
Linda E. McMahon, a Republican making her second bid for a Senate seat in Connecticut, has put a great deal of time, energy and money into softening her image among female voters.
The financing has prompted criticism that the military’s money could co-opt workshops where hackers gather to build, invent or take apart things in their spare time.
Twenty-eight years ago, Habiba Ali moved into Room 320 in the Hotel Wales, and she has remained there, weekly linen service included, through several owners, renovations and entreaties to get out.
Along the socioeconomic spectrum in New York City’s student population, there is a corresponding vocabulary gap for children beginning in kindergarten.
On bridges and rooftops, police officers in the Emergency Service Unit reach out for that one emotional chord that will change a suicidal mind.
John R. Silber, Boston University’s longtime president, who died last week, had a theory that was ahead of its time: college football coaches hold too much power.