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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (born 1907)[†]
Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.
2012Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)[†]
Jaspal Singh Bhatti was an Indian television personality known for his satirical take on the problems of the common man. He was most well known for his television series Flop Show, Full Tension and mini capsules Ulta Pulta which ran on Doordarshan, India's public service broadcaster, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was commonly known as the "King of Comedy" and also the "King of Satire". He carried out various anti-corruption crusades in Chandigarh. His frontal attack on issues like red-tapism, nepotism, and corruption was both comic and awakening for the masses.
2012John Connelly, English footballer (born 1938)[†]
John Michael Connelly was an English footballer. He played as an outside forward and was capped 20 times for his country.
2012Emanuel Steward, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster (born 1944)[†]
Emanuel "Manny" Steward was an American boxer, trainer, and commentator for HBO Boxing. Known as "the godfather of Detroit boxing," Steward trained 41 world champion fighters throughout his career, most notably Thomas Hearns, through the famous Kronk Gym and later heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko. Emanuel trained over two dozen boxers who turned out to be champions in the course of his career. His heavyweight fighters had a combined record of 34–2–1 in title fights. He was an inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame, and the World Boxing Hall of Fame. Steward was also known for his charity work in Detroit, Michigan, helping youth to attain an education.
Microsoft’s Windows 8 has two different worlds, one designed primarily for touch screens, the other for mouse and keyboard.
Syrian soldiers’ battle to retake a rebel-held school in Homs is a war of attrition, in which the opposition gains ground and the government takes it back.
While female voters generally tend to favor President Obama, that cannot be said of white women without college degrees, a subset known — in this race — as waitress moms.
“Cloud Atlas,” which lavishly adapts the David Mitchell novel, is a film about migratory souls and wayward civilizations, loaded with soaring themes and flights of feeling.
The director Robert Zemeckis, who has been making motion-capture films for a decade or so, talks about “Flight,” his first live-action movie since “Cast Away.”
Unions in Michigan are asking voters to approve a referendum that would secure labor protections.
The pianist Andras Schiff is beginning a monumental two-season project of performing — from memory — all of Bach’s keyboard works, in New York and elsewhere.
Random House, owned by Bertlesmann, and Penguin, owned by Pearson, are negotiating a merger that would create a publisher that would control 25 percent of the American book market.
Ford broke from the pack of troubled European automakers, announcing deep cuts that include shutting factories in Britain and Belgium and eliminating 5,700 jobs.
In “The Richard Burton Diaries,” written mostly in the late 1960s and early 1970s when Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were at the height of their fame, the couple seemed to speak a private language.
It is unclear how much Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, who has staked a position as a populist and a reformer, knows about the $2.7 billion in assets his family has amassed.
Tom Wolfe’s new novel is built around the gaudy clash of Miami’s different ethnic and financial populations.