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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer (born 1920)[†]
David Warren Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, tonalities, and combining different styles and genres, like classic, jazz, and blues.
2012Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (born 1909)[†]
Dame Elisabeth Joy Murdoch, Lady Murdoch, also known as Elisabeth, Lady Murdoch, was an Australian philanthropist and matriarch of the Murdoch family. She was the wife of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1963 for her charity work in Australia and overseas.
2012Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and Cathedral of Brasília (born 1907)[†]
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. His exploration of the aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete was highly influential in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
2012Ignatius IV of Antioch, Syrian patriarch (born 1920)[†]
Patriarch Ignatius IV was the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All The East from 1979 to 2012.
Students are demanding that university endowment funds rid themselves of coal, oil and gas stocks in hopes of bringing climate change onto the national political agenda.
With President Obama winning public support for higher tax rates on the rich, Congressional Republicans find themselves in a difficult political spot and are quietly beginning the search for a way out.
Smartphone apps that use the Internet to send text messages are forcing wireless providers to change pricing models.
Educators say grade-school students develop reading skills better when they are engaged by characters with whom they can identify. For Hispanic children, that’s hard to find.
The dispute is also being closely watched as a first major test of whether, and how, financially strained states and cities can cut the benefits of their workers and retirees.
The effort to suppress news of a deadly Ferrari crash, insiders now reveal, hastened the decline of the departing president, Hu Jintao, and spurred the ascent of China’s new leader, Xi Jinping.
“A Civil War Christmas,” by Paula Vogel, sets history as a backdrop to human dramas.
David Chase and two friends from “The Sopranos” — Steven Van Zandt and James Gandolfini — discuss the New Jersey imperatives that drive “Not Fade Away.”
Citigroup announced on Wednesday that it would cut 11,000 jobs, reducing its work force by roughly 4 percent, as the bank moved to sharply reduce its expenses.
A stage musical based on the 1976 movie “Rocky” has proved a hit in Hamburg, Germany. Now its producers hope to bring it to Broadway.
Mr. Brubeck, best known for “Take Five,” experimented with time signatures and polytonality and explored baroque compositional devices and foreign modes.
Four medalists from the Athens Games will lose their medals because officials found evidence of doping in retested urine samples.