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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]
2013Otis Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (born 1918)[†]
Otis Ray Bowen was an American politician and physician who served as the 44th Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989.
2013Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)[†]
Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisomes and lysosomes, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George E. Palade. In addition to peroxisome and lysosome, he invented scientific names such as autophagy, endocytosis, and exocytosis on a single occasion.
2013Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (born 1948)[†]
Javier Diez Canseco Cisneros was a Peruvian politician and member of the Peruvian Congress representing the Socialist Party of Peru (PS), of which he was a founding member and also served as its Party President.
2013Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (born 1935)[†]
Mário Machado was an American television and radio broadcaster and actor. He made television history when, in 1970, he became the first American of Chinese heritage to be an on-air television news reporter and anchor in Los Angeles and perhaps in the nation.
2013Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (born 1914)[†]
Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Charles Morgan-Giles, was a Royal Navy officer, decorated during the Second World War, who later served as a Conservative Member of Parliament. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former member of the House of Commons.
2013César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (born 1922)[†]
César Portillo de la Luz was a Cuban musician, lyricist and composer. Born in Havana, Cuba, Portillo is credited with founding the filin music genre. The Miami Herald described Portillo as "a fundamental author of Latin American music" and "one of Cuba's most celebrated composers". Portillo is also cited as "the most distinguished lyricist of his generation" and "one of the most prolific Cuban composers of the twentieth century".
The budget cuts imposed by sequestration are likely to hamper the Library of Congress’s efforts to copyright, digitize and store millions of books, photographs and other precious materials.
As the bank grapples with regulatory battles, some shareholders are taking public aim at individual directors who hold crucial positions on the bank’s audit and risk committees.
College graduates are the only group that has more people employed today than when the recession started.
The Knicks nearly gave away a 26-point lead in the fourth quarter before steadying themselves to outlast the Celtics. They clinched their first playoff series victory since 2000.
Joseph Ficalora, in pain from bad memories everywhere he looked and fed up with vandals tagging his neighborhood with graffiti, has turned the streets of Bushwick, Brooklyn, into an outdoor gallery.
The Phipps family, who owned the Kentucky Derby runner-up in 1989, have this year’s morning-line favorite, Orb.
Friends and relatives of Katherine Russell, the widow of one of the suspects in the Boston bombing, are stunned at the turn her life has taken.
A centerpiece of an overhaul of the juvenile justice system gives New York City’s young delinquents, like Mone’t, 17, local options for rehabilitation.
Corey Johnson, who plans to run for the New York City Council, came out 13 years ago but has another disclosure to make: He’s H.I.V. positive.
Experts said that Israel was taking a calculated risk that limited strikes, aimed at disrupting the arms pipeline that runs from Iran to Hezbollah, would provoke only a limited response.
Bylaws amendments have been coming fast and furious as the CommonWealth REIT tries to fend off two big shareholders intent on change.
For a small group of the young, digital elite, Enstitute seeks to challenge the conventional wisdom that top professional jobs always require a bachelor’s degree.