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July 3, 2013

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 3, 2013, covering July 3, 2013.

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    Album cover for Yeezus by Kanye West

    Yeezus

    Kanye West

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    Album cover for Born Sinner by J. Cole

    Born Sinner

    J. Cole

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    Album cover for Watching Movies With The Sound Off by Mac Miller

    Watching Movies With The Sound Off

    Mac Miller

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    Album cover for Talk A Good Game by Kelly Rowland

    Talk A Good Game

    Kelly Rowland

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    Album cover for 13 by Black Sabbath

    13

    Black Sabbath

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Notable Deaths

2013Roman Bengez, Slovenian footballer and manager (born 1964)[†]

Roman Bengez was a Slovenian footballer and manager.

2013Francis Ray, American author (born 1944)[†]

Francis Ray was a New York Times and USA Today bestselling African-American writer of romance novels. Her literary fiction series – Taggart and Falcon, the Invincible Women, Grayson Family of New Mexico, and Grayson Friends – consistently made bestsellers' lists. She lived in Dallas, Texas.

PJ Torokvei

2013PJ Torokvei, Canadian actress and screenwriter (born 1951)[†]

PJ Torokvei was a Canadian screenwriter and actor. A trans woman, her professional credits are generally under her former name. In 2001, she announced to friends and family her intention to transition from her original sex at birth and undergo sex reassignment surgery.

Radu Vasile

2013Radu Vasile, Romanian historian and politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1942)[†]

Radu Vasile was a Romanian politician, historian, academic/professor, and poet.

2013Bernard Vitet, French trumpet player and composer (born 1934)[†]

Bernard Vitet was a French trumpeter, multi-instrumentist and composer, co-founder of the first free jazz band in France (1964) together with François Tusques, Michel Portal Unit (1972) and Un Drame Musical Instantané with Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé in 1976.

Snoo Wilson

2013Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1948)[†]

Andrew James Wilson, better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as Blow-Job (1971) were overtly political, often combining harsh social comment with comedy. In his later works he moved away from purely political themes, embracing a range of surrealist, magical, philosophical and madcap, darkly comic subjects.

Historical Events

President of Egypt

2013President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is removed from office by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for his resignation, to which he did not respond. The president of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, Adly Mansour, is declared acting president until further elections are held.[†]

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointer of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the president is also the supreme commander of the Armed Forces, and head of the executive branch of the Egyptian government.

Historical Context for July 3, 2013

In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]