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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]
2013Dick Gray, American baseball player (born 1931)[†]
Richard Benjamin Gray was an American professional baseball player. He was an infielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals from 1958 through 1960. Listed at 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 165 pounds (75 kg), he batted and threw right handed.
2013Edmund Morgan, American historian and author (born 1916)[†]
Edmund Sears Morgan was an American historian and an authority on early American history. He was the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. He specialized in American colonial history, with some attention to English history. Thomas S. Kidd says he was noted for his incisive writing style, "simply one of the best academic prose stylists America has ever produced." He covered many topics, including Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery, historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.
2013Claudiney Ramos, Brazilian footballer (born 1980)[†]
Claudiney Ramos was a professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He was nicknamed Rincón, because of his physical resemblance to former Corinthians player, Colombian Freddy Rincón. Born in Brazil, he capped for the Equatorial Guinea national team.
2013Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (born 1913)[†]
Rubby Sherr was an American nuclear physicist who co-invented a key component of the first nuclear weapon while participating in the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. His academic career spanned nearly eight decades, including almost 40 years working at Princeton University.
2013Sundri Uttamchandani, Indian author (born 1924)[†]
Sundri Uttamchandani was a noted Indian writer. She wrote mostly in Sindhi language. She was married to progressive writer A. J. Uttam.
2013Brett Walker, American songwriter and producer (born 1961)[†]
Carl Brett Walker was an American songwriter, musician, and record producer.
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Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, has until Thursday to obtain the necessary signatures to get on the ballot.
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Facebook is planning to introduce Graph Search, a tool to help users sift the volumes of information on the site, and its success is important to the company’s future.
Yielding to pressure from New York’s attorney general, Thomson Reuters is expected to suspend the early release of a closely watched consumer confidence index, which it has delivered two seconds in advance to clients willing to pay extra.
Criminal and civil authorities continue to press a long-running investigation into the hedge fund and Steven A. Cohen, who runs it.
The issue of race has only occasionally punctuated the proceedings in the trial of George Zimmerman, and the judge made it clear that statements about race would be sharply limited.
Al Nour, a party of ultraconservative Islamists, has emerged as an unexpected political kingmaker, shaping the interim government after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi.
Jeff Bauman went to the 2013 Boston Marathon to cheer for his girlfriend. In one flash, his life changed and an arduous road to recovery began.
In a sharp escalation of tensions Monday, Egyptian soldiers opened fire on hundreds of supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the ousted president, witnesses said. The military said armed assailants fired first.
The number of sale listings in and around Manhattan has fallen far behind demand, causing desperation and frantic offers.
The new National African American Museum for History and Culture has acquired two relics of the Angola penitentiary in Louisiana, which has historical roots in slavery.
Nostalgia, long considered a disorder, is now recognized to counteract loneliness, boredom and anxiety — making life seem more meaningful and death less frightening.