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July 16, 2013

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 10, 2013, covering July 16, 2013.

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    Album cover for The Gifted by Wale

    The Gifted

    Wale

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    Album cover for Born Sinner by J. Cole

    Born Sinner

    J. Cole

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    Album cover for Yeezus by Kanye West

    Yeezus

    Kanye West

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    Album cover for Rise by Skillet

    Rise

    Skillet

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    Album cover for Random Access Memories by Daft Punk

    Random Access Memories

    Daft Punk

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Notable Deaths

Talia Castellano

2013Talia Castellano, American internet celebrity (born 1999)[†]

Talia Joy Castellano was an American internet personality and model who was best known for her work on YouTube, notably her makeup and fashion content, and for becoming the first honorary CoverGirl in 2012. She battled the diseases neuroblastoma and leukemia for six years, and died on July 16, 2013. As of May 2021, her YouTube channel has received over a million subscribers.

Alex Colville

2013Alex Colville, Canadian painter and academic (born 1920)[†]

David Alexander Colville was a Canadian painter and printmaker.

Marv Rotblatt

2013Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (born 1927)[†]

Marvin Rotblatt, nicknamed "Rotty", was a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox in the 1948, 1950 and 1951 seasons. His ERAs in 1948 (7.85) and 1950 (6.23) were the highest in the majors. He failed to get a base hit in fifteen career at-bats.

Historical Events

Bihar school meal poisoning incident

2013As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.[†]

On 16 July 2013, 23–27 students died, and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the village of Gandaman in the Saran district of the Indian state of Bihar after eating a Midday Meal contaminated with pesticide. Angered by the deaths and illnesses, villagers took to the streets in many parts of the district in violent protest. Subsequently, the Bihar government took a series of steps to prevent any recurrence of such incidents.

Syrian civil war

2013Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict.[†]

The Syrian civil war is an ongoing conflict in Syria that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war that culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. All revolutionary factions were united into the Syrian caretaker government by 12 March 2025.

Historical Context for July 16, 2013

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