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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]
2013William C. Campbell, American golfer (born 1923)[†]
William Cammack Campbell, often known as Bill Campbell or William C. Campbell, became one of the most distinguished amateur golfers in golf history. Campbell was two-time President of the United States Golf Association (USGA) and one time Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1990.
2013Howie Crittenden, American basketball player and coach (born 1933)[†]
Howard Royce Crittenden was an American basketball player, best known for his college career at Murray State University and in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).
2013Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher and academic (born 1942)[†]
Allan Stanley Gotthelf was an American philosopher. He was a scholar of the philosophies of both Aristotle and Ayn Rand.
2013Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)[†]
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".
2013Leo Lewis, American football player and coach (born 1933)[†]
Leo Everett Lewis Jr. was an American gridiron football player and coach. He played college football as a running back for Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, from 1951 to 1954 and professionally with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1955 to 1966. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Lincoln, from 1973 to 1975.
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Zurich Insurance said it would look into whether its chief financial officer was under undue pressure before he killed himself, leading to the resignation of Josef Ackermann as chairman.
Mr. Heaney, a widely celebrated Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, is recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century.
Buildings are finding new ways to cut costs, including selling off unused space like hall closets.
Data released on Friday by the Indian government showed that the economy slowed in the quarter ended in June to the weakest rate since the worst of the global downturn.
The book, written under a pseudonym by the best-selling author J. K. Rowling, became a success only after her identity was revealed.
As the administration’s frontman for American intervention, Secretary of State John Kerry is able and willing to be more outspoken than the president he serves.
Ample inventories and North American production are expected to hold down prices, despite tensions in the Middle East and North Africa.