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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]
2013Chris Chase (aka Irene Kane), American actress and author (born 1924)[†]
Chris Chase, also known by the stage name Irene Kane, was an American model, film actress, writer, and journalist. Her best-known role was in Killer's Kiss. She later wrote advice books and co-authored several celebrity autobiographies. She is the sister of Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Paul Greengard.
2013Gérard de Villiers, French journalist and author (born 1929)[†]
Gérard de Villiers was a French writer, journalist and publisher whose SAS series of spy novels have been major bestsellers.
2013Trevor Kletz, English chemist and author (born 1922)[†]
Trevor Asher Kletz was a British author on the topic of chemical engineering safety. He was a central figure in establishing the discipline of process safety. He is credited with introducing the concept of inherent safety and was a major promoter of Hazop. He is listed in The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History.
2013Johnny Kucks, American baseball player (born 1933)[†]
John Charles Kucks was an American pitcher for the New York Yankees and Kansas City Athletics in Major League Baseball. In 1952, he was signed as an amateur free agent. Johnny Kucks won the final game of the 1956 World Series between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, shutting out the Dodgers, 9–0 at Ebbets Field—the last World Series game ever played in that ballpark.
2013Andres Narvasa, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (born 1928)[†]
Andres dela Rosa Narvasa was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from December 1, 1991, to November 30, 1998.
2013Bobby Parker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)[†]
Robert Lee Parker was an American blues-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his 1961 song "Watch Your Step", a single for the V-Tone record label which reached the Billboard Hot 100; the song was performed by, and influenced, the Beatles among others.
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Despite higher costs, Canadian oil companies are rapidly expanding their ability to transport crude by rail, hoping to tap hungry markets in Asia.
A onetime engineer who earned his law degree at night has been behind the government’s campaign to punish Wall Street for the financial crisis.
The detained crew of a Greenpeace ship appears to have grossly underestimated Russia’s readiness to assert — and expand — its sovereignty in an Arctic region potentially rich with natural resources.
Unbeknown to Google and Yahoo, the National Security Agency and its British counterpart have tapped into the search engines abroad, where data collection faces less oversight.
With the growing money and attention devoted to science and technology, university administrators are concerned that the humanities are being eclipsed.
The National Security Agency’s monitoring is not limited to politicians like Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany — it also includes party leaders and aides, and it’s all part of efforts to gain an edge over other nations.
Lawmakers in 10 states have passed more than two dozen privacy laws this year on phone tracking, the use of drones and other topics, as support for limits on surveillance has grown.
Advocates of the digital currency bitcoin say it is ready to emerge from its fringe status and become a common method of retail payment.
First elected to represent his Brooklyn district in 2001, Bill de Blasio combined idealistic promises with the ability to make shrewd, coldblooded moves that advanced his career.
While Syria met an important deadline, it still has 1,290 metric tons of chemical weapons it must destroy by mid-2014, inspectors said.
The cable company lost 306,000 television subscribers in the third quarter, hurt by a contract dispute that resulted in a blackout of CBS programming.
Edward J. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who received temporary asylum in Russia, will start work on Friday at an Internet company, a lawyer said.