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December 14, 2013

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 11, 2013, covering December 14, 2013.

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    Album cover for Midnight Memories by One Direction

    Midnight Memories

    One Direction

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    Peak
    1
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    1
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    Album cover for The Marshall Mathers LP 2 by Eminem

    The Marshall Mathers LP 2

    Eminem

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
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    4
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    Album cover for Blame It All On My Roots: Five Decades Of Influences by Garth Brooks

    Blame It All On My Roots: Five Decades Of Influences

    Garth Brooks

    Last week
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    Peak
    3
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    1
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    Album cover for Duck The Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas by The Robertsons

    Duck The Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas

    The Robertsons

    Last week
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    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    5
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    Album cover for PRISM by Katy Perry

    PRISM

    Katy Perry

    Last week
    11
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6

Notable Deaths

Janet Dailey

2013Janet Dailey, American author (born 1944)[†]

Janet Anne Haradon Dailey was an American author of numerous romance novels as Janet Dailey. Her novels have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide.

C. N. Karunakaran

2013C. N. Karunakaran, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1940)[†]

C. N. Karunakaran was an Indian painter, illustrator and art director from Kerala. He was the Chairman of the Kerala Lalitakala Academy and a recipient of several honours including the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Award which he won thrice. The Akademi honoured him again with the fellowship in 2005.

Dennis Lindley

2013Dennis Lindley, English statistician and academic (born 1923)[†]

Dennis Victor Lindley was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.

Peter O'Toole

2013Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (born 1932)[†]

Peter Seamus O'Toole was an English actor known for his leading roles on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include the Academy Honorary Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.

George Rodrigue

2013George Rodrigue, American painter (born 1944)[†]

George Rodrigue was an American artist who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes, followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th-century and early 20th-century genre scenes. His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees, which are common to an area of French Louisiana known as Acadiana. In the mid-1990s Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings, based on a Cajun legend called Loup-garou, catapulted him to worldwide fame.

Historical Events

South Sudanese Civil War

2013A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.[†]

The South Sudanese Civil War was a multi-sided civil war in South Sudan fought from 2013 to 2020, between forces of the government and opposition forces. The civil war caused rampant human rights abuses, including forced displacement, ethnic massacres, and killings of journalists by various parties. Since the war's end, South Sudan has been governed by a coalition formed by leaders of the former warring factions, Salva Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar. The country continues to recover from the war while experiencing ongoing and systemic ethnic violence.

Historical Context for December 14, 2013

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