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May 12, 2014

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 7, 2014, covering May 12, 2014.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Frozen by Soundtrack

    Frozen

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    22
  2. 2
    Album cover for Honest by Future

    Honest

    Future

    Last week
    —
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for The New Classic by Iggy Azalea

    The New Classic

    Iggy Azalea

    Last week
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    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for G I R L by Pharrell Williams

    G I R L

    Pharrell Williams

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    8
  5. 5
    Album cover for Testimony by August Alsina

    Testimony

    August Alsina

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2

Notable Deaths

Cornell Borchers

2014Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (born 1925)[†]

Cornell Borchers was a Lithuanian-German actress and singer, active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for her roles opposite Montgomery Clift in The Big Lift (1950) and Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole in Istanbul (1957). She was said to resemble Ingrid Bergman in mid-1950s reviews.

Marco Cé

2014Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (born 1925)[†]

Marco Cé was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Patriarch of Venice from 1978 to 2002 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.

H. R. Giger

2014H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (born 1940)[†]

Hans Ruedi Giger was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical". He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, and was responsible for creating the xenomorph alien itself. His work is on permanent display at the H. R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland. His style has been adapted to many forms of media, including album covers, furniture, tattoos and video games.

Sarat Pujari

2014Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1934)[†]

Sarat Pujari was an Indian actor, director and producer in Odia film industry (Ollywood). He was originally from Jhaduapada, Sambalpur.

Lorenzo Zambrano

2014Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)[†]

Lorenzo Hormisdas Zambrano Treviño was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist. He took over Cemex, a regional cement company founded by his grandfather, and transformed it into one of the largest cement producers in the world by the time of his death. Zambrano also financed several cultural initiatives across Latin America and chaired, from 1997 to 2012, the board of trustees of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), one of the largest private universities in the region. He also co-owned Axtel, an important Mexican telecommunications company.

Historical Context for May 12, 2014

In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]