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August 25, 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 August 20, 2014, covering August 25, 2014.

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    Album cover for Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 by Soundtrack

    Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1

    Soundtrack

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    Album cover for NOW 51 by Various Artists

    NOW 51

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for 1000HP by Godsmack

    1000HP

    Godsmack

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    Album cover for They Want My Soul by Spoon

    They Want My Soul

    Spoon

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    Album cover for 5 Seconds Of Summer by 5 Seconds of Summer

    5 Seconds Of Summer

    5 Seconds of Summer

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Notable Deaths

William Greaves

2014William Greaves, American director and producer (born 1926)[†]

William Garfield Greaves was an American documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of film-making. After trying his hand at acting, he became a filmmaker who produced more than two hundred documentary films, and wrote and directed more than half of these. Greaves garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations.

Marcel Masse

2014Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (born 1936)[†]

Marcel Masse was a Canadian politician. He served as a Quebec MLA, federal MP and federal cabinet minister.

Nico M. M. Nibbering

2014Nico M. M. Nibbering, Dutch chemist and academic (born 1938)[†]

Nicolaas Martinus Maria Nibbering was a Dutch chemist and mass spectrometrist. He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Thomson Medal and the Joannes Marcus Marci Award.

2014Uziah Thompson, Jamaican-American drummer and producer (born 1936)[†]

Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson was a Jamaican percussionist, vocalist and deejay active from the late 1950s. He worked with some of the best known performers of Jamaican music and played on hundreds of albums.

2014Enrique Zileri, Peruvian journalist and publisher (born 1931)[†]

Enrique Zileri Gibson was the publisher of Caretas (Masks), Peru's leading newsmagazine, which was cofounded by his mother Doris Gibson. He ran the magazine as "a symbol of resistance" against successive Peruvian dictators and their censors. He won many international honours, including the Maria Moors Cabot Prize (1975), but was twice deported by his own government, and the magazine was shut down at least eight times. The Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa called him an "indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy" who "could never be bribed or intimidated".

Historical Context for August 25, 2014

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