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In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]
2014Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (born 1958)[†]
Olav Dale was a Norwegian composer, orchestra leader and jazz saxophonist. In addition to saxophone he played other woodwinds. He received little formal education in music, but he completed studies at the Voss Folk High School and the Toneheim Folk High School (1976–78).
2014Damiana Eugenio, Filipino author and academic (born 1921)[†]
Damiana Ligon Eugenio was a Filipino female author and professor who was known as the Mother of Philippine Folklore, a title she received in 1986. Apart from teaching at the University of the Philippines, she has several publications in the field of Philippine folklore, among them a series of seven books which she compiled and edited.
2014Valeri Karpov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1971)[†]
Valeri Yevgenievich Karpov was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League and National Hockey League. He competed for Traktor Chelyabinsk and HC CSKA Moscow in Russia before moving to North America. He was drafted 56th overall by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft and joined the team the next season, but struggled to maintain a place in the Ducks roster, bouncing around the minor leagues. He played 76 regular season games for the Ducks over three seasons, scoring 14 goals and 15 assists for 29 points, collecting 32 penalty minutes. He returned to Russia in 1997, spending three seasons with Metallurg Magnitogorsk, helping them win the RSL title in 1999. After spells with HC Lada Togliatti and HC Dynamo Moscow, he returned to Metallurg Magnitogorsk in 2001, where he stayed for another four years. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993 and retired in 2005.
2014Lari Ketner, American football and basketball player (born 1977)[†]
Lari Arthur Ketner was an American professional basketball player. A 6-foot-9-inch (2.06 m), 277-pound (126 kg) forward/center, Ketner played college basketball for the UMass Minutemen, and was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 49th overall pick of the 1999 NBA draft.
2014Pavel Landovský, Czech actor, director, and playwright (born 1936)[†]
Pavel Landovský, nicknamed Lanďák, was a Czech actor, playwright, and director. He was a prominent dissident under the communist regime of former Czechoslovakia.
2014Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian journalist, historian, and author (born 1947)[†]
Edward Charles Nimmervoll né Eduard Nimmervoll was an Australian music journalist, author and historian. He worked on rock and pop magazines Go-Set (1966–1974) and Juke Magazine (1975–92) both as a journalist and as an editor. From 2000, Nimmervoll was editor of HowlSpace, a website detailing Australian rock/pop music history, providing artist profiles, news and video interviews. He was an author of books on the same subject and co-authored books with musicians including Brian Cadd and Renée Geyer.
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Since taking over UBS’s investment bank two years ago, Andrea Orcel has cut costs, reined in the use of capital and pushed to win more merger and initial public offering business.
Volatility is back. Stocks tumble, erasing Wednesday’s rally, while Treasury prices surge and crude oil slumps amid worries over slower global growth.
Real estate executives said the building would be used for offices and a distribution center.
The website for the Pentagon’s Vietnam War anniversary commemoration largely describes a war of valor and honor that would be unrecognizable to many of the Americans who fought in and against it.
“Ghost Quartet,” a musical at the Bushwick Starr, goes beyond zombies and vampires.
The revival of Terrence McNally’s “It’s Only a Play,” a Broadway star vehicle about a Broadway star vehicle, allows theatergoers to feel as though they’re among the insiders.
In a country devastated by a terrible disease, what to do when the task is caring for an hours-old baby whose mother might have died of Ebola?
Sean Shaynak, a Brooklyn Technical High School teacher who faces 36 charges including sexual abuse and forcible touching, appeared forever stuck in high school to those who knew him.
Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani advocate of girls’ education, and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian who has rescued trafficked children from slavery, shared the prize.
Leonard A. Lauder, the cosmetics tycoon, tells the story behind some of the Cubist works he recently donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hewlett-Packard is joining what is becoming a corporate stampede toward spinoffs, but the true test is in how the spun-off companies perform.
Many political candidates have changed, over time, on key issues, but Rob Astorino, the Republican candidate for New York governor, is basically the same steadfast conservative that he was at 18.