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November 13, 2014

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 2014, covering November 13, 2014.

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    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

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    Album cover for NOW 52 by Various Artists

    NOW 52

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for Montevallo by Sam Hunt

    Montevallo

    Sam Hunt

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    Album cover for My Dream Duets by Barry Manilow

    My Dream Duets

    Barry Manilow

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    Album cover for Old Boots; New Dirt by Jason Aldean

    Old Boots; New Dirt

    Jason Aldean

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Notable Deaths

2014MarĂ­a JosĂ© Alvarado, Honduran model, Señorita Honduras 2014 (born 1995)[†]

María José Alvarado Muñoz was a Honduran beauty pageant titleholder and television host who was Miss Honduras 2014.

Kakha Bendukidze

2014Kakha Bendukidze, Georgian economist and politician, Georgian Minister of Economy (born 1956)[†]

Kakha Bendukidze was a Georgian statesman, businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Knowledge Foundation and head of the supervisory board of Agricultural and Free Universities.

Alvin Dark

2014Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (born 1922)[†]

Alvin Ralph Dark, nicknamed "Blackie" and "the Swamp Fox", was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, the New York Giants (1950–1956), the St. Louis Cardinals (1956–1958), the Chicago Cubs (1958–59), and the Philadelphia Phillies (1960). Later, he managed the San Francisco Giants (1961–1964), the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, the Cleveland Indians (1968–1971), and the San Diego Padres (1977). He was a three-time All-Star and a two-time World Series champion, once as a player (1954) and once as a manager (1974).

Alexander Grothendieck

2014Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (born 1928)[†]

Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French, was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revolutionary advances in many areas of pure mathematics. He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century.

Historical Context for November 13, 2014

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