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November 27, 2014

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 2014, covering November 27, 2014.

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    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

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    Album cover for Sonic Highways (Soundtrack) by Foo Fighters

    Sonic Highways (Soundtrack)

    Foo Fighters

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    Album cover for The Endless River by Pink Floyd

    The Endless River

    Pink Floyd

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    Album cover for Man Against Machine by Garth Brooks

    Man Against Machine

    Garth Brooks

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    Album cover for Cadillactica by Big K.R.I.T.

    Cadillactica

    Big K.R.I.T.

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Notable Deaths

Wanda Błeńska

2014Wanda Błeńska, Polish physician and missionary (born 1911)[†]

Wanda Błeńska, also spelled Wanda Blenska, was a Polish leprosy expert, AK officer, and a Catholic lay missionary who succeeded to develop the Buluba Hospital in Uganda into an internationally recognized centre for leprosy treatment.

Phillip Hughes

2014Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (born 1988)[†]

Phillip Joel Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons with New South Wales before making his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20. He made his ODI debut in 2013.

P. D. James

2014P. D. James, English author (born 1920)[†]

Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh.

Jack Kyle

2014Jack Kyle, Irish rugby player and humanitarian (born 1926)[†]

John Wilson Kyle, most commonly known as Jack Kyle, was a rugby union player who represented Ireland, the British and Irish Lions and the Barbarians during the 1940s and 1950s. Kyle was a member of the Irish team that won the grand slam in the 1948 Five Nations Championship. In 1950, Kyle was declared one of the six players of the year by the New Zealand Rugby Almanac. Kyle is a member of the International Rugby Hall of Fame and was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame before the two halls merged to form the current World Rugby Hall of Fame. He was named the Greatest Ever Irish Rugby Player by the Irish Rugby Football Union in 2002.

Fernance B. Perry

2014Fernance B. Perry, Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1922)[†]

Fernance Bento Perry,, was a Portuguese-Bermudian entrepreneur and business leader, who had a prominent role in the economy of Bermuda from the mid-20th century to the time of his death in 2014. Originally from the Azores, his professional career spanned such diverse fields as retail supermarkets, television and radio broadcasting, real estate management and maritime shipping. His philanthropic works contributed to healthcare improvements and programmes of spiritual enrichment in Bermuda. In recognition of his achievements, Perry was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2007. He died on November 27, 2014, at age 92.

Historical Context for November 27, 2014

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