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In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]
2015K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (born 1933)[†]
Kairshasp Nariman Choksy, PC, MP was a Sri Lankan lawyer, politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was Cabinet Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. He had also served as Cabinet Minister of Constitutional & State Affairs from 1993 to 1994 under President D. B. Wijetunga and was a member of parliament from 1989 to 2010 continuously.
2015Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress and singer (born 1931)[†]
Marisa Del Frate was an Italian singer, actress and television personality who was mainly active in the 1950s and 60s.
2015Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)[†]
Val Logsdon Fitch was an American nuclear physicist who, with co-researcher James Cronin, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of K-mesons, that a reaction run in reverse does not retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered. This demolished the faith that physicists had that natural laws were governed by symmetry.
2015Herman Rosenblat, Polish-American author (born 1929)[†]
Herman A. Rosenblat was a Polish-born American author, known for writing a fictitious Holocaust memoir titled Angel at the Fence, purporting to tell the true story of a girl who passed him food through the barbed-wire fence at the Schlieben sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in World War II. The book was planned to be published in 2009 by Berkley Books, but was cancelled after it turned out that many elements of his memoir were fabricated and some were contrary to verifiable historical facts. Rosenblat later admitted to lying on purpose with the intention of "bringing joy".
In an era of digital devices, why are simple desktop toys still so appealing?
With Europe grappling with staggeringly high unemployment and stubbornly low growth, showing some mercy on debt may yet gain ground.
Accusations by the former Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui have fueled calls for President Obama to declassify a section of the 2002 report.
The insurer said hackers were able to breach a database that contained as many as 80 million records of current and former customers, including names, Social Security numbers and income data.
As the White House weighs sending arms to bolster Ukraine’s forces, Secretary of State John Kerry is joining the leaders of Germany and France in Kiev to bolster peace efforts.
In its offer to buy Hospira, Pfizer is paying richly for what it believes will be a lucrative source of future revenue, drugs known as biosimilars.
“Donor advisers” like Mary Pat Bonner have immense power in the world of political fund-raising, and their commissions are provoking complaints from big-money contributors.
The composer-performer Lin-Manuel Miranda meets with cast members from his new musical, “Hamilton,” to discuss hip-hop hustle and the founding fathers.
Before Sam Smith can be crowned pop music’s new prince, he will have to make it past the queen: Beyoncé.
A new credit union wants to serve the banking needs of Colorado’s legal marijuana businesses. The only problem? The federal government needs to sign off.
Ms. Pascal, who was embroiled in a hacking scandal in which her email was leaked, will leave her post as the top executive at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Thomas O. Staggs will spend the next three years proving himself to Disney’s board, which has been acutely focused on a careful transfer of power.