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March 31, 2015

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 25, 2015, covering March 31, 2015.

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    Album cover for Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1 by Soundtrack

    Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1

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    Album cover for Rebel Heart by Madonna

    Rebel Heart

    Madonna

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    Album cover for Spring Break... Checkin' Out by Luke Bryan

    Spring Break... Checkin' Out

    Luke Bryan

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    Album cover for Fifty Shades Of Grey by Soundtrack

    Fifty Shades Of Grey

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    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

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Notable Deaths

2015Betty Churcher, Australian painter, historian, and curator (born 1931)[†]

Elizabeth Ann Dewar Churcher was an Australian arts administrator, best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life.

2015Cocoa Fujiwara, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1983)[†]

Cocoa Fujiwara was a Japanese manga artist and illustrator from Fukuoka Prefecture. Her debut was with a work called Calling, which she made when she was fifteen. She chose not to go to high school so that she could draw manga. Fujiwara was a fan of RPGs such as Final Fantasy, which shows in her works. She was also good friends of Jun Mochizuki and Yana Toboso.

Carlos Gaviria DĂ­az

2015Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian lawyer and politician (born 1937)[†]

Carlos Emilio Gaviria Díaz was a Colombian lawyer, professor and politician. He served as the 5th Chief Magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, where he served as a Magistrate from 1993 to 2001. After retiring from the Court, he went into politics becoming a Senator of Colombia in 2002, and running for President as an Alternative Democratic Pole candidate in the 2006 presidential election, ultimately losing to ex-president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who was seeking his second term in office.

2015Dalibor Vesely, Czech-English historian, author, and academic (born 1934)[†]

Dalibor Vesely was a Czech-born architectural historian and theorist who was influential through his teaching and writing in promoting the role of hermeneutics and phenomenology as part of the discourse of architecture and of architectural design.

Historical Context for March 31, 2015

In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]