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December 23, 2015

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 23, 2015, covering December 23, 2015.

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    Album cover for 25 by Adele

    25

    Adele

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    Peak
    1
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    3
  2. 2
    Album cover for A Head Full Of Dreams by Coldplay

    A Head Full Of Dreams

    Coldplay

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    Peak
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    1
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    Album cover for Purpose by Justin Bieber

    Purpose

    Justin Bieber

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    Peak
    1
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    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for That's Christmas To Me by Pentatonix

    That's Christmas To Me

    Pentatonix

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    19
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    Album cover for When It's Dark Out by G-Eazy

    When It's Dark Out

    G-Eazy

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    Peak
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    1

Notable Deaths

Alfred G. Gilman

2015Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1941)[†]

Alfred Goodman Gilman was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."

Don Howe

2015Don Howe, English footballer and manager (born 1935)[†]

Donald Howe was an English football player, coach, manager and pundit. As a right back Howe featured for clubs West Bromwich Albion and Arsenal together with the England national football team in his playing career. He also went on to manage sides West Brom, Arsenal, Galatasaray, Queens Park Rangers and Coventry City. Howe was also a successful coach and has been described as one of the most influential figures of the English footballing game.

Jean-Marie Pelt

2015Jean-Marie Pelt, French biologist, pharmacist, and academic (born 1933)[†]

Jean-Marie Pelt was a French biologist, botanist and pharmacist with degrees in both biology and pharmacy.

BĂŒlend Ulusu

2015BĂŒlent Ulusu, Turkish admiral and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1923)[†]

Saim BĂŒlend Ulusu was a Turkish admiral who was Prime Minister of Turkey from the time of the 1980 military coup to the time that elections were allowed in 1983.

Historical Events

2015 Sabiha Gökçen Airport bombing

2015A bomb explodes at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport, killing one airport cleaner. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks claim responsibility for the attack four days later.[†]

The Sabiha Gökçen Airport bombing took place on 23 December 2015 in the apron area of Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. The explosion, which occurred at approximately 02:05 local time, wounded two airport cleaners, one of whom later died after being taken to hospital. Flights from the terminal resumed as normal while Binali Yıldırım, the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication, claimed that there had been no security lapses at the airport. Witnesses initially claimed that they heard three successive blasts, though their cause was unknown and investigators refused to rule out terrorism as a motive. The Daily Telegraph claimed that the blast was most likely caused by a bomb.

Historical Context for December 23, 2015

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