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January 19, 2016

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 13, 2016, covering January 19, 2016.

  1. 1
    Album cover for 25 by Adele

    25

    Adele

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  2. 2
    Album cover for Purpose by Justin Bieber

    Purpose

    Justin Bieber

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  3. 3
    Album cover for Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots

    Blurryface

    Twenty One Pilots

    Last week
    11
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    33
  4. 4
    Album cover for Made In The A.M. by One Direction

    Made In The A.M.

    One Direction

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    7
  5. 5
    Album cover for Fetty Wap by Fetty Wap

    Fetty Wap

    Fetty Wap

    Last week
    21
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    14

Notable Deaths

Richard Levins

2016Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (born 1930)[†]

Richard Levins was a Marxist biologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who researched diversity in human populations. Until his death, Levins was a university professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a long-time political activist. He was best known for his work on evolution and complexity in changing environments and on metapopulations.

Ettore Scola

2016Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1931)[†]

Ettore Scola was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

Sheila Sim

2016Sheila Sim (Lady Attenborough), English actress (born 1922)[†]

Sheila Beryl Grant Sim, Baroness Attenborough was an English film and theatre actress. She was also the wife of the actor, director and peer Richard Attenborough.

Historical Context for January 19, 2016

In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]