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September 16, 2016

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 14, 2016, covering September 16, 2016.

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    Album cover for Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway by Barbra Streisand

    Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway

    Barbra Streisand

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    Album cover for Dig Your Roots by Florida Georgia Line

    Dig Your Roots

    Florida Georgia Line

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    Album cover for Glory by Britney Spears

    Glory

    Britney Spears

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    Album cover for Views by Drake

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    Drake

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    Album cover for Blonde by Frank Ocean

    Blonde

    Frank Ocean

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Notable Deaths

Edward Albee

2016Edward Albee, American director and playwright (born 1928)[†]

Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.

Gabriele Amorth

2016Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (born 1925)[†]

Gabriele Amorth was an Italian Catholic priest of the Paulines and an exorcist for the Diocese of Rome. Amorth, along with five other priests, founded the International Association of Exorcists.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

2016Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920)[†]

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was an Italian politician, statesman and banker who was the President of Italy from 1999 to 2006 and the Prime Minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994.

W. P. Kinsella

2016W. P. Kinsella, American novelist (born 1935)[†]

William Patrick Kinsella was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and Canadian culture.

AntĂłnio Mascarenhas Monteiro

2016António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Cabo Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde (born 1944)[†]

AntĂłnio Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro was the first democratically elected President of Cape Verde from 22 March 1991 to 22 March 2001.

2016GĂ©rard Louis-Dreyfus, French-born American businessman (born 1932)[†]

Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus, also known as William Louis-Dreyfus, was a French-American businessman. His net worth was estimated at $3.4 billion by Forbes in 2006. He was the chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services and the great-grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of Louis Dreyfus Group. He is the father of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Tarık Akan

2016Tarık Akan, Turkish actor, director and activist (born1949)[†]

Tarık Akan was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1965s.

Historical Context for September 16, 2016

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