October 16th, 2001

October 16th, 2001...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Fallin'" by Alicia Keys In the UK: "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" by Kylie Minogue

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Facing the Fury

(TIME Cover: October the 15th, 2001)

Famous people born on the 16th of October:

1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1914 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

The Nobel Peace Prize 2001

Kofi Annan
1938-

with United Nations, for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world

Ghana
U.N. Secretary-General

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 2001

A Beautiful Mind
directed by Ron Howard
with Russell Crowe (John Nash)

Designed in 2001

The Pebbles sofa system
by Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Alicia Keys / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 881, October 16, 2001

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