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Simone Veil

1927 - 2017

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Simone Veil (French: [simɔn vɛj] ; née Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician who served as health minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing women's rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized abortion, today known as the Veil Act (French: Loi Veil). From 1998 to 2007, she was a member of the Constitutional Council, France's highest legal authority. A Holocaust survivor of both Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen, she was a firm believer in European integration as a way of guaranteeing peace. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simone Veil is the 2,306th most popular politician (down from 1,916th in 2019), the 748th most popular biography from France (down from 655th in 2019) and the 170th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Simone Veil ranks 2,306 out of 19,576. Before her are Louise of Lorraine, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, David Johnston, Osroes I, Gwanghaegun of Joseon, and Al-Amin. After her are Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes, Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Tancred, King of Sicily, and Hun Sen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Simone Veil ranks 34. Before her are George Andrew Olah, John McCarthy, Rosalynn Carter, Janet Leigh, Robert Hossein, and Marshall Warren Nirenberg. After her are Gilbert Bécaud, Theodore Maiman, Lawrence Kohlberg, Hubert de Givenchy, Niklas Luhmann, and Harry Belafonte. Among people deceased in 2017, Simone Veil ranks 33. Before her are George Andrew Olah, Roman Herzog, Johnny Hallyday, Martin Landau, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, and Mário Soares. After her are Slobodan Praljak, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Liu Xiaobo, Richard F. Gordon Jr., Mauno Koivisto, and Tzvetan Todorov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Simone Veil ranks 748 out of 6,770. Before her are Louis Blériot (1872), Adela of Champagne (1140), Marie of Anjou (1404), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Raymond Queneau (1903), and Louise of Lorraine (1553). After her are Jean Nouvel (1945), Raoul Dufy (1877), Charles-Henri Sanson (1739), Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (1290), Thomas Bangalter (1), and Arbogast (340).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Simone Veil ranks 170. Before her are Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1284), René Coty (1882), Félix Faure (1841), Michel Barnier (1951), Léon Bourgeois (1851), and Louise of Lorraine (1553). After her are Charles-Henri Sanson (1739), Arbogast (340), Gaston Doumergue (1863), Alaric II (458), Émile Loubet (1838), and Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528).

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