1712 - 1789
Charles-Michel de l'Épée (French: [ʃaʁlmiʃɛl dəlepe]; 24 November 1712 – 23 December 1789) was a philanthropic educator of 18th-century France who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles-Michel de l'Épée has received more than 634,344 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Charles-Michel de l'Épée is the 9,216th most popular politician (down from 3,714th in 2019), the 2,759th most popular biography from France (down from 1,214th in 2019) and the 647th most popular French Politician.
Charles-Michel de l'Épée is most famous for inventing the manual alphabet.
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Among politicians, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 9,216 out of 15,577. Before him are Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur, Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia, Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Parshatatar, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, and Natsagiin Bagabandi. After him are Dục Đức, Isetnofret II, Haim Bar-Lev, Şükrü Saracoğlu, Bujar Nishani, and Johannes van den Bosch.
159 BC - 87 BC
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 9,210
1875 - 1895
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,211
1664 - 1707
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,212
1460 BC - 1440 BC
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,213
1854 - 1912
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,214
1950 - Present
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,215
1712 - 1789
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,216
1852 - 1883
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,217
1250 BC - Present
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,218
1924 - 1994
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,219
1887 - 1953
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,220
1966 - 2022
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,221
1780 - 1844
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 9,222
Among people born in 1712, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 15. Before him are Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Francesco Algarotti, Tokugawa Ieshige, Toriyama Sekien, and George Grenville. After him are Johann Samuel König, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, Claude Bourgelat, Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and James Steuart. Among people deceased in 1789, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 14. Before him are Franz Xaver Richter, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, John Cleland, Paolo Renier, and Petrus Camper. After him are Anders Dahl, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Jakob II Bernoulli, Jafar Khan, Sayed Morad Khan, and Paul Egede.
1712 - 1759
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 9
1712 - 1741
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 10
1712 - 1764
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 11
1712 - 1761
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 12
1712 - 1788
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 13
1712 - 1770
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 14
1712 - 1789
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 15
1712 - 1757
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 16
1712 - 1771
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 17
1712 - 1779
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 18
1712 - 1775
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 19
1712 - 1743
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 20
1712 - 1780
HPI: 46.18
Rank: 21
1709 - 1789
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 8
1740 - 1789
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 9
1715 - 1789
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 10
1709 - 1789
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 11
1710 - 1789
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 12
1722 - 1789
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 13
1712 - 1789
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 14
1751 - 1789
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 15
1715 - 1789
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 16
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 17
1800 - 1789
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 18
1800 - 1789
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 19
1708 - 1789
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 20
Among people born in France, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 2,759 out of 6,011. Before him are Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373), Joseph Paul-Boncour (1873), Marc Riboud (1923), Gaspard de Prony (1755), and Jules Dalou (1838). After him are Gabriel Hanot (1889), Princess Françoise of Orléans (1902), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Oscar Cullmann (1902), Georges Leclanché (1836), and Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (1060).
1684 - 1761
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 2,753
1373 - 1410
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 2,754
1873 - 1972
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 2,755
1923 - 2016
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 2,756
1755 - 1839
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 2,757
1838 - 1902
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 2,758
1712 - 1789
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 2,759
1889 - 1968
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 2,760
1902 - 1953
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 2,761
1762 - 1853
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 2,762
1902 - 1999
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 2,763
1836 - 1882
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 2,764
1060 - 1119
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 2,765
Among politicians born in France, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 647. Before him are Charles Rogier (1800), Gustave Garrigou (1884), Eugène Schneider (1805), François-Xavier Ortoli (1925), John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373), and Joseph Paul-Boncour (1873). After him are Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (1060), Valérie Pécresse (1967), Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498), Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678), Anne Jules de Noailles (1650), and Alexandre Deschapelles (1780).
1800 - 1885
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 641
1884 - 1963
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 642
1805 - 1875
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 643
1925 - 2007
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 644
1373 - 1410
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 645
1873 - 1972
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 646
1712 - 1789
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 647
1060 - 1119
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 648
1967 - Present
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 649
1498 - 1550
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 650
1678 - 1766
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 651
1650 - 1708
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 652
1780 - 1847
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 653