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François Mitterrand

1916 - 1996

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François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former Socialist Party First Secretary, he was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic. Due to family influences, Mitterrand started his political life on the Catholic nationalist right. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Mitterrand has received more than 3,876,907 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). François Mitterrand is the 253rd most popular politician (up from 343rd in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from France (up from 145th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Politician.

François Mitterrand was the President of France from 1981 to 1995. He is most famous for being the first Socialist president in France and for his economic policies.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, François Mitterrand ranks 253 out of 19,576. Before him are Ferdinand I of Austria, António Guterres, Charles II of Spain, Louis XI of France, Eva Perón, and Marcus Licinius Crassus. After him are Antoninus Pius, Philip II of France, Rudolf Hess, Rodrigo Duterte, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Jawaharlal Nehru.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, François Mitterrand ranks 1. After him are Ferruccio Lamborghini, Edward Heath, Kirk Douglas, Elena Ceaușescu, Roald Dahl, Gregory Peck, Francis Crick, Aldo Moro, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and Gough Whitlam. Among people deceased in 1996, François Mitterrand ranks 1. After him are Marcello Mastroianni, Tupac Shakur, Baba Vanga, Thomas Kuhn, Carl Sagan, Marguerite Duras, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Joseph Brodsky, and Ella Fitzgerald.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Mitterrand ranks 100 out of 6,770. Before him are Marquis de Sade (1740), Caracalla (188), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Marcel Duchamp (1887), Claude Debussy (1862), and Louis XI of France (1423). After him are Nicolas Poussin (1594), Philip II of France (1165), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), André Gide (1869), Philip V of Spain (1683), and Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, François Mitterrand ranks 25. Before him are Henry III of France (1551), Louis XVII of France (1785), Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis IX of France (1214), Caracalla (188), and Louis XI of France (1423). After him are Philip II of France (1165), Philip V of Spain (1683), Henry II of France (1519), Georges Danton (1759), Philippe Pétain (1856), and Charles VII of France (1403).

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