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POLITICIAN

Michel Rocard

1930 - 2016

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Michel Rocard (French: [miʃɛl ʁɔkaʁ]; 23 August 1930 – 2 July 2016) was a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991 during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI), a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and achieved the Matignon Accords regarding the status of New Caledonia. He was a member of the European Parliament, and was strongly involved in European policies until 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Rocard has received more than 215,651 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Rocard is the 7,361st most popular politician (down from 6,616th in 2019), the 2,203rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,045th in 2019) and the 533rd most popular French Politician.

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Michel Rocard ranks 7,361 out of 15,577Before him are Salonia Matidia, John II of Cyprus, Manuel Marulanda, Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti, Ante Starčević, and H. H. Kung. After him are Zhenjin, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, Firuz Shah Tughlaq, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Gulzarilal Nanda, and Malyuta Skuratov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Michel Rocard ranks 154Before him are Dani Karavan, Robert Culp, Fritz Wunderlich, Lina Kostenko, Rudolf E. Kálmán, and Manuel Marulanda. After him are Ernst Albrecht, Marshall Sahlins, Anthony Steffen, Thomas P. Stafford, Clifford Brown, and Carolyn Jones. Among people deceased in 2016, Michel Rocard ranks 126Before him are Meir Dagan, Isao Tomita, António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Oleg Popov, Bill Nunn, and Rudolf E. Kálmán. After him are Gato Barbieri, Carmen Pereira, Alexandre Astruc, Hassan Al-Turabi, Richard Adams, and Dragan Nikolić.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Rocard ranks 2,203 out of 6,011Before him are Gabriel Pierné (1863), Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610), Isabella, Countess of Vertus (1348), Elif Shafak (1971), Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808), and Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti (1734). After him are Jean Goujon (1510), Medardus (470), Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (1756), Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Emmanuel Petit (1970), and Robert Pires (1973).

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