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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 230,615 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Rocard is the 6,979th most popular politician (up from 7,341st in 2019), the 2,047th most popular biography from France (up from 2,196th in 2019) and the 497th most popular French Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Michel Rocard ranks 6,979 out of 19,576. Before him are Richilde of Provence, Rhadamistus, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Tomás Estrada Palma, Ivan Vyhovsky, and Chōsokabe Motochika. After him are Sergei Ivanov, John VII of Constantinople, Victor Stănculescu, Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and William II, Count of Flanders.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Michel Rocard ranks 130. Before him are John Young, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Miljan Miljanić, Ted Hughes, Oleg Popov, and Georgiy Daneliya. After him are Franzl Lang, Lina Kostenko, Marshall Sahlins, Fritz Wunderlich, Kinji Fukasaku, and Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Among people deceased in 2016, Michel Rocard ranks 113. Before him are Yves Bonnefoy, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Lloyd Shapley, Michu Meszaros, Glenn Frey, and Oleg Popov. After him are Victor Stănculescu, Dragan Nikolić, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Guy Hamilton, António Mascarenhas Monteiro, and Thorbjörn Fälldin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Rocard ranks 2,047 out of 6,770. Before him are Brigitte Fossey (1946), Gabriel Naudé (1600), Camille Chautemps (1885), Christian Lacroix (1951), François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg (1628), and Louis Lavelle (1883). After him are Aldegonde (639), Guillaume Cale (1350), Florent Schmitt (1870), Paul Gavarni (1804), Albert Gleizes (1881), and Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Michel Rocard ranks 497. Before him are Jacques Cathelineau (1759), André Tardieu (1876), Jacques Thibaud (1880), Peter II of Courtenay (1155), Roland Bonaparte (1858), and Camille Chautemps (1885). After him are Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945), Léon Duguit (1859), Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (1400), Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629), Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414), and James Louis Sobieski (1667).

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