1887 - 1976
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976) was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Cassin was born in Bayonne. He served as a soldier in World War I. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Cassin has received more than 157,557 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). René Cassin is the 90th most popular social activist (down from 77th in 2019), the 952nd most popular biography from France (down from 847th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Social Activist.
René Cassin was a French jurist and a founding member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He is most famous for drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
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Among social activists, René Cassin ranks 90 out of 544. Before him are Zhang Jue, Liu Xiaobo, Beatrice Cenci, Augusto César Sandino, Syed Ahmad Khan, and Alexander Parvus. After him are Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Bertha Pappenheim, Frank Costello, Annie Besant, Bugsy Siegel, and Emilia Plater.
200 - 184
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 84
1955 - 2017
HPI: 71.32
Rank: 85
1577 - 1599
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 86
1895 - 1934
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 87
1817 - 1898
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 88
1867 - 1924
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 89
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 90
1833 - 1918
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 91
1859 - 1936
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 92
1891 - 1973
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 93
1847 - 1933
HPI: 70.90
Rank: 94
1906 - 1947
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 95
1806 - 1831
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 96
Among people born in 1887, René Cassin ranks 40. Before him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Nadia Boulanger, John Reed, Boris Karloff, Julian Huxley, and Alexander Archipenko. After him are James B. Sumner, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Hans Oster, Harald Bohr, and Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick. Among people deceased in 1976, René Cassin ranks 36. Before him are Anneliese Michel, Juscelino Kubitschek, Gustav Heinemann, Émile Benveniste, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Josef Albers. After him are Andrei Grechko, Lars Onsager, Yonatan Netanyahu, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Dalton Trumbo, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
1887 - 1986
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 34
1887 - 1979
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 35
1887 - 1920
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 36
1887 - 1969
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 37
1887 - 1975
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 38
1887 - 1964
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 39
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 40
1887 - 1955
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 41
1887 - 1908
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 42
1887 - 1952
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 43
1887 - 1945
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 44
1887 - 1951
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 45
1887 - 1953
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 46
1952 - 1976
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 30
1902 - 1976
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 31
1899 - 1976
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 32
1902 - 1976
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 33
1900 - 1976
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 34
1888 - 1976
HPI: 71.67
Rank: 35
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 36
1903 - 1976
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 37
1903 - 1976
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 38
1946 - 1976
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 39
1893 - 1976
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 40
1905 - 1976
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 41
1884 - 1976
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 42
Among people born in France, René Cassin ranks 952 out of 5,234. Before him are Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Adelaide of Maurienne (1092), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011), Charles III, Duke of Savoy (1486), and Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813). After him are Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (1114), Claude Perrault (1613), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Christophe Plantin (1520), Francis Phoebus of Navarre (1467), and François l'Olonnais (1635).
1771 - 1802
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 946
1092 - 1154
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 947
1785 - 1836
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 948
1011 - 1076
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 949
1486 - 1553
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 950
1813 - 1888
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 951
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 952
1114 - 1162
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 953
1613 - 1688
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 954
1656 - 1708
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 955
1520 - 1589
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 956
1467 - 1483
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 957
1635 - 1669
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 958
Among social activists born in France, René Cassin ranks 5. Before him are Olympe de Gouges (1748), Charlotte Corday (1768), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), and Edmond James de Rothschild (1845). After him are Flora Tristan (1803), Louise Michel (1830), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), René Just Haüy (1743), Jacques Roux (1752), and Balthasar Gérard (1557).
1748 - 1793
HPI: 79.67
Rank: 1
1768 - 1793
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 2
1573 - 1599
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 3
1845 - 1934
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 4
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 5
1803 - 1844
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 6
1830 - 1905
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 7
1879 - 1954
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 8
1208 - 1265
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 9
1743 - 1822
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 10
1752 - 1794
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 11
1557 - 1584
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 12