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Édouard Gagnon

1918 - 2007

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Édouard Gagnon, PSS, OC (15 January 1918 – 25 August 2007) was a Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal and President of the Pontifical Council for the Family for 16 years, from 1974 to 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édouard Gagnon has received more than 32,672 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Gagnon is the 518th most popular physician (up from 537th in 2019), the 286th most popular biography from Canada (up from 371st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Édouard Gagnon ranks 518 out of 726. Before him are Robert Knox, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Anthony Carlisle, Gazi Yaşargil, Wladimir Aïtoff, and Sunao Tawara. After him are Frederic Lewy, Alfred Blalock, Nikolai Semashko, Pierre Marie, Wilhelm His Sr., and Herman Snellen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Édouard Gagnon ranks 183. Before him are Giovanni Canestri, George Constantine, Barry Morse, Alfred Bickel, Émile Derlin Zinsou, and Shinobu Hashimoto. After him are Mike Wallace, Alexander Galich, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Bill Vukovich, Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, and Art Carney. Among people deceased in 2007, Édouard Gagnon ranks 219. Before him are Joachim Hansen, Solveig Dommartin, Alan Ball Jr., Paulinho de Almeida, Karen Spärck Jones, and Betty Hutton. After him are Isidore Isou, Floyd Westerman, Petr Eben, Ernesto Alonso, Frankie Laine, and Huang Ju.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Édouard Gagnon ranks 286 out of 1,622. Before him are David Johnston (1941), Patricia Churchland (1943), Bobby Orr (1948), André Bessette (1845), Joe Clark (1939), and Yannick Bisson (1969). After him are Terry Sawchuk (1929), Bill Brack (1935), John Diefenbaker (1895), Natasha Henstridge (1974), George Hodgson (1893), and Sunny Leone (1981).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Canada

Among physicians born in Canada, Édouard Gagnon ranks 8. Before him are Oswald Avery (1877), Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), David H. Hubel (1926), Norman Bethune (1890), William Osler (1849), and Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914). After him are Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929), Maude Abbott (1868), James Heilman (1979), and Alaa Murabit (1989).

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