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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
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Person

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

1918 – 2012 · aged 94

9th President of Italy (1918–2012)

Born
9 Sept 1918 · Novara
Died
29 Jan 2012 · Rome
Part ofKingdom of Italy1785 – 1946

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 108 years
  1. 9 Sept 1918BornBorn in Novara
  2. 1946 – 1948RoleMember of the Constituent Assembly of Italy
  3. 1948 – 1953RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  4. 1953 – 1958RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  5. 1958 – 1963RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  6. 1963 – 1968RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  7. 1966 – 1968RoleItalian Minister of Transports
  8. 1968 – 1972RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  9. 1968RoleItalian Minister of Transports
  10. 1972RoleItalian Minister of Transports
  11. 1972 – 1976RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  12. 1972 – 1973RoleItalian Minister of Education
  13. 1976 – 1979RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  14. 1979 – 1983RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  15. 1983 – 1987RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  16. 1983 – 1986RoleItalian Minister of the Interior
  17. 1986 – 1987RoleItalian Minister of the Interior
  18. 1987RoleItalian Minister of the Interior
  19. 1987 – 1992RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  20. 1992RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  21. 1992 – 1999RolePresident of Italy
  22. 1993AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
  23. 1995AwardMedal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  24. 1995AwardMasaryk University Gold Medal
  25. 1996AwardOrder of the White Eagle
  26. 1996AwardCollar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic‎
  27. 1997AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great
  28. 1997AwardCollar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana
  29. 1997AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross‎
  30. 1997AwardGrand Order of King Tomislav
  31. 1997AwardOrder of the Three Stars, 1st Class
  32. 1999 – 2012RoleItalian senator for life
  33. 29 Jan 2012DiedDied in Rome

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1918 – 2012).

  1. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  2. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  3. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  4. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  5. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  6. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  7. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1938Munich Agreement
  9. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  10. 1939 – 1945World War II
  11. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  12. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  13. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  14. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  15. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  16. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  17. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  18. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  20. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  21. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  23. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  24. 1956Suez Crisis
  25. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  27. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  29. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  31. 1968Prague Spring
  32. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  33. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  34. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  35. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  37. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  38. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  39. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  40. 1985Schengen Agreement

Biography

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (Italian: [ˈɔskar luˈiːdʒi ˈskalfaro]; 9 September 1918 – 29 January 2012) was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1992 to 1999. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), he became an independent politician after the DC's dissolution in 1992, and was close to the centre-left Democratic Party when it was founded in 2007. Before his election to the Presidency, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Turin for 44 years from 1948 to 1992.

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