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René Cassin

1887 – 1976 · aged 89

French jurist (1887-1976)

Born
5 Oct 1887 · Bayonne
Died
20 Feb 1976 · 13th arrondissement of Paris
Part ofJudaism74 BCE – today

Life timeline

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

Showing 102 years
  1. 5 Oct 1887BornBorn in Bayonne
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1922 – 1924RolePresident
  4. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  5. 1943 – 1976RolePresident
  6. 1944 – 1960RoleVice President of the State Council of France
  7. 1946 – 1949RolePresident
  8. 1947 – 1976RolePresident
  9. 1947AwardResistance Medal
  10. 1954 – 1976RolePresident
  11. 1959 – 1976RoleJudge of the European Court of Human Rights
  12. 1960 – 1971RoleMember of the Consitutional council
  13. 1965 – 1968RolePresident of the European Court of Human Rights
  14. 1968AwardNobel Peace Prize
  15. 1968AwardUnited Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights
  16. 1969 – 1976RolePresident
  17. 20 Feb 1976DiedDied in 13th arrondissement of Paris

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1887 – 1976).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  15. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1938Munich Agreement
  17. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  40. 19721972 Summer Olympics

Biography

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.

Born in Bayonne, Cassin served as a soldier in the First World War during which he was seriously wounded. He was of Portuguese-Jewish descent.

On 24 June 1940, during the Second World War, Cassin heeded General Charles de Gaulle's radio appeal and joined him in London. Cassin used his legal expertise to help de Gaulle's Free French.

Between 1944 and 1959, Cassin was a member of the Council of State.

Seconded to the UN Commission on Human Rights after the war, he was a major contributor to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For that work, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. The same year, he was awarded one of the UN General Assembly's Human Rights Prizes.

Text from the Wikipedia article René Cassin, CC BY-SA 4.0

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