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Roger Garaudy

1913 – 2012 · aged 99

French philosopher, politician and Holocaust denier (1913-2012)

Born
17 Jul 1913 · Marseille
Died
13 Jun 2012 · Chennevières-sur-Marne

Life timeline

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

Showing 114 years
  1. 17 Jul 1913BornBorn in Marseille
  2. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  3. 1945 – 1951RoleDeputy of Tarn
  4. 1956 – 1958RoleMember of parliament for the Seine
  5. 1959 – 1962RoleSenator of La Seine
  6. 1980AwardPrix des Deux Magots
  7. 1986AwardKing Faisal Prize in Service to Islam
  8. 13 Jun 2012DiedDied in Chennevières-sur-Marne

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1913 – 2012).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  17. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  18. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  19. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  20. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  21. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  22. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  23. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  25. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  26. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  28. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  29. 1956Suez Crisis
  30. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  32. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  34. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  36. 1968Prague Spring
  37. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  38. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  39. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  40. 19781978 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Roger Garaudy (French: [ʁɔʒe gaʁodi]; 17 July 1913 – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982.

Text from the Wikipedia article Roger Garaudy, CC BY-SA 4.0

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