Simone Veil
1927 – 2017 · aged 90
French politician (1927–2017)
- Born
- 13 Jul 1927 · Nice
- Died
- 30 Jun 2017 · Paris
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 13 Jul 1927BornBorn in Nice
- 1970 – 1974RoleGeneral secretary
- 1974 – 1979RoleMinistry of Labour, Health and Solidarity
- 1975AwardHonorary doctorate from Princeton University
- 1977AwardMonismanien Prize
- 1979 – 1993RoleMember of the European Parliament
- 1979 – 1982RolePresident of the European Parliament
- 1979AwardHonorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University
- 1980AwardHonorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 1980AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh
- 1981AwardCharlemagne Prize
- 1982AwardHonorary citizen of Brussels
- 1984 – 1989RoleMember of the European Parliament
- 1989 – 1993RoleMember of the European Parliament
- 1993 – 1995RoleMinistry of Labour, Health and Solidarity
- 1993AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Antwerp
- 1998 – 2007RoleMember of the Consitutional council
- 2005AwardPrincess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
- 2007AwardHonorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 2008 – 2017RoleMember of the Académie française
- 2009AwardGrand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- 2010AwardHeinrich Heine Prize
- 30 Jun 2017DiedDied in Paris
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1927 – 2017).
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
Biography
Simone Veil (French: [simɔn vɛj] ; née Simone Annie Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation. As minister of health, she championed women's rights and is best remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, known as the Veil Act (French: Loi Veil).
In 1979, Veil became the first woman elected President of the European Parliament, symbolising both her stature and her commitment to European integration as a guarantee of peace. She later served on France's Constitutional Council (1998–2007), the country's highest legal authority, and as president of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, where she contributed to Holocaust remembrance and education.
Honoured nationally and internationally, she was elected to the Académie Française in 2008, received the grand cross of the Légion d’honneur in 2012, and was awarded numerous doctorates honoris causa abroad. After her death in 2017, she and her husband, Antoine Veil, were interred at the Panthéon in July 2018 during a state ceremony led by President Emmanuel Macron.
Text from the Wikipedia article Simone Veil, CC BY-SA 4.0
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