French civil servant and politician, 154th Prime Minister of France (born 1916)

Pierre Messmer

Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under Louis XV – and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. A member of the French Foreign Legion, he was considered one of the historical Gaullists, and died aged 91 in the military hospital of the Val-de-Grâce in August 2007. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1999; his seat was taken over by Simone Veil.

Born

1916

March 20

Died

2007

Era

1910s

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Key dates

1916 Born
2007 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

1206 Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1600 The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598–1599).
1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.

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The world in 1916

When Pierre arrived

april 18 World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.
april 24 Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
april 24 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
april 25 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.

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Amalie Sara Colquhoun 1894–1974 Australian landscape and portrait painter (born 1894) Chilly Gonzales 1972– Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer Edoardo Ballerini 1970– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Elisabeth Geleerd 1909–1969 Dutch-American psychoanalyst (died 1969) Ivan Mazepa 1639–1709 Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of Ukraine (died 1709) James P. Gordon 1928–2013 American physicist and academic (born 1928) Jenni Vartiainen 1983– Finnish singer John Joubert 1927– South African-English composer and academic (died 2019) Lee "Scratch" Perry 1936–2021 Jamaican reggae producer (born 1936)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1916

Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar 1916–1991 Saudi Arabian writer and journalist (born 1916) Bill Durnan 1916–1972 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1972) Billy Hitchcock 1916–2006 American baseball player, coach, manager (born 1916) C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (died 1962) 1916– Chick Hearn 1916–2002 American sportscaster (born 1916) Colin McCool 1916– Australian cricketer (died 1986) Deendayal Upadhyaya 1916– Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (died 1968) Dom Mintoff 1916–2012 Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1916) Don Tallon 1916–1984 Australian cricketer (died 1984)

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