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1927 – 2017Simone Veil (1927-2017)Died 30 June 2017, aged 89French stateswoman and Auschwitz survivor who as health minister championed the 1975 law legalizing abortion in France, and later became the first president of the directly elected European Parliament. She was widely admired as a symbol of postwar European reconciliation. She was later interred in the Pantheon in Paris.