* 1958 – Jean Charest, Canadian politician

** Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell resigns as head of the Conservative Party, to be succeeded by Jean Charest.

Bouchard abandoned the government in May 1990 in response to the report of a commission headed by Jean Charest that suggested changes to the Meech Lake Accord.

The Bloc continued to slide in most of the 2003 opinion polls following the 2003 Quebec election which was won by the federalist Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest.

Mulroney played an influential role by supporting the merger at a time when former PC leaders Joe Clark, Jean Charest and Kim Campbell either opposed it or expressed ambivalence.

On August 18, 2006, Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced that Canadian archaeologists had discovered the precise location of Cartier's lost first colony of Charlesbourg-Royal.

In 1998, he ran as an electoral candidate for the Quebec Liberal Party under Jean Charest, in the riding of Crémazie.

The PQ won another term in the 1998 election, despite receiving fewer votes than the Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest.

In 2005 the government of Premier Jean Charest decided not to renew the clause, abrogate Article 5 of the Public Education Act, modify Article 41 of the Quebec Charter of Rights and then eliminate the choice in moral and religious instruction that existed previously and, finally, impose a controversial new Ethics and religious culture curriculum to all schools, even the private ones.

* Jean Charest appeared during the 1998 Year of the Farce in the sketch, ' Ottawa Confidencial.

* Jean Charest, twenty-ninth Premier of Quebec, was born in Sherbrooke.

Premier Jean Charest was a federal cabinet minister with the now-defunct Progressive Conservative Party.

* Jean Charest ( 1998 – 2012 ) ( premier 2003 – 2012 )

John James " Jean " Charest, PC (; born June 24, 1958 ) is a Canadian politician who served as the 29th Premier of Quebec, from 2003 to 2012.

On September 5, 2012 Jean Charest announced he will be resigning as Quebec Liberal Leader and leaving politics.

Jean Charest was born on June 24, 1958 in Sherbrooke, located in the Eastern Townships ( today known as the Estrie region ).

Some have claimed that Charest downplays his legal first name John by presenting himself in French as Jean so as to appeal more to francophone Quebecers.

For example, in the 1997 federal election, Bloc Québécois MP Suzanne Tremblay attacked Charest by saying, " First, let's recall who Jean Charest really is ... his real name is John, that's what's on his birth certificate, not Jean.

" Charest responded that, his mother being an Irish-Quebecer, it was the Irish priest who baptized him that wrote John on the baptism certificate, but that he was always known as Jean in his family.

United States Consul ( representative ) | Consul General Peter O ’ Donohue meets with Quebec Premier Jean Charest in November 2010.

Régis Labeaume ( left ), Stephen Harper ( centre ) and Jean Charest at the: fr: Forum mondial de la langue française | Forum mondial de la langue française in Quebec City on July 2, 2012.

Django, who was born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt in Belgium and who died in 1953 in France, was an extraordinary man.

They had a second son, Michel, on 17 March 1878, ( Jean was born in 1867 ).

Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, daughter of prominent businessman John Wheeler Leavitt of New York City and his wife Cecilia Kent of Suffield, Connecticut.

Guest was born in New York City, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became The 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at CBS.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

For example, Jean Ritchie ( born in 1922 ) was the youngest child of a large family from Viper, Kentucky that had preserved many of the old Appalachian traditional songs.

He was born to an aristocratic family of the Kingdom of Navarre, the youngest son of Juan de Jaso, privy counsellor to King John III of Navarre ( Jean d ' Albret ), and Doña Maria de Azpilcueta y Aznárez, sole heiress of two noble Navarrese families.

Calvin was born as Jean Cauvin on 10 July 1509, in the town of Noyon in the Picardy region of France.

Spader was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of teachers Jean ( née Fraser ) and Stoddard Greenwood " Todd " Spader.

Jean Philippe Rushton ( born December 3, 1943 ) is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r / K selection theory to humans in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1995 ).

Jean Grey is a mutant born with telepathic and telekinetic powers.

Her son Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born in 1805 with the help of the expedition.

* Jean Françaix, born in 1912, composer

* Jean Rondeau, born in 1946, racecar driver and constructor

Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean I ( c. 1507 – 77 ), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II ( born 1522 ) and Antoine ( born 1523 ).

* 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French born Baroque composer and violin virtuoso ( d. 1730 )

Simon de Brion, son of Jean, sieur de Brion, was born at the château of Meinpincien, Île-de-France, France, in the decade following 1210.

Sonny Bono was born in Detroit to Italian immigrants Santo Bono ( born in Montelepre, Palermo, Italy ) and Zena " Jean " La Valle.

Burton was born in 1958, in the city of Burbank, California, to Jean Burton ( née Erickson ), the owner of a cat-themed gift shop, and Bill Burton, a former minor league baseball player who would later work for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department.

** Jean Bodin, French jurist ( born 1530 )