* Laurent Eynac – Minister of Public Works

* 14 September 1928 – Laurent Eynac enters the ministry as Minister of Air.

* Laurent Eynac – Minister of Air

* Laurent Eynac – Minister of Air

* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )

* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

* 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1972 – Laurent Lamothe, Haitian businessman and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Haiti

* 1960 – Laurent Fignon, French cyclist ( d. 2010 )

* 1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator

* Laurent Bénard ( 1573 – 1620 )

#** Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte ( 1803 – 1857 ), ornithologist and politician married Princess Zénaïde Bonaparte ( 1801 – 1854 )

" Quartier Spécial " – Condemned men's block, St. Laurent, 1954 ( the guillotine stood at the spot where the photographer took the photo ).

* 1913 – Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver ( d. 1997 )

* 1960 – Laurent Petitguillaume, French radio and television host

* 1983 – Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director

* 1967 – Laurent Nkunda, Congolese military leader

Basing his ideas on those of predecessors such as Williamson, Edward Frankland, William Odling, Auguste Laurent, Charles Adolphe Wurtz and others, Kekulé was the principal formulator of the theory of chemical structure ( 1857 – 58 ).

* 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( b. 1936 )

* 1929 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa.

* 1886 – Laurent Barré, Canadian author and politician ( d. 1964 )

* 1938 – Laurent Beaudoin, French-Canadian businessman

* 1965 – Laurent Blanc, French footballer

* 1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d ' Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.

* 2000 – Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d ' Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.

* 1963 – Prince Laurent of Belgium

* Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada, mother an Irish Quebecer.

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC ( Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent ), ( 1 February 188225 July 1973 ) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957.

On these recommendations, King recruited St. Laurent to his wartime cabinet as Minister of Justice, Lapointe's old post, on 9 December.

From 1949 to 1951 Trudeau worked briefly in Ottawa, in the Privy Council Office of the Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent as an economic policy advisor.

St. Laurent's leadership deepened King's respect, and helped make St. Laurent the next Canadian Prime Minister three years later.

* Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent ( Canada )

* February 1 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1973 )

* 28 March 2000 – Laurent Fabius succeeds Sautter as Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry.

* Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent by Erek Imredy 1976

File: Louis St. Laurent statue. jpg | Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent statue ( 1976 ) by Erek Imredy in front of Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Canada

* Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada 1948-1957, was born in Compton.

* Louis St. Laurent, the twelfth Prime Minister of Canada

< sup > 2 </ sup > Tupper was appointed when he was no longer Prime Minister and St. Laurent was appointed when he was a cabinet minister under Mackenzie King.

He was in 1952 appointed as governor general by George VI, monarch of Canada, on the recommendation of Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, to replace the Viscount Alexander of Tunis as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Georges Vanier in 1959.

In a speech to the House of Commons in 1953, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent stated:

In 1984 Mitterrand and his second Prime Minister, Laurent Fabius, clearly abandoned any further socialist measures.

Gouzenko and his wife Svetlana, they told him, had appeared at the office of Justice Minister Louis St. Laurent with documents unmasking Soviet perfidy on Canadian soil.

Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent stated on this matter in his 1953 contribution to the debate on the Royal Style and Titles Act in the House of Commons: " The rather more delicate question arose about the retention of the words defender of the faith ...

The discrepancies between independent countries sharing one person as sovereign prompted discussions amongst the Commonwealth prime ministers before a meeting in London, England, in December 1952 ; Canada's then Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent, stated that it was important a new composition for the royal title be agreed upon by all realms involved, to " emphasise the fact that the Queen is Queen of Canada, regardless of her sovereignty over other Commonwealth countries.

On May 17, 2012, Laurent Fabius became Foreign Minister in the government of Jean-Marc Ayrault, appointed Prime Minister by president François Hollande.