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2012 Event - Noam Chomsky, a Jewish-American philosopher, linguist and human rights activist, visits Gaza for the first time, attending a seminar with Gazan thinkers and intellectuals

2005 Death - Paul Ricoeur, French Philosopher

2003 Death - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish Philosopher

2002 Death - Norman O. Brown, American Philosopher

2002 Death - Robert Nozick, American Philosopher

1998 Death - Kerry Thornley, American Philosopher

1998 Death - Nelson Goodman, American Philosopher

1997 Death - Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99

1997 Death - George Armin Goyder, businessman and social philosopher, dies at 88

1996 Death - Sigmund Koch, psychologist/philosopher, dies at 79

1996 Death - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70

1996 Death - Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher, dies at 86

1996 Death - Hans Blumenberg, philosopher, dies at 75

1995 Death - Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher, dies at 89

1995 Death - Gillian Rose, philosopher and writer, dies at 48

1995 Death - Gilles Deleuze, philosopher, dies at 70

1994 Death - Ivan Svitak, philosopher, dies at 69

1994 Death - Sarah Kofman, philosopher, dies at 60

1994 Death - Andreas van Melsen, philosopher (Evolution and Wosbegeerte), dies at 81

1994 Death - Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92

1994 Death - Karl Popper, Austrian Philosopher

1994 Death - Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies

1994 Death - Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher, dies at 80

1994 Death - Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84

1994 Death - Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84

1993 Death - Kenneth Burke, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University, dies of heart failure at his home in Andover, New Jersey

1993 Death - Wim van Dooren, theologist/humanist/philosopher, dies

1993 Death - Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88

1993 Death - Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80

1993 Death - Henry Hazlitt, American Philosopher

1992 Death - Vernon Howard, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth, dies

1991 Death - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101

1990 Death - Michael Oakeshott, English Philosopher

1990 Death - Nistani Keiji, philosopher, dies in Kyoto Japan

1990 Death - Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies

1990 Death - Manly Hall, Canadian Philosopher

1990 Death - Norbert Elias, German/English/Netherlands philosopher/sociologist, dies

1989 Death - Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies

1987 Death - James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81

1986 Death - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), dies at 90

1985 Death - Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83

1983 Death - R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87

1981 Death - Paul Brunton, British Philosopher

1980 Death - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69

1979 Death - Herbert Marcuse, philosopher (Eros and Civilization), dies at 81

1978 Death - Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher, dies at 70

1977 Event - Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in East Germany

1977 Death - Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92

1977 Death - Jan Patocka, Czechoslovakian philosopher, dies in prison

1977 Death - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82

1976 Death - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Holzweg), dies at 86

1976 Death - Oscar Espla, Spanish philosopher/composer (Sonata del Sur), dies at 89

1973 Death - Alan Watts, writer, speaker, and philosopher, 'The Spirit of Zen' and 'The Art of Contemplation', died of heart failure at the age of 58

1973 Death - Leo Strauss, German Philosopher

1973 Death - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist and philosopher dies

1973 Death - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78

1971 Death - Ferdinand LR Sassen, priest/philosopher (Descartes), dies at 77

1971 Death - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77

1971 Death - Gyorgy Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher, dies at 86

1970 Death - Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies

1970 Death - Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79

1970 Death - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77

1970 Death - Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97

1969 Death - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 65

1969 Death - Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87

1969 Death - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist/philosopher, dies at 86

1965 Death - Martin Buber, German/Israel philosopher/zionist/theologist, dies at 87

1965 Death - Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies

1965 Death - William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher, dies at 93

1964 Death - Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher

1964 Event - French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize

1964 Birthday - Ian Hart, born in Liverpool, England, actor, theater, television, film roles include, 'Michael Collins', 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'

1962 Death - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water and Dreams), dies at 78

1962 Death - Hu Shih, Chinese Philosopher

1961 Death - Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65

1961 Death - Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies at 53

1960 Death - J. L. Austin, English Philosopher

1959 Death - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60

1958 Death - Lion Feuchtwanger, Germ/US philosopher (Judische Krieg), dies at 74

1958 Death - Lion Feuchtwanger, philosopher and writer (Der falsche Nero), dies at 74

1958 Death - George Edward Moore, English Philosopher

1958 Death - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76

1956 Death - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (Study of Graves), dies at 83

1956 Death - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist, dies at 83

1956 Death - Julien Benda, French philosopher and writer (La trahison des clercs), dies

1956 Birthday - Judith Butler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, philosopher, professor, U of C, Berkeley, specialty, post-structuralism, Ph. D. Yale University, areas of study include feminist theory, Jewish philosophy, ethics, sexuality, developed idea of sex and gender as social construction

1956 Death - Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88

1955 Death - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72

1955 Death - Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies

1955 Death - Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70

1955 Death - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher

1955 Death - Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher

1954 Death - F Henri Berr, French occurence philosopher (L'hymne la vie), dies

1954 Death - Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71

1954 Death - William R Inge, English theologist/philosopher, dies at 93

1952 Death - Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86

1952 Death - George Santayana, U.S. philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88

1952 Death - John Dewey, U.S. philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92

1951 Death - Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at 76

1951 Death - Alain, Emile-Auguste Chartier, French philosopher, dies at 83

1951 Death - Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62

1951 Death - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

1950 Death - Sri Aurobindo, Indian Philosopher

1950 Death - Ramana Maharshi, Indian Philosopher

1949 Death - P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86

1949 Death - Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies

1949 Birthday - Ken Wilber, American Philosopher

1948 Death - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian Philosopher

1947 Birthday - Gillian Rose, philosopher and writer

1947 Death - Morris Raphael Cohen, Russian Philosopher

1947 Death - Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77

1946 Death - Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism)

1946 Death - Hermann Keyserling, count/philosopher (Unsterblichkeit), dies at 65

1945 Death - Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63

1945 Death - Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

1945 Death - Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73

1945 Death - Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74

1945 Death - Theodor Haecker, German cultural philosopher (Mensch?), dies at 65

1944 Birthday - Roger Scruton, philosopher

1943 Death - Simone Weil, French philosopher (Le pesanteur et la grace), dies at 34

1943 Death - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50

1943 Death - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53

1942 Death - Edith Stein, German philosopher, dies

1942 Death - Titus, Anno S, Brandsma, philosopher (Dachau), dies

1942 Birthday - Daniel Dennett, born in Boston, Massachusetts, philosopher, atheist, focus of study includes philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, relative to cognitive science and evolutionary biology

1941 Death - Leonard "Leo" Polak, Dutch philosopher, dies in Sachsenhausen at 61

1941 Death - Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80

1941 Death - Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81

1938 Birthday - Robert Nozick, American Philosopher

1938 Death - Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Space, time and deity), dies at 79

1938 Death - Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at 79

1938 Birthday - Kerry Thornley, American Philosopher

1938 Death - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66

1937 Death - Tomas G. Masaryk, philosopher/president of Czechoslovakian 1918 - 1935, dies at 87

1937 Death - Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72

1937 Birthday - Thomas Nagel, Yugoslavian Philosopher

1937 Death - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist, dies at 46

1937 Death - Nathan Birnbaum, Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72

1937 Birthday - Alain Badiou, born in Rabat, Morocco, influential French philosopher, chair, subscribes to an anti-postmodern form of continental philosophy

1936 Death - Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72

1936 Birthday - Margaret Boden, philosopher

1936 Death - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies

1936 Birthday - Ian Hacking, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, analytic philosopher, wrote, 'The Emergence of Probability', brings historical approach to the philosophy of science, won Canda's Killam Prize for the Humanities in 2002

1935 Birthday - Dallas Willard, American Philosopher

1934 Birthday - Sarah Kofman, philosopher

1933 Death - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81

1933 Birthday - Michael Novak, American Philosopher

1933 Birthday - Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters'

1932 Birthday - John Searle, American Philosopher

1931 Birthday - Richard Rorty, born in New York City, philosopher, focused on philosophy of language, of mind, politics, literary theory

1931 Birthday - Sri Chinmoy, Indian Philosopher

1931 Death - George H. Mead, American Philosopher

1931 Death - George Herbert Mead, American Philosopher

1930 Birthday - Jacques Derrida, French Philosopher

1929 Death - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52

1929 Birthday - Jean Baudrillard, born in France, cultural theorist, philosopher, photographer, known for his concept of hyper-reality

1929 Birthday - Jurgen Habermas, German Philosopher

1928 Birthday - Robert M. Pirsig, American Philosopher

1928 Death - Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53

1927 Death - Leonard Nelson, Germany philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45

1927 Birthday - Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher, Conversations with the Devil

1927 Death - Brooks Adams, U.S. philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78

1926 Birthday - Michel Foucault, French philosopher, History of Sexuality

1926 Birthday - Paul-Michel Foucault, French philosopher, Les Mots et les Choses

1926 Death - Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80

1926 Birthday - Hilary Putnam, American Philosopher

1926 Birthday - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator

1926 Death - Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal, dies at 74

1925 Birthday - Paul Kurtz, American Philosopher

1925 Birthday - Ivan Svitak, philosopher

1925 Death - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at 64

1925 Birthday - Gilles Deleuze, philosopher

1924 Death - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies

1924 Death - F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher

1924 Birthday - William Gass, Fargo ND, novelist/philosopher, Omensetter's Luck

1923 Death - Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73

1923 Birthday - Ernest Mandel, Belgian philosopher and economist

1923 Death - John Venn, British Philosopher

1922 Death - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 64

1922 Death - Georges Sorel, French social philosopher, dies at 74

1922 Death - Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67

1921 Death - Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69

1920 Death - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher, dies

1920 Birthday - Hans Blumenberg, philosopher

1919 Birthday - Peter Strawson, English philosopher

1919 Death - Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85

1919 Death - Johan A Der Mouw, Dutch philosopher/poet, dies at 56

1919 Death - Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies

1919 Death - Jacob Verdam, philosopher, dies

1919 Death - Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher and writer, dies at 62

1918 Birthday - Louis Althusser, French philosopher, For Marx, Strangled His Wife

1918 Birthday - Vernon Howard, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth

1916 Death - Josiah Royce, U.S. philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies

1916 Birthday - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish Philosopher

1916 Death - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78

1915 Birthday - Alan Watts, born in Kent, England, writer, speaker, and philosopher, 'The Spirit of Zen' and 'The Art of Contemplation'

1914 Death - Charles Peguy, French Philosopher

1914 Death - Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies

1913 Birthday - Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher

1913 Birthday - Lucien Goldmann, Romania/French sociologist/philosopher, Le dieu cache

1913 Birthday - Roger Garaudy, French philosopher

1913 Birthday - Paul Ricoeur, French Philosopher

1912 Birthday - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher, Johnson murderer!

1912 Birthday - Carl F von Weiszacker, German physicist/philosopher

1912 Death - Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Kant and Epigones), dies at 71

1911 Death - Wilhelm Dilthey, Germ philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77

1911 Birthday - Reginald Victor Jones, CH, FRS natural philosopher

1911 Birthday - Alphonse de Waelhens, Flemish philosopher, Psychosis

1911 Birthday - J. L. Austin, English Philosopher

1910 Birthday - Alfred J Ayer, England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician

1910 Death - William James, American Philosopher

1910 Birthday - Jurgen Rausch, German philosopher/author, End of the Playboys

1909 Birthday - Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher

1909 Birthday - Isaiah Berlin, philosopher

1909 Birthday - Mohammad Khatami, Iranian Philosopher

1909 Birthday - Leonard Peikoff, Canadian Philosopher

1909 Birthday - Max Black, Dutch/British/U.S. philosopher, analytical philosophy

1909 Birthday - Simone Weil, born in Paris, social philosopher/Resistance fighter, WW II

1908 Birthday - Evert W. Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher

1908 Birthday - George Armin Goyder, businessman/social philosopher

1908 Birthday - Maurice, Jean Jacques, Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher

1907 Birthday - Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher

1906 Birthday - Nelson Goodman, American Philosopher

1905 Birthday - Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher

1905 Birthday - Eugen Fink, German philosopher

1905 Birthday - James Burnham, philosopher, Coming Defeat of Communism

1905 Birthday - Carl Gustav Hempel, German Logical Positivist philosopher

1904 Death - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62

1904 Birthday - Dorothy Emmet, philosopher

1904 Birthday - Rudolf Arnheim, born in Berlin, German-born author, art and film theorist, philosopher, psychologist

1903 Death - Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83

1903 Death - Otto Weininger, Austrian Philosopher

1903 Death - Alexander Bain, Scottish Philosopher

1903 Birthday - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist

1903 Death - Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies

1902 Birthday - Mortimer Adler, American Philosopher

1902 Birthday - Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher, Paradoxes of Freedom

1902 Birthday - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian/British philosopher, Logic of Forschung

1902 Birthday - Karl Popper, Austrian Philosopher

1902 Death - Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays', dies

1901 Birthday - Michael Oakeshott, English Philosopher

1901 Death - John Fiske, Edmund Fisk Green, U.S. historian/philosopher, dies

1901 Birthday - Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist

1901 Birthday - Manly Hall, Canadian Philosopher

1901 Birthday - Eric Voegelin, Germany, U.S. philosopher, Order and History

1900 Death - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies

1900 Death - Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55

1900 Death - Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

1900 Birthday - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher

1900 Death - James Martineau, English Philosopher

1899 Birthday - Leo Strauss, German Philosopher

1899 Birthday - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher

1899 Birthday - John Randall, Jr., Michigan, historian/philosopher, Western Man

1898 Birthday - Owen Barfield, philosopher of language

1898 Birthday - Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher, Eros and Civilization

1898 Birthday - Hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO, Committee of Watchfulness

1898 Birthday - Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist, Understanding

1897 Birthday - Norbert Elias, English/Dutch philosopher, Process of Civilization

1897 Birthday - Kenneth Burke, born in America, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University

1896 Death - Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies

1895 Birthday - Susanne Langer, U.S., philosopher/educator, Philosophy in a New Key

1895 Birthday - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher, Songs of Life

1895 Birthday - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher, Songs of Life

1895 Birthday - Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet, Dogmatic Aeon

1895 Birthday - Ernest Junger, German philosopher, Anschwellender Bocksgesang

1895 Birthday - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, Studies in prejudice

1894 Birthday - Henry Hazlitt, American Philosopher

1894 Birthday - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer

1894 Birthday - Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director

1894 Birthday - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher

1893 Death - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64

1893 Birthday - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher, Studia philosophica

1892 Birthday - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter

1892 Death - Ernest Renan, French Philosopher

1891 Birthday - Hu Shih, Chinese Philosopher

1891 Birthday - Dirk Vollenhoven, Dutch composer/philosopher

1891 Birthday - Edith Stein, German philosopher

1891 Birthday - Rudolf Carnap, philosopher, German Logical Positivist

1891 Birthday - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist

1890 Birthday - Ferdinand Gonseth, Swiss mathematician/philosopher

1890 Birthday - Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher

1890 Birthday - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher

1890 Birthday - Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher, Problem des Bosen

1890 Death - Francis Bowen, American Philosopher

1889 Birthday - Honore-Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher/playwright

1889 Birthday - Margriet M C Baers, Flemish philosopher

1889 Birthday - Ludwig Wittgenstein, born in Austria, philosopher, Tractatus

1889 Birthday - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher, Roman Britain

1889 Birthday - Robin G. Collingwood, English Philosopher

1888 Birthday - Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president, India, philosopher

1888 Birthday - Jean Wahl, French philosopher

1887 Death - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher and writer (Auch einer), dies

1887 Birthday - Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog

1887 Death - Lysander Spooner, American Philosopher

1886 Birthday - Alain L Lovke, philosopher

1886 Death - Swami Ramakrishna, Indies philosopher, dies at 50

1885 Birthday - Emil Bloch, German philosopher

1885 Birthday - Gyorgy Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher, Zerstorung der Vernunft

1885 Birthday - Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe

1884 Birthday - Lion Feuchtwanger, German philosopher and writer, Jud Suss

1884 Birthday - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher, La psychanalyse du feu

1883 Death - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64

1883 Birthday - Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher

1882 Birthday - Otto Neurath, Australian/British philosopher, Foundation of Social Sciences

1882 Birthday - Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher, exponent of St. Thomas

1882 Birthday - Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Barcelona Spain, essayist/philosopher

1882 Birthday - Leonard Nelson, German philosopher, Democracy und Fuhrerschaft

1882 Birthday - Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher

1881 Death - Julius FA Bahnsen, Germany philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51

1881 Birthday - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist and philosopher

1881 Birthday - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist

1881 Birthday - Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher

1881 Birthday - Titus Brandsma, Dutch philosopher

1880 Birthday - Morris Raphael Cohen, Russian Philosopher

1880 Birthday - Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher and writer

1880 Birthday - Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher, Decline of West

1880 Birthday - Otto Weininger, Austrian Philosopher

1879 Birthday - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi, Maharshi Research Inst

1879 Birthday - Ramana Maharshi, Indian Philosopher

1879 Birthday - Theodor Haecker, German cultural philosopher, ist der Mensch?

1879 Birthday - Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher, Mind and the Eye

1878 Birthday - Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist, Ich und Du

1877 Birthday - Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher

1877 Birthday - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher

1875 Death - Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67

1875 Death - Chauncey Wright, American Philosopher

1875 Birthday - Philipp A. Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist, Mensch and World

1874 Birthday - Herman Harrell Horne, Clayton, North Carolina, philosopher, idealism

1874 Birthday - Max Scheler, German philosopher, Vom Umsturz der Werte

1874 Birthday - Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator, Essay on Man

1874 Birthday - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian Philosopher

1873 Birthday - G E Moore, English philosopher, Ethics

1873 Birthday - George Edward Moore, English Philosopher

1873 Birthday - Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

1873 Death - John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66

1873 Birthday - Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher

1873 Birthday - Charles Peguy, French Philosopher

1872 Birthday - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher, study of graves

1872 Death - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68

1872 Birthday - Sri Aurobindo, Indian Philosopher

1872 Birthday - Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher, Nobel 1950

1872 Birthday - Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher

1871 Birthday - William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher/educator

1871 Birthday - Paul Valery, born in France, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931

1871 Birthday - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher, Intelligence of Children

1869 Birthday - Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher, Theory of the Dialects

1869 Death - Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies

1868 Birthday - Alain, Emile-Auguste Chartier, French philosopher and writer

1867 Birthday - Julien Benda, French philosopher and writer, Dialogues Byzance

1867 Birthday - Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher

1867 Birthday - August W. Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist

1867 Death - Victor Cousin, French Philosopher

1867 Death - Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at 74

1866 Birthday - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet

1866 Birthday - Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher

1866 Birthday - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet

1864 Birthday - Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Bilbao Spain, philosopher, Ensayos, Teatro

1864 Birthday - Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher, Riddles of the Sphinx

1863 Birthday - George Santayana, born in Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist, Last Puritan

1863 Birthday - George H. Mead, American Philosopher

1863 Birthday - George Herbert Mead, American Philosopher

1863 Birthday - F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher, Revue the Synthesis

1862 Birthday - Johan A de Sleeve, Adwaita, philosopher/classical/poet, Brahman

1861 Birthday - Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian

1861 Birthday - Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician/philosopher, Adv of Ideas

1860 Birthday - Lucien Laberthonniere, French philosopher

1860 Death - Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

1859 Birthday - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer, Learn by doing

1859 Birthday - Henri Bergson, France, philosopher, Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927

1859 Birthday - Edmund Husserl, born in Germany, philosopher, founded Phenomenology

1859 Birthday - Samuel Alexander, English philosopher, Moral order and progress

1858 Birthday - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist

1858 Birthday - Georg Simmel, German philosopher and sociologist

1857 Birthday - Lucien Levy-Bruhl, philosopher

1856 Birthday - Achad Ha'am, Asjer Ginsberg, Hebrew philosopher and writer

1856 Death - Max Stirner, German Philosopher

1855 Death - Soren A Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher/theologist, dies at 42

1855 Birthday - Josiah Royce, U.S., philosopher, conception of God

1854 Death - Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79

1854 Death - Friedrich von Schelling, German Philosopher

1854 Birthday - Gerardus J P J Bolland, Dutch philosopher, Bolland Society

1854 Birthday - Henri Poincare, France, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher

1852 Birthday - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher, Nietzsche Philosophy

1852 Birthday - Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays'

1851 Birthday - Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal

1850 Birthday - Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher, Gott und Geist

1849 Birthday - Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher, skepticism

1848 Birthday - Brooks Adams, U.S. philosopher, Theory of Social Revolutions

1847 Birthday - Annie Besant, Wood, England, philosopher, Esoteric christianity

1847 Death - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphee), dies

1847 Birthday - John Watson, Canada, philosopher, Objective Idealism

1846 Birthday - Francis H Bradley, British philosopher, neo-idealism

1846 Birthday - F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher

1846 Birthday - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher, Nobel 1908

1845 Death - John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81

1845 Death - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82

1845 Death - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies

1845 Birthday - Paul Deusen, German philosopher, Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft

1844 Birthday - Friedrich Nietzsche, born in Germany, philosopher

1843 Death - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies

1842 Birthday - John Fiske, Edmund Fisk Green, U.S. historian and philosopher

1842 Birthday - William James, U.S., psychologist/philosopher

1841 Death - Johann F Herbart, German philosopher (General Padagogik), dies at 65

1841 Death - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76

1840 Birthday - Otto Liebmann, German philosopher, Climax of Theories

1838 Birthday - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher, Wife at University

1838 Birthday - Ernst Mach, Chirlitz-Turas Austria, physicist/philosopher/psychologist

1834 Birthday - John Venn, British Philosopher

1834 Death - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 65

1833 Birthday - Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher, Das Leben Schleiermans

1832 Birthday - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher

1832 Death - Jeremy Bentham, English Philosopher

1831 Death - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Philosopher

1831 Death - Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies

1831 Birthday - Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost, philosopher, art historian and poet

1830 Birthday - Chauncey Wright, American Philosopher

1830 Birthday - Julius F A Bahnsen, German philosopher

1829 Death - Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56

1828 Birthday - Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist, Neo-Kantianism

1828 Death - Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher (Scottish common sense), dies at 74

1828 Birthday - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, Voyage in Italy

1825 Death - Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant), dies at 68

1824 Death - John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70

1823 Birthday - Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion

1821 Birthday - Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

1820 Birthday - Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator

1820 Birthday - Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher

1820 Birthday - Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher, Social Statics

1818 Birthday - Alexander Bain, Scottish Philosopher

1818 Birthday - Karl Marx, philosopher, Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital

1815 Birthday - Charles Renouvier, French philosopher, neocriticism

1814 Death - Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre), dies at 51

1814 Death - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher, dies

1813 Birthday - Soren Kierkegaard, Denmark, philosopher, founded Existentialism

1811 Birthday - Francis Bowen, American Philosopher

1808 Birthday - Lysander Spooner, American Philosopher

1807 Death - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70

1807 Birthday - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher and writer, Auch einer

1806 Birthday - Max Stirner, Johann C Schmidt, German philosopher, Der Einzige

1806 Birthday - John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian

1806 Birthday - Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher

1805 Birthday - James Martineau, English Philosopher

1804 Birthday - Ludwig A. Feuerbach, German philosopher, Man is what he eats

1804 Death - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79

1804 Death - Joseph Priestley, English / U.S0 theologist, philosopher. and chemist, dies at 70

1803 Death - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59

1803 Death - James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67

1803 Birthday - Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S., essayist/philosopher, Concord Hymn

1802 Birthday - Mark Hopkins, U.S., educator/philosopher, Williams College

1801 Birthday - Antoine A. Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician, rule of Cournot

1801 Birthday - Gustav T Fechner, Dr. Mises, German philosopher/physicist

1801 Death - Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28

1801 Death - Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59

1798 Birthday - Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder, sociology and positivism

1797 Birthday - Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder, Institute of Charity

1794 Birthday - William Whewell, British philosopher, History of Inductive Science

1794 Death - Marquis de Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) , philosopher, mathematician, early political scientist and inventor of the Condorcet method, dies

1792 Birthday - Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education

1790 Death - Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher, dies at 68

1789 Birthday - Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher

1788 Death - Johann Georg Hamann, born in Konigsberg, now Kaliningrad, Russia, writer, philosopher, supported the Sturm und Drang movement, dies

1788 Birthday - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher, Great Pessimist

1787 Death - Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat, dies at 58

1787 Death - Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73

1787 Death - Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75

1786 Death - Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56

1784 Death - Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher (Jacques le fataliste), dies

1783 Death - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66

1780 Death - Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64

1778 Death - Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

1776 Death - David Hume, Scottish Philosopher

1776 Birthday - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet, Prolegomenes

1776 Birthday - Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist

1775 Birthday - Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist, Hermenianen

1775 Birthday - Friedrich von Schelling, Germany, philosopher, Views on Christianity

1774 Death - Abraham Tucker, British Philosopher

1773 Birthday - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher

1773 Birthday - James Mill, born in Scotland, philosopher and historian, History of British India

1772 Birthday - Novalis, born in Oberwiederstedt, Germany, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night'

1770 Birthday - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor, dialectic

1768 Birthday - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher

1768 Death - Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57

1766 Birthday - Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic

1765 Birthday - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist

1764 Birthday - John Kinker, Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet, Minderjarige Zangster

1763 Birthday - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher

1762 Birthday - Johann G Fichte German philosopher, Wissenschaftslehre

1758 Death - Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher 'Original Sin', dies at 54

1756 Birthday - Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher, Kant

1756 Birthday - William Godwin, philosopher and political writer, Caleb Williams

1755 Death - Baron de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

1754 Death - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75

1753 Birthday - Dugald Stewart, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, Scottish common sense

1753 Birthday - John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher, Jeffersonian Democracy

1753 Death - George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday

1749 Birthday - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher, Faust

1748 Birthday - Jeremy Bentham, London, England philosopher/originator, Utilitarian

1744 Birthday - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet

1744 Death - Giambattista Vico, Italian Philosopher

1743 Birthday - Marquis de Condorcet, France, enlightenment philosopher

1741 Birthday - Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher

1736 Birthday - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician

1735 Birthday - James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher, Essay on Truth

1730 Birthday - Johann Georg Hamann, born in Konigsberg, now Kaliningrad, Russia, writer, philosopher, supported the Sturm und Drang movement

1729 Death - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (On Liberty and Necessity), dies at 53

1729 Birthday - Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator

1729 Birthday - Mozes Mendelssohn, German englightened philosopher, Haksalah

1728 Birthday - Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat

1724 Birthday - Immanuel Kant, born in Konigsberg, Germany, philosopher, Critique of Pure Reason

1723 Death - Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49

1721 Birthday - Franciscus "French" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher

1717 Birthday - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician

1716 Death - Gottfried W. Leibniz, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 70

1716 Death - Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher

1715 Death - Nicolas Malebranche, French Philosopher

1715 Birthday - Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher, sensualism/Cours d'etudes

1715 Birthday - Claude Helvetius, Paris, France, philosopher

1715 Birthday - Claud-Adrian Helvetius, Philosopher

1713 Birthday - Jean Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher

1711 Birthday - Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist, philosopher, and astronomer

1711 Birthday - David Hume, Scottish Philosopher

1711 Birthday - David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher, Treatise of Human Nature

1709 Birthday - James Harris, philosopher

1705 Birthday - Abraham Tucker, British Philosopher

1704 Death - John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of government), dies at 72

1703 Birthday - Jonathan Edwards, U.S., theologian/philosopher, Original Sin

1694 Birthday - Francis Hutcheson, born in Drumaleg, Ireland, philosopher, Scottish Presbyterian, founding father of Scottish Enlightenment, proponent of Utilitarianism

1689 Birthday - Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher and writer, Letters Persanes

1689 Birthday - Baron de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

1688 Death - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (Intellectual system), dies at 70?

1685 Birthday - George Berkeley, born in Ireland, philosopher and bishop of Cloyne

1679 Death - Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher

1679 Birthday - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher

1677 Death - [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies at 44

1677 Death - Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

1676 Birthday - Anthony Collins, English philosopher, A discourse on free-thinking

1670 Death - Jan A Comenius, Komensky, Czechoslovakia/Netherlands educator/philosopher, dies

1669 Death - Arnold Geulincx, South Netherlands philosopher (Cholera), dies at 45

1668 Birthday - Giambattista Vico, Italian Philosopher

1662 Death - Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

1659 Birthday - William Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher

1655 Death - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63

1650 Death - Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking

1650 Death - Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking

1648 Death - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65

1647 Birthday - Pierre Bayle, French/Netherlands theologist/philosopher/writer

1646 Birthday - Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher

1639 Death - Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70

1639 Death - Tommaso Campanella, Philosopher

1638 Death - Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50

1638 Birthday - Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher

1638 Birthday - Nicolas Malebranche, French Philosopher

1633 Death - William Ames, English Philosopher

1632 Birthday - Baruch "Benedict" de Spinoza, Amsterdam, rationalist philosopher

1632 Birthday - Baruch Benedict de Spinoza, Philosopher

1632 Birthday - Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

1632 Birthday - John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance

1624 Birthday - Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher, About Virtue

1603 Death - Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies

1596 Birthday - Rene Descartes, born in France, philosopher, he thought, therefore he was

1594 Death - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82

1592 Death - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher (L'Amitie), dies at 59

1592 Death - Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

1592 Birthday - Pierre Gassendi, Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher

1590 Death - Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68

1588 Death - Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies

1588 Birthday - Marin Mersenne, France, mathematician/musician/philosopher, Cartesian

1588 Birthday - Thomas Hobbes, born in England, philosopher, Leviathan

1583 Birthday - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military and philosopher

1568 Birthday - Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, Citt del sole

1568 Birthday - Tommaso Campanella, Philosopher

1552 Birthday - Fra Paolo Sarpi, Paulus Venetus, expert/philosopher

1548 Birthday - Francisco Suarez, Granada Spain, philosopher/theologian

1535 Death - Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57

1533 Birthday - Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher

1512 Death - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48

1499 Death - Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher

1496 Death - Johannes de Lapide, Johan Heynlin, German philosopher, dies

1472 Death - Leon Battista Alberti, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura', dies at 68

1464 Death - Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies

1464 Death - Nicholas van Cusa, philosopher/bishop of Brixen, dies

1463 Birthday - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher

1457 Death - Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50

1433 Birthday - Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher

1416 Death - Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Italian astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies

1404 Birthday - Leon Battista Alberti, born in Genoa, Italy, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura'

1382 Death - Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62

1340 Death - Henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies

1308 Death - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42

1293 Death - Hendrik van Gent, Flemish neo-Augustian philosopher/theologist, dies

1279 Death - Robert Kilwardby/Anglicus, English philosopher/Cardinal, dies

1253 Death - Dogen Zenji, Japanese Philosopher

1204 Death - Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69

1200 Birthday - Dogen Zenji, Japanese Philosopher

1198 Death - Averroes ibn-Rusjd, Moorish philosopher, dies

1167 Death - Robert of Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies

1165 Birthday - Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic/philosopher

1164 Death - Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies

1154 Death - Gilbert de la Porree, French philosopher/bishop of Poiters, dies

1142 Death - Pierre Abelard, French philosopher (Sic et Non, Heloise), dies at 62

1141 Death - Hugo of St-Victor, philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies

1135 Birthday - Maimonides, Moses Ben Maimon, Corodoba Spain, philosopher and physician

1109 Death - Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies

427 Birthday - Plato, born in Athens, Greece, writer, philosopher, mathematician, laid foundations of natural philosophy, science, Western philosophy

399 Event - Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death













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