List of philosophy anniversaries
January
1
- 1614: John Wilkins born.
- 1815: Charles Bernard Renouvier born.
- 1921: Ismail al-Faruqi born.
3
- 106 BC: Cicero born.
- 1901: Eric Voegelin born.
4
- 1642: Isaac Newton born.
- 1786: Moses Mendelssohn dies.
- 1936: Gianni Vattimo born.
- 1941: Henri Bergson dies.
- 1960: Albert Camus dies.
- 1961: Erwin Schrödinger dies.
5
- 1548: Francisco Suárez born.
- 1846: Rudolf Christoph Eucken born.
- 1857: Albert Schwegler dies.
- 1932: Umberto Eco born.
- 2001: G. E. M. Anscombe dies.
6
- 1809: Johann Augustus Eberhard dies.
- 1859: Samuel Alexander born.
- 1918: Georg Cantor dies.
8
- 1632: Samuel von Pufendorf born.
- 1642: Galileo Galilei dies.
- 1905: Carl Hempel born.
- 1950: Joseph Schumpeter dies.
9
- 1799: Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies.
- 1878: John B. Watson born.
- 1908: Simone de Beauvoir born.
- 1943: R. G. Collingwood dies.
- 1947: Karl Mannheim dies.
- 1986: Michel de Certeau dies.
- 2004: Norberto Bobbio dies.
10
- 1715: Christian August Crusius born.
- 1794: Jean Philibert Damiron born.
- 1922: Michel Henry born.
11
- 1829: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel dies.
- 1842: William James born.
- 1862: Jean Philibert Damiron dies.
- 1900: James Martineau dies.
- 1907: Abraham Joshua Heschel born.
- 1941: Emanuel Lasker dies.
12
- 1729: Edmund Burke born.
- 1929: Jaakko Hintikka born.
13
- 1775: Johann Georg Walch dies.
- 1867: Victor Cousin dies.
- 1924: Paul Feyerabend born.
- 1957: Jerome Frank dies.
14
- 1753: George Berkeley dies.
- 1875: Albert Schweitzer born.
- 1898: Lewis Carroll dies.
- 1901: Alfred Tarski born.
- 1926: Peter Winch born.
- 1931: William Ernest Johnson dies.
- 1978: Kurt Gödel dies.
15
- 1809: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon born.
- 1919: Rosa Luxemburg dies.
16
- 1838: Franz Brentano born.
- 1853: Vladimir Solovyov born.
- 1943: John Perry born.
17
- 1798: Auguste Comte born.
- 1868: Louis Couturat born.
- 1889: Nikolai Chernyshevsky dies.
- 1937: Alain Badiou born.
18
- 1689: Montesquieu born.
- 1925: Gilles Deleuze born.
19
- 1200: Dōgen born.
- 1865: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon dies.
- 1929: Liang Qichao dies.
- 1930: Frank P. Ramsey dies.
- 1985: Eric Voegelin dies.
20
- 1973: Amílcar Cabral dies.
21
- 1870: Alexander Herzen dies.
- 1887: Wolfgang Köhler born.
- 1924: Vladimir Lenin dies.
22
- 1263: Ibn Taymiya born.
- 1561: Francis Bacon born.
- 1592: Pierre Gassendi born.
- 1729: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing born.
- 1814: Eduard Zeller born.
- 1891: Antonio Gramsci born.
23
- 1744: Giambattista Vico dies.
- 1862: David Hilbert born.
- 2002: Pierre Bourdieu dies.
- 2002: Robert Nozick dies.
24
- 1679: Christian Wolff born.
- 1965: Nicholas Lossky dies.
25
- 1627: Robert Boyle born.
- 1743: Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi born.
26
- 1884: Edward Sapir born.
27
- 1775: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling born.
- 1808: David Strauss born.
- 1814: Johann Gottlieb Fichte dies.
- 1832: Lewis Carroll born.
- 1912: Arne Næss born.
29
- 1688: Emanuel Swedenborg born.
- 1737: Thomas Paine born.
- 2002: R. M. Hare dies.
30
- 1846: F. H. Bradley born.
- 1948: Mahatma Gandhi dies.
31
- 1624: Arnold Geulincx born.
February
1
- 1801: Émile Littré born.
2
- 1970: Bertrand Russell dies.
3
- 1869: Heinrich Ritter dies.
- 1909: Simone Weil born.
4
- 1842: Théodore Simon Jouffroy dies.
- 1906: Dietrich Bonhoeffer born.
8
- 1874: David Strauss dies.
- 1878: Martin Buber born.
- 1960: J. L. Austin dies.
10
- 1755: Montesquieu dies.
- 1819: Albert Schwegler born.
11
- 1650: Descartes dies.
- 1900: Hans-Georg Gadamer dies.
12
- 1804: Immanuel Kant dies.
- 1834: Friedrich Schleiermacher dies.
14
- 1404: Leon Battista Alberti born.
15
- 1564: Galileo Galilei born.
- 1748: Jeremy Bentham born.
- 1781: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing dies.
- 1861: Alfred North Whitehead born.
16
- 1834: Ernst Haeckel born.
17
- 1444: Rodolphus Agricola born.
- 1600: Giordano Bruno dies.
- 1798: Friedrich Eduard Beneke born.
18
- 1535: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa dies.
- 1838: Ernst Mach born.
19
- 1837: Thomas Burgess dies.
- 1916: Ernst Mach dies.
20
- 2003: Maurice Blanchot dies.
21
- 1677: Baruch Spinoza dies.
- 1921: John Rawls born.
- 1994: Gerda Alexander dies.
22
- 1788: Arthur Schopenhauer born.
- 1816: Adam Ferguson dies.
- 1903: Frank P. Ramsey born.
23
- 1723: Richard Price born.
- 1883: Karl Jaspers born.
26
- 1715: Claude Adrien Helvétius born.
- 1969: Karl Jaspers dies.
27
- 1861: Rudolf Steiner born.
28
- 1533: Michel de Montaigne born.
- 1823: Ernest Renan born.
March
1
- 1768: Hermann Samuel Reimarus dies.
- 1858: Georg Simmel born.
2
- 1886: Kurt Grelling born.
3
- 1756: William Godwin born.
- 1879: William Kingdon Clifford dies.
- 1983: Arthur Koestler dies.
4
- 1826: Elme Marie Caro born.
6
- 1866: William Whewell dies.
- 1917: Donald Davidson born.
7
- 322 BC: Aristotle dies.
- 1274: Thomas Aquinas dies.
9
- 1836: Antoine Destutt de Tracy dies.
- 1897: Jamal al-Din al-Afghani dies.
10
- 1772: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel born.
- 1819: Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi dies.
11
- 1738: Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria born.
- 1843: Harald Høffding born.
12
- 1685: George Berkeley born.
- 1925: Sun Yat-sen dies.
13
- 2: Apollonius of Tyana born.
- 2002: Hans-Georg Gadamer dies.
14
- 1883: Karl Marx dies.
- 1905: Raymond Aron born.
17
- 180: Marcus Aurelius dies.
18
- 1919: G. E. M. Anscombe born.
- 1980: Erich Fromm dies.
19
- 1908: Eduard Zeller dies.
- 1928: Hans Küng born.
20
- 1727: Isaac Newton dies.
21
- 1812: William George Ward born.
- 1949: Slavoj Žižek born.
22
- 1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies.
23
- 1900: Erich Fromm born.
25
- 1865: Woo Tsin-hang born.
- 1980: Roland Barthes dies.
26
- 1882: Thomas Hill Green dies.
27
- 1765: Franz Xaver von Baader born.
28
- 1794: Marquis de Condorcet dies.
- 1911: J. L. Austin born.
29
- 1772: Emanuel Swedenborg dies.
30
- 1135: Maimonides born.
- 1925: Rudolf Steiner dies.
- 1930: Félix Guattari born.
31
1596: Descartes born.
April
3
- 1880: Otto Weininger born.
- 2000: Terence McKenna dies.
4
- 397: Ambrose dies.
5
- 1588: Thomas Hobbes born.
6
- 1773: James Mill born.
- 1796: George Campbell dies.
7
- 1798: Pierre Leroux born.
- 1836: William Godwin dies.
- 1836: Thomas Hill Green born.
8
- 1835: Wilhelm von Humboldt dies.
- 1859: Edmund Husserl born.
9
- 1626: Francis Bacon dies.
- 1754: Christian Wolff dies.
- 1945: Dietrich Bonhoeffer dies.
10
- 1583: Hugo Grotius born.
- 1955: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin dies.
12
- 1963: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz dies.
13
- 1743: Thomas Jefferson born.
- 1882: Bruno Bauer dies.
- 1885: György Lukács born.
14
- 1986: Simone de Beauvoir dies.
15
- 1877: W. D. Ross born.
- 1980: Jean-Paul Sartre dies.
17
- 1975: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan dies.
18
- 1817: George Henry Lewes born.
- 1880: Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy founded.
- 1999: Gian-Carlo Rota dies.
19
- 1791: Richard Price dies.
- 1914: Charles Sanders Peirce dies.
20
- 1932: Giuseppe Peano dies.
21
- 1109: Anselm of Canterbury dies.
- 1142: Pierre Abélard dies.
- 1805: James Martineau born.
- 1938: Muhammad Iqbal dies.
- 1998: Jean-François Lyotard dies.
22
- 1724: Immanuel Kant born.
25
- 1472: Leon Battista Alberti dies.
26
- 121: Marcus Aurelius born.
- 1711: David Hume born.
- 1889: Ludwig Wittgenstein born.
- 1938: Edmund Husserl dies.
27
- 1820: Herbert Spencer born.
- 1932: Gian-Carlo Rota born.
28
- 1816: Johann Heinrich Abicht dies.
29
- 1951: Ludwig Wittgenstein dies.
30
- 1736: Johann Albert Fabricius dies.
- 1823: Paul Janet born.
May
1
- 1881: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin born.
3
- 1469: Niccolò Machiavelli born.
- 1764: Francesco Algarotti dies.
4
- 1762: Johann Heinrich Abicht born.
- 1845: William Kingdon Clifford born.
5
- 1813: Søren Kierkegaard born.
- 1818: Karl Marx born.
- 1971: W. D. Ross dies.
6
- 1947: Martha Nussbaum born.
7
- 399 BC: Socrates dies.
- 1861: Rabindranath Tagore born.
8
- 1873: John Stuart Mill dies.
- 1936: Oswald Spengler dies.
9
- 1751: Jacob Friedrich von Abel born.
- 1805: Friedrich Schiller dies.
10
- 1886: Karl Barth born.
11
- 1881: Henri-Frédéric Amiel dies.
12
- 1806: Johan Vilhelm Snellman born.
- 1946: Gareth Evans born.
16
- 1718: Maria Gaetana Agnesi born.
17
- 1729: Samuel Clarke dies.
18
- 1692: Joseph Butler born.
- 1872: Bertrand Russell born.
- 1891: Rudolf Carnap born.
- 1900: Félix Ravaisson-Mollien dies.
19
- 1762: Johann Gottlieb Fichte born.
20
- 1806: John Stuart Mill born.
21
- 427 BC: Plato born?
- 1817: Hermann Lotze born.
- 1935: Jane Addams dies.
- 1953: Ernst Zermelo dies.
23
- 1841: Franz Xaver von Baader dies.
24
- 1794: William Whewell born.
25
- 1805: William Paley dies.
26
- 1976: Martin Heidegger dies.
27
- 1986: Ismail al-Faruqi dies.
28
- 1998: Virgil Aldrich dies.
- 2001: Francisco Varela dies.
29
- 1880: Oswald Spengler born.
30
- 1778: Voltaire dies.
- 1832: James Mackintosh dies.
31
- 1753: Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud born.
- 1838: Henry Sidgwick born.
June
1
- 1952: John Dewey dies.
2
- 1740: Marquis de Sade born.
- 1881: Émile Littré dies.
4
- 470 BC: Socrates born.
- 1971: Georg Lukács dies.
5
- 1723: Adam Smith born (baptized).
- 1937: Hélène Cixous born.
6
- 1832: Jeremy Bentham dies.
- 1909: Isaiah Berlin born.
8
- 632: Muhammad dies.
- 2007: Richard Rorty dies.
- 1896: Jules Simon dies.
10
- 2003: Bernard Williams dies.
11
- 1818: Alexander Bain born.
- 1828: Dugald Stewart dies.
13
- 1884:
- Leon Chwistek born.
- Étienne Gilson born.
- 1965: Martin Buber dies.
14
- 1916: Georg Henrik von Wright born.
16
- 1752: Joseph Butler dies.
- 2003: Georg Henrik von Wright dies.
17
- 1693: Johann Georg Walch born.
- 1996: Thomas Samuel Kuhn dies.
18
- 1870: Édouard Le Roy born.
- 1929: Jürgen Habermas born.
19
- 1623: Blaise Pascal born.
- 1947: John Ralston Saul born.
20
- 1723: Adam Ferguson born.
- 1824: Maine de Biran dies?
- 1840: Pierre Claude François Daunou dies.
21
- 1527: Niccolò Machiavelli dies.
- 1763: Pierre Paul Royer-Collard born.
- 1788: Johann Georg Hamann dies.
- 1905: Jean-Paul Sartre born.
- 1908: William Frankena born.
22
- 1767: Wilhelm von Humboldt born.
23
- 1668: Giambattista Vico born.
- 1836: James Mill dies.
24
- 1941: Julia Kristeva born.
25
- 1908: Willard Van Orman Quine born.
26
- 1688: Ralph Cudworth dies.
- 1702: Philip Doddridge born.
- 1984: Michel Foucault dies.
27
- 1884: Gaston Bachelard born.
- 1908: Charles Stevenson born.
- 1989: Alfred Ayer dies.
28
- 1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau born.
- 2001: Mortimer Adler dies.
29
- 1315: Ramon Llull dies.
July
1743: William Paley born.
1
- 1646: Gottfried Leibniz born.
- 1676: Anthony Collins born.
- 1871: Henry Longueville Mansel dies.
- 1881: Hermann Lotze dies.
- 1983: Buckminster Fuller dies.
2
- 1750: Thomas Spence born.
- 1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies.
- 1931: Harald Høffding dies.
3
- 2002: Michel Henry dies.
4
- 1826: Thomas Jefferson dies.
- 1881: Johan Vilhelm Snellman dies.
- 1937: Thomas Nagel born.
5
- 1907: Kuno Fischer dies.
6
- 1796: Théodore Simon Jouffroy born.
- 1882: William George Ward dies.
7
- 1829: Jacob Friedrich von Abel dies.
8
- 1885: Ernst Bloch born.
- 1993: Henry Hazlitt dies.
9
- 1797: Edmund Burke dies.
- 1962: Georges Bataille dies.
11
- 1905: Muhammad Abduh dies.
12
- 1536: Erasmus dies.
- 1895: Buckminster Fuller born.
13
- 1887: Elme Marie Caro dies.
14
- 1879: Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz dies.
- 1951: Esther Dyson born.
15
- 1892: Walter Benjamin born.
- 1901: Nicola Abbagnano born.
- 1930: Jacques Derrida born.
17
- 1698: Pierre Louis Maupertuis born.
- 1790: Adam Smith dies.
18
- 1797: Immanuel Hermann Fichte born.
- 1922: Thomas Samuel Kuhn born.
20
- 1754: Antoine Destutt de Tracy born.
21
- 1911: Marshall McLuhan born.
23
- 1824: Kuno Fischer born.
24
- 1940: Stanley Hauerwas born.
25
- 1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies.
26
- 1988: Fazlur Rahman dies.
27
- 1759: Pierre Louis Maupertuis dies.
- 1871: Ernst Zermelo born.
- 1999: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov dies.
28
- 1804: Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach born.
- 1902: Karl Popper born.
29
- 1929: Jean Baudrillard born.
31
- 1784: Denis Diderot dies.
- 1932: John Searle born.
August
1
- 1930: Pierre Bourdieu born.
3
- 1780: Étienne Bonnot de Condillac dies.
4
- 1912: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov born.
- 1977: Ernst Bloch dies.
5
- 1895: Friedrich Engels dies.
6
- 1638: Nicolas Malebranche born.
- 1969: Theodor Adorno dies.
7
- 1906: Nelson Goodman born.
- 1941: Rabindranath Tagore dies.
8
- 1694: Antoine Arnauld dies.
- 1694: Francis Hutcheson born.
- 1746: Francis Hutcheson dies.
- 1879: Immanuel Hermann Fichte dies.
- 1919: Ernst Haeckel dies.
- 1930: George Soros born.
- 1931: Roger Penrose born.
10
- 1801: Christian Hermann Weisse born.
- 1843: Jakob Friedrich Fries dies.
- 1924: Jean-François Lyotard born.
- 1980: Gareth Evans dies.
12
- 1484: George of Trebizond dies.
- 1512: Alessandro Achillini dies.
- 1686: John Balguy born.
- 1837: Pierre Laromiguière dies.
15
- 1069: Ibn Hazm dies.
- 1872: Sri Aurobindo born.
18
- 1761: Pierre Claude François Daunou born.
19
- 1662: Blaise Pascal dies.
20
- 1854: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling dies.
- 1886: Paul Tillich born.
21
- 1245: Alexander of Hales dies.
23
- 1773: Jakob Friedrich Fries born.
- 1921: Kenneth Arrow born.
24
- 1943: Simone Weil dies.
25
- 1776: David Hume dies.
- 1892: Richard Lewis Nettleship dies.
- 1900: Friedrich Nietzsche dies.
26
- 1910: William James dies.
27
- 1730: Johann Georg Hamann born.
- 1770: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel born.
- 1858: Giuseppe Peano born.
28
- 430: Augustine of Hippo dies.
- 1645: Hugo Grotius dies.
- 1749: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born.
- 1757: David Hartley dies.
- 1900: Henry Sidgwick dies.
29
- 1632: John Locke born.
30
- 1705: David Hartley born.
- 2003: Donald Davidson dies.
September
1
- 1648: Marin Mersenne dies.
- 1903: Charles Bernard Renouvier dies.
2
- 1845: Pierre Paul Royer-Collard dies.
- 1949: Hans-Hermann Hoppe born.
3
- 1819: Alexander Campbell Fraser born.
- 1894: John Veitch dies.
- 1939: Edvard Westermarck dies.
4
- 1965: Albert Schweitzer dies.
5
- 1888: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan born.
- 1905: Arthur Koestler born.
6
- 1729: Moses Mendelssohn born.
- 1809: Bruno Bauer born.
- 1860: Jane Addams born.
7
- 1946: Francisco Varela born.
8
- 1588: Marin Mersenne born.
9
- 1945: Robert Alexy born.
- 1976: Mao Zedong dies.
10
- 1839: Charles Sanders Peirce born.
11
- 1903: Theodor Adorno born.
13
- 1592: Michel de Montaigne dies.
- 1872: Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach dies.
- 1938: Samuel Alexander dies.
14
- 1486: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa born.
- 1930: Allan Bloom born.
- 1970: Rudolf Carnap dies.
15
- 973: Biruni born.
- 1926: Rudolf Christoph Eucken dies.
16
- 1814: Émile Saisset born.
- 1897: Georges Bataille born.
17
- 1743: Marquis de Condorcet born.
- 1994: Karl Popper dies.
18
- 1903: Alexander Bain dies.
19
- 1866: Christian Hermann Weisse dies.
20
- 1899: Leo Strauss born.
21
- 1748: John Balguy dies.
- 1860: Arthur Schopenhauer dies.
- 1919: Fazlur Rahman born.
- 1919: Mario Bunge dies.
- 1929: Bernard Williams born.
22
- 1253: Dōgen dies.
25
- 1805: Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz born.
26
- 1889: Martin Heidegger born.
27
- 1821: Henri-Frédéric Amiel born.
- 1907: Maurice Blanchot born.
- 1940: Walter Benjamin dies.
28
- 551 BC: Confucius born (traditionally).
- 1918: Georg Simmel dies.
29
- 1864: Miguel de Unamuno born.
30
- 1715: Étienne Bonnot de Condillac born.
October
1
- 1499: Marsilio Ficino dies.
- 1911: Wilhelm Dilthey dies.
- 1914: Stuart Hampshire born.
2
- 1869: Mahatma Gandhi born.
3
- 1981: Tadeusz Kotarbiński dies.
4
- 1903: Otto Weininger dies.
- 1931: Richard Rorty born.
5
- 1703: Jonathan Edwards born.
- 1713: Denis Diderot born.
- 1714: Kaibara Ekken dies.
- 1781: Bernard Bolzano born.
6
- 1820: Henry Longueville Mansel born.
- 1831: Richard Dedekind born.
7
- 1796: Thomas Reid dies.
- 1885: Niels Bohr born.
- 1894: Herman Dooyeweerd born.
- 1992: Allan Bloom dies.
8
- 1879: Chen Duxiu born.
- 1973: Gabriel Marcel dies.
- 2004: Jacques Derrida dies.
9
- 1253: Robert Grosseteste dies.
- 1950: Nicolai Hartmann dies.
- 2000: Charles Hartshorne dies.
10
- 1560: Jacobus Arminius born.
- 1780: John Abercrombie born.
- 1873: Arthur O. Lovejoy born.
11
- 1675: Samuel Clarke born.
- 1881: Hans Kelsen born.
12
- 1600: Luis de Molina dies.
- 1602: William Chillingworth born.
- 1892: Ernest Renan dies.
- 1991: Gregory Vlastos dies.
13
- 1282: Nichiren dies.
- 1694: Samuel von Pufendorf dies.
- 1715: Nicolas Malebranche dies.
14
- 1906: Hannah Arendt born.
- 2001: David Kellogg Lewis dies.
15
- 55 BC: Lucretius dies.
- 1844: Friedrich Nietzsche born.
- 1881: William Temple born.
- 1926: Michel Foucault born.
16
- 1854: Oscar Wilde born.
- 1918: Louis Althusser born.
- 1962: Gaston Bachelard dies.
17
- 1760: Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon born.
- 1889: Nikolai Chernyshevsky dies.
- 1983: Raymond Aron dies.
18
- 1771: Heinrich von Kleist born.
- 1775: Christian August Crusius dies.
- 1859: Henri Bergson born.
- 1871: Charles Babbage dies.
- 1909: Norberto Bobbio born.
- 1955: José Ortega y Gasset dies.
- 1973: Leo Strauss dies.
19
- 1433: Marsilio Ficino born.
- 1609: Jacobus Arminius dies.
- 1926: Joel Feinberg born.
20
- 1463: Alessandro Achillini born.
- 1859: John Dewey born.
- 1866: Kazimierz Twardowski born.
- 1978: Anders Nygren dies.
21
- 1772: Samuel Taylor Coleridge born.
22
- 1965: Paul Tillich dies.
23
- 1813: Félix Ravaisson-Mollien born.
- 1990: Louis Althusser dies.
24
- 1655: Pierre Gassendi dies.
- 1765: James Mackintosh born.
- 1829: John Veitch born.
- 1958: George Edward Moore dies.
25
- 1180: John of Salisbury dies.
- 1400: Geoffrey Chaucer dies.
- 1767: Benjamin Constant born.
- 1806: Max Stirner born.
26
- 1751: Philip Doddridge
- 1944: William Temple dies.
- 1983: Alfred Tarski dies.
27
- 1466: Erasmus born.
- 1485: Rodolphus Agricola dies.
28
- 1704: John Locke dies.
29
- 1783: Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies.
- 1910: Alfred Ayer born.
30
- 1862: Friedrich Meinecke born.
- 1953: Woo Tsin-hang dies.
- 2003: Richard Taylor dies.
31
- 1793: Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud dies.
- 1841: Georg Anton Friedrich Ast dies.
November
2
- 1815: George Boole born.
3
- 1756: Pierre Laromiguière born.
4
- 1873: George Edward Moore born.
- 1995: Gilles Deleuze died.
5
- 1997: Isaiah Berlin dies.
7
- 994: Ibn Hazm born.
- 1913: Albert Camus born.
8
- 1308: Duns Scotus dies.
9
- 1877: Muhammad Iqbal born.
- 1934: Carl Sagan born.
10
- 1759: Friedrich Schiller born.
11
- 1668: Johann Albert Fabricius born.
- 1675: Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of a function y = f(x) by using antiderivatives.
- 1751 Julien Offray de La Mettrie dies.
- 1855: Søren Kierkegaard dies.
12
- 1866: Sun Yat-sen born.
- 1915: Roland Barthes born.
13
- 354: Augustine of Hippo born.
14
- 1633: William Ames dies.
- 1716: Gottfried Leibniz dies.
- 1831: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel dies.
- 1844: John Abercrombie dies.
15
- 1280: Albertus Magnus dies.
- 1932: Alvin Plantinga born.
16
- 1717: Jean le Rond d'Alembert born.
- 1938: Robert Nozick born.
- 1946: Terence McKenna born.
19
- 1672: John Wilkins dies.
20
- 1862: Edvard Westermarck born.
21
- 1694: Voltaire born.
- 1768: Friedrich Schleiermacher born.
- 1791: Heinrich Ritter born.
22
- 1753: Dugald Stewart born.
23
- 1709 Julien Offray de La Mettrie born.
24
- 1632: Baruch Spinoza born.
25
- 1998: Nelson Goodman dies.
27
- 1198: Abraham ben David dies.
28
- 1792: Victor Cousin born.
- 1794: Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria dies.
- 1820: Friedrich Engels born.
- 1878: George Henry Lewes dies.
- 1894: Henry Hazlitt born.
29
- 1766: Maine de Biran born.
30
- 1900: Oscar Wilde dies.
December
2
- 1814: Marquis de Sade dies.
4
- 1679: Thomas Hobbes dies.
- 1801: Karl Ludwig Michelet born.
- 1975: Hannah Arendt dies.
5
- 749: John of Damascus dies.
- 1901: Werner Heisenberg born.
- 1950: Sri Aurobindo dies.
6
- 1919: Paul de Man born.
- 1956: B. R. Ambedkar dies.
7
- 43 BC: Cicero dies.
- 1889: Gabriel Marcel born.
- 1928: Noam Chomsky born.
8
- 1830: Benjamin Constant dies.
- 1864: George Boole dies.
- 1903: Herbert Spencer dies.
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