- 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 Schrodinger dies.5
* 1548:
Francisco Suarez 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.
* 1949:Ken Wilber 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.18
* 1689: Montesquieu born.
* 1925:Gilles Deleuze born.19
* 1200:
Dogen born.
* 1865:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon dies.
* 1929:Liang Qichao dies.
* 1930:Frank P. Ramsey dies.
* 1985:Eric Voegelin dies.20
* 1973:
Amilcar Cabral dies.21
* 1870:
Alexander Herzen dies.
* 1887:Wolfgang Kohler 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:
Leone 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.
* 1929:Bernard Williams 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:
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.
* 1947: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.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:Georg Lukacs 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 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:
Leone 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
* 1842:
George Croom Robertson born.
* 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:Felix Ravaisson-Mollien dies.19
* 1762:
Johann Gottlieb Fichte born.20
* 1806:
John Stuart Mill born.21
* 427 BC:
Plato born?
* 1817:Rudolf 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 Lukacs dies.5
* 1723:
Adam Smith born (baptized).
* 1937:Hélène Cixous born.6
* 1832:
Jeremy Bentham dies.
* 1909:Isaiah Berlin born.8
* 632:
Muhammad dies.
* 1896:Jules Simon dies.10
* 2003:
Bernard Williams dies.11
* 1818:
Alexander Bain born.
* 1828:Dugald Stewart dies.13
* 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
* 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.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
* 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.
* 1871:Henry Longueville Mansel dies.
* 1881:Rudolf Hermann Lotze dies.
* 1983:Buckminster Fuller dies.2
* 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.
* 1960:William A. Dembski born.20
* 1754:
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.eptember
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 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.22
* 1253:
Dogen 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 Kotarbinski dies.4
* 1903:
Otto Weininger dies.
* 1931:Richard Rorty born.5
* 1703: Jonathan Edwards born.
* 1713:Denis Diderot born.
* 1714:Kaibara Ekiken 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
* 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:Jose 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:
Felix 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 born.5
* 1997:
Isaiah Berlin dies.7
* 994:
Ibn Hazm born.
* 1913:Albert Camus born.8
* 1308:
Duns Scotus dies.9
* 1877:
Muhammad Iqbal born.10
* 1759:
Friedrich Schiller born.11
* 1668:
Johann Albert Fabricius born.
* 1675:Gottfried Leibniz demonstratedintegral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of a function "y" = "f"("x") by usingantiderivative s.
* 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.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.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.
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