1775: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling born.
1808: David Strauss born.
1814: Johann Gottlieb Fichte dies.
1832: Lewis Carroll born.
1912: Arne Næss born.
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1688: Emanuel Swedenborg born.
1737: Thomas Paine born.
2002: R. M. Hare dies.
30
1846: F. H. Bradley born.
1948: Mahatma Gandhi dies.
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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.
1909: E.H. Gombrich 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.
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1824: Kuno Fischer born.
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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.