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.
• 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.

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.
• 1924: Lucio Colletti born.

9

• 1842: Peter Kropotkin born.
• 2004: Paul Edwards dies.

10

• 1198: Averroes dies.
• 1882: Otto Neurath born.
• 1968: Karl Barth dies.

11

• 1712: Francesco Algarotti born.
• 1857: Georgy Plekhanov born.
• 1901: Michael Oakeshott born.

12

• 1890: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz born.
• 1905: Emmanuel Lévinas born.

13

• 1048: Biruni dies.
• 1204: Maimonides dies.
• 1784: Samuel Johnson dies.

14

• 1630: Anne Finch Conway born.

15

• 1673: Margaret Cavendish dies.
• 1828: Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov born.

16

• 1863: George Santayana born.
• 1893: Karl Ludwig Michelet dies.
• 1929: Bernard Crick born.

17

• 1846: Richard Lewis Nettleship born.
• 1863: Émile Saisset dies.

18

• 1803: Johann Gottfried Herder dies.
• 1848: Bernard Bolzano dies.
• 1933: Hans Vaihinger dies.

19

• 1990: Michael Oakeshott dies.

20

• 1902: Sidney Hook born.
• 1996: Carl Sagan dies.

21

• 1878: Jan Łukasiewicz born.
• 1983: Paul de Man dies.

22

• 1694: Hermann Samuel Reimarus born.
• 1880: George Eliot dies.
• 1945: Otto Neurath dies.

23

• 1972: Abraham Joshua Heschel dies.

24

• 1868: Emanuel Lasker born.

25

• 8 BC-4 BC: Jesus born (traditionally).
• 1642: Isaac Newton born.
• 1719: George Campbell born.
• 1995: Emmanuel Lévinas dies.
• 2000: Willard Van Orman Quine dies.

26

• 1536: Yi I born.
• 1771: Claude Adrien Helvétius dies.
• 1792: Charles Babbage born.
• 1893: Mao Zedong born.
• 1934: Richard Swinburne born.

27

• 1571: Johannes Kepler born.
• 1782: Henry Home, Lord Kames dies.
• 1814: Jules Simon born.

28

• 1706: Pierre Bayle dies.
• 1902: Mortimer Adler born.
• 1903: John von Neumann born.
• 1906: Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov dies.

30

• 1691: Robert Boyle dies.
• 1887: C. D. Broad born.
• 1947: Alfred North Whitehead dies.

31

• 1384: John Wycliffe dies.
• 1936: Miguel de Unamuno dies.
• 1980: Marshall McLuhan dies.