List of philosophy anniversaries

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)


January

1

  • 1614: John Wilkins born.
  • 1815: Charles Bernard Renouvier born.
  • 1921: Ismail al-Faruqi born.

3

  • 106 BC: Cicero born.

4

  • 1786: Moses Mendelssohn dies.
  • 1941: Henri Bergson dies.
  • 1960: Albert Camus dies.

5

  • 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.

8

9

  • 1799: Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies.
  • 1908: Simone de Beauvoir born.

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

13

  • 1775: Johann Georg Walch dies.
  • 1867: Victor Cousin dies.
  • 1949: Ken Wilber born.

14

16

  • 1943: John Perry (philosopher) born.

18

  • 1689: Montesquieu born.
  • 1925: Gilles Deleuze born.

19

  • 1200: Dogen born.
  • 1930: Frank P. Ramsey dies.

22

23

  • 1744: Giambattista Vico dies.
  • 2002: Robert Nozick dies.
  • 2002: Pierre Bourdieu dies.

24

  • 1679: Christian Wolff born.

25

  • 1627: Robert Boyle born.
  • 1743: Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi born.

27

29

30

  • 1948: Mahatma Gandhi dies.

February

1

  • 1801: Émile Littré born.

2

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

12

14

  • 1404: Leone Battista Alberti born.

15

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

22

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.
  • 1982: Ayn Rand dies.

7

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

13

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

21

  • 1812: William George Ward born.
  • 1947: Slavoj Žižek born.

22

  • 1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies.

23

  • 1900: Erich Fromm born.

25

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

30

  • 1135: Maimonides born.
  • 1925: Rudolf Steiner dies.

31

April

3

  • 1880: Otto Weininger born.
  • 2000: Terence McKenna dies.

4

  • 397: Ambrose dies.

5

6

  • 1773: James Mill born.
  • 1796: George Campbell dies.

7

  • 1798: Pierre Leroux born.
  • 1836: William Godwin dies.
  • 1836: Thomas Hill Green born.

8

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

17

  • 1975: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan dies.

18

  • 1817: George Henry Lewes born.
  • 1999: Gian-Carlo Rota dies.

19

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

25

  • 1472: Leone Battista Alberti dies.

26

27

  • 1820: Herbert Spencer born.
  • 1932: Gian-Carlo Rota born.

28

  • 1816: Johann Heinrich Abicht 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

6

  • 1947: Martha Nussbaum born.

7

  • 399 BC: Socrates dies.
  • 1861: Rabindranath Tagore born.

8

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

19

20

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

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

2

  • 1740: Marquis de Sade born.
  • 1881: Émile Littré dies.

4

5

  • 1723: Adam Smith born (baptized).
  • 1937: Hélène Cixous born.

6

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

17

  • 1693: Johann Georg Walch born.
  • 1996: Thomas Samuel Kuhn dies.

18

  • 1929: Jürgen Habermas born.

19

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20

21

  • 1245: Alexander of Hales dies.

23

  • 1773: Jakob Friedrich Fries born.
  • 1921: Kenneth Arrow born.

24

  • 1943: Simone Weil dies.

25

26

27

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

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

11

13

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

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

2

  • 1869: Mahatma Gandhi born.

4

  • 1903: Otto Weininger dies.
  • 1931: Richard Rorty born.

5

  • 1713: Denis Diderot born.
  • 1714: Kaibara Ekiken dies.

6

  • 1820: Henry Longueville Mansel born.

7

  • 1992: Allan Bloom dies.

8

  • 1879: Chen Duxiu born.
  • 2004: Jacques Derrida dies.

10

  • 1780: John Abercrombie born.

11

  • 1675: Samuel Clarke born.

12

  • 1892: Ernest Renan dies.

13

14

  • 1906: Hannah Arendt born.

15

16

  • 1918: Louis Althusser born.

17

  • 1983: Raymond Aron dies.

18

  • 1775: Christian August Crusius dies.
  • 1859: Henri Bergson born.
  • 1973: Leo Strauss dies.

20

  • 1463: Alessandro Achillini born.
  • 1859: John Dewey born.

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

  • 1400: Geoffrey Chaucer dies.

26

  • 1751: Philip Doddridge

27

  • 1466: Erasmus born.
  • 1485: Rodolphus Agricola dies.

28

29

  • 1783: Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies.
  • 1910: Alfred Ayer born.

30

  • 1953: Woo Tsin-hang 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 demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of a function y = f(x) by using antiderivatives.
  • 1855: Søren Kierkegaard dies.

12

13

14

15

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

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.
  • 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.

21

  • 1878: Jan Lukasiewicz 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.
  • 1709: Julien Offray de la Mettrie 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

31

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