List of philosophy anniversaries


January

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 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. 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. Anniversaries (list)