Philosophers
The best known philosophers — ranked by how many Wikipedias write about them, never more than 8 alive at once — each from birth to death, to see who was alive at the same time.
Events 127 totals
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Jun
28
1712
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1712–1778
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Oct
5
1713
Denis Diderot · 1713–1784
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Jun
5
1723
Adam Smith · 1723–1790
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Apr
22
1724
Immanuel Kant · 1724–1804
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Feb
15
1748
Jeremy Bentham · 1748–1832
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May
19
1762
Johann Gottlieb Fichte · 1762–1814
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Aug
27
1770
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1770–1831
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Feb
22
1788
Arthur Schopenhauer · 1788–1860
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Jan
19
1798
Auguste Comte · 1798–1857
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May
25
1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1803–1882
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May
20
1806
John Stuart Mill · 1806–1873
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May
5
1818
Karl Marx · 1818–1883
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Nov
28
1820
Friedrich Engels · 1820–1895
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Jan
29
1836
Nikolay Dobrolyubov · 1836–1861
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Oct
15
1844
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1844–1900
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Oct
18
1859
Henri Bergson · 1859–1941
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Apr
21
1864
Max Weber · 1864–1920
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May
18
1872
Bertrand Russell · 1872–1970
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Apr
3
1880
Otto Weininger · 1880–1903
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Apr
26
1889
Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1889–1951
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Sep
26
1889
Martin Heidegger · 1889–1976
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Jun
21
1905
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1905–1980
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Jan
9
1908
Simone de Beauvoir · 1908–1986
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Nov
7
1913
Albert Camus · 1913–1960
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Oct
15
1926
Michel Foucault · 1926–1984
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