Famous Philosophers

This list currently contains 112 personalities among which there are for example, Albert Einstein, Molière, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, J. R. R. Tolkien, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Voltaire, Nicolas Machiavel, Karl Marx, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Denis Diderot, Alain, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Élisabeth Badinter, ...

Enlightenment philosophers Philosophers of antiquity

† at 62 years

Pierre Abélard

1079 • 1142

† at 83 years

1868 • 1951

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

† at 74 years

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

1740 • 1814

† at ~72 years

~-500 • ~-428

Philosophers of antiquity

† at 69 years

1906 • 1975

† at ~62 years

~-384 • ~-322

Philosophers of antiquity

† at 78 years

1905 • 1983

† at 58 years

121 • 180

Élisabeth Badinter

Élisabeth Badinter

Mikhaïl Bakounine

† at 62 years

Mikhaïl Bakounine

1814 • 1876

† at 64 years

1915 • 1980

† at 81 years

1859 • 1941

George Berkeley

† at 67 years

George Berkeley

1685 • 1753

† at 46 years

1913 • 1960

† at 63 years

-106 • -43

† at 58 years

1920 • 1979

† at 59 years

1798 • 1857

† at 71 years

-551 • -479

Augustin d'Hippone

† at 75 years

Augustin d'Hippone

354 • 430

Henry David Thoreau

† at 44 years

Henry David Thoreau

1817 • 1862

Simone de Beauvoir

† at 78 years

Simone de Beauvoir

1908 • 1986

Nicolas de Condorcet

† at 50 years

Nicolas de Condorcet

1743 • 1794

Olympe de Gouges

† at 45 years

Olympe de Gouges

1748 • 1793

Michel de Montaigne

† at 59 years

Michel de Montaigne

1533 • 1592

Étienne de Silhouette

† at 57 years

Étienne de Silhouette

1709 • 1767

Alexis de Tocqueville

† at 53 years

Alexis de Tocqueville

1805 • 1859

Born 100 years ago in 2025

† at 70 years

1925 • 1995

† at ~90 years

~-460 • ~-370

Philosophers of antiquity

Jacques Derrida

Died 20 years ago in 2024

† at 74 years

Jacques Derrida

1930 • 2004

† at 53 years

René Descartes

1596 • 1650

† at 70 years

1713 • 1784

Diogène de Sinope

† at ~86 years

Diogène de Sinope

~-413 • ~-327

Philosophers of antiquity

Albert Einstein

† at 76 years

Albert Einstein

1879 • 1955

Friedrich Engels

† at 74 years

Friedrich Engels

1820 • 1895

† at ~75 years

~50 • ~125

Philosophers of antiquity

† at ~72 years

~-342 • ~-270

Philosophers of antiquity

† at 69 years

1466 • 1536

† at ~82 years

~-276 • ~-194

Alain Finkielkraut

Alain Finkielkraut

Michel Foucault

Died 40 years ago in 2024

† at 57 years

Michel Foucault

1926 • 1984

Benjamin Franklin

† at 84 years

Benjamin Franklin

1706 • 1790

Pierre Gassendi

† at 73 years

Pierre Gassendi

1592 • 1665

† at 55 years

1776 • 1831

† at 85 years

1707 • 1793

Friedrich Hayek

† at 92 years

Friedrich Hayek

1899 • 1992

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

† at 61 years

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1770 • 1831

Martin Heidegger

† at 86 years

Martin Heidegger

1889 • 1976

† at ~64 years

~-544 • ~-480

Philosophers of antiquity

† at 91 years

1588 • 1679

† at 65 years

1711 • 1776

† at 79 years

1859 • 1938

† at 69 years

1894 • 1963

J. R. R. Tolkien

† at 81 years

J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 • 1973

Marcus Junius Brutus

† at ~43 years

Marcus Junius Brutus

~-85 • -42

† at 79 years

1724 • 1804

Søren Kierkegaard

† at 42 years

Søren Kierkegaard

1813 • 1855

† at 80 years

1914 • 1995

† at 74 years

1872 • 1946

† at 72 years

1868 • 1941

† at 75 years

1947 • 2022

Anthropologists

Antoine Lavoisier

† at 50 years

Antoine Lavoisier

1743 • 1794

Claude Lévi-Strauss

† at 100 years

Claude Lévi-Strauss

1908 • 2009

Anthropologists

Emmanuel Levinas

† at 89 years

Emmanuel Levinas

1906 • 1995

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy

† at 72 years

1632 • 1704

Frédéric Lordon

Frédéric Lordon

Nicolas Machiavel

† at 58 years

Nicolas Machiavel

1469 • 1527

† at 75 years

1688 • 1763

† at 64 years

1818 • 1883

Giuseppe Mazzini

† at 66 years

Giuseppe Mazzini

1805 • 1872

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

† at 53 years

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

1908 • 1961

† at 51 years

1622 • 1673

† at 66 years

1689 • 1755

† at 57 years

1478 • 1535

Miyamoto Musashi

† at 60 years

Miyamoto Musashi

1584 • 1645

† at ~74 years

~1530 • 1604

Friedrich Nietzsche

† at 55 years

Friedrich Nietzsche

1844 • 1900

Born 300 years ago in 2025

† at 81 years

1725 • 1807

† at 47 years

1493 • 1541

† at ~80 years

~-428 • ~-348

Philosophers of antiquity

† at 58 years

Henri Poincaré

1854 • 1912