Famous Historians

This list currently contains 33 personalities among which there are for example, Voltaire, Karl Marx, Alain Decaux, Michel Foucault, François-René de Chateaubriand, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Prosper Mérimée, Daniel Cordier, Michel Serres, Serge Klarsfeld, Marc Ferro, David Hume, Raymond Aron, Laurent Gbagbo, Pap Ndiaye, ...

† at 78 years

1905 • 1983

† at 57 years

1886 • 1944

Fernand Braudel

† at 83 years

Fernand Braudel

1902 • 1985

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

† at 94 years

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

1929 • 2023

† at 100 years

1920 • 2020

Albert de Broglie

† at 79 years

Albert de Broglie

1821 • 1901

François-René de Chateaubriand

† at 79 years

François-René de Chateaubriand

1768 • 1848

Grégoire de Tours

† at 55 years

Grégoire de Tours

538 • 594

† at 90 years

1925 • 2016

Born 100 years ago in 2024

† at 96 years

1924 • 2021

Michel Foucault

Died 40 years ago in 2024

† at 57 years

Michel Foucault

1926 • 1984

Richard Francis Burton

† at 69 years

Richard Francis Burton

1821 • 1890

Antoine François Prévost

† at 66 years

Antoine François Prévost

1697 • 1763

Alexander Fraser Tytler

† at 65 years

Alexander Fraser Tytler

1747 • 1813

François Guizot

Died 150 years ago in 2024

† at 86 years

François Guizot

1787 • 1874

† at ~55 years

~-480 • ~-425

† at 65 years

1711 • 1776

Serge Klarsfeld

Serge Klarsfeld

† at 64 years

1818 • 1883

Prosper Mérimée

† at 66 years

Prosper Mérimée

1803 • 1870

† at 75 years

1798 • 1874

† at 57 years

1478 • 1535

† at 77 years

1886 • 1964

† at 69 years

1823 • 1892

† at 78 years

1866 • 1944

† at 91 years

1898 • 1990

† at 61 years

1771 • 1832

† at 88 years

1930 • 2019

† at 80 years

1797 • 1877

† at 83 years

1694 • 1778