Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male, deceased (1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French...
David Hume

David Hume

male, deceased (1776)
David Hume (April 26, 1711 - August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is considered one of the most important...
Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

male, deceased (1809)
Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, and intellectual....
Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner

male, deceased (1887)
Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 - May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, and...
Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre

male, deceased (1794)
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. His supporters knew him as The '...
Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

male, 95 years old
Martin Gardner (b. October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational...
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

male, deceased (1790)
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist,...
Antony Flew

Antony Flew

male, 86 years old
Professor Antony Garrard Newton Flew (born February 11 1923) is a British philosopher. Known for several decades as a prominent atheist, Flew first...
Thomas Chubb

Thomas Chubb

male, deceased (1747)
Thomas Chubb, (September 29 1679 - February 8 1747), was an English Deist, born near Salisbury. Chubb regarded Christ as a divine teacher, but held...
Adam Smith

Adam Smith

male, deceased (1790)
Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. - July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist....