- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- male, deceased (1789)
- Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach was a German-French author, philosopher and encyclopedist. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim,...
- male, deceased (1794)
- Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the...
- male, deceased (1819)
- André Morellet was a French economist and writer. He was one of the last of the "philosophes", and in this character he figures in many memoirs, s...
- male, deceased (1945)
- Carl Lotus Becker was an American historian. He was born in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa. He studied at the University of Wisconsin. Frederick...
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- The "Times" obituary of Adam Smith was an interesting document showing how he was seen at the time. After discussing his time at Balliol College,...
- male, deceased (1769)
- Pope Clement XIII (Venice, March 7, 1693 - February 2, 1769 in Rome), born Carlo della Torre Rezzonico, was Pope from 6 July 1758 to 2 February...
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- Rousseau lived for thirty years with an uneducated seamstress named Thérèse Lavasseur, whom he met in 1745. They had five children, all of whom Ro...
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