Philosopher Birthday Calendar

The calendar below currently includes nearly 250 birthdays of philosophers indexed at EpistemeLinks. You can browse the calendar by using the forward and back links in the header area, or by using the drop-down menu to choose a month. (Note: dates are based on the Gregorian Calendar system.)

See also: Printable version of this Philosopher Birthday calendar.

See also: Dates of Death Calendar

See also: Philosopher Timeline

Shortest and Longest Lifespans

The following are Top-10 lists of the shortest and longest lifespans for those philosophers indexed by EL that have birth and death years in the database (those with at least one vague or questionable "circa" or "flourishing" dates are excluded from these lists). Please note: the lifespan figures were calculated by simply subtracting the birth year from the death year–not by using exact dates. Hence it is possible that a person might have a lifespan figure of 42, but not actually have reached their 42nd birthday they died.

31 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
33 - Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878-1911)
34 - Simone Weil (1909-1943)
36 - Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
38 - Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
39 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
39 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
40 - Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
42 - Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
42 - Alan Turing (1912-1954)
42 - Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

103 - Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000)
102 - Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
98 - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
95 - Tadeusz Kotarbinski (1886-1981)
95 - W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963)
93 - Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)
93 - John Dewey (1859-1952)
93 - Corliss Lamont (1902-1995)
92 - Tadeusz Czezowski (1889-1981)
92 - Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)
92 - W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000)
92 - Alonzo Church (1903-1995)
92 - Karl Popper (1902-1994)