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101 datesJanuary
- 4 Albert Camus died 1960
- 9 Simone de Beauvoir born 1908
- 12 Swami Vivekananda born 1863
- 25 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi born 1743
- 29 Anton Chekhov born 1860
- 30 Mahatma Gandhi died 1948
February
- 9 Fyodor Dostoevsky died 1881
- 11 René Descartes died 1650
- 12 Dayānanda Sarasvatī born 1824
- 12 Immanuel Kant died 1804
- 15 Mirza Ghalib died 1869
- 17 Jiddu Krishnamurti died 1986
- 18 Ramakrishna Paramahamsa born 1836
- 21 Baruch Spinoza died 1677
- 22 Arthur Schopenhauer born 1788
- 28 Michel de Montaigne born 1533
March
- 7 Thomas Aquinas died 1274
- 10 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi died 1819
- 14 Karl Marx died 1883
- 17 Marcus Aurelius died 0180
- 22 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 1832
- 31 René Descartes born 1596
April
- 13 Samuel Beckett born 1906
- 14 B. R. Ambedkar born 1891
- 14 Simone de Beauvoir died 1986
- 14 Ramana Maharshi died 1950
- 15 Jean-Paul Sartre died 1980
- 17 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan died 1975
- 19 Seneca died 0065
- 21 Muhammad Iqbal died 1938
- 22 Miguel de Cervantes died 1616
- 22 Immanuel Kant born 1724
- 23 William Shakespeare born 1564
- 23 William Shakespeare died 1616
- 26 Marcus Aurelius born 0121
- 26 Ludwig Wittgenstein born 1889
- 29 Ludwig Wittgenstein died 1951
May
- 3 Niccolò Machiavelli born 1469
- 5 Søren Kierkegaard born 1813
- 5 Karl Marx born 1818
- 7 David Hume born 1711
- 7 Rabindranath Tagore born 1861
- 11 Jiddu Krishnamurti born 1895
- 22 Raja Rammohun Roy born 1772
- 26 Martin Heidegger died 1976
- 30 Voltaire died 1778
June
- 3 Franz Kafka died 1924
- 19 Blaise Pascal born 1623
- 21 Niccolò Machiavelli died 1527
- 21 Jean-Paul Sartre born 1905
- 28 Jean-Jacques Rousseau born 1712
July
- 1 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born 1646
- 2 Jean-Jacques Rousseau died 1778
- 3 Franz Kafka born 1883
- 4 Swami Vivekananda died 1902
- 15 Anton Chekhov died 1904
- 24 Nikolai Chernyshevsky born 1828
- 31 Premchand born 1880
August
- 7 Rabindranath Tagore died 1941
- 15 Sri Aurobindo born 1872
- 16 Ramakrishna Paramahamsa died 1886
- 19 Blaise Pascal died 1662
- 25 David Hume died 1776
- 25 Friedrich Nietzsche died 1900
- 27 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel born 1770
- 28 Augustine of Hippo died 0430
- 28 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born 1749
- 29 John Locke born 1632
September
- 3 Ivan Turgenev died 1883
- 5 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan born 1888
- 9 Leo Tolstoy born 1828
- 13 Michel de Montaigne died 1592
- 14 Dante Alighieri died 1321
- 21 Arthur Schopenhauer died 1860
- 26 Martin Heidegger born 1889
- 27 Raja Rammohun Roy died 1833
- 28 Confucius born -551
October
- 2 Mahatma Gandhi born 1869
- 8 Premchand died 1936
- 15 Friedrich Nietzsche born 1844
- 28 John Locke died 1704
- 29 Nikolai Chernyshevsky died 1889
- 30 Dayānanda Sarasvatī died 1883
November
- 7 Albert Camus born 1913
- 8 John Milton died 1674
- 9 Muhammad Iqbal born 1877
- 9 Ivan Turgenev born 1818
- 11 Fyodor Dostoevsky born 1821
- 11 Søren Kierkegaard died 1855
- 13 Augustine of Hippo born 0354
- 14 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel died 1831
- 14 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died 1716
- 20 Leo Tolstoy died 1910
- 21 Voltaire born 1694
- 24 Baruch Spinoza born 1632
December
- 5 Sri Aurobindo died 1950
- 6 B. R. Ambedkar died 1956
- 9 John Milton born 1608
- 22 Samuel Beckett died 1989
- 27 Mirza Ghalib born 1797
- 30 Ramana Maharshi born 1879