Albert Camus
1913 CE–1960 CE · Philosopher · Mondovi (now Dréan), French Algeria
Albert Camus was a French-Algerian writer and thinker whose novels, essays, and plays explore how to live without appeal to religious or absolute meaning. Raised in poverty in Algiers, he worked as a journalist and, during the German occupation of France, edited the Resistance paper Combat. His best-known works include the novel The Stranger, the essay The Myth of Sisyphus, and the novel The Plague. He is associated with the idea of the "absurd" — the confrontation between a human search for meaning and a silent universe — and with a humanist ethic of revolt. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 and died in a car accident in 1960.
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- Pablo Picasso· 1881 CE–1973 CE
- Igor Stravinsky· 1882 CE–1971 CE
- Ezra Pound· 1885 CE–1972 CE
- Georgia O'Keeffe· 1887 CE–1986 CE
- Marc Chagall· 1887 CE–1985 CE
- T. S. Eliot· 1888 CE–1965 CE
- Martin Heidegger· 1889 CE–1976 CE
- J. R. R. Tolkien· 1892 CE–1973 CE
- William Faulkner· 1897 CE–1962 CE
- René Magritte· 1898 CE–1967 CE
- Bertolt Brecht· 1898 CE–1956 CE
- Jorge Luis Borges· 1899 CE–1986 CE
- Ernest Hemingway· 1899 CE–1961 CE
- Friedrich Hayek· 1899 CE–1992 CE
- Aaron Copland· 1900 CE–1990 CE
- John Steinbeck· 1902 CE–1968 CE
- George Orwell· 1903 CE–1950 CE
- Pablo Neruda· 1904 CE–1973 CE
- Salvador Dalí· 1904 CE–1989 CE
- Jean-Paul Sartre· 1905 CE–1980 CE
- Hannah Arendt· 1906 CE–1975 CE
- Dmitri Shostakovich· 1906 CE–1975 CE
- Frida Kahlo· 1907 CE–1954 CE
- Malcolm X· 1925 CE–1965 CE
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- Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)· 1906 CE–1967 CE
- Jomo Kenyatta· 1894 CE–1978 CE
- Zhou Enlai· 1898 CE–1976 CE
- Sukarno· 1901 CE–1970 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
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