Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 CE–1980 CE · Philosopher · Paris
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, novelist, and playwright, the leading exponent of 20th-century existentialism, a philosophy holding that human beings first exist and then define themselves through free choices ("existence precedes essence"). Educated at the École Normale Supérieure, he studied phenomenology, the analysis of lived experience, in Berlin before developing his own account of consciousness and freedom in Being and Nothingness (1943). His fiction (Nausea) and plays (No Exit) carried these ideas to a wide public. A political engagement with Marxism and anti-colonial causes marked his later decades. He was awarded, and declined, the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. His lifelong companion was Simone de Beauvoir.
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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
- 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
- Friedrich Hayek· 1899 CE–1992 CE
- Ernest Hemingway· 1899 CE–1961 CE
- Aaron Copland· 1900 CE–1990 CE
- John Steinbeck· 1902 CE–1968 CE
- Pablo Neruda· 1904 CE–1973 CE
- Salvador Dalí· 1904 CE–1989 CE
- Hannah Arendt· 1906 CE–1975 CE
- Dmitri Shostakovich· 1906 CE–1975 CE
- Frida Kahlo· 1907 CE–1954 CE
- Simone de Beauvoir· 1908 CE–1986 CE
- Albert Camus· 1913 CE–1960 CE
- Malcolm X· 1925 CE–1965 CE
- Martin Luther King Jr.· 1929 CE–1968 CE
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Rulers world
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Zhou Enlai· 1898 CE–1976 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)· 1906 CE–1967 CE
- Jomo Kenyatta· 1894 CE–1978 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Sukarno· 1901 CE–1970 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
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