Simone de Beauvoir
1908 CE–1986 CE · Philosopher · Paris
Simone de Beauvoir was a French philosopher and writer associated with existentialism, a movement centered on individual freedom and responsibility in a world without preordained meaning. Her 1949 study "Le Deuxieme Sexe" (The Second Sex) analyzed the historical and social construction of womanhood and became a foundational text for later feminist thought. She also wrote philosophical essays, notably "The Ethics of Ambiguity," novels including "The Mandarins" (Prix Goncourt, 1954), and multiple volumes of memoir. Her lifelong intellectual partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre is widely documented. She taught philosophy in French lycees before turning to writing full time.
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Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henry James, August Strindberg
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- Pablo Picasso· 1881 CE–1973 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
- Friedrich Hayek· 1899 CE–1992 CE
- Jorge Luis Borges· 1899 CE–1986 CE
- Ernest Hemingway· 1899 CE–1961 CE
- Aaron Copland· 1900 CE–1990 CE
- John Steinbeck· 1902 CE–1968 CE
- Salvador Dalí· 1904 CE–1989 CE
- Pablo Neruda· 1904 CE–1973 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
- Naguib Mahfouz· 1911 CE–2006 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
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Richard Nixon· 1913 CE–1994 CE
- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Zhou Enlai· 1898 CE–1976 CE
- Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)· 1906 CE–1967 CE
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