• George Richards Minot
    • not (December 2, 1885-1950) George Richards Minot was born on December 2, 1885, at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. His ancestor, George Minot, had migrated toAmerica in 1630, from Saffron Walden, England. His father,...
    • George Boole
    • le (11/2/1815- 12/8/1864) English mathematician who was the author of several classic works on mathematical logic . As a child, he taught himself Latin and Greek in the belief it would enable him to rise above his w...
    • World AIDS Day 2003 Dec 01 2003
    • 1 2003 Five people worldwide die of AIDS every minute of every day. HIV has hit every corner of the globe, infecting more than 42 million men, women and children, 5 million of them last year alone. World AIDS Day 2003 hi...
    • Sir John Ambrose Fleming
    • ing (Nov. 29, 1849_ Apr. 18, 1945) English electrical engineer. He was a leader in the development of electric lighting, the telephone, and wireless telegraphy in England and the inventor of a thermionic valve (the fir...
    • Amos Bronson Alcott
    • tt (November 29, 1799- March 4, 1888) Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut. He was an author , teacher , conversationalist, philosopher, and outspoken advocate of educational and social reform . The ...
    • George Eliot
    • iot pseudonym for Mary Ann Cross, also Marian Evans, original surname Evans (22 Nov.1819-22 Dec.1880) Victorian writer, a humane freethinker, whose insightful psychological novels paved way to modern character portraya...
    • Friedrich Engels
    • ls (28 Nov. 1820-5 Aug. 1895) Friedrich Engels, the eldest son of a successful German industrialist, was born in Barmen on28th November 1820. As a young man his father sent him to England to help manage his cotton-...
    • Ferdinand de Saussure
    • ure  (26 Nov.1857-22 Feb 1913) Swiss linguist whose ideas on structure in language laid the foundation for the structuralist school in linguistics and social theory. The whole line from Jakobson to Lévi-Strauss t...
    • Erasmus Reinhold senior
    • ior (22 Oct.1511-Feb.1533) He was born in Saalfeld on October 22nd, 1511. His father, Johann Reinhold, was first privy secretary of the last abbot in Saalfeld, Georg von Thüna, later both steward of the former Beded...
    • Daniel Sennert
    • rt  (25 Nov.1572- 21 July 1637) Father Occupation: Artisan His father, Nicolaus Sennert, was a shoemaker fromLaehn, Silesia. He was sixty-seven when Daniel Sennert was born. No firm information on financial status....
    • Claude Levi-Strauss
    • ss (28 Nov.1908-) Claude Lévi-Strauss is a French anthropologist who influenced a wide range of social and aesthetic studies from the 1960s on, through his advocacy of a method usually called structuralism . He w...
    • André Gide
    • ide (22 Nov.1869-19 Feb.1951) Gide was born in Paris, France on November 22 , 1869 . His father was a Paris University professor of law and died 1880. His uncle was the political economist Charles Gide . Gide was bro...
    • Peter Frederick Strawson
    • wson  (Nov. 1919 ) British philosopher, grad.Oxford. An influential spokesman for so-called ordinary language philosophy, he began teaching at Oxford in 1947 and from 1968 to 1987 was Waynflete Professor of ...
    • Norbert Wiener
    • ner  (26 Nov 1894 in Columbia, Missouri, USA- 18 March 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden) Norbert Wiener's father was Leo Wiener who was a Russian Jew. Because Leo Wiener was such a major influence on his son, we should giv...
    • Anders Celsius
    • ius (27 Nov.1701-25 April 1744) Anders Celsius , born inUppsala, was one of a large number of scientists (all related) originating from Ovanهker in the province of Hنlsingland. The family name is a latinised version o...
    • Sir William Herschel
    • el (15th November 1738-1822) Sir William Herschel, 1738-1822, originally Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, b. Germany, discovered (1781) the planet Uranus, which led (1782) to his position as private astronomer to the kin...
    • UNESCO Day of Philosophy 2003
    • 003 This year, the Sector of Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO will be organizing the second Philosophy Day, which will be celebrated on 20 November 2003.  UNESCO be organizing activities at Headquarters, as w...
    • Otto von Guericke
    • ke  (1602–1686) Otto Gericke was born as son of a patrician family resident for three centuries in Magdeburg. Guericke family inherited extensive property both in the city and in the countryside around it. At the...
    • Friedrich Schleiermacher
    • her (21Nov.1768-12Feb.1834) Friedrich Schleiermacher, a German Protestant theologian and philosopher, was born at Breslau in 1768. He was a lecturer and professor at Halle and Berlin. He died in 1834. His most represen...
    • FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE
    • IRE  (21Nov.1694-30 May 1778) "" Liberty of thought is the life of the soul." (FromEssay on Epic Poetry, 1727) French writer, satirist, the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Voltaire ...
    • Benoit Mandelbrot
    • ot  20 Nov 1924 in Warsaw, Polan d E-mail: benoit.mandelbrot@yale.edu Benoît B. Mandelbrot was born in Warsaw, Poland, the 20th day of November of 1924. At the age of 11, his family emigrated to France (1936)...
    • August Ferdinand Mِbius
    • ius (17 Nov 1790 in Schulpforta, Saxony (now Germany)-26 Sept 1868 inLeipzig, Germany) August Mِbius was the only child of Johann Heinrich Mِbius, a dancing teacher, who died when August was three years old. His mother ...
    • Ivan Turgenev
    • nev (9Nov 1818-3 Sep 1883) Novelist, poet, and playwright, known for his detailed descriptions about the everyday live inRussia in the 19th century. Turgenev portrayed realistically the peasantry and the rising in...
    • Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege
    • ege (8 Nov 1848-26 Jul1925) Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (born November 8 , 1848 in Wismar , died July 26 , 1925 in Bad Kleinen ), was a German mathematician , logician , and philosopher who founded modern mat...
    • Maria Sklodowska
    • ka "Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted."  Albert Einstein Maria Sklodowska(sklaw DAWF skah) was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She would become f...
    • George Edward Moore
    • re (11/4/1873- 12/24/1958) During his long career at Cambridge University and as Editor of the premier British philosophical journal,Mind, G. E. Moore made an enormous contribution to the development of twentieth-cent...
    • Benvenuto Cellini
    • ini (1 November 1500, Florence-14 February 1571, Florence) BENVENUTO CELLINI was one of the enigmatic, larger-than-life figures of the Italian Renaissance: a celebrated sculptor, goldsmith, author and soldier, but al...
    • André Malraux
    • aux ( November 3 , 1901 - November 23 , 1976 ) André Malraux was a French author , adventurer and statesman. Malraux was born in Paris . His parents separated when he was a child. He was raised by his mother Berthe...
    • Albert Camus
    • mus Albert Camus was born inMondovi, Algeria onNovember 7, 1913. He would learn early the sometimes senseless nature of life. Within a year of Camus' birth, his father, an impoverished agricultural worker of Alsatian o...
    • John Locke
    • cke (1632-1704) JOHN LOCKE, one of the most eminent philosophers of modern times, was born at Wrington, near Bristol, on the 29th of August 1632. His  tendency was towards experimental philosophy, and he chose m...
    • Indira Gandhi
    • hi Indira Nehru Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917 and would be the only child of Jawaharlal and Kamala Nehru. Being influenced and inspired by her parents, Indira Gandhi rose to power in India and eventually became ...
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • sky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky ( 1821 - 1881 ) was a Russian writer and is sometimes referred to as one of the founders of existentialism . Dostoevsky is widely regarded as one of the most important Russian lan...
    • Desiderius Erasmus
    • us Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam )  ( October 27 , probably 1466 - July 12 , 1536 ) was a Dutch humanist and theologian . He was born Geert Geertsen in Rotterdam , the ...
    • United Nations Day
    • Day United Nations Day was established by Presidential Proclamation to commemorate the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. It is celebrated very generally in all states and American possessions, and by all eigh...
    • Sir Walter Scott
    • ott ( August 14 , 1771 - September 21 , 1832 ) "Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love." (From The Lay of the Last Minstrel,...
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • dge (1772-1834) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the British Romantic movement, was born onOctober 21, 1772, in Devonshire, England. His father, a vicar of a parish and master of a grammar school, married twice a...
    • John Dewey
    • ewey (1859-1952) John Dewey was an American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic and political activist. He was born in Burlington, Vermont, onOctober 20, 1852. Dewey graduated from the University...
    • Henri Bergson
    • son  (1859-1941) Bergson, Henri (1859-1941), French philosopher and Nobel laureate, who advanced a theory of evolution, based on the spiritual dimension of human life, which had widespread influence in a variety o...
    • Disarmament Week
    • eek Oct 24-30, 2003 The annual observance of Disarmament Week, which begins on the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, was called for in the Final Document of the General Assembly 1978 special session on d...
    • Alfred Nobel
    • bel Alfred Bernhard Nobel was bornon October 21, 1833, inStockholm, Sweden. He was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and philanthropist. He was educated in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in the United States of America...
    • World Food Day
    • Day World Food Day (WFD) was established by FAO's Member Countries at the Organization's Twentieth General Conference in November 1979. The date chosen - 16 October - is the anniversary of FAO. It has since been obs...
    • World Teachers’ Day
    • Day Teachers - Opening doors to a better world  (The theme of this year's WTD) On 5 October, teachers’ organisations worldwide mobilise to ensure that the needs of future generations are taken into consid...
    • Raphael (Raffaelo Sanzi)
    • zi) "Raffaelo Sanzio was the youngest of the three giants of the High Renaissance. He was born in Urbino in 1483 and received his first instruction in the techniques of painting from his father, Giovanni Santi,...
    • World Post Day
    • Day World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October , the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congres...
    • Anatole France
    • nce AnatoleFrance, pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault (1844-1924), was the son of a Paris book dealer. He received a thorough classical education at the Collège Stanislas, a boys' school in Paris, and for a whi...
    • Mohandas K. Gandhi
    • dhi (October 2, 1869-January 30, 1948)  AJAY SINGH BORN: Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India 1888: Starts to study law in England 1893: Goes to work in South Africa, where he fights for the rights of In...
    • Khalil Gibran
    • an (1883-1931) Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, to the Maronite family of Gibran in Bsharri, a mountainous area in Northern Lebanon [Lebanon was a Turkish province part of Greater Syria (Syria, Lebanon, ...
    • Emile Zola
    • ola  (1840-1902) "I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation." (FromMy Hat...
    • The International Day of Peace
    • ace The International Day of Peace, established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly, was first inaugurated on the third Tuesday of September, 1982. Beginning on thi...
    • Edgar Lee Masters
    • ers (1869-1950)  American poet and novelist, best-known as the author of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY (1915), a series of 'auto-epitaphs' or monologues in free verse, which often contradicted the pious and optimistic epit...