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1141 – Judah Halevi was killed on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 1180 – Abraham ibn Daud was martyred. 1204 - Maimonides died from exhaustion after extensive traveling. [2] 1277 – Pope John XXI (usually identified with the logician Peter of Spain) was killed by the collapse of a roof. 1284 – Siger of Brabant was stabbed to death by his clerk.
Francis Fukuyama was born in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. His paternal grandfather fled the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and started a shop on the west coast before being incarcerated in the Second World War. [10]
William Irwin Thompson (July 16, 1938 – November 8, 2020) was an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet.He received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986.
Aeschylus (UK: / ˈ iː s k ɪ l ə s /, [1] US: / ˈ ɛ s k ɪ l ə s /; [2] Ancient Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aischýlos; c. 525 /524 – c. 456 /455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
David Lee Hull (June 15, 1935 – August 11, 2010) [1] was an American philosopher who was most notable for founding the field philosophy of biology. [2] Hull is recognized within evolutionary culture studies as contributing heavily in early discussions of the conceptualization of memetics.
Eddie Lawrence (born Lawrence Eisler; March 2, 1919 – March 25, 2014) was an American monologist, actor, singer, lyricist, playwright, artist, director and television personality, whose comic creation, "The Old Philosopher," gained him a cult following for over five decades.
Plutarch indicates [10] that his real name was Sphínēs and that he was from Taxila, but since he greeted people with the word "Kalē!"– perhaps kallāṇa (mitta) "Greetings (friend)" – the Greeks called him Kalanos.