Famous Charts
Famous Birth & Death Charts
Birth and death are both fixed moments, so these charts never change. Every figure has a documented birth date and place, and those who have died have a documented death beside it, which is the chart nobody else draws. The rest are alive and have the one. Nothing here is estimated.
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317 figures in Thought & Faith.
A25 figures
- Abhijit BanerjeeEconomist
- Adam SmithEconomist & philosopher
- Adolfo Pérez EsquivelActivist
- Ahmed KathradaActivist
- A. J. AyerPhilosopher
- Alan GreenspanEconomist
- Albertina SisuluActivist
- Albert O. HirschmanEconomist
- Ales BialiatskiActivist
- Alexei NavalnyActivist
- Alfred MarshallEconomist
- Alvin Eliot RothEconomist
- Amartya SenEconomist & philosopher
- Amelia BloomerActivist
- Ananda CoomaraswamyPhilosopher
- Angela DavisActivist & philosopher
- Angelina GrimkéAbolitionist
- Angus DeatonEconomist
- Anne SullivanTeacher
- Anthony GiddensSociologist
- Antonia FraserHistorian
- Antonin ArtaudTheatre theorist
- Antony BeevorHistorian
- Arthur Oncken LovejoyPhilosopher
- Arthur SchopenhauerPhilosopher
B13 figures
- Barbara W. TuchmanHistorian
- Bartosz StaszewskiLGBT activist
- Baruch SpinozaPhilosopher
- Bayard RustinCivil rights organiser
- Ben BernankeEconomist
- Benedict XVPope
- Bernard Francis LawCardinal
- Bernard WilliamsMoral philosopher
- Berta CáceresEnvironmental activist
- Betty WilliamsPeace activist
- Booker T. WashingtonEducator
- Břetislav RychlíkActivist
- Bruno LatourSociologist
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D17 figures
- Daniel DennettPhilosopher
- Daniel McFaddenEconomist
- Dan SnowHistorian
- Daphni LeefPolitical activist
- Daron AcemoğluEconomist
- David HumePhilosopher & historian
- David McCulloughHistorian
- David RicardoEconomist
- Denis DiderotPhilosopher & editor
- Derek ParfitPhilosopher
- Desmond TutuArchbishop & activist
- Didier EribonSociologist
- Dietrich BonhoefferTheologian
- Dominique PireFriar
- Doris Kearns GoodwinHistorian
- Douglas DiamondEconomist
- Douglass NorthEconomist
E19 figures
- Edith SteinPhilosopher & nun
- Edmund PhelpsEconomist
- Edward C. PrescottEconomist
- Edward GibbonHistorian
- Edward SapirLinguist
- Élie DucommunActivist
- Elinor OstromEconomist
- Elizabeth FryPrison reformer
- Elizabeth Gurley FlynnOrganiser
- Émile DurkheimSociologist
- Emily Greene BalchEconomist
- Emmanuel LevinasPhilosopher
- Emmanuel SaezEconomist
- Eric MaskinEconomist
- Ernestine RoseActivist
- Ernest NagelPhilosopher
- Esther DufloEconomist
- Eugene FamaEconomist
- Eve Kosofsky SedgwickScholar
F7 figures
G17 figures
- Gabriel LiiceanuPhilosopher
- Gabriel ZucmanEconomist
- Gary BeckerEconomist
- Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakLiterary theorist
- G. D. H. ColeHistorian
- G. E. M. AnscombePhilosopher
- George AkerlofEconomist
- George CareyArchbishop
- George SantayanaPhilosopher
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelPhilosopher
- Gérard DebreuEconomist
- Gilles DeleuzePhilosopher
- Gloria AnzaldúaTheorist
- Graça MachelActivist
- Gregory XVIPope
- Greta ThunbergClimate activist
- Grigori RasputinMystic
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J34 figures
- Jacques DerridaPhilosopher
- Jagdish BhagwatiEconomist
- James HeckmanEconomist
- James MeredithActivist
- James PrinsepScholar
- James Samuel ColemanSociologist
- Jane AddamsSocial reformer
- Janet YellenEconomist
- Jean BaudrillardSociologist & philosopher & cultural theorist
- Jean-François LyotardPhilosopher
- Jean-Jacques RousseauPhilosopher
- Jeremy BenthamPhilosopher & reformer
- Jill BidenEducator
- Joan RobinsonEconomist
- Jody WilliamsCampaigner
- John CalvinTheologian & reformer
- John DeweyPhilosopher & educator
- John Kenneth GalbraithEconomist
- John LockePhilosopher
- John MacArthurPastor
- John Maynard KeynesEconomist
- John MottMissionary
- John Paul IPope
- John RawlsPolitical philosopher
- John Stuart MillPhilosopher & economist
- John WesleyTheologian & preacher
- Joseph CampbellMythologist
- Joseph GreenbergLinguist
- Joseph SchumpeterEconomist
- Joseph StiglitzEconomist
- Josiah RoycePhilosopher
- Judith ButlerPhilosopher
- Jürgen HabermasSociologist & philosopher
- Justin WelbyArchbishop
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M34 figures
- Mairead MaguirePeace activist
- Malala YousafzaiEducation activist
- Malcolm XHuman rights activist
- Marcelo RossiPriest
- Marcus GarveyActivist & publisher
- Margaret SangerBirth control campaigner
- Mariana MazzucatoEconomist
- María ZambranoPhilosopher
- Mark CarneyEconomist
- Marshall BermanPhilosopher
- Marshall McLuhanMedia theorist
- Marsha P. JohnsonActivist
- Martha NussbaumPhilosopher
- Martin HeideggerPhilosopher
- Martin LutherTheologian & reformer
- Mary BeardHistorian
- Mary HaasLinguist
- Mary McLeod BethuneEducator
- Mary MidgleyPhilosopher & ethicist
- Masanobu FukuokaFarmer & philosopher
- Maurice Merleau-PontyPhilosopher
- Max HorkheimerPhilosopher
- Maximilian KolbePriest
- Max WeberSociologist
- M. Carey ThomasEducator
- Medgar EversCivil rights activist
- M. H. AbramsTheorist
- Michael KremerEconomist
- Michel FoucaultPhilosopher & historian
- Milton FriedmanEconomist
- Morris HalleLinguist
- Mother JonesLabour organiser
- Mother TeresaMissionary
- Muhammad YunusEconomist & banker
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P25 figures
- Paula White-CainPastor
- Paul FeyerabendPhilosopher of science
- Paul GilroySociologist & historian
- Paul KrugmanEconomist
- Paul LazarsfeldSociologist
- Paul MilgromEconomist
- Paul SamuelsonEconomist
- Paul VIPope
- Paul VolckerEconomist
- Peter DiamondEconomist
- Peter FrankopanHistorian
- Peter SingerPhilosopher
- Philippa FootPhilosopher
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de NemoursEconomist
- Pius IXPope
- Pius VIPope
- Pius VIIPope
- Pius VIIIPope
- Pius XPope
- Pius XIPope
- Pius XIIPope
- Pope Benedict XVIPope
- Pope FrancisPope
- Pope John Paul IIPope
- Pope John XXIIIPope
R25 figures
- Raj ChettyEconomist
- Ralph NaderActivist
- Reinhold NiebuhrTheologian
- Richard PricePhilosopher
- Richard SennettSociologist
- Richard ThalerEconomist
- Rigoberta MenchúActivist & Nobel laureate
- Robert C. MertonEconomist
- Robert F. EngleEconomist
- Robert FogelEconomist
- Robert J. ShillerEconomist
- Robert K. MertonSociologist
- Robert LucasEconomist
- Robert MorrisonMissionary
- Robert NozickPolitical philosopher
- Robert SolowEconomist
- Roger MyersonEconomist
- Ronald CoaseEconomist
- Ronald DworkinLegal philosopher
- Rosa ParksCivil rights activist
- Rowan WilliamsArchbishop
- Rudolf Christoph EuckenPhilosopher
- Rudolf SteinerPhilosopher & educator
- Russell KirkTheorist
- Ruth FirstActivist
S13 figures
- SadhguruTeacher
- Saskia SassenSociologist
- Simone WeilPhilosopher & mystic
- Simon SchamaHistorian
- Slavoj ŽižekPhilosopher
- Søren KierkegaardPhilosopher & theologian
- Steve BikoAnti-apartheid activist
- Steve IrwinConservationist & TV presenter
- Stokely CarmichaelActivist
- Susan AtheyEconomist
- Susan HaackPhilosopher
- Swami VivekanandaMonk & philosopher
- Sylvia RiveraActivist
T12 figures
- Tenzin GyatsoBuddhist monk, the 14th Dalai Lama
- Theodor MommsenHistorian
- Theodor W. AdornoPhilosopher
- Thích Nhất HạnhMonk & teacher
- Thomas CranmerArchbishop
- Thomas HobbesPhilosopher
- Thomas J. SargentEconomist
- Thomas KuhnHistorian of science
- Thomas NagelPhilosopher
- Thomas PikettyEconomist
- Thomas SchellingEconomist
- Thorstein VeblenEconomist & sociologist
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W12 figures
- Walter J. OngPhilosopher
- Wangari MaathaiEnvironmentalist
- Wassily LeontiefEconomist
- W. E. B. Du BoisSociologist & activist
- Will DurantHistorian
- William BaumolEconomist
- William BoothPreacher & reformer
- William LabovLinguist
- William NordhausEconomist
- William TempleArchbishop
- William WhewellPhilosopher
- Willi MünzenbergPolitical organiser
