Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859) [Note: On the Origin of Species is not a philosophical text per se, but is nevertheless listed here for its enormous influence on philosophical thought.]
Births
January 13 - Kostis Palamas (died 1943)
April 8 - Edmund Husserl (died 1938)[1]
October 18 - Henri Bergson (died 1941)
October 20 - John Dewey (died 1952)
Deaths
April 16 - Alexis de Tocqueville (born 1805)
May 6 - Alexander von Humboldt (born 1769)
References
↑Beyer, Christian. "Edmund Husserl". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/husserl/. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
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