January 1? - Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Legion of Honour.
Publications
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (Phénoménologie de la perception)
Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
Philosophical fiction
Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil)
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (L'âge de raison)
Births
September 9 - Robert Alexy
Philip Pettit
Deaths
February 1 - Johan Huizinga (born 1872)
April 13 - Ernst Cassirer[1] (born 1874)
June 7 - Kitaro Nishida (born 1870)
July 20 - Paul Valéry (born 1871)
December 22 - Otto Neurath (born 1882)
References
↑Friedman, Michael. "Ernst Cassirer". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cassirer/. Retrieved 14 February 2013.