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1689-1755 · FranceMontesquieuBaron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

1706-1790 · United StatesBenjamin FranklinSigner of the Declaration of Independence

1712-1778 · FranceJean-Jacques RousseauPolitical philosopher

1723-1790 · United KingdomAdam SmithMoral philosopher

1724-1804 · GermanyImmanuel KantPhilosopher

1730-1797 · United KingdomEdmund BurkeMember of Parliament (1765-1794)

1732-1799 · United StatesGeorge Washington1st President of the United States

1735-1826 · United StatesJohn Adams2nd President of the United States

1737-1809 · United StatesThomas PaineAuthor of Common Sense and Rights of Man

1743-1826 · United StatesThomas Jefferson3rd President of the United States

1748-1832 · United KingdomJeremy BenthamPhilosopher and legal theorist
Born 1750 to 1849
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1751-1836 · United StatesJames Madison4th President of the United States

1753-1821 · FranceJoseph de MaistreSavoyard magistrate and member of the Senate of Savoy

1755-1804 · United StatesAlexander Hamilton1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

1758-1831 · United StatesJames Monroe5th President of the United States (1817-1825)

1759-1797 · United KingdomMary WollstonecraftWriter and philosopher

1759-1833 · United KingdomWilliam WilberforceParliamentary leader of the campaign against the slave trade

1763-1838 · BrazilJosé Bonifácio de Andrada e SilvaMinister of the Kingdom and Foreign Affairs (1822-1823)

1767-1845 · United StatesAndrew Jackson7th President of the United States (1829-1837)

1767-1848 · United StatesJohn Quincy Adams6th President of the United States (1825-1829)

1773-1841 · United StatesWilliam Henry Harrison9th President of the United States (1841)

1782-1850 · United StatesJohn C. Calhoun7th Vice President of the United States (1825-1832)

1782-1862 · United StatesMartin Van Buren8th President of the United States (1837-1841)

1783-1830 · VenezuelaSimón BolívarLeader of independence movements in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia

1784-1850 · United StatesZachary Taylor12th President of the United States (1849-1850)

1788-1850 · United KingdomRobert PeelPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834-1835, 1841-1846)

1790-1862 · United StatesJohn Tyler10th President of the United States (1841-1845)

1791-1868 · United StatesJames Buchanan15th President of the United States (1857-1861)

1795-1849 · United StatesJames K. Polk11th President of the United States (1845-1849)

1800-1874 · United StatesMillard Fillmore13th President of the United States (1850-1853)

1804-1881 · United KingdomBenjamin DisraeliPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868, 1874-1880)

1804-1869 · United StatesFranklin Pierce14th President of the United States (1853-1857)

1805-1859 · FranceAlexis de TocquevilleAuthor of Democracy in America

1806-1873 · United KingdomJohn Stuart MillPhilosopher and economist

1808-1875 · United StatesAndrew Johnson17th President of the United States (1865-1869)

1809-1865 · United StatesAbraham Lincoln16th President of the United States

1809-1865 · FrancePierre-Joseph ProudhonPolitical theorist

1809-1898 · United KingdomWilliam Ewart GladstonePrime Minister of the United Kingdom (four times, 1868-1894)

1814-1876 · RussiaMikhail BakuninRevolutionary

1815-1902 · United StatesElizabeth Cady StantonWomen's rights leader and organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention

1815-1891 · CanadaJohn A. Macdonald1st Prime Minister of Canada (1867-1873, 1878-1891)

1815-1898 · GermanyOtto von BismarckMinister-President of Prussia

1817-1862 · United StatesHenry David ThoreauEssayist and naturalist

1818-1895 · United StatesFrederick DouglassAbolitionist and orator

1818-1883 · GermanyKarl MarxPhilosopher

1820-1895 · GermanyFriedrich EngelsPhilosopher

1820-1906 · United StatesSusan B. AnthonyWomen's suffrage leader

1822-1893 · United StatesRutherford B. Hayes19th President of the United States (1877-1881)

1822-1885 · United StatesUlysses S. Grant18th President of the United States (1869-1877)

1825-1891 · BrazilDom Pedro IIEmperor of Brazil (1831-1889)

1829-1886 · United StatesChester A. Arthur21st President of the United States (1881-1885)

1831-1881 · United StatesJames A. Garfield20th President of the United States (1881)

1833-1901 · United StatesBenjamin Harrison23rd President of the United States (1889-1893)

1837-1908 · United StatesGrover Cleveland22nd and 24th President of the United States (1885-1889, 1893-1897)

1839-1897 · United StatesHenry GeorgePolitical economist

1841-1919 · CanadaWilfrid Laurier7th Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911)

1842-1921 · RussiaPeter KropotkinGeographer

1843-1901 · United StatesWilliam McKinley25th President of the United States (1897-1901)

1849-1920 · AustraliaEdmund Barton1st Prime Minister of Australia (1901-1903)

1849-1910 · BrazilJoaquim NabucoAbolitionist leader

1849-1923 · BrazilRui BarbosaMinister of Finance (1889-1891)
Born 1850 to 1899
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1850-1932 · GermanyEduard BernsteinSocial democratic theorist

1853-1895 · CubaJosé MartíFounder of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (1892)

1855-1926 · United StatesEugene V. DebsFounder of the American Railway Union

1856-1919 · AustraliaAlfred Deakin2nd Prime Minister of Australia (1903-1904, 1905-1908, 1909-1910)

1856-1915 · United KingdomKeir HardieFounder of the Independent Labour Party (1893)

1856-1924 · United StatesWoodrow Wilson28th President of the United States (1913-1921)

1857-1930 · United StatesWilliam Howard Taft27th President of the United States (1909-1913)

1858-1928 · United KingdomEmmeline PankhurstFounder and leader of the Women's Social and Political Union (1903)

1858-1919 · United StatesTheodore Roosevelt26th President of the United States (1901-1909)

1859-1914 · FranceJean JaurèsLeader of the French Socialist Party and co-leader of the SFIO

1860-1935 · United StatesJane AddamsCo-founder of Hull-House, Chicago

1860-1925 · United StatesWilliam Jennings BryanU.S. Representative from Nebraska (1891-1895)

1863-1945 · United KingdomDavid Lloyd GeorgePrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1916-1922)

1864-1920 · GermanyMax WeberSociologist and political economist

1865-1923 · United StatesWarren G. Harding29th President of the United States (1921-1923)

1866-1925 · ChinaSun Yat-senProvisional President of the Republic of China (1912)

1868-1963 · United StatesW. E. B. Du BoisSociologist and historian

1869-1940 · United StatesEmma GoldmanAnarchist writer and lecturer

1869-1948 · IndiaMahatma GandhiLeader of the Indian independence movement

1871-1925 · GermanyFriedrich EbertPresident of Germany (1919-1925)

1871-1919 · GermanyRosa LuxemburgMarxist theorist

1872-1970 · United KingdomBertrand RussellPhilosopher, logician and social critic

1872-1933 · United StatesCalvin Coolidge30th President of the United States (1923-1929)

1874-1936 · United KingdomG. K. ChestertonWriter, journalist and essayist

1874-1964 · United StatesHerbert Hoover31st President of the United States (1929-1933)

1874-1950 · CanadaWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King10th Prime Minister of Canada (1921-1926, 1926-1930, 1935-1948)

1874-1965 · United KingdomWinston ChurchillPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945, 1951-1955)

1876-1967 · GermanyKonrad AdenauerFirst Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1963)

1878-1929 · GermanyGustav StresemannChancellor of Germany (1923)

1879-1963 · United KingdomWilliam BeveridgeAuthor of the Beveridge Report (1942)

1881-1954 · ItalyAlcide De GasperiPrime Minister of Italy (1945-1953)

1881-1973 · AustriaLudwig von MisesEconomist of the Austrian school

1881-1938 · TurkeyMustafa Kemal AtatürkFounder and 1st President of the Republic of Turkey (1923-1938)

1882-1945 · United StatesFranklin D. Roosevelt32nd President of the United States (1933-1945)

1882-1954 · BrazilGetúlio VargasPresident of Brazil (1930-1945, 1951-1954)

1882-1973 · CanadaLouis St. Laurent12th Prime Minister of Canada (1948-1957)

1883-1967 · United KingdomClement AttleePrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945-1951)

1883-1974 · BrazilEurico Gaspar DutraPresident of Brazil (1946-1951)

1883-1946 · United KingdomJohn Maynard KeynesEconomist

1884-1962 · United StatesEleanor RooseveltFirst Lady of the United States (1933-1945)

1884-1972 · United StatesHarry S. Truman33rd President of the United States (1945-1953)

1885-1951 · AustraliaBen Chifley16th Prime Minister of Australia (1945-1949)

1885-1945 · AustraliaJohn Curtin14th Prime Minister of Australia (1941-1945)

1886-1973 · IsraelDavid Ben-Gurion1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948-1954, 1955-1963)

1886-1963 · FranceRobert SchumanPrime Minister of France (1947-1948)

1888-1985 · GermanyCarl SchmittJurist and constitutional theorist

1889-1964 · IndiaJawaharlal Nehru1st Prime Minister of India (1947-1964)

1890-1970 · FranceCharles de GaullePresident of France (1959-1969)

1890-1969 · United StatesDwight D. Eisenhower34th President of the United States (1953-1961)

1891-1937 · ItalyAntonio GramsciMarxist theorist

1891-1956 · IndiaB. R. AmbedkarChairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India

1893-1935 · United StatesHuey Long40th Governor of Louisiana (1928-1932)

1894-1986 · United KingdomHarold MacmillanPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957-1963)

1894-1978 · AustraliaRobert Menzies12th Prime Minister of Australia (1939-1941, 1949-1966)

1895-1979 · CanadaJohn Diefenbaker13th Prime Minister of Canada (1957-1963)

1895-1974 · ArgentinaJuan PerónPresident of Argentina (1946-1955, 1973-1974)

1895-1952 · GermanyKurt SchumacherChairman of the SPD (1946-1952)

1897-1960 · United KingdomAneurin BevanMinister of Health (1945-1951)

1897-1977 · United KingdomAnthony EdenPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1955-1957)

1897-1967 · BrazilHumberto de Alencar Castelo BrancoPresident of Brazil (1964-1967)

1897-1972 · CanadaLester B. Pearson14th Prime Minister of Canada (1963-1968)

1897-1977 · GermanyLudwig ErhardChancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1963-1966)

1898-1978 · IsraelGolda Meir4th Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)

1899-1992 · AustriaFriedrich HayekEconomist and political philosopher

1899-1973 · United StatesLeo StraussPolitical philosopher
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1902-1976 · BrazilJuscelino KubitschekPresident of Brazil (1956-1961)

1902-1994 · AustriaKarl PopperPhilosopher of science and political philosopher

1903-1995 · United KingdomAlec Douglas-HomePrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1963-1964)

1903-1950 · United KingdomGeorge OrwellNovelist

1904-1997 · ChinaDeng XiaopingParamount leader of the People's Republic of China (1978-1989)

1904-1988 · GermanyKurt Georg KiesingerChancellor of Germany (1966-1969)

1904-1986 · CanadaTommy Douglas7th Premier of Saskatchewan (1944-1961)

1905-1982 · United StatesAyn RandNovelist and philosopher

1905-1980 · FranceJean-Paul SartrePhilosopher, novelist and playwright

1906-1975 · GermanyHannah ArendtPolitical theorist

1907-1996 · BrazilErnesto GeiselPresident of Brazil (1974-1979)

1908-1973 · United StatesLyndon B. Johnson36th President of the United States (1963-1969)

1908-1973 · ChileSalvador AllendePresident of Chile (1970-1973)

1908-1986 · FranceSimone de BeauvoirPhilosopher

1909-1998 · United StatesBarry GoldwaterU.S. Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987)

1909-1997 · United KingdomIsaiah BerlinPhilosopher

1909-1972 · GhanaKwame NkrumahPresident of Ghana (1960-1966)

1910-1985 · BrazilTancredo NevesPresident-elect of Brazil (1985)

1911-2004 · United StatesRonald Reagan40th President of the United States (1981-1989)

1912-1998 · United KingdomEnoch PowellMinister of Health (1960-1963)

1912-2005 · United KingdomJames CallaghanPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1976-1979)

1912-2006 · United StatesMilton FriedmanEconomist at the University of Chicago

1913-1960 · FranceAlbert CamusNovelist, essayist and philosopher

1913-2006 · United StatesGerald Ford38th President of the United States (1974-1977)

1913-1992 · IsraelMenachem Begin6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977-1983)

1913-2010 · United KingdomMichael FootLeader of the Labour Party (1980-1983)

1913-1994 · United StatesRichard Nixon37th President of the United States (1969-1974)

1913-1992 · GermanyWilly BrandtChancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1969-1974)

1914-1977 · BrazilCarlos LacerdaGovernor of Guanabara (1960-1965)

1915-1988 · GermanyFranz Josef StraussMinister-President of Bavaria (1978-1988)

1916-2005 · United KingdomEdward HeathPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970-1974)

1916-1996 · FranceFrançois MitterrandPresident of France (1981-1995)

1916-2014 · AustraliaGough Whitlam21st Prime Minister of Australia (1972-1975)

1916-1995 · United KingdomHarold WilsonPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1964-1970, 1974-1976)

1916-1992 · BrazilUlysses GuimarãesPresident of the National Constituent Assembly (1987-1988)

1917-1984 · IndiaIndira Gandhi3rd Prime Minister of India (1966-1977, 1980-1984)

1917-1992 · BrazilJânio QuadrosPresident of Brazil (1961)

1917-1963 · United StatesJohn F. Kennedy35th President of the United States (1961-1963)

1917-2001 · BrazilRoberto CamposMinister of Planning (1964-1967)

1918-2008 · RussiaAleksandr SolzhenitsynNovelist and historian, author of The Gulag Archipelago

1918-2015 · GermanyHelmut SchmidtChancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1974-1982)

1918-1994 · United KingdomKeith JosephSecretary of State for Education and Science (1981-1986)

1918-2013 · South AfricaNelson MandelaPresident of South Africa (1994-1999)

1918-1994 · United StatesRussell KirkPolitical theorist and historian

1919-1998 · United StatesGeorge Wallace45th Governor of Alabama (four terms: 1963-1967, 1971-1979, 1983-1987)

1919-1976 · BrazilJoão GoulartPresident of Brazil (1961-1964)

1919-2000 · CanadaPierre Trudeau15th Prime Minister of Canada (1968-1979, 1980-1984)

1920-2009 · United StatesIrving KristolCo-founder and co-editor of The Public Interest (1965-2002)

1920-2003 · United KingdomRoy JenkinsHome Secretary (1965-1967, 1974-1976)

1921-2002 · United StatesJohn RawlsPolitical philosopher

1922-1999 · TanzaniaJulius NyererePresident of Tanzania (1964-1985)

1922-2004 · BrazilLeonel BrizolaGovernor of Rio Grande do Sul (1959-1963)

1922-1987 · CanadaRené Lévesque23rd Premier of Quebec (1976-1985)

1922-1995 · IsraelYitzhak Rabin5th Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977, 1992-1995)

1923-2015 · SingaporeLee Kuan Yew1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-1990)

1924-2018 · IndiaAtal Bihari Vajpayee10th Prime Minister of India (1996, 1998-2004)

1924-2018 · United StatesGeorge H. W. Bush41st President of the United States (1989-1993)

1924-2024 · United StatesJimmy Carter39th President of the United States (1977-1981)
1924-2009 · South KoreaKim Dae-jung8th President of South Korea (1998-2003)

1924-2016 · United StatesPhyllis SchlaflyFounder and president of Eagle Forum

1925-1961 · FranceFrantz FanonPsychiatrist at Blida-Joinville Hospital, Algeria (1953-1957)

1925-1965 · United StatesMalcolm XMinister and national spokesman of the Nation of Islam

1925-2013 · United KingdomMargaret ThatcherPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979-1990)

1925-1968 · United StatesRobert F. Kennedy64th Attorney General of the United States (1961-1964)

1925-2014 · United KingdomTony BennSecretary of State for Energy (1975-1979)

1925-2008 · United StatesWilliam F. Buckley Jr.Founder and editor of National Review (1955-1990)

1926-2016 · CubaFidel CastroPrime Minister of Cuba (1959-1976)

1926-1984 · FranceMichel FoucaultPhilosopher and historian of ideas

1926-1995 · United StatesMurray RothbardEconomist of the Austrian school

1926-2020 · FranceValéry Giscard d'EstaingPresident of France (1974-1981)

1927-1993 · United StatesCesar ChavezCo-founder and president of the United Farm Workers

1927-1986 · SwedenOlof PalmePrime Minister of Sweden (1969-1976, 1982-1986)

1927-2017 · FranceSimone VeilPresident of the European Parliament (1979-1982)

1928-1967 · ArgentinaChe GuevaraCommander in the Cuban Revolution

1928-2025 · FranceJean-Marie Le PenFounder and President of the Front National (1972-2011)

Born 1928 · United StatesNoam ChomskyLinguist, Institute Professor emeritus at MIT

1929-2019 · AustraliaBob Hawke23rd Prime Minister of Australia (1983-1991)

1929-1968 · United StatesMartin Luther King Jr.Baptist minister

1930-2017 · GermanyHelmut KohlChancellor of Germany (1982-1998)

1930-2011 · BrazilItamar FrancoPresident of Brazil (1992-1994)

Born 1930 · BrazilJosé SarneyPresident of Brazil (1985-1990)

1930-2015 · AustraliaMalcolm Fraser22nd Prime Minister of Australia (1975-1983)

Born 1930 · United StatesThomas SowellEconomist and social theorist

1931-2007 · RussiaBoris YeltsinPresident of Russia (1991-1999)

1931-2021 · South AfricaDesmond TutuAnglican Archbishop of Cape Town (1986-1996)

Born 1931 · BrazilFernando Henrique CardosoPresident of Brazil (1995-2003)

1931-2022 · RussiaMikhail GorbachevGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)

1932-2019 · FranceJacques ChiracPresident of France (1995-2007)

1932-2024 · IndiaManmohan Singh14th Prime Minister of India (2004-2014)

1933-2020 · United StatesRuth Bader GinsburgAssociate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1993-2020)

Born 1934 · CanadaJean Chrétien20th Prime Minister of Canada (1993-2003)

Born 1934 · United StatesRalph NaderConsumer advocate and lawyer

1935-2025 · UruguayJosé MujicaPresident of Uruguay (2010-2015)

Born 1935 · United StatesRon PaulU.S. Representative from Texas (1976-1977, 1979-1985, 1997-2013)

1936-2016 · United StatesAntonin ScaliaAssociate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1986-2016)

1936-2018 · United StatesJohn McCainU.S. Senator from Arizona (1987-2018)

1936-2011 · CzechiaVáclav HavelPresident of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992)

Born 1938 · United StatesPat BuchananWhite House Communications Director (1985-1987)

Born 1938 · CanadaPaul Martin21st Prime Minister of Canada (2003-2006)

1938-2002 · United StatesRobert NozickPhilosopher

1939-2024 · CanadaBrian Mulroney18th Prime Minister of Canada (1984-1993)

Born 1939 · AustraliaJohn Howard25th Prime Minister of Australia (1996-2007)

Born 1940 · BrazilMichel TemerPresident of Brazil (2016-2018)

Born 1942 · United StatesJoe Biden46th President of the United States (2021-2025)

1942-2023 · GermanyWolfgang SchäubleFederal Minister of Finance (2009-2017)

Born 1943 · United KingdomJohn MajorPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1990-1997)

Born 1943 · PolandLech WałęsaPresident of Poland (1990-1995)

Born 1944 · GermanyGerhard SchröderChancellor of Germany (1998-2005)

Born 1944 · AustraliaPaul Keating24th Prime Minister of Australia (1991-1996)

1944-2020 · United KingdomRoger ScrutonPhilosopher and writer

Born 1946 · United StatesBill Clinton42nd President of the United States (1993-2001)

Born 1946 · United StatesGeorge W. Bush43rd President of the United States (2001-2009)

Born 1947 · BrazilDilma RousseffPresident of Brazil (2011-2016)

1947-1992 · GermanyPetra KellyCo-founder of the German Greens

Born 1949 · BrazilFernando Collor de MelloPresident of Brazil (1990-1992)

Born 1951 · United KingdomGordon BrownPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010)

1953-2007 · PakistanBenazir Bhutto11th and 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990, 1993-1996)

Born 1953 · United KingdomTony BlairPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007)

Born 1954 · GermanyAngela MerkelChancellor of Germany (2005-2021)

Born 1954 · AustraliaMalcolm Turnbull29th Prime Minister of Australia (2015-2018)

1954-2022 · JapanShinzo AbePrime Minister of Japan (2006-2007, 2012-2020)

Born 1956 · United KingdomTheresa MayPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (2016-2019)

Born 1959 · CanadaStephen Harper22nd Prime Minister of Canada (2006-2015)

Born 1961 · United StatesBarack Obama44th President of the United States (2009-2017)

Born 1961 · AustraliaJulia Gillard27th Prime Minister of Australia (2010-2013)

Born 1966 · United KingdomDavid CameronPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010-2016)

Born 1968 · AustraliaScott Morrison30th Prime Minister of Australia (2018-2022)

Born 1971 · CanadaJustin Trudeau23rd Prime Minister of Canada (2015-2025)

Born 1980 · New ZealandJacinda ArdernPrime Minister of New Zealand (2017-2023)
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