Lifespan of Political Philosophers

William Godwin (Utilitarianism)

Period: Mar 3, 1756 to Apr 7, 1836

John Brown

Period: May 9, 1800 to Dec 2, 1859

Max Stirner (Egoist)

Period: Oct 25, 1806 to Jun 26, 1856

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Mutualist)

Period: Jan 15, 1809 to Jan 19, 1865

Mikhail Bakunin (Collectivist)

Period: May 30, 1814 to Jul 1, 1876

Henry David Thoreau

Period: Jul 12, 1817 to May 6, 1862

Karl Marx (Communist)

Period: May 5, 1818 to Mar 14, 1883

Friedrich Engels (Communism)

Period: Nov 28, 1820 to Aug 5, 1895

Joseph Déjacque (Anarcho-Communist)

Period: Dec 27, 1821 to Jan 1, 1864

Leo Tolstoy

Period: Sep 9, 1828 to Nov 20, 1910

Peter Kropotkin (Anarcho-Communist)

Period: Dec 9, 1842 to Feb 8, 1921

Friedrich Nietzsche (Philosopher)

Period: Oct 15, 1844 to Aug 25, 1900

Johann Most

Period: Feb 5, 1846 to Mar 17, 1906

Sergey Nechayev (Nihilist)

Period: Oct 2, 1847 to Dec 3, 1882

Lucy Parsons

Period: Jan 1, 1853 to Mar 7, 1942

Errico Malatesta

Period: Dec 14, 1853 to Jul 22, 1932

Ravachol

Period: Oct 14, 1859 to Jul 11, 1892

Luigi Galleani (Insurrectionist)

Period: Aug 12, 1861 to Nov 4, 1931

Voltairine de Cleyre (Big Tent)

Period: Nov 17, 1866 to Jun 20, 1912

Bill Haywood (Socialist)

Period: Feb 4, 1869 to May 18, 1928

Emma Goldman (Anarcho-Communist)

Period: Jun 27, 1869 to May 14, 1940

Vladimir Lenin

Period: Apr 22, 1870 to Jan 21, 1924

Alexander Berkman (Anarcho-Communist)

Period: Nov 21, 1870 to Jun 28, 1936

Rosa Luxemburg

Period: Mar 5, 1871 to Jan 15, 1919

Rudolf Rocker (Syndicalist)

Period: Mar 25, 1873 to Sep 19, 1958

Joseph Stalin

Period: Dec 18, 1878 to Mar 5, 1953

Leon Trotsky

Period: Nov 7, 1879 to Aug 21, 1940

Marusya Nikiforova

Period: Jan 1, 1885 to Jan 1, 1919

Nestor Makhno (Anarcho-Communist)

Period: Oct 26, 1888 to Jul 6, 1934

Mao Zedong

Period: Dec 26, 1893 to Sep 9, 1976

Buenaventura Durruti (Syndicalist)

Period: Jul 14, 1896 to Nov 20, 1936

Herbert Marcuse (Socialist)

Period: Jul 19, 1898 to Jul 29, 1979

Jean-Paul Sartre

Period: Jun 21, 1905 to Apr 15, 1980

Bhagat Singh

Period: Jan 1, 1907 to Mar 23, 1931

Timothy Leary

Period: Oct 20, 1920 to May 31, 1996

Murray Bookchin (Libertarian Socialist)

Period: Jan 14, 1921 to Jul 30, 2006

Howard Zinn (Anarchist)

Period: Aug 24, 1922 to Jan 27, 2010

Malcolm X

Period: May 19, 1925 to Feb 21, 1965

Che Guevara

Period: Jun 14, 1928 to Oct 9, 1967

Noam Chomsky (Anarchist)

Period: Dec 7, 1928 to Oct 20, 2015

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Period: Jan 15, 1929 to Apr 4, 1968

Guy Debord (Situationist)

Period: Dec 28, 1931 to Nov 30, 1994

Carl Sagan

Period: Nov 9, 1934 to Dec 20, 1996

Abbie Hoffman

Period: Nov 30, 1936 to Apr 12, 1989

Alfredo M. Bonanno (Insurrectionist)

Period: Oct 20, 1937 to Oct 20, 2015

Huey P. Newton (Marxist)

Period: Feb 17, 1942 to Aug 22, 1989

Ted Kaczynski

Period: May 22, 1942 to Oct 24, 2015

John Zerzan (Primitivist)

Period: Jan 1, 1943 to Oct 20, 2015

Abdullah Öcalan

Period: Apr 4, 1948 to Oct 24, 2015

Bob Black

Period: Jan 4, 1951 to Oct 24, 2015