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Academia

316 personalities

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Portrait of Boris Parygin (1930–2012) – memorial page

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Boris Parygin

06/19/1930 – 04/09/2012

81 years

Russian academic

Saint Petersburg
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RB
Portrait of Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921–2012) – memorial page

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Ruth Barcan Marcus

08/02/1921 – 02/19/2012

90 years

American philosopher

New Haven
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JH

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John Hick

01/20/1922 – 02/09/2012

90 years

English philosopher of religion and theologian

Birmingham
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Portrait of Michael Dummett (1925–2011) – memorial page

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Michael Dummett

06/27/1925 – 12/27/2011

86 years

British philosopher

Oxford
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EN
Portrait of Eugene Nida (1914–2011) – memorial page

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Eugene Nida

11/11/1914 – 08/25/2011

96 years

linguist

Madrid
1
TR
Portrait of Theodore Roszak (1933–2011) – memorial page

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Theodore Roszak

11/15/1933 – 07/05/2011

77 years

American social historian, social critic, writer

Berkeley
1
CD
Portrait of Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913–2011) – memorial page

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Christiane Desroches Noblecourt

11/17/1913 – 06/23/2011

97 years

French egyptologist

Épernay
1
HG
Portrait of Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) – memorial page

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Harold Garfinkel

10/29/1917 – 04/21/2011

93 years

American sociologist

Los Angeles
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LB

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Lewis Binford

11/21/1931 – 04/11/2011

79 years

American archaeologist

Kirksville
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DB
Portrait of Daniel Bell (1919–2011) – memorial page

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Daniel Bell

05/10/1919 – 01/25/2011

91 years

American sociologist

Cambridge
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JD
Portrait of Jacqueline de Romilly (1913–2010) – memorial page

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Jacqueline de Romilly

03/26/1913 – 12/18/2010

97 years

French philologist, classical scholar

Boulogne-Billancourt
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EV
Portrait of Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917–2010) – memorial page

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Ernst von Glasersfeld

03/08/1917 – 11/12/2010

93 years

German philosopher

Franklin County
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IM

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Iryna Melnykova

10/24/1918 – 11/03/2010

92 years

Ukrainian historian

Kyiv
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IA
Portrait of Isabella Abbott (1919–2010) – memorial page

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Isabella Abbott

06/20/1919 – 10/28/2010

91 years

Hawaiian-American professor of botany, ethnobotanist and specialist in algology

Honolulu
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PF

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Philippa Foot

10/03/1920 – 10/03/2010

90 years

English philosopher

Oxford
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Portrait of Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923–2010) – memorial page

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Shmuel Eisenstadt

09/10/1923 – 09/02/2010

86 years

Israeli sociologist

Jerusalem
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TJ

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Tony Judt

01/02/1948 – 08/06/2010

62 years

British-American historian

New York City
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PH
Portrait of Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) – memorial page

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Pierre Hadot

02/21/1922 – 04/24/2010

88 years

French historian and philosopher

Orsay
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JK
Portrait of Janusz Kurtyka (1960–2010) – memorial page

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Janusz Kurtyka

08/13/1960 – 04/10/2010

49 years

Polish historian

Pechersk, Smolensky District, Smolensk Oblast
1
AF
Portrait of Antony Flew (1923–2010) – memorial page

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Antony Flew

02/11/1923 – 04/08/2010

87 years

British analytic and evidentialist philosopher

Reading
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HZ
Portrait of Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – memorial page

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Howard Zinn

08/24/1922 – 01/27/2010

87 years

American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker

Santa Monica
1
DB
Portrait of Daniel Bensaïd (1946–2010) – memorial page

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Daniel Bensaïd

03/25/1946 – 01/12/2010

63 years

French philosopher

10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris
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MD

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Mary Daly

10/16/1928 – 01/03/2010

81 years

American feminist philosopher and theologian

Gardner
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ST

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Stephen Toulmin

03/25/1922 – 12/04/2009

87 years

English philosopher

Los Angeles
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