All times in UTC ·
Dashed edge = started before, or continues beyond, this day
Events on Wednesday 8 December 1723 1
1723 – 1789Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789)Died 21 January 1789, aged 65D'Holbach was a French-German philosopher and encyclopedist who produced some of the most radically atheistic and materialist works of the Enlightenment. His System of Nature argued that the universe operates purely through physical causes, without need of a god. He hosted one of Paris's leading intellectual salons.