Timeline Wednesday 21 June 1905

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• 1905 Birth in Paris A philosopher is born Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was born on 21 June 1905 in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Sartre, a naval officer, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer. His father's family had modest means, while his mother was a cousin of the theologian and physician Albert Schweitzer. He would grow up as an only child in a household increasingly shaped by loss.
• 1905 – 1980 Jean-Paul Sartre French philosopher and writer Sartre was a leading existentialist thinker who explored freedom, responsibility, and human existence.
• 1905 – 1980 Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Playwright, and Voice of Existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist who became the foremost public exponent of existentialism in the twentieth century. Through works such as Being and Nothingness, Nausea, and No Exit, he explored themes of freedom, bad faith, and radical responsibility for one's own existence. A lifelong partner of Simone de Beauvoir and a prominent left-wing intellectual, he shaped postwar European thought, engaged directly in the political struggles of his era, and in 1964 became the only person ever to decline the Nobel Prize in Literature.