Timeline Thursday 9 January 1908

Events on Thursday 9 January 1908 3

• 1832 – 1908 Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) Died 9 January 1908, aged 75 Busch was a German humorist, poet, and illustrator whose illustrated verse tale "Max und Moritz" influenced the development of the comic strip. His darkly comic drawings and rhymes were hugely popular in Germany and inspired later cartoonists internationally. He spent his final years largely reclusive in Mechtshausen.
• 1908 – 1963 Simone de Beauvoir French philosopher and writer De Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex, a foundational feminist philosophical work examining gender and society.
• 1908 – 1986 Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) Died 14 April 1986, aged 78 French philosopher and writer whose 1949 work The Second Sex became a foundational text of modern feminism. She was a lifelong companion of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and a prominent public intellectual in postwar France. She died in Paris and was buried beside Sartre in Montparnasse Cemetery.