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1880 – 1936Oswald Spengler (1880-1936)Died 8 May 1936, aged 55Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher. His two-volume The Decline of the West argued that civilisations follow a cycle of growth and decay. The book was widely read after the First World War.