Simone de Beauvoir
1908–1986 · Person
Existentialist philosopher; founding text of modern feminism in The Second Sex.
On these timelines: Master, Women in history, People, France
Around 1908
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Japanese annexation of Korea (1910)
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)