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1997 Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phe, nomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', dies from heart failure

1994 Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85

1946 Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies

1937 Alfred Adler, Austria psychiatrist (Individual Psychology), dies at 67

1933 Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools

1930 Nathaniel Branden, born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, psychotherapist, known for work in psychology of self-esteem, writer, associate of novelist Ayn Rand, promoted her philosophy, idea of Objectivism, profiled in movie, 'The Passion of Ayn Rand'

1926 James Hillman, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, psychologist, credited with developing archetypal psychology

1921 Paulo Freire, born in Recife, Brazil, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phenomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'

1908 Abraham Maslow, U.S. psychologist, humanistic psychology

1880 Ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology, sexual hormones

1859 Havelock Ellis, U.S. physician/sexologist, Psychology of Sex

1856 Sigmund Freud, Austria, cigar smoker, father of psychology

1849 Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology, Nobel 1904


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