In response to Hobbes, the French Philosopher Rene Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) developed Cartesian Dualism, which posits that there is a divisible, mechanical body and an indivisible, immaterial mind which interact with one another.

* Nicole M. Boyson, Christof W. Stahel, and Rene M. Stulz, 2010, " Hedge Fund Contagion and Liquidity Shocks ", The Journal of Finance, 65: 1789 – 1816

* 1957 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian ( d. 1993 )

* 1972 – Rene Bitorajac, Croatian actor

* 1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.

23 – 26 July 1993 saw the first multiparty presidential and legislative elections held under the new constitution, as well as a resounding victory for President Rene.

* 1986 – Rene Ranger, New Zealand rugby player

* September 29 – Rene Goupil, the first of the Canadian Martyrs ( b. 1608 )

* July 24 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian ( b. 1957 )

* May 9 – Rene Capo, American judoka ( d. 2009 )

* July 3 – Rene Barrientos is elected president of Bolivia.

* June 1 – Rene Auberjonois, American actor

* April 6 – Rene Lalique, French goldsmith, jeweler, glassmaker and artist.

* November 22 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad and kills him.

* March 7 – Rene Gagnon, U. S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima ( d. 1979 )

* 1816 – Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

* Chartrand, Rene ; " Louis XV's Army – Foreign Infantry "; Osprey 1997.

* Chartrand, Rene ; " Spanish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1793 – 1808 "; Osprey 1998.

* Rene Portland – former Penn State women's basketball coach

* Abaniko Tres Puntas – developed by Mateo D. Estolloso from Antique in the 1930s, inherited by Rene Tongson, one of the senior-most Modern Arnis practitioners.

* Latosa Eskrima – founded by GM Rene Latosa, and taught alongside Wing Tsun in the IWTO schools and their offshoots worldwide.

* Rene Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) French philosopher and mathematician sometimes labelled " The Father of Modern Philosophy

* Rene Syler, anchor ( 2002 – 2006 )

* Memoirs of a Slave ( 1976 ) by Rene Michel Desergy ( Janus Publications: London ) – a typical example of the many books and magazines fetish publisher Janus produced in the 1970s.

* February 11 – In Grenoble, France, Rene Jacquot won a 12 round decision over Donald Curry to win the World Welterweight Championship

* 1963 Rene Charland

Weiner started writing poetry in 1963 though her first chapbook, The Magritte Poems after Rene Magritte, was published in 1970.

In 1963 he was racing a 1. 1-litre Rene Bonnet sports car.

Rene Medvešek ( born June 21, 1963 ) is a Croatian actor.

* 1967 – Melanie Thornton, American-German singer ( La Bouche ) ( d. 2001 )

# " Be My Lover ( Club Mix )" – La Bouche ( 5: 35 )

* November 24 – Melanie Thornton ( 34 ), singer ( La Bouche ) ( air crash )

Melanie Janene Thornton ( May 13, 1967 – November 24, 2001 ) was an American pop singer who found fame in Germany and fronted the Eurodance group La Bouche, who found success with the singles " Be My Lover " and " Sweet Dreams " in the mid-1990s.

* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

* 1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer ( d. 1984 )

* 1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist ( d. 1984 )

* 1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U. S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence ; all are later dishonorably discharged.

* 1906 – Miklós Borsos, Hungarian sculptor ( d. 1990 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

* 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – An estimated 8. 2 M < sub > W </ sub > earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3, 886 people.

* 1906 – Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach ( d. 1985 )

* 1906 – Tedd Pierce, American animator, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 1972 )

* 1846 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor ( d. 1971 )

* 1906 – Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer ( d. 1995 )

* 1906 – Jim Smith, English cricketer ( d. 1979 )

* María Teresa, ( 12 November 1882 – 23 September 1912 ), married to Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria on 12 January 1906

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.

* 1906 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator ( d. 1970 )