Gustav Landauer

Gustav Landauer was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism. As an avowed pacifist, Landauer advocated the principle of "non-violent non-cooperation" in the tradition of Étienne de La Boétie and Leo Tolstoy.

7 April 1870

Born on the same birth day (7 April): Bert Ironmonger • Bill Bellamy • Chaturanan Mishra • Duncan Armstrong • Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire • Erich Loewenhardt • Gino Severini • Joe Gallo • Kazuki Watanabe (musician) • Kurt von Schleicher • Nicola Sala • Otto II, Duke of Bavaria • Ralph Flanagan • Roland Wilson (economist) • Tetsuji Tamayama

Born in the same month (April 1870): Dadasaheb Phalke • Edmund Dwyer-Gray • Edwin S. Porter • Franz Lehár • Motobu Chōki • Syd Gregory • Victor Borisov-Musatov • Vladimir Lenin