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): Alexander Karpovtsev • Babatunde Olatunji • Barbara Jane Reams • Brigitte van der Burg • Cal Smith • Domenico Dragonetti • Donald Barthelme • Ichinojō Takashi • Jane Priestman • Jože Možina • Kevin Alejandro • Louise Currie • Mick Abrahams • Pascal Olmeta • Roger Lemelin • Roland Wilson (economist) • Simon Woolford • Vanessa Olivarez

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