Philosophers John Venn

John Venn

Living place: England

Birthday: 4-8-1834

Global rank: #81954

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Who is Philosophers John Venn?
Best known as the originator of the popular Venn diagram, this late nineteenth-century philosopher and logician contributed to the fields of statistics and probability. His publications include Symbolic Logic and Chance's Logic.
He ended his clerical career in 1880, stating that his philosophical views were inconsistent with Anglican principles.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After earning a degree in mathematics from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he became an Anglican ordained priest and also taught logic, probability, and morality at the University of Cambridge.

Family life info

Born in Yorkshire, England, he was the son of the famous Anglican cleric Henry Venn and Pastor Venn's wife, Martha Sykes. His marriage to Susanna Carnegie Edmonstone resulted in a son, John Archibald Venn, who had a successful career as an economist.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Philosophers John Venn?
He and Bertrand Russell were both prominent English logicians and philosophers of the late 19th century and early 20.

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When was Philosophers John Venn born?
John Venn was born in 4-8-1834, death year is , at the age of 190.
Where is Philosophers John Venn's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
John Venn was born in England. is a Philosophers, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. John Venn's global rank is 81954 and whose rank is 181 in list of famous Philosophers.
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Events in 1834 and 4-8

Birthday John Venn (4-8) in history

  • Day 4-8 year 1735: Journalist John Peter Zenger, defended by former Pennsylvania House Speaker Andrew Hamilton, was acquitted of defamation in a case that helped promote press freedom.
  • Day 4-8 year 1884: Thomas Stevens became the first person to bicycle across the United States. He later bicycled around the world.
  • Day 4-8 year 1892: Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were killed with an axe in Fall River, Mass.
  • Day 4-8 year 1914: Germany invaded Belgium and, in response, Britain declared war on Germany.
  • Day 4-8 year 1916: Denmark ceded the Danish West Indies, including the Danish Virgin Islands, to the United States for $25 million.
  • Day 4-8 year 1944: Anne Frank and her family were found hiding in Amsterdam by Nazis.
  • Day 4-8 year 1964: The bodies of three civil-rights workers were found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson
  • Day 4-8 year 1977: President Carter signed a congressional act that established the Department of Energy.
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