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René Girard
French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science.
Born December 25th, 1923 in Avignon.
Died November 4th, 2015 at 91 years old in Stanford (disease).
Occupations
anthropologist, historian, literary critic, philosopher, university teacher
Wikipedia
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius