Historical Examples of Bachelors (men Who Never Married)
(chronologically, by date of birth)
Heraclitus
Plato
Epicurus
Horace
Plotinus
Augustine
Aquinas
da Vinci
Copernicus
Raphael
Brahe
Galileo
Descartes
Pascal
Locke
Spinoza
Newton
Leibniz
Bayle
Vivaldi
Handel
Pope
Voltaire
Hume
Smith
Kant
Gibbon
Beethoven
Schopenhauer
Buchanan
Schubert
Chopin
Kierkegaard
Thoreau
Brahms
James
Van Gogh
Nietzsche
Kafka
Tesla
Sartre
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