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1906 – 1975Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)Died 4 December 1975, aged 69Hannah Arendt was a German-born American political theorist known for her writings on totalitarianism, including "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and "Eichmann in Jerusalem." She fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and became one of the twentieth century's most influential political philosophers. She died in New York City.