Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1735?

40 of the people we track were surely alive in 1735. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1735: John Adams.

  1. George Washington3
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach50
  3. Voltaire41
  4. Immanuel Kant11
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau23
  6. Adam Smith12
  7. Benjamin Franklin29
  8. Carl Linnaeus28
  9. Leonhard Euler28
  10. John Adamsborn
  11. James Cook7
  12. Antonio Vivaldi57
  13. Jonathan Swift68
  14. George Frideric Handel50
  15. Montesquieu46
  16. David Hume24
  17. Joseph Haydn3
  18. Catherine II of Russia6
  19. Denis Diderot22
  20. Samuel Johnson26
  21. Frederick II of Prussia23
  22. Edmund Burke6
  23. Alexander Pope47
  24. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert18
  25. George Berkeley50
  26. Mikhail Lomonosov24
  27. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing6
  28. Louis XV of France25
  29. Maria Theresa of Austria18
  30. Giacomo Casanova10
  31. Edmond Halley79
  32. Anders Celsius34
  33. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais3
  34. Carlo Goldoni28
  35. Joseph Priestley2
  36. Benedict XIV60
  37. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon28
  38. Robert Walpole59
  39. Pius VI18
  40. Henry Cavendish4