Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1738?

47 of the people we track were surely alive in 1738. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1738: William Herschel and George III of Great Britain.

  1. George Washington6
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach53
  3. Voltaire44
  4. Immanuel Kant14
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau26
  6. Adam Smith15
  7. Benjamin Franklin32
  8. Carl Linnaeus31
  9. Leonhard Euler31
  10. John Adams3
  11. James Cook10
  12. Antonio Vivaldi60
  13. Jonathan Swift71
  14. George Frideric Handel53
  15. Montesquieu49
  16. James Watt2
  17. David Hume27
  18. Joseph Haydn6
  19. Catherine II of Russia9
  20. Denis Diderot25
  21. Thomas Paine1
  22. Samuel Johnson29
  23. Frederick II of Prussia26
  24. Edmund Burke9
  25. Alexander Pope50
  26. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert21
  27. William Herschelborn
  28. George Berkeley53
  29. Mikhail Lomonosov27
  30. George III of Great Britainborn
  31. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing9
  32. Louis XV of France28
  33. Maria Theresa of Austria21
  34. Giacomo Casanova13
  35. Edward Gibbon1
  36. Joseph-Louis Lagrange2
  37. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb2
  38. Edmond Halley82
  39. Anders Celsius37
  40. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais6
  41. Carlo Goldoni31
  42. Joseph Priestley5
  43. Benedict XIV63
  44. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon31
  45. Robert Walpole62
  46. Pius VI21
  47. Henry Cavendish7