Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1740?

49 of the people we track were surely alive in 1740. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1740: Marquis de Sade and Isabelle de Charrière.

  1. George Washington8
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach55
  3. Voltaire46
  4. Immanuel Kant16
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau28
  6. Adam Smith17
  7. Benjamin Franklin34
  8. Carl Linnaeus33
  9. Leonhard Euler33
  10. John Adams5
  11. James Cook12
  12. Antonio Vivaldi62
  13. Jonathan Swift73
  14. George Frideric Handel55
  15. Montesquieu51
  16. James Watt4
  17. David Hume29
  18. Joseph Haydn8
  19. Catherine II of Russia11
  20. Denis Diderot27
  21. Thomas Paine3
  22. Samuel Johnson31
  23. Frederick II of Prussia28
  24. Edmund Burke11
  25. Alexander Pope52
  26. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert23
  27. William Herschel2
  28. George Berkeley55
  29. Mikhail Lomonosov29
  30. George III of Great Britain2
  31. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing11
  32. Louis XV of France30
  33. Maria Theresa of Austria23
  34. Giacomo Casanova15
  35. Marquis de Sadeborn
  36. Edward Gibbon3
  37. Joseph-Louis Lagrange4
  38. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb4
  39. Edmond Halley84
  40. Anders Celsius39
  41. Isabelle de Charrièreborn
  42. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais8
  43. Carlo Goldoni33
  44. Joseph Priestley7
  45. Benedict XIV65
  46. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon33
  47. Robert Walpole64
  48. Pius VI23
  49. Henry Cavendish9