Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1741?

49 of the people we track were surely alive in 1741. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1741: Antonio Vivaldi.

  1. George Washington9
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach56
  3. Voltaire47
  4. Immanuel Kant17
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau29
  6. Adam Smith18
  7. Benjamin Franklin35
  8. Carl Linnaeus34
  9. Leonhard Euler34
  10. John Adams6
  11. James Cook13
  12. Antonio Vivaldi63 †
  13. Jonathan Swift74
  14. George Frideric Handel56
  15. Montesquieu52
  16. James Watt5
  17. David Hume30
  18. Joseph Haydn9
  19. Catherine II of Russia12
  20. Denis Diderot28
  21. Thomas Paine4
  22. Samuel Johnson32
  23. Frederick II of Prussia29
  24. Edmund Burke12
  25. Alexander Pope53
  26. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert24
  27. William Herschel3
  28. George Berkeley56
  29. Mikhail Lomonosov30
  30. George III of Great Britain3
  31. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing12
  32. Louis XV of France31
  33. Maria Theresa of Austria24
  34. Giacomo Casanova16
  35. Marquis de Sade1
  36. Edward Gibbon4
  37. Joseph-Louis Lagrange5
  38. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb5
  39. Edmond Halley85
  40. Anders Celsius40
  41. Isabelle de Charrière1
  42. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais9
  43. Carlo Goldoni34
  44. Joseph Priestley8
  45. Benedict XIV66
  46. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon34
  47. Robert Walpole65
  48. Pius VI24
  49. Henry Cavendish10