Who was alive in 1742?
49 of the people we track were surely alive in 1742. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1742: Pius VII.
Died in 1742: Edmond Halley.
- George Washington10
- Johann Sebastian Bach57
- Voltaire48
- Immanuel Kant18
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau30
- Adam Smith19
- Benjamin Franklin36
- Carl Linnaeus35
- Leonhard Euler35
- John Adams7
- James Cook14
- Jonathan Swift75
- George Frideric Handel57
- Montesquieu53
- James Watt6
- David Hume31
- Joseph Haydn10
- Catherine II of Russia13
- Denis Diderot29
- Thomas Paine5
- Samuel Johnson33
- Frederick II of Prussia30
- Edmund Burke13
- Alexander Pope54
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert25
- William Herschel4
- George Berkeley57
- Mikhail Lomonosov31
- George III of Great Britain4
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing13
- Louis XV of France32
- Maria Theresa of Austria25
- Giacomo Casanova17
- Marquis de Sade2
- Edward Gibbon5
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange6
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb6
- Edmond Halley85 †
- Anders Celsius41
- Isabelle de Charrière2
- Pius VIIborn
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais10
- Carlo Goldoni35
- Joseph Priestley9
- Benedict XIV67
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon35
- Robert Walpole66
- Pius VI25
- Henry Cavendish11