Who was alive in 1744?
52 of the people we track were surely alive in 1744. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1744: Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Johann Gottfried Herder.
Died in 1744: Alexander Pope and Anders Celsius.
- George Washington12
- Johann Sebastian Bach59
- Voltaire50
- Immanuel Kant20
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau32
- Thomas Jefferson1
- Adam Smith21
- Benjamin Franklin38
- Carl Linnaeus37
- Leonhard Euler37
- John Adams9
- James Cook16
- Jonathan Swift77
- George Frideric Handel59
- Montesquieu55
- James Watt8
- David Hume33
- Joseph Haydn12
- Catherine II of Russia15
- Denis Diderot31
- Thomas Paine7
- Samuel Johnson35
- Antoine Lavoisier1
- Frederick II of Prussia32
- Edmund Burke15
- Alexander Pope56 †
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert27
- William Herschel6
- George Berkeley59
- Mikhail Lomonosov33
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarckborn
- George III of Great Britain6
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing15
- Louis XV of France34
- Maria Theresa of Austria27
- Giacomo Casanova19
- Marquis de Sade4
- Edward Gibbon7
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange8
- Johann Gottfried Herderborn
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb8
- Anders Celsius42 †
- Isabelle de Charrière4
- Pius VII2
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais12
- Carlo Goldoni37
- Joseph Priestley11
- Benedict XIV69
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon37
- Robert Walpole68
- Pius VI27
- Henry Cavendish13