Who Was Alive

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.

  1. George Washington12
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach59
  3. Voltaire50
  4. Immanuel Kant20
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau32
  6. Thomas Jefferson1
  7. Adam Smith21
  8. Benjamin Franklin38
  9. Carl Linnaeus37
  10. Leonhard Euler37
  11. John Adams9
  12. James Cook16
  13. Jonathan Swift77
  14. George Frideric Handel59
  15. Montesquieu55
  16. James Watt8
  17. David Hume33
  18. Joseph Haydn12
  19. Catherine II of Russia15
  20. Denis Diderot31
  21. Thomas Paine7
  22. Samuel Johnson35
  23. Antoine Lavoisier1
  24. Frederick II of Prussia32
  25. Edmund Burke15
  26. Alexander Pope56 †
  27. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert27
  28. William Herschel6
  29. George Berkeley59
  30. Mikhail Lomonosov33
  31. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarckborn
  32. George III of Great Britain6
  33. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing15
  34. Louis XV of France34
  35. Maria Theresa of Austria27
  36. Giacomo Casanova19
  37. Marquis de Sade4
  38. Edward Gibbon7
  39. Joseph-Louis Lagrange8
  40. Johann Gottfried Herderborn
  41. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb8
  42. Anders Celsius42 †
  43. Isabelle de Charrière4
  44. Pius VII2
  45. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais12
  46. Carlo Goldoni37
  47. Joseph Priestley11
  48. Benedict XIV69
  49. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon37
  50. Robert Walpole68
  51. Pius VI27
  52. Henry Cavendish13