Who was alive in 1745?
51 of the people we track were surely alive in 1745. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1745: Alessandro Volta.
Died in 1745: Jonathan Swift and Robert Walpole.
- George Washington13
- Johann Sebastian Bach60
- Voltaire51
- Immanuel Kant21
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau33
- Thomas Jefferson2
- Adam Smith22
- Benjamin Franklin39
- Carl Linnaeus38
- Leonhard Euler38
- John Adams10
- James Cook17
- Jonathan Swift77 †
- George Frideric Handel60
- Montesquieu56
- James Watt9
- David Hume34
- Joseph Haydn13
- Catherine II of Russia16
- Denis Diderot32
- Thomas Paine8
- Samuel Johnson36
- Antoine Lavoisier2
- Frederick II of Prussia33
- Edmund Burke16
- Alessandro Voltaborn
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert28
- William Herschel7
- George Berkeley60
- Mikhail Lomonosov34
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck1
- George III of Great Britain7
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing16
- Louis XV of France35
- Maria Theresa of Austria28
- Giacomo Casanova20
- Marquis de Sade5
- Edward Gibbon8
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange9
- Johann Gottfried Herder1
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb9
- Isabelle de Charrière5
- Pius VII3
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais13
- Carlo Goldoni38
- Joseph Priestley12
- Benedict XIV70
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon38
- Robert Walpole68 †
- Pius VI28
- Henry Cavendish14