Who was alive in 1746?

50 of the people we track were surely alive in 1746. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. George Washington14
2. Johann Sebastian Bach61
3. Voltaire52
4. Immanuel Kant22
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau34
6. Thomas Jefferson3
7. Adam Smith23
8. Benjamin Franklin40
9. Carl Linnaeus39
10. Leonhard Euler39
11. John Adams11
12. James Cook18
13. Francisco Goyaborn
14. George Frideric Handel61
15. Montesquieu57
16. James Watt10
17. David Hume35
18. Joseph Haydn14
19. Catherine II of Russia17
20. Denis Diderot33
21. Thomas Paine9
22. Samuel Johnson37
23. Antoine Lavoisier3
24. Frederick II of Prussia34
25. Edmund Burke17
26. Alessandro Volta1
27. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert29
28. William Herschel8
29. George Berkeley61
30. Mikhail Lomonosov35
31. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck2
32. George III of Great Britain8
33. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing17
34. Louis XV of France36
35. Maria Theresa of Austria29
36. Giacomo Casanova21
37. Marquis de Sade6
38. Edward Gibbon9
39. Joseph-Louis Lagrange10
40. Johann Gottfried Herder2
41. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb10
42. Isabelle de Charrière6
43. Pius VII4
44. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais14
45. Carlo Goldoni39
46. Joseph Priestley13
47. Benedict XIV71
48. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon39
49. Pius VI29
50. Henry Cavendish15