Who was alive in 1747?

50 of the people we track were surely alive in 1747. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. George Washington15
2. Johann Sebastian Bach62
3. Voltaire53
4. Immanuel Kant23
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau35
6. Thomas Jefferson4
7. Adam Smith24
8. Benjamin Franklin41
9. Carl Linnaeus40
10. Leonhard Euler40
11. John Adams12
12. James Cook19
13. Francisco Goya1
14. George Frideric Handel62
15. Montesquieu58
16. James Watt11
17. David Hume36
18. Joseph Haydn15
19. Catherine II of Russia18
20. Denis Diderot34
21. Thomas Paine10
22. Samuel Johnson38
23. Antoine Lavoisier4
24. Frederick II of Prussia35
25. Edmund Burke18
26. Alessandro Volta2
27. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert30
28. William Herschel9
29. George Berkeley62
30. Mikhail Lomonosov36
31. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck3
32. George III of Great Britain9
33. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing18
34. Louis XV of France37
35. Maria Theresa of Austria30
36. Giacomo Casanova22
37. Marquis de Sade7
38. Edward Gibbon10
39. Joseph-Louis Lagrange11
40. Johann Gottfried Herder3
41. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb11
42. Isabelle de Charrière7
43. Pius VII5
44. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais15
45. Carlo Goldoni40
46. Joseph Priestley14
47. Benedict XIV72
48. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon40
49. Pius VI30
50. Henry Cavendish16