Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1750?

55 of the people we track were surely alive in 1750. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1750: Johann Sebastian Bach.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1
  2. George Washington18
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach65 †
  4. Voltaire56
  5. Immanuel Kant26
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau38
  7. Thomas Jefferson7
  8. Adam Smith27
  9. Benjamin Franklin44
  10. Carl Linnaeus43
  11. Leonhard Euler43
  12. John Adams15
  13. James Cook22
  14. Francisco Goya4
  15. George Frideric Handel65
  16. Montesquieu61
  17. James Watt14
  18. David Hume39
  19. Joseph Haydn18
  20. Catherine II of Russia21
  21. Denis Diderot37
  22. Thomas Paine13
  23. Samuel Johnson41
  24. Antoine Lavoisier7
  25. Pierre-Simon Laplace1
  26. Frederick II of Prussia38
  27. Edmund Burke21
  28. Alessandro Volta5
  29. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert33
  30. William Herschel12
  31. Edward Jenner1
  32. George Berkeley65
  33. Mikhail Lomonosov39
  34. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck6
  35. George III of Great Britain12
  36. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing21
  37. Louis XV of France40
  38. Maria Theresa of Austria33
  39. Giacomo Casanova25
  40. Marquis de Sade10
  41. Jeremy Bentham2
  42. Edward Gibbon13
  43. Joseph-Louis Lagrange14
  44. Johann Gottfried Herder6
  45. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb14
  46. Isabelle de Charrière10
  47. Pius VII8
  48. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais18
  49. Carlo Goldoni43
  50. Jacques-Louis David2
  51. Joseph Priestley17
  52. Benedict XIV75
  53. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon43
  54. Pius VI33
  55. Henry Cavendish19