Who was alive in 1751?

55 of the people we track were surely alive in 1751. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe2
2. George Washington19
3. Voltaire57
4. Immanuel Kant27
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau39
6. Thomas Jefferson8
7. Adam Smith28
8. Benjamin Franklin45
9. Carl Linnaeus44
10. Leonhard Euler44
11. John Adams16
12. James Cook23
13. Francisco Goya5
14. James Madisonborn
15. George Frideric Handel66
16. Montesquieu62
17. James Watt15
18. David Hume40
19. Joseph Haydn19
20. Catherine II of Russia22
21. Denis Diderot38
22. Thomas Paine14
23. Samuel Johnson42
24. Antoine Lavoisier8
25. Pierre-Simon Laplace2
26. Frederick II of Prussia39
27. Edmund Burke22
28. Alessandro Volta6
29. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert34
30. William Herschel13
31. Edward Jenner2
32. George Berkeley66
33. Mikhail Lomonosov40
34. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck7
35. George III of Great Britain13
36. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing22
37. Louis XV of France41
38. Maria Theresa of Austria34
39. Giacomo Casanova26
40. Marquis de Sade11
41. Jeremy Bentham3
42. Edward Gibbon14
43. Joseph-Louis Lagrange15
44. Johann Gottfried Herder7
45. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb15
46. Isabelle de Charrière11
47. Pius VII9
48. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais19
49. Carlo Goldoni44
50. Jacques-Louis David3
51. Joseph Priestley18
52. Benedict XIV76
53. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon44
54. Pius VI34
55. Henry Cavendish20