Who was alive in 1752?

55 of the people we track were surely alive in 1752. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe3
2. George Washington20
3. Voltaire58
4. Immanuel Kant28
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau40
6. Thomas Jefferson9
7. Adam Smith29
8. Benjamin Franklin46
9. Carl Linnaeus45
10. Leonhard Euler45
11. John Adams17
12. James Cook24
13. Francisco Goya6
14. James Madison1
15. George Frideric Handel67
16. Montesquieu63
17. James Watt16
18. David Hume41
19. Joseph Haydn20
20. Catherine II of Russia23
21. Denis Diderot39
22. Thomas Paine15
23. Samuel Johnson43
24. Antoine Lavoisier9
25. Pierre-Simon Laplace3
26. Frederick II of Prussia40
27. Edmund Burke23
28. Alessandro Volta7
29. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert35
30. William Herschel14
31. Edward Jenner3
32. George Berkeley67
33. Mikhail Lomonosov41
34. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck8
35. George III of Great Britain14
36. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing23
37. Louis XV of France42
38. Maria Theresa of Austria35
39. Giacomo Casanova27
40. Marquis de Sade12
41. Jeremy Bentham4
42. Edward Gibbon15
43. Joseph-Louis Lagrange16
44. Johann Gottfried Herder8
45. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb16
46. Isabelle de Charrière12
47. Pius VII10
48. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais20
49. Carlo Goldoni45
50. Jacques-Louis David4
51. Joseph Priestley19
52. Benedict XIV77
53. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon45
54. Pius VI35
55. Henry Cavendish21