Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1753?

55 of the people we track were surely alive in 1753. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1753: George Berkeley.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe4
  2. George Washington21
  3. Voltaire59
  4. Immanuel Kant29
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau41
  6. Thomas Jefferson10
  7. Adam Smith30
  8. Benjamin Franklin47
  9. Carl Linnaeus46
  10. Leonhard Euler46
  11. John Adams18
  12. James Cook25
  13. Francisco Goya7
  14. James Madison2
  15. George Frideric Handel68
  16. Montesquieu64
  17. James Watt17
  18. David Hume42
  19. Joseph Haydn21
  20. Catherine II of Russia24
  21. Denis Diderot40
  22. Thomas Paine16
  23. Samuel Johnson44
  24. Antoine Lavoisier10
  25. Pierre-Simon Laplace4
  26. Frederick II of Prussia41
  27. Edmund Burke24
  28. Alessandro Volta8
  29. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert36
  30. William Herschel15
  31. Edward Jenner4
  32. George Berkeley67 †
  33. Mikhail Lomonosov42
  34. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck9
  35. George III of Great Britain15
  36. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing24
  37. Louis XV of France43
  38. Maria Theresa of Austria36
  39. Giacomo Casanova28
  40. Marquis de Sade13
  41. Jeremy Bentham5
  42. Edward Gibbon16
  43. Joseph-Louis Lagrange17
  44. Johann Gottfried Herder9
  45. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb17
  46. Isabelle de Charrière13
  47. Pius VII11
  48. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais21
  49. Carlo Goldoni46
  50. Jacques-Louis David5
  51. Joseph Priestley20
  52. Benedict XIV78
  53. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon46
  54. Pius VI36
  55. Henry Cavendish22