Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1755?

58 of the people we track were surely alive in 1755. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1755: Marie Antoinette.

Died in 1755: Montesquieu.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe6
  2. George Washington23
  3. Voltaire61
  4. Immanuel Kant31
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau43
  6. Thomas Jefferson12
  7. Adam Smith32
  8. Benjamin Franklin49
  9. Carl Linnaeus48
  10. Leonhard Euler48
  11. John Adams20
  12. James Cook27
  13. Francisco Goya9
  14. James Madison4
  15. George Frideric Handel70
  16. Montesquieu66 †
  17. James Watt19
  18. David Hume44
  19. Joseph Haydn23
  20. Catherine II of Russia26
  21. Denis Diderot42
  22. Thomas Paine18
  23. Samuel Johnson46
  24. Marie Antoinetteborn
  25. Antoine Lavoisier12
  26. Pierre-Simon Laplace6
  27. Louis XVI of France1
  28. Frederick II of Prussia43
  29. Edmund Burke26
  30. Alessandro Volta10
  31. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert38
  32. William Herschel17
  33. Edward Jenner6
  34. Mikhail Lomonosov44
  35. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck11
  36. George III of Great Britain17
  37. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing26
  38. Louis XV of France45
  39. Maria Theresa of Austria38
  40. Giacomo Casanova30
  41. Marquis de Sade15
  42. Jeremy Bentham7
  43. Edward Gibbon18
  44. Joseph-Louis Lagrange19
  45. Johann Gottfried Herder11
  46. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb19
  47. Isabelle de Charrière15
  48. Pius VII13
  49. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais23
  50. Carlo Goldoni48
  51. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord1
  52. Paul I of Russia1
  53. Jacques-Louis David7
  54. Joseph Priestley22
  55. Benedict XIV80
  56. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon48
  57. Pius VI38
  58. Henry Cavendish24