Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1759?

66 of the people we track were surely alive in 1759. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1759: Friedrich Schiller, Mary Wollstonecraft, Robert Burns and Georges Danton.

Died in 1759: George Frideric Handel.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe10
  2. George Washington27
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart3
  4. Voltaire65
  5. Immanuel Kant35
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau47
  7. Thomas Jefferson16
  8. Adam Smith36
  9. Benjamin Franklin53
  10. Carl Linnaeus52
  11. Leonhard Euler52
  12. John Adams24
  13. James Cook31
  14. Francisco Goya13
  15. Friedrich Schillerborn
  16. James Madison8
  17. William Blake2
  18. George Frideric Handel74 †
  19. James Watt23
  20. David Hume48
  21. Joseph Haydn27
  22. James Monroe1
  23. Catherine II of Russia30
  24. Denis Diderot46
  25. Thomas Paine22
  26. Samuel Johnson50
  27. Marie Antoinette4
  28. Maximilien Robespierre1
  29. Antoine Lavoisier16
  30. Mary Wollstonecraftborn
  31. Pierre-Simon Laplace10
  32. Louis XVI of France5
  33. Frederick II of Prussia47
  34. Edmund Burke30
  35. Robert Burnsborn
  36. Alessandro Volta14
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert42
  38. William Herschel21
  39. Edward Jenner10
  40. Mikhail Lomonosov48
  41. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck15
  42. George III of Great Britain21
  43. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing30
  44. Louis XV of France49
  45. Maria Theresa of Austria42
  46. Giacomo Casanova34
  47. Marquis de Sade19
  48. Jeremy Bentham11
  49. Edward Gibbon22
  50. Horatio Nelson1
  51. Joseph-Louis Lagrange23
  52. Alexander Hamilton2
  53. Johann Gottfried Herder15
  54. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb23
  55. Isabelle de Charrière19
  56. Pius VII17
  57. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais27
  58. Carlo Goldoni52
  59. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord5
  60. Paul I of Russia5
  61. Jacques-Louis David11
  62. Joseph Priestley26
  63. Georges Dantonborn
  64. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon52
  65. Pius VI42
  66. Henry Cavendish28