Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1761?

67 of the people we track were surely alive in 1761. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe12
  2. George Washington29
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart5
  4. Voltaire67
  5. Immanuel Kant37
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau49
  7. Thomas Jefferson18
  8. Adam Smith38
  9. Benjamin Franklin55
  10. Carl Linnaeus54
  11. Leonhard Euler54
  12. John Adams26
  13. James Cook33
  14. Francisco Goya15
  15. Friedrich Schiller2
  16. Katsushika Hokusai1
  17. James Madison10
  18. William Blake4
  19. James Watt25
  20. David Hume50
  21. Joseph Haydn29
  22. James Monroe3
  23. Catherine II of Russia32
  24. Denis Diderot48
  25. Thomas Paine24
  26. Samuel Johnson52
  27. Marie Antoinette6
  28. Maximilien Robespierre3
  29. Antoine Lavoisier18
  30. Mary Wollstonecraft2
  31. Pierre-Simon Laplace12
  32. Louis XVI of France7
  33. Frederick II of Prussia49
  34. Edmund Burke32
  35. Robert Burns2
  36. Alessandro Volta16
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert44
  38. William Herschel23
  39. Edward Jenner12
  40. Mikhail Lomonosov50
  41. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck17
  42. George III of Great Britain23
  43. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing32
  44. Louis XV of France51
  45. Maria Theresa of Austria44
  46. Giacomo Casanova36
  47. Marquis de Sade21
  48. Jeremy Bentham13
  49. Edward Gibbon24
  50. Horatio Nelson3
  51. Joseph-Louis Lagrange25
  52. Alexander Hamilton4
  53. Johann Gottfried Herder17
  54. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb25
  55. Isabelle de Charrière21
  56. Pius VII19
  57. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais29
  58. Carlo Goldoni54
  59. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord7
  60. Paul I of Russia7
  61. Jacques-Louis David13
  62. Joseph Priestley28
  63. Georges Danton2
  64. Leo XII1
  65. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon54
  66. Pius VI44
  67. Henry Cavendish30