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.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe12
- George Washington29
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart5
- Voltaire67
- Immanuel Kant37
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau49
- Thomas Jefferson18
- Adam Smith38
- Benjamin Franklin55
- Carl Linnaeus54
- Leonhard Euler54
- John Adams26
- James Cook33
- Francisco Goya15
- Friedrich Schiller2
- Katsushika Hokusai1
- James Madison10
- William Blake4
- James Watt25
- David Hume50
- Joseph Haydn29
- James Monroe3
- Catherine II of Russia32
- Denis Diderot48
- Thomas Paine24
- Samuel Johnson52
- Marie Antoinette6
- Maximilien Robespierre3
- Antoine Lavoisier18
- Mary Wollstonecraft2
- Pierre-Simon Laplace12
- Louis XVI of France7
- Frederick II of Prussia49
- Edmund Burke32
- Robert Burns2
- Alessandro Volta16
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert44
- William Herschel23
- Edward Jenner12
- Mikhail Lomonosov50
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck17
- George III of Great Britain23
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing32
- Louis XV of France51
- Maria Theresa of Austria44
- Giacomo Casanova36
- Marquis de Sade21
- Jeremy Bentham13
- Edward Gibbon24
- Horatio Nelson3
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange25
- Alexander Hamilton4
- Johann Gottfried Herder17
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb25
- Isabelle de Charrière21
- Pius VII19
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais29
- Carlo Goldoni54
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord7
- Paul I of Russia7
- Jacques-Louis David13
- Joseph Priestley28
- Georges Danton2
- Leo XII1
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon54
- Pius VI44
- Henry Cavendish30