Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1762?

69 of the people we track were surely alive in 1762. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1762: Johann Gottlieb Fichte and George IV of the United Kingdom.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe13
  2. George Washington30
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart6
  4. Voltaire68
  5. Immanuel Kant38
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau50
  7. Thomas Jefferson19
  8. Adam Smith39
  9. Benjamin Franklin56
  10. Carl Linnaeus55
  11. Leonhard Euler55
  12. John Adams27
  13. James Cook34
  14. Francisco Goya16
  15. Friedrich Schiller3
  16. Katsushika Hokusai2
  17. James Madison11
  18. William Blake5
  19. James Watt26
  20. David Hume51
  21. Joseph Haydn30
  22. James Monroe4
  23. Catherine II of Russia33
  24. Denis Diderot49
  25. Thomas Paine25
  26. Samuel Johnson53
  27. Marie Antoinette7
  28. Maximilien Robespierre4
  29. Antoine Lavoisier19
  30. Mary Wollstonecraft3
  31. Pierre-Simon Laplace13
  32. Louis XVI of France8
  33. Frederick II of Prussia50
  34. Edmund Burke33
  35. Robert Burns3
  36. Alessandro Volta17
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert45
  38. William Herschel24
  39. Edward Jenner13
  40. Johann Gottlieb Fichteborn
  41. Mikhail Lomonosov51
  42. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck18
  43. George III of Great Britain24
  44. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing33
  45. Louis XV of France52
  46. Maria Theresa of Austria45
  47. Giacomo Casanova37
  48. Marquis de Sade22
  49. Jeremy Bentham14
  50. Edward Gibbon25
  51. Horatio Nelson4
  52. Joseph-Louis Lagrange26
  53. Alexander Hamilton5
  54. Johann Gottfried Herder18
  55. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb26
  56. Isabelle de Charrière22
  57. Pius VII20
  58. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais30
  59. Carlo Goldoni55
  60. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord8
  61. Paul I of Russia8
  62. Jacques-Louis David14
  63. George IV of the United Kingdomborn
  64. Joseph Priestley29
  65. Georges Danton3
  66. Leo XII2
  67. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon55
  68. Pius VI45
  69. Henry Cavendish31