Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1764?

69 of the people we track were surely alive in 1764. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe15
  2. George Washington32
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart8
  4. Voltaire70
  5. Immanuel Kant40
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau52
  7. Thomas Jefferson21
  8. Adam Smith41
  9. Benjamin Franklin58
  10. Carl Linnaeus57
  11. Leonhard Euler57
  12. John Adams29
  13. James Cook36
  14. Francisco Goya18
  15. Friedrich Schiller5
  16. Katsushika Hokusai4
  17. James Madison13
  18. William Blake7
  19. James Watt28
  20. David Hume53
  21. Joseph Haydn32
  22. James Monroe6
  23. Catherine II of Russia35
  24. Denis Diderot51
  25. Thomas Paine27
  26. Samuel Johnson55
  27. Marie Antoinette9
  28. Maximilien Robespierre6
  29. Antoine Lavoisier21
  30. Mary Wollstonecraft5
  31. Pierre-Simon Laplace15
  32. Louis XVI of France10
  33. Frederick II of Prussia52
  34. Edmund Burke35
  35. Robert Burns5
  36. Alessandro Volta19
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert47
  38. William Herschel26
  39. Edward Jenner15
  40. Johann Gottlieb Fichte2
  41. Mikhail Lomonosov53
  42. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck20
  43. George III of Great Britain26
  44. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing35
  45. Louis XV of France54
  46. Maria Theresa of Austria47
  47. Giacomo Casanova39
  48. Marquis de Sade24
  49. Jeremy Bentham16
  50. Edward Gibbon27
  51. Horatio Nelson6
  52. Joseph-Louis Lagrange28
  53. Alexander Hamilton7
  54. Johann Gottfried Herder20
  55. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb28
  56. Isabelle de Charrière24
  57. Pius VII22
  58. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais32
  59. Carlo Goldoni57
  60. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord10
  61. Paul I of Russia10
  62. Jacques-Louis David16
  63. George IV of the United Kingdom2
  64. Joseph Priestley31
  65. Georges Danton5
  66. Leo XII4
  67. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon57
  68. Pius VI47
  69. Henry Cavendish33