Who was alive in 1768?

78 of the people we track were surely alive in 1768. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe19
2. George Washington36
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart12
4. Voltaire74
5. Immanuel Kant44
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau56
7. Thomas Jefferson25
8. Adam Smith45
9. Benjamin Franklin62
10. Carl Linnaeus61
11. Leonhard Euler61
12. John Adams33
13. James Cook40
14. Francisco Goya22
15. Friedrich Schiller9
16. Katsushika Hokusai8
17. James Madison17
18. John Quincy Adams1
19. Andrew Jackson1
20. William Blake11
21. James Watt32
22. David Hume57
23. Joseph Haydn36
24. James Monroe10
25. Catherine II of Russia39
26. Denis Diderot55
27. Thomas Paine31
28. Samuel Johnson59
29. Marie Antoinette13
30. Maximilien Robespierre10
31. Joseph Fourierborn
32. Antoine Lavoisier25
33. Mary Wollstonecraft9
34. Pierre-Simon Laplace19
35. Louis XVI of France14
36. Frederick II of Prussia56
37. Edmund Burke39
38. Robert Burns9
39. Alessandro Volta23
40. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert51
41. William Herschel30
42. Edward Jenner19
43. Johann Gottlieb Fichte6
44. John Dalton2
45. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck24
46. George III of Great Britain30
47. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing39
48. Louis XV of France58
49. Maria Theresa of Austria51
50. Giacomo Casanova43
51. Marquis de Sade28
52. Jeremy Bentham20
53. Thomas Robert Malthus2
54. Edward Gibbon31
55. Horatio Nelson10
56. Joseph-Louis Lagrange32
57. Alexander Hamilton11
58. Johann Gottfried Herder24
59. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb32
60. Gregory XVI3
61. Wilhelm von Humboldt1
62. Isabelle de Charrière28
63. Pius VII26
64. William IV3
65. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais36
66. Carlo Goldoni61
67. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord14
68. Paul I of Russia14
69. Jacques-Louis David20
70. George IV of the United Kingdom6
71. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriandborn
72. Joseph Priestley35
73. Georges Danton9
74. Leo XII8
75. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon61
76. Pius VI51
77. Henry Cavendish37
78. Germaine de Staël2