Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1769?

81 of the people we track were surely alive in 1769. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1769: Napoleon, Alexander von Humboldt and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

  1. Napoleonborn
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe20
  3. George Washington37
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart13
  5. Voltaire75
  6. Immanuel Kant45
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau57
  8. Thomas Jefferson26
  9. Adam Smith46
  10. Benjamin Franklin63
  11. Carl Linnaeus62
  12. Leonhard Euler62
  13. John Adams34
  14. James Cook41
  15. Francisco Goya23
  16. Friedrich Schiller10
  17. Katsushika Hokusai9
  18. James Madison18
  19. John Quincy Adams2
  20. Andrew Jackson2
  21. William Blake12
  22. James Watt33
  23. David Hume58
  24. Joseph Haydn37
  25. James Monroe11
  26. Catherine II of Russia40
  27. Denis Diderot56
  28. Alexander von Humboldtborn
  29. Thomas Paine32
  30. Samuel Johnson60
  31. Marie Antoinette14
  32. Maximilien Robespierre11
  33. Joseph Fourier1
  34. Antoine Lavoisier26
  35. Mary Wollstonecraft10
  36. Pierre-Simon Laplace20
  37. Louis XVI of France15
  38. Frederick II of Prussia57
  39. Edmund Burke40
  40. Robert Burns10
  41. Alessandro Volta24
  42. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert52
  43. William Herschel31
  44. Edward Jenner20
  45. Johann Gottlieb Fichte7
  46. John Dalton3
  47. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck25
  48. George III of Great Britain31
  49. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing40
  50. Louis XV of France59
  51. Maria Theresa of Austria52
  52. Giacomo Casanova44
  53. Marquis de Sade29
  54. Jeremy Bentham21
  55. Thomas Robert Malthus3
  56. Edward Gibbon32
  57. Horatio Nelson11
  58. Joseph-Louis Lagrange33
  59. Alexander Hamilton12
  60. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellingtonborn
  61. Johann Gottfried Herder25
  62. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb33
  63. Gregory XVI4
  64. Wilhelm von Humboldt2
  65. Isabelle de Charrière29
  66. Pius VII27
  67. William IV4
  68. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais37
  69. Carlo Goldoni62
  70. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord15
  71. Paul I of Russia15
  72. Jacques-Louis David21
  73. George IV of the United Kingdom7
  74. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand1
  75. Joseph Priestley36
  76. Georges Danton10
  77. Leo XII9
  78. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon62
  79. Pius VI52
  80. Henry Cavendish38
  81. Germaine de Staël3