Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1770?

84 of the people we track were surely alive in 1770. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1770: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, William Wordsworth and Friedrich Hölderlin.

  1. Napoleon1
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe21
  3. George Washington38
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart14
  5. Voltaire76
  6. Immanuel Kant46
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau58
  8. Thomas Jefferson27
  9. Adam Smith47
  10. Benjamin Franklin64
  11. Carl Linnaeus63
  12. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelborn
  13. Leonhard Euler63
  14. John Adams35
  15. James Cook42
  16. Francisco Goya24
  17. Friedrich Schiller11
  18. Katsushika Hokusai10
  19. James Madison19
  20. John Quincy Adams3
  21. Andrew Jackson3
  22. William Blake13
  23. James Watt34
  24. David Hume59
  25. Joseph Haydn38
  26. James Monroe12
  27. Catherine II of Russia41
  28. Denis Diderot57
  29. Alexander von Humboldt1
  30. William Wordsworthborn
  31. Thomas Paine33
  32. Samuel Johnson61
  33. Marie Antoinette15
  34. Maximilien Robespierre12
  35. Joseph Fourier2
  36. Antoine Lavoisier27
  37. Mary Wollstonecraft11
  38. Pierre-Simon Laplace21
  39. Louis XVI of France16
  40. Frederick II of Prussia58
  41. Edmund Burke41
  42. Robert Burns11
  43. Alessandro Volta25
  44. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert53
  45. William Herschel32
  46. Edward Jenner21
  47. Johann Gottlieb Fichte8
  48. John Dalton4
  49. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck26
  50. George III of Great Britain32
  51. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing41
  52. Louis XV of France60
  53. Maria Theresa of Austria53
  54. Giacomo Casanova45
  55. Marquis de Sade30
  56. Jeremy Bentham22
  57. Thomas Robert Malthus4
  58. Edward Gibbon33
  59. Horatio Nelson12
  60. Joseph-Louis Lagrange34
  61. Alexander Hamilton13
  62. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1
  63. Johann Gottfried Herder26
  64. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb34
  65. Gregory XVI5
  66. Wilhelm von Humboldt3
  67. Isabelle de Charrière30
  68. Pius VII28
  69. William IV5
  70. Friedrich Hölderlinborn
  71. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais38
  72. Carlo Goldoni63
  73. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord16
  74. Paul I of Russia16
  75. Jacques-Louis David22
  76. George IV of the United Kingdom8
  77. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand2
  78. Joseph Priestley37
  79. Georges Danton11
  80. Leo XII10
  81. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon63
  82. Pius VI53
  83. Henry Cavendish39
  84. Germaine de Staël4