Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1771?

85 of the people we track were surely alive in 1771. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1771: Walter Scott.

  1. Napoleon2
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe22
  3. George Washington39
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart15
  5. Voltaire77
  6. Immanuel Kant47
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau59
  8. Thomas Jefferson28
  9. Adam Smith48
  10. Benjamin Franklin65
  11. Carl Linnaeus64
  12. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1
  13. Leonhard Euler64
  14. John Adams36
  15. James Cook43
  16. Francisco Goya25
  17. Friedrich Schiller12
  18. Katsushika Hokusai11
  19. James Madison20
  20. John Quincy Adams4
  21. Andrew Jackson4
  22. William Blake14
  23. James Watt35
  24. David Hume60
  25. Joseph Haydn39
  26. James Monroe13
  27. Catherine II of Russia42
  28. Denis Diderot58
  29. Alexander von Humboldt2
  30. William Wordsworth1
  31. Walter Scottborn
  32. Thomas Paine34
  33. Samuel Johnson62
  34. Marie Antoinette16
  35. Maximilien Robespierre13
  36. Joseph Fourier3
  37. Antoine Lavoisier28
  38. Mary Wollstonecraft12
  39. Pierre-Simon Laplace22
  40. Louis XVI of France17
  41. Frederick II of Prussia59
  42. Edmund Burke42
  43. Robert Burns12
  44. Alessandro Volta26
  45. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert54
  46. William Herschel33
  47. Edward Jenner22
  48. Johann Gottlieb Fichte9
  49. John Dalton5
  50. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck27
  51. George III of Great Britain33
  52. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing42
  53. Louis XV of France61
  54. Maria Theresa of Austria54
  55. Giacomo Casanova46
  56. Marquis de Sade31
  57. Jeremy Bentham23
  58. Thomas Robert Malthus5
  59. Edward Gibbon34
  60. Horatio Nelson13
  61. Joseph-Louis Lagrange35
  62. Alexander Hamilton14
  63. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington2
  64. Johann Gottfried Herder27
  65. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb35
  66. Gregory XVI6
  67. Wilhelm von Humboldt4
  68. Isabelle de Charrière31
  69. Pius VII29
  70. William IV6
  71. Friedrich Hölderlin1
  72. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais39
  73. Carlo Goldoni64
  74. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord17
  75. Paul I of Russia17
  76. Jacques-Louis David23
  77. George IV of the United Kingdom9
  78. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand3
  79. Joseph Priestley38
  80. Georges Danton12
  81. Leo XII11
  82. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon64
  83. Pius VI54
  84. Henry Cavendish40
  85. Germaine de Staël5