Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1776?

97 of the people we track were surely alive in 1776. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1776: Amedeo Avogadro and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Died in 1776: David Hume.

  1. Napoleon7
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe27
  3. George Washington44
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart20
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven4–8
  6. Voltaire82
  7. Immanuel Kant52
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau64
  9. Thomas Jefferson33
  10. Adam Smith53
  11. Benjamin Franklin70
  12. Carl Linnaeus69
  13. Jane Austen1
  14. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel6
  15. Leonhard Euler69
  16. John Adams41
  17. James Cook48
  18. Francisco Goya30
  19. Friedrich Schiller17
  20. Katsushika Hokusai16
  21. James Madison25
  22. John Quincy Adams9
  23. Andrew Jackson9
  24. William Blake19
  25. James Watt40
  26. David Hume65 †
  27. Joseph Haydn44
  28. James Monroe18
  29. Catherine II of Russia47
  30. Denis Diderot63
  31. Alexander von Humboldt7
  32. William Wordsworth6
  33. William Henry Harrison3
  34. Walter Scott5
  35. Thomas Paine39
  36. Samuel Johnson67
  37. Marie Antoinette21
  38. Maximilien Robespierre18
  39. Joseph Fourier8
  40. Antoine Lavoisier33
  41. Mary Wollstonecraft17
  42. Pierre-Simon Laplace27
  43. Louis XVI of France22
  44. Frederick II of Prussia64
  45. Edmund Burke47
  46. Robert Burns17
  47. Samuel Taylor Coleridge4
  48. André-Marie Ampère1
  49. Alessandro Volta31
  50. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert59
  51. William Herschel38
  52. Edward Jenner27
  53. Johann Gottlieb Fichte14
  54. Novalis4
  55. John Dalton10
  56. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck32
  57. George III of Great Britain38
  58. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing47
  59. Maria Theresa of Austria59
  60. Giacomo Casanova51
  61. Marquis de Sade36
  62. Jeremy Bentham28
  63. Thomas Robert Malthus10
  64. Edward Gibbon39
  65. Horatio Nelson18
  66. Joseph-Louis Lagrange40
  67. Alexander Hamilton19
  68. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington7
  69. Johann Gottfried Herder32
  70. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb40
  71. Gregory XVI11
  72. Wilhelm von Humboldt9
  73. David Ricardo4
  74. Isabelle de Charrière36
  75. Pius VII34
  76. William IV11
  77. Friedrich Hölderlin6
  78. Amedeo Avogadroborn
  79. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais44
  80. Klemens von Metternich3
  81. Carlo Goldoni69
  82. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord22
  83. Paul I of Russia22
  84. Jacques-Louis David28
  85. George IV of the United Kingdom14
  86. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand8
  87. Joseph Priestley43
  88. Georges Danton17
  89. Leo XII16
  90. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling1
  91. E. T. A. Hoffmannborn
  92. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon69
  93. Thomas Young3
  94. Caspar David Friedrich2
  95. Pius VI59
  96. Henry Cavendish45
  97. Germaine de Staël10