Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1777?

99 of the people we track were surely alive in 1777. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1777: Carl Friedrich Gauss, Alexander I of Russia and Hans Christian Ørsted.

  1. Napoleon8
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe28
  3. George Washington45
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart21
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven5–9
  6. Voltaire83
  7. Immanuel Kant53
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau65
  9. Thomas Jefferson34
  10. Adam Smith54
  11. Benjamin Franklin71
  12. Carl Linnaeus70
  13. Jane Austen2
  14. Carl Friedrich Gaussborn
  15. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel7
  16. Leonhard Euler70
  17. John Adams42
  18. James Cook49
  19. Francisco Goya31
  20. Friedrich Schiller18
  21. Katsushika Hokusai17
  22. James Madison26
  23. John Quincy Adams10
  24. Andrew Jackson10
  25. William Blake20
  26. James Watt41
  27. Joseph Haydn45
  28. James Monroe19
  29. Catherine II of Russia48
  30. Denis Diderot64
  31. Alexander von Humboldt8
  32. William Wordsworth7
  33. William Henry Harrison4
  34. Walter Scott6
  35. Thomas Paine40
  36. Samuel Johnson68
  37. Marie Antoinette22
  38. Maximilien Robespierre19
  39. Joseph Fourier9
  40. Antoine Lavoisier34
  41. Mary Wollstonecraft18
  42. Pierre-Simon Laplace28
  43. Louis XVI of France23
  44. Frederick II of Prussia65
  45. Edmund Burke48
  46. Robert Burns18
  47. Samuel Taylor Coleridge5
  48. André-Marie Ampère2
  49. Alessandro Volta32
  50. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert60
  51. William Herschel39
  52. Edward Jenner28
  53. Johann Gottlieb Fichte15
  54. Novalis5
  55. John Dalton11
  56. Alexander I of Russiaborn
  57. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck33
  58. George III of Great Britain39
  59. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing48
  60. Maria Theresa of Austria60
  61. Giacomo Casanova52
  62. Marquis de Sade37
  63. Jeremy Bentham29
  64. Thomas Robert Malthus11
  65. Edward Gibbon40
  66. Horatio Nelson19
  67. Joseph-Louis Lagrange41
  68. Alexander Hamilton20
  69. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington8
  70. Johann Gottfried Herder33
  71. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb41
  72. Hans Christian Ørstedborn
  73. Gregory XVI12
  74. Wilhelm von Humboldt10
  75. David Ricardo5
  76. Isabelle de Charrière37
  77. Pius VII35
  78. William IV12
  79. Friedrich Hölderlin7
  80. Amedeo Avogadro1
  81. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais45
  82. Klemens von Metternich4
  83. Carlo Goldoni70
  84. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord23
  85. Paul I of Russia23
  86. Jacques-Louis David29
  87. George IV of the United Kingdom15
  88. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand9
  89. Joseph Priestley44
  90. Georges Danton18
  91. Leo XII17
  92. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling2
  93. E. T. A. Hoffmann1
  94. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon70
  95. Thomas Young4
  96. Caspar David Friedrich3
  97. Pius VI60
  98. Henry Cavendish46
  99. Germaine de Staël11