Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1780?

98 of the people we track were surely alive in 1780. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1780: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Carl von Clausewitz.

Died in 1780: Maria Theresa of Austria.

  1. Napoleon11
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe31
  3. George Washington48
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart24
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven8–12
  6. Immanuel Kant56
  7. Thomas Jefferson37
  8. Adam Smith57
  9. Benjamin Franklin74
  10. Jane Austen5
  11. Carl Friedrich Gauss3
  12. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel10
  13. Leonhard Euler73
  14. John Adams45
  15. Francisco Goya34
  16. Friedrich Schiller21
  17. Katsushika Hokusai20
  18. James Madison29
  19. John Quincy Adams13
  20. Andrew Jackson13
  21. William Blake23
  22. James Watt44
  23. Joseph Haydn48
  24. James Monroe22
  25. Catherine II of Russia51
  26. Denis Diderot67
  27. Alexander von Humboldt11
  28. William Wordsworth10
  29. William Henry Harrison7
  30. Walter Scott9
  31. Thomas Paine43
  32. Samuel Johnson71
  33. Marie Antoinette25
  34. Maximilien Robespierre22
  35. Joseph Fourier12
  36. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingresborn
  37. Antoine Lavoisier37
  38. Mary Wollstonecraft21
  39. Pierre-Simon Laplace31
  40. Louis XVI of France26
  41. Frederick II of Prussia68
  42. Edmund Burke51
  43. Robert Burns21
  44. Samuel Taylor Coleridge8
  45. André-Marie Ampère5
  46. Alessandro Volta35
  47. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert63
  48. William Herschel42
  49. Edward Jenner31
  50. Johann Gottlieb Fichte18
  51. Novalis8
  52. John Dalton14
  53. Alexander I of Russia3
  54. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck36
  55. George III of Great Britain42
  56. Carl von Clausewitzborn
  57. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing51
  58. Maria Theresa of Austria63 †
  59. Giacomo Casanova55
  60. Marquis de Sade40
  61. Jeremy Bentham32
  62. Thomas Robert Malthus14
  63. Edward Gibbon43
  64. Horatio Nelson22
  65. Joseph-Louis Lagrange44
  66. Alexander Hamilton23
  67. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington11
  68. Johann Gottfried Herder36
  69. Humphry Davy2
  70. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb44
  71. Hans Christian Ørsted3
  72. Gregory XVI15
  73. Wilhelm von Humboldt13
  74. David Ricardo8
  75. Isabelle de Charrière40
  76. Pius VII38
  77. William IV15
  78. Friedrich Hölderlin10
  79. Amedeo Avogadro4
  80. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais48
  81. Klemens von Metternich7
  82. Carlo Goldoni73
  83. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord26
  84. Paul I of Russia26
  85. Jacques-Louis David32
  86. George IV of the United Kingdom18
  87. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand12
  88. Joseph Priestley47
  89. Georges Danton21
  90. Leo XII20
  91. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling5
  92. E. T. A. Hoffmann4
  93. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon73
  94. Thomas Young7
  95. Caspar David Friedrich6
  96. Pius VI63
  97. Henry Cavendish49
  98. Germaine de Staël14