Who was alive in 1784?
100 of the people we track were surely alive in 1784. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1784: Zachary Taylor.
Died in 1784: Denis Diderot and Samuel Johnson.
- Napoleon15
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe35
- George Washington52
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart28
- Ludwig van Beethoven12–16
- Immanuel Kant60
- Thomas Jefferson41
- Adam Smith61
- Benjamin Franklin78
- Jane Austen9
- Carl Friedrich Gauss7
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel14
- John Adams49
- Francisco Goya38
- Friedrich Schiller25
- Katsushika Hokusai24
- James Madison33
- Simón Bolívar1
- John Quincy Adams17
- Andrew Jackson17
- William Blake27
- James Watt48
- Joseph Haydn52
- James Monroe26
- Catherine II of Russia55
- Denis Diderot70 †
- Martin Van Buren2
- Zachary Taylorborn
- Alexander von Humboldt15
- William Wordsworth14
- William Henry Harrison11
- Walter Scott13
- Stendhal1
- Thomas Paine47
- Samuel Johnson75 †
- Marie Antoinette29
- Maximilien Robespierre26
- Joseph Fourier16
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres4
- Antoine Lavoisier41
- Mary Wollstonecraft25
- Pierre-Simon Laplace35
- Louis XVI of France30
- Frederick II of Prussia72
- Edmund Burke55
- Robert Burns25
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge12
- André-Marie Ampère9
- Alessandro Volta39
- William Herschel46
- Edward Jenner35
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte22
- Novalis12
- John Dalton18
- Alexander I of Russia7
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck40
- Washington Irving1
- George III of Great Britain46
- Carl von Clausewitz4
- Giacomo Casanova59
- Marquis de Sade44
- Jeremy Bentham36
- Thomas Robert Malthus18
- Edward Gibbon47
- Horatio Nelson26
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange48
- Alexander Hamilton27
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington15
- Niccolò Paganini2
- Johann Gottfried Herder40
- Humphry Davy6
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb48
- Hans Christian Ørsted7
- Gregory XVI19
- Wilhelm von Humboldt17
- David Ricardo12
- Isabelle de Charrière44
- Pius VII42
- William IV19
- Friedrich Hölderlin14
- Amedeo Avogadro8
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais52
- Klemens von Metternich11
- Carlo Goldoni77
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord30
- Paul I of Russia30
- Jacques-Louis David36
- George IV of the United Kingdom22
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand16
- Joseph Priestley51
- Georges Danton25
- Leo XII24
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling9
- E. T. A. Hoffmann8
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon77
- Thomas Young11
- Caspar David Friedrich10
- Pius VI67
- Henry Cavendish53
- Germaine de Staël18