Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1788?

100 of the people we track were surely alive in 1788. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1788: Lord Byron and Arthur Schopenhauer.

Died in 1788: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

  1. Napoleon19
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe39
  3. George Washington56
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart32
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven16–20
  6. Immanuel Kant64
  7. Thomas Jefferson45
  8. Adam Smith65
  9. Lord Byronborn
  10. Benjamin Franklin82
  11. Jane Austen13
  12. Carl Friedrich Gauss11
  13. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel18
  14. John Adams53
  15. Francisco Goya42
  16. Friedrich Schiller29
  17. Katsushika Hokusai28
  18. James Madison37
  19. Simón Bolívar5
  20. Arthur Schopenhauerborn
  21. John Quincy Adams21
  22. Andrew Jackson21
  23. William Blake31
  24. James Watt52
  25. Joseph Haydn56
  26. James Monroe30
  27. Catherine II of Russia59
  28. Martin Van Buren6
  29. Zachary Taylor4
  30. Alexander von Humboldt19
  31. William Wordsworth18
  32. William Henry Harrison15
  33. Walter Scott17
  34. Stendhal5
  35. Thomas Paine51
  36. Marie Antoinette33
  37. Maximilien Robespierre30
  38. Joseph Fourier20
  39. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres8
  40. Antoine Lavoisier45
  41. Mary Wollstonecraft29
  42. Pierre-Simon Laplace39
  43. Louis XVI of France34
  44. Edmund Burke59
  45. Robert Burns29
  46. Samuel Taylor Coleridge16
  47. André-Marie Ampère13
  48. Alessandro Volta43
  49. William Herschel50
  50. Edward Jenner39
  51. Johann Gottlieb Fichte26
  52. Novalis16
  53. John Dalton22
  54. Alexander I of Russia11
  55. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck44
  56. Washington Irving5
  57. George III of Great Britain50
  58. Carl von Clausewitz8
  59. Alessandro Manzoni3
  60. Giacomo Casanova63
  61. Marquis de Sade48
  62. Jeremy Bentham40
  63. Thomas Robert Malthus22
  64. Edward Gibbon51
  65. Horatio Nelson30
  66. Joseph-Louis Lagrange52
  67. Alexander Hamilton31
  68. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington19
  69. Niccolò Paganini6
  70. Johann Gottfried Herder44
  71. Humphry Davy10
  72. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb52
  73. Hans Christian Ørsted11
  74. Gregory XVI23
  75. Wilhelm von Humboldt21
  76. David Ricardo16
  77. Isabelle de Charrière48
  78. Pius VII46
  79. William IV23
  80. Friedrich Hölderlin18
  81. Amedeo Avogadro12
  82. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais56
  83. Klemens von Metternich15
  84. Carlo Goldoni81
  85. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord34
  86. Paul I of Russia34
  87. Jacques-Louis David40
  88. George IV of the United Kingdom26
  89. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand20
  90. Joseph Priestley55
  91. Georges Danton29
  92. Leo XII28
  93. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling13
  94. E. T. A. Hoffmann12
  95. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon80 †
  96. Thomas Young15
  97. Caspar David Friedrich14
  98. Pius VI71
  99. Henry Cavendish57
  100. Germaine de Staël22