Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1790?

104 of the people we track were surely alive in 1790. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1790: John Tyler and Alphonse de Lamartine.

Died in 1790: Adam Smith and Benjamin Franklin.

  1. Napoleon21
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe41
  3. George Washington58
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart34
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven18–22
  6. Immanuel Kant66
  7. Thomas Jefferson47
  8. Adam Smith67 †
  9. Lord Byron2
  10. Benjamin Franklin84 †
  11. Jane Austen15
  12. Carl Friedrich Gauss13
  13. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel20
  14. John Adams55
  15. Francisco Goya44
  16. Friedrich Schiller31
  17. Katsushika Hokusai30
  18. James Madison39
  19. Simón Bolívar7
  20. Arthur Schopenhauer2
  21. John Quincy Adams23
  22. Andrew Jackson23
  23. William Blake33
  24. James Watt54
  25. Joseph Haydn58
  26. James Monroe32
  27. Catherine II of Russia61
  28. Martin Van Buren8
  29. Zachary Taylor6
  30. John Tylerborn
  31. Alexander von Humboldt21
  32. William Wordsworth20
  33. William Henry Harrison17
  34. Walter Scott19
  35. Stendhal7
  36. Thomas Paine53
  37. Marie Antoinette35
  38. Maximilien Robespierre32
  39. Joseph Fourier22
  40. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres10
  41. Antoine Lavoisier47
  42. Mary Wollstonecraft31
  43. Pierre-Simon Laplace41
  44. Louis XVI of France36
  45. Edmund Burke61
  46. Robert Burns31
  47. Samuel Taylor Coleridge18
  48. André-Marie Ampère15
  49. Alessandro Volta45
  50. William Herschel52
  51. Edward Jenner41
  52. Johann Gottlieb Fichte28
  53. Novalis18
  54. John Dalton24
  55. Alexander I of Russia13
  56. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck46
  57. Washington Irving7
  58. Alphonse de Lamartineborn
  59. George III of Great Britain52
  60. Carl von Clausewitz10
  61. Alessandro Manzoni5
  62. Giacomo Casanova65
  63. Marquis de Sade50
  64. Jeremy Bentham42
  65. Thomas Robert Malthus24
  66. Edward Gibbon53
  67. Horatio Nelson32
  68. Joseph-Louis Lagrange54
  69. Alexander Hamilton33
  70. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington21
  71. Niccolò Paganini8
  72. Georg Simon Ohm1
  73. Johann Gottfried Herder46
  74. Humphry Davy12
  75. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb54
  76. Shaka Zulu1–5
  77. Hans Christian Ørsted13
  78. Gregory XVI25
  79. Wilhelm von Humboldt23
  80. David Ricardo18
  81. Isabelle de Charrière50
  82. Pius VII48
  83. William IV25
  84. Friedrich Hölderlin20
  85. Amedeo Avogadro14
  86. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais58
  87. Klemens von Metternich17
  88. Carlo Goldoni83
  89. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord36
  90. Paul I of Russia36
  91. Jacques-Louis David42
  92. George IV of the United Kingdom28
  93. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand22
  94. Joseph Priestley57
  95. James Fenimore Cooper1
  96. Georges Danton31
  97. Leo XII30
  98. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling15
  99. E. T. A. Hoffmann14
  100. Thomas Young17
  101. Caspar David Friedrich16
  102. Pius VI73
  103. Henry Cavendish59
  104. Germaine de Staël24