Who was alive in 1791?
106 of the people we track were surely alive in 1791. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1791: Michael Faraday, James Buchanan, Charles Babbage and Samuel Finley Breese Morse.
Died in 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- Napoleon22
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe42
- George Washington59
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart35 †
- Ludwig van Beethoven19–23
- Immanuel Kant67
- Thomas Jefferson48
- Lord Byron3
- Jane Austen16
- Carl Friedrich Gauss14
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel21
- John Adams56
- Francisco Goya45
- Friedrich Schiller32
- Michael Faradayborn
- Katsushika Hokusai31
- James Madison40
- Simón Bolívar8
- Arthur Schopenhauer3
- John Quincy Adams24
- Andrew Jackson24
- William Blake34
- James Watt55
- Joseph Haydn59
- James Monroe33
- Catherine II of Russia62
- Martin Van Buren9
- Zachary Taylor7
- James Buchananborn
- John Tyler1
- Alexander von Humboldt22
- William Wordsworth21
- William Henry Harrison18
- Walter Scott20
- Stendhal8
- Thomas Paine54
- Marie Antoinette36
- Maximilien Robespierre33
- Joseph Fourier23
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres11
- Antoine Lavoisier48
- Mary Wollstonecraft32
- Pierre-Simon Laplace42
- Louis XVI of France37
- Edmund Burke62
- Robert Burns32
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge19
- André-Marie Ampère16
- Alessandro Volta46
- William Herschel53
- Edward Jenner42
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte29
- Novalis19
- Charles Babbageborn
- John Dalton25
- Alexander I of Russia14
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck47
- Washington Irving8
- Alphonse de Lamartine1
- George III of Great Britain53
- Carl von Clausewitz11
- Alessandro Manzoni6
- Giacomo Casanova66
- Marquis de Sade51
- Jeremy Bentham43
- Thomas Robert Malthus25
- Edward Gibbon54
- Horatio Nelson33
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange55
- Alexander Hamilton34
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington22
- Niccolò Paganini9
- Georg Simon Ohm2
- Johann Gottfried Herder47
- Humphry Davy13
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb55
- Shaka Zulu2–6
- Hans Christian Ørsted14
- Gregory XVI26
- Wilhelm von Humboldt24
- David Ricardo19
- Samuel Finley Breese Morseborn
- Isabelle de Charrière51
- Pius VII49
- William IV26
- Friedrich Hölderlin21
- Amedeo Avogadro15
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais59
- Klemens von Metternich18
- Carlo Goldoni84
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord37
- Paul I of Russia37
- Jacques-Louis David43
- George IV of the United Kingdom29
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand23
- Joseph Priestley58
- James Fenimore Cooper2
- Georges Danton32
- Leo XII31
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling16
- E. T. A. Hoffmann15
- Thomas Young18
- Caspar David Friedrich17
- Pius VI74
- Henry Cavendish60
- Germaine de Staël25