Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1793?

109 of the people we track were surely alive in 1793. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1793: Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI of France and Carlo Goldoni.

  1. Napoleon24
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe44
  3. George Washington61
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven21–25
  5. Immanuel Kant69
  6. Thomas Jefferson50
  7. Lord Byron5
  8. Jane Austen18
  9. Carl Friedrich Gauss16
  10. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel23
  11. John Adams58
  12. Francisco Goya47
  13. Friedrich Schiller34
  14. Michael Faraday2
  15. Katsushika Hokusai33
  16. James Madison42
  17. Simón Bolívar10
  18. Arthur Schopenhauer5
  19. John Quincy Adams26
  20. Andrew Jackson26
  21. William Blake36
  22. James Watt57
  23. Joseph Haydn61
  24. James Monroe35
  25. Catherine II of Russia64
  26. Martin Van Buren11
  27. Zachary Taylor9
  28. James Buchanan2
  29. John Tyler3
  30. Percy Bysshe Shelley1
  31. Alexander von Humboldt24
  32. William Wordsworth23
  33. William Henry Harrison20
  34. Walter Scott22
  35. Stendhal10
  36. Thomas Paine56
  37. Marie Antoinette37 †
  38. Maximilien Robespierre35
  39. Joseph Fourier25
  40. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres13
  41. Antoine Lavoisier50
  42. Mary Wollstonecraft34
  43. Pierre-Simon Laplace44
  44. Louis XVI of France38 †
  45. Edmund Burke64
  46. Robert Burns34
  47. Samuel Taylor Coleridge21
  48. André-Marie Ampère18
  49. Alessandro Volta48
  50. William Herschel55
  51. Edward Jenner44
  52. Johann Gottlieb Fichte31
  53. Novalis21
  54. Charles Babbage2
  55. John Dalton27
  56. Alexander I of Russia16
  57. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck49
  58. Washington Irving10
  59. Alphonse de Lamartine3
  60. Pius IX1
  61. George III of Great Britain55
  62. Carl von Clausewitz13
  63. Alessandro Manzoni8
  64. Gioachino Rossini1
  65. Giacomo Casanova68
  66. Marquis de Sade53
  67. Jeremy Bentham45
  68. Thomas Robert Malthus27
  69. Edward Gibbon56
  70. Horatio Nelson35
  71. Joseph-Louis Lagrange57
  72. Alexander Hamilton36
  73. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington24
  74. Niccolò Paganini11
  75. Georg Simon Ohm4
  76. Johann Gottfried Herder49
  77. Humphry Davy15
  78. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb57
  79. Shaka Zulu4–8
  80. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky1
  81. Hans Christian Ørsted16
  82. Gregory XVI28
  83. Wilhelm von Humboldt26
  84. David Ricardo21
  85. Samuel Finley Breese Morse2
  86. Isabelle de Charrière53
  87. Pius VII51
  88. William IV28
  89. Friedrich Hölderlin23
  90. Amedeo Avogadro17
  91. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais61
  92. Klemens von Metternich20
  93. Carlo Goldoni85 †
  94. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord39
  95. Paul I of Russia39
  96. Jacques-Louis David45
  97. George IV of the United Kingdom31
  98. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand25
  99. Joseph Priestley60
  100. James Fenimore Cooper4
  101. Georges Danton34
  102. Leo XII33
  103. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling18
  104. E. T. A. Hoffmann17
  105. Thomas Young20
  106. Caspar David Friedrich19
  107. Pius VI76
  108. Henry Cavendish62
  109. Germaine de Staël27