Who was alive in 1796?
106 of the people we track were surely alive in 1796. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1796: Nicholas I of Russia.
Died in 1796: Catherine II of Russia and Robert Burns.
- Napoleon27
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe47
- George Washington64
- Ludwig van Beethoven24–28
- Immanuel Kant72
- Thomas Jefferson53
- Lord Byron8
- Jane Austen21
- Carl Friedrich Gauss19
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel26
- John Adams61
- Francisco Goya50
- Friedrich Schiller37
- Michael Faraday5
- Katsushika Hokusai36
- James Madison45
- Simón Bolívar13
- Arthur Schopenhauer8
- John Quincy Adams29
- Andrew Jackson29
- William Blake39
- James Watt60
- Joseph Haydn64
- James Monroe38
- Catherine II of Russia67 †
- Martin Van Buren14
- Zachary Taylor12
- James Buchanan5
- John Keats1
- James K. Polk1
- John Tyler6
- Percy Bysshe Shelley4
- Alexander von Humboldt27
- William Wordsworth26
- William Henry Harrison23
- Walter Scott25
- Stendhal13
- Thomas Paine59
- Joseph Fourier28
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres16
- Mary Wollstonecraft37
- Pierre-Simon Laplace47
- Edmund Burke67
- Robert Burns37 †
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge24
- André-Marie Ampère21
- Thomas Carlyle1
- Alessandro Volta51
- William Herschel58
- Edward Jenner47
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte34
- Novalis24
- Charles Babbage5
- John Dalton30
- Alexander I of Russia19
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck52
- Washington Irving13
- Alphonse de Lamartine6
- Pius IX4
- George III of Great Britain58
- Carl von Clausewitz16
- Alessandro Manzoni11
- Gioachino Rossini4
- Giacomo Casanova71
- Marquis de Sade56
- Jeremy Bentham48
- Thomas Robert Malthus30
- Nicholas I of Russiaborn
- Horatio Nelson38
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange60
- Alexander Hamilton39
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington27
- Niccolò Paganini14
- Georg Simon Ohm7
- Johann Gottfried Herder52
- Humphry Davy18
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb60
- Shaka Zulu7–11
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky4
- Hans Christian Ørsted19
- Gregory XVI31
- Wilhelm von Humboldt29
- David Ricardo24
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse5
- Isabelle de Charrière56
- Pius VII54
- William IV31
- Friedrich Hölderlin26
- Amedeo Avogadro20
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais64
- Klemens von Metternich23
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord42
- Paul I of Russia42
- Jacques-Louis David48
- George IV of the United Kingdom34
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand28
- Joseph Priestley63
- James Fenimore Cooper7
- Leo XII36
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling21
- E. T. A. Hoffmann20
- Thomas Young23
- Caspar David Friedrich22
- Pius VI79
- Henry Cavendish65
- Germaine de Staël30