Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1732?

38 of the people we track were surely alive in 1732. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1732: George Washington, Joseph Haydn and Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais.

  1. George Washingtonborn
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach47
  3. Voltaire38
  4. Immanuel Kant8
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau20
  6. Adam Smith9
  7. Benjamin Franklin26
  8. Carl Linnaeus25
  9. Leonhard Euler25
  10. James Cook4
  11. Antonio Vivaldi54
  12. Jonathan Swift65
  13. George Frideric Handel47
  14. Montesquieu43
  15. David Hume21
  16. Joseph Haydnborn
  17. Catherine II of Russia3
  18. Denis Diderot19
  19. Samuel Johnson23
  20. Frederick II of Prussia20
  21. Edmund Burke3
  22. Alexander Pope44
  23. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert15
  24. George Berkeley47
  25. Mikhail Lomonosov21
  26. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing3
  27. Louis XV of France22
  28. Maria Theresa of Austria15
  29. Giacomo Casanova7
  30. Edmond Halley76
  31. Anders Celsius31
  32. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchaisborn
  33. Carlo Goldoni25
  34. Benedict XIV57
  35. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon25
  36. Robert Walpole56
  37. Pius VI15
  38. Henry Cavendish1