Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1733?

39 of the people we track were surely alive in 1733. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1733: Joseph Priestley.

  1. George Washington1
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach48
  3. Voltaire39
  4. Immanuel Kant9
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau21
  6. Adam Smith10
  7. Benjamin Franklin27
  8. Carl Linnaeus26
  9. Leonhard Euler26
  10. James Cook5
  11. Antonio Vivaldi55
  12. Jonathan Swift66
  13. George Frideric Handel48
  14. Montesquieu44
  15. David Hume22
  16. Joseph Haydn1
  17. Catherine II of Russia4
  18. Denis Diderot20
  19. Samuel Johnson24
  20. Frederick II of Prussia21
  21. Edmund Burke4
  22. Alexander Pope45
  23. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert16
  24. George Berkeley48
  25. Mikhail Lomonosov22
  26. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing4
  27. Louis XV of France23
  28. Maria Theresa of Austria16
  29. Giacomo Casanova8
  30. Edmond Halley77
  31. Anders Celsius32
  32. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais1
  33. Carlo Goldoni26
  34. Joseph Priestleyborn
  35. Benedict XIV58
  36. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon26
  37. Robert Walpole57
  38. Pius VI16
  39. Henry Cavendish2