Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1736?

43 of the people we track were surely alive in 1736. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1736: James Watt, Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

  1. George Washington4
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach51
  3. Voltaire42
  4. Immanuel Kant12
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau24
  6. Adam Smith13
  7. Benjamin Franklin30
  8. Carl Linnaeus29
  9. Leonhard Euler29
  10. John Adams1
  11. James Cook8
  12. Antonio Vivaldi58
  13. Jonathan Swift69
  14. George Frideric Handel51
  15. Montesquieu47
  16. James Wattborn
  17. David Hume25
  18. Joseph Haydn4
  19. Catherine II of Russia7
  20. Denis Diderot23
  21. Samuel Johnson27
  22. Frederick II of Prussia24
  23. Edmund Burke7
  24. Alexander Pope48
  25. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert19
  26. George Berkeley51
  27. Mikhail Lomonosov25
  28. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing7
  29. Louis XV of France26
  30. Maria Theresa of Austria19
  31. Giacomo Casanova11
  32. Joseph-Louis Lagrangeborn
  33. Charles-Augustin de Coulombborn
  34. Edmond Halley80
  35. Anders Celsius35
  36. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais4
  37. Carlo Goldoni29
  38. Joseph Priestley3
  39. Benedict XIV61
  40. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon29
  41. Robert Walpole60
  42. Pius VI19
  43. Henry Cavendish5