Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1737?

45 of the people we track were surely alive in 1737. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1737: Thomas Paine and Edward Gibbon.

  1. George Washington5
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach52
  3. Voltaire43
  4. Immanuel Kant13
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau25
  6. Adam Smith14
  7. Benjamin Franklin31
  8. Carl Linnaeus30
  9. Leonhard Euler30
  10. John Adams2
  11. James Cook9
  12. Antonio Vivaldi59
  13. Jonathan Swift70
  14. George Frideric Handel52
  15. Montesquieu48
  16. James Watt1
  17. David Hume26
  18. Joseph Haydn5
  19. Catherine II of Russia8
  20. Denis Diderot24
  21. Thomas Paineborn
  22. Samuel Johnson28
  23. Frederick II of Prussia25
  24. Edmund Burke8
  25. Alexander Pope49
  26. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert20
  27. George Berkeley52
  28. Mikhail Lomonosov26
  29. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing8
  30. Louis XV of France27
  31. Maria Theresa of Austria20
  32. Giacomo Casanova12
  33. Edward Gibbonborn
  34. Joseph-Louis Lagrange1
  35. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb1
  36. Edmond Halley81
  37. Anders Celsius36
  38. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais5
  39. Carlo Goldoni30
  40. Joseph Priestley4
  41. Benedict XIV62
  42. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon30
  43. Robert Walpole61
  44. Pius VI20
  45. Henry Cavendish6