Who was alive in 1743?
50 of the people we track were surely alive in 1743. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1743: Thomas Jefferson and Antoine Lavoisier.
- George Washington11
- Johann Sebastian Bach58
- Voltaire49
- Immanuel Kant19
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau31
- Thomas Jeffersonborn
- Adam Smith20
- Benjamin Franklin37
- Carl Linnaeus36
- Leonhard Euler36
- John Adams8
- James Cook15
- Jonathan Swift76
- George Frideric Handel58
- Montesquieu54
- James Watt7
- David Hume32
- Joseph Haydn11
- Catherine II of Russia14
- Denis Diderot30
- Thomas Paine6
- Samuel Johnson34
- Antoine Lavoisierborn
- Frederick II of Prussia31
- Edmund Burke14
- Alexander Pope55
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert26
- William Herschel5
- George Berkeley58
- Mikhail Lomonosov32
- George III of Great Britain5
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing14
- Louis XV of France33
- Maria Theresa of Austria26
- Giacomo Casanova18
- Marquis de Sade3
- Edward Gibbon6
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange7
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb7
- Anders Celsius42
- Isabelle de Charrière3
- Pius VII1
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais11
- Carlo Goldoni36
- Joseph Priestley10
- Benedict XIV68
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon36
- Robert Walpole67
- Pius VI26
- Henry Cavendish12