Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1745?

51 of the people we track were surely alive in 1745. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1745: Alessandro Volta.

Died in 1745: Jonathan Swift and Robert Walpole.

  1. George Washington13
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach60
  3. Voltaire51
  4. Immanuel Kant21
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau33
  6. Thomas Jefferson2
  7. Adam Smith22
  8. Benjamin Franklin39
  9. Carl Linnaeus38
  10. Leonhard Euler38
  11. John Adams10
  12. James Cook17
  13. Jonathan Swift77 †
  14. George Frideric Handel60
  15. Montesquieu56
  16. James Watt9
  17. David Hume34
  18. Joseph Haydn13
  19. Catherine II of Russia16
  20. Denis Diderot32
  21. Thomas Paine8
  22. Samuel Johnson36
  23. Antoine Lavoisier2
  24. Frederick II of Prussia33
  25. Edmund Burke16
  26. Alessandro Voltaborn
  27. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert28
  28. William Herschel7
  29. George Berkeley60
  30. Mikhail Lomonosov34
  31. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck1
  32. George III of Great Britain7
  33. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing16
  34. Louis XV of France35
  35. Maria Theresa of Austria28
  36. Giacomo Casanova20
  37. Marquis de Sade5
  38. Edward Gibbon8
  39. Joseph-Louis Lagrange9
  40. Johann Gottfried Herder1
  41. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb9
  42. Isabelle de Charrière5
  43. Pius VII3
  44. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais13
  45. Carlo Goldoni38
  46. Joseph Priestley12
  47. Benedict XIV70
  48. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon38
  49. Robert Walpole68 †
  50. Pius VI28
  51. Henry Cavendish14