Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1746?

50 of the people we track were surely alive in 1746. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1746: Francisco Goya.

  1. George Washington14
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach61
  3. Voltaire52
  4. Immanuel Kant22
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau34
  6. Thomas Jefferson3
  7. Adam Smith23
  8. Benjamin Franklin40
  9. Carl Linnaeus39
  10. Leonhard Euler39
  11. John Adams11
  12. James Cook18
  13. Francisco Goyaborn
  14. George Frideric Handel61
  15. Montesquieu57
  16. James Watt10
  17. David Hume35
  18. Joseph Haydn14
  19. Catherine II of Russia17
  20. Denis Diderot33
  21. Thomas Paine9
  22. Samuel Johnson37
  23. Antoine Lavoisier3
  24. Frederick II of Prussia34
  25. Edmund Burke17
  26. Alessandro Volta1
  27. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert29
  28. William Herschel8
  29. George Berkeley61
  30. Mikhail Lomonosov35
  31. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck2
  32. George III of Great Britain8
  33. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing17
  34. Louis XV of France36
  35. Maria Theresa of Austria29
  36. Giacomo Casanova21
  37. Marquis de Sade6
  38. Edward Gibbon9
  39. Joseph-Louis Lagrange10
  40. Johann Gottfried Herder2
  41. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb10
  42. Isabelle de Charrière6
  43. Pius VII4
  44. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais14
  45. Carlo Goldoni39
  46. Joseph Priestley13
  47. Benedict XIV71
  48. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon39
  49. Pius VI29
  50. Henry Cavendish15