Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1748?

52 of the people we track were surely alive in 1748. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1748: Jeremy Bentham and Jacques-Louis David.

  1. George Washington16
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach63
  3. Voltaire54
  4. Immanuel Kant24
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau36
  6. Thomas Jefferson5
  7. Adam Smith25
  8. Benjamin Franklin42
  9. Carl Linnaeus41
  10. Leonhard Euler41
  11. John Adams13
  12. James Cook20
  13. Francisco Goya2
  14. George Frideric Handel63
  15. Montesquieu59
  16. James Watt12
  17. David Hume37
  18. Joseph Haydn16
  19. Catherine II of Russia19
  20. Denis Diderot35
  21. Thomas Paine11
  22. Samuel Johnson39
  23. Antoine Lavoisier5
  24. Frederick II of Prussia36
  25. Edmund Burke19
  26. Alessandro Volta3
  27. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert31
  28. William Herschel10
  29. George Berkeley63
  30. Mikhail Lomonosov37
  31. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck4
  32. George III of Great Britain10
  33. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing19
  34. Louis XV of France38
  35. Maria Theresa of Austria31
  36. Giacomo Casanova23
  37. Marquis de Sade8
  38. Jeremy Benthamborn
  39. Edward Gibbon11
  40. Joseph-Louis Lagrange12
  41. Johann Gottfried Herder4
  42. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb12
  43. Isabelle de Charrière8
  44. Pius VII6
  45. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais16
  46. Carlo Goldoni41
  47. Jacques-Louis Davidborn
  48. Joseph Priestley15
  49. Benedict XIV73
  50. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon41
  51. Pius VI31
  52. Henry Cavendish17