Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1749?

55 of the people we track were surely alive in 1749. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1749: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Edward Jenner.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goetheborn
  2. George Washington17
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach64
  4. Voltaire55
  5. Immanuel Kant25
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau37
  7. Thomas Jefferson6
  8. Adam Smith26
  9. Benjamin Franklin43
  10. Carl Linnaeus42
  11. Leonhard Euler42
  12. John Adams14
  13. James Cook21
  14. Francisco Goya3
  15. George Frideric Handel64
  16. Montesquieu60
  17. James Watt13
  18. David Hume38
  19. Joseph Haydn17
  20. Catherine II of Russia20
  21. Denis Diderot36
  22. Thomas Paine12
  23. Samuel Johnson40
  24. Antoine Lavoisier6
  25. Pierre-Simon Laplaceborn
  26. Frederick II of Prussia37
  27. Edmund Burke20
  28. Alessandro Volta4
  29. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert32
  30. William Herschel11
  31. Edward Jennerborn
  32. George Berkeley64
  33. Mikhail Lomonosov38
  34. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck5
  35. George III of Great Britain11
  36. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing20
  37. Louis XV of France39
  38. Maria Theresa of Austria32
  39. Giacomo Casanova24
  40. Marquis de Sade9
  41. Jeremy Bentham1
  42. Edward Gibbon12
  43. Joseph-Louis Lagrange13
  44. Johann Gottfried Herder5
  45. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb13
  46. Isabelle de Charrière9
  47. Pius VII7
  48. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais17
  49. Carlo Goldoni42
  50. Jacques-Louis David1
  51. Joseph Priestley16
  52. Benedict XIV74
  53. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon42
  54. Pius VI32
  55. Henry Cavendish18