Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1754?

57 of the people we track were surely alive in 1754. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1754: Louis XVI of France, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and Paul I of Russia.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe5
  2. George Washington22
  3. Voltaire60
  4. Immanuel Kant30
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau42
  6. Thomas Jefferson11
  7. Adam Smith31
  8. Benjamin Franklin48
  9. Carl Linnaeus47
  10. Leonhard Euler47
  11. John Adams19
  12. James Cook26
  13. Francisco Goya8
  14. James Madison3
  15. George Frideric Handel69
  16. Montesquieu65
  17. James Watt18
  18. David Hume43
  19. Joseph Haydn22
  20. Catherine II of Russia25
  21. Denis Diderot41
  22. Thomas Paine17
  23. Samuel Johnson45
  24. Antoine Lavoisier11
  25. Pierre-Simon Laplace5
  26. Louis XVI of Franceborn
  27. Frederick II of Prussia42
  28. Edmund Burke25
  29. Alessandro Volta9
  30. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert37
  31. William Herschel16
  32. Edward Jenner5
  33. Mikhail Lomonosov43
  34. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck10
  35. George III of Great Britain16
  36. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing25
  37. Louis XV of France44
  38. Maria Theresa of Austria37
  39. Giacomo Casanova29
  40. Marquis de Sade14
  41. Jeremy Bentham6
  42. Edward Gibbon17
  43. Joseph-Louis Lagrange18
  44. Johann Gottfried Herder10
  45. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb18
  46. Isabelle de Charrière14
  47. Pius VII12
  48. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais22
  49. Carlo Goldoni47
  50. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgordborn
  51. Paul I of Russiaborn
  52. Jacques-Louis David6
  53. Joseph Priestley21
  54. Benedict XIV79
  55. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon47
  56. Pius VI37
  57. Henry Cavendish23