Who was alive in 1756?

58 of the people we track were surely alive in 1756. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe7
2. George Washington24
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartborn
4. Voltaire62
5. Immanuel Kant32
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau44
7. Thomas Jefferson13
8. Adam Smith33
9. Benjamin Franklin50
10. Carl Linnaeus49
11. Leonhard Euler49
12. John Adams21
13. James Cook28
14. Francisco Goya10
15. James Madison5
16. George Frideric Handel71
17. James Watt20
18. David Hume45
19. Joseph Haydn24
20. Catherine II of Russia27
21. Denis Diderot43
22. Thomas Paine19
23. Samuel Johnson47
24. Marie Antoinette1
25. Antoine Lavoisier13
26. Pierre-Simon Laplace7
27. Louis XVI of France2
28. Frederick II of Prussia44
29. Edmund Burke27
30. Alessandro Volta11
31. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert39
32. William Herschel18
33. Edward Jenner7
34. Mikhail Lomonosov45
35. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck12
36. George III of Great Britain18
37. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing27
38. Louis XV of France46
39. Maria Theresa of Austria39
40. Giacomo Casanova31
41. Marquis de Sade16
42. Jeremy Bentham8
43. Edward Gibbon19
44. Joseph-Louis Lagrange20
45. Johann Gottfried Herder12
46. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb20
47. Isabelle de Charrière16
48. Pius VII14
49. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais24
50. Carlo Goldoni49
51. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord2
52. Paul I of Russia2
53. Jacques-Louis David8
54. Joseph Priestley23
55. Benedict XIV81
56. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon49
57. Pius VI39
58. Henry Cavendish25