Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1757?

60 of the people we track were surely alive in 1757. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1757: William Blake and Alexander Hamilton.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe8
  2. George Washington25
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1
  4. Voltaire63
  5. Immanuel Kant33
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau45
  7. Thomas Jefferson14
  8. Adam Smith34
  9. Benjamin Franklin51
  10. Carl Linnaeus50
  11. Leonhard Euler50
  12. John Adams22
  13. James Cook29
  14. Francisco Goya11
  15. James Madison6
  16. William Blakeborn
  17. George Frideric Handel72
  18. James Watt21
  19. David Hume46
  20. Joseph Haydn25
  21. Catherine II of Russia28
  22. Denis Diderot44
  23. Thomas Paine20
  24. Samuel Johnson48
  25. Marie Antoinette2
  26. Antoine Lavoisier14
  27. Pierre-Simon Laplace8
  28. Louis XVI of France3
  29. Frederick II of Prussia45
  30. Edmund Burke28
  31. Alessandro Volta12
  32. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert40
  33. William Herschel19
  34. Edward Jenner8
  35. Mikhail Lomonosov46
  36. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck13
  37. George III of Great Britain19
  38. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing28
  39. Louis XV of France47
  40. Maria Theresa of Austria40
  41. Giacomo Casanova32
  42. Marquis de Sade17
  43. Jeremy Bentham9
  44. Edward Gibbon20
  45. Joseph-Louis Lagrange21
  46. Alexander Hamiltonborn
  47. Johann Gottfried Herder13
  48. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb21
  49. Isabelle de Charrière17
  50. Pius VII15
  51. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais25
  52. Carlo Goldoni50
  53. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord3
  54. Paul I of Russia3
  55. Jacques-Louis David9
  56. Joseph Priestley24
  57. Benedict XIV82
  58. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon50
  59. Pius VI40
  60. Henry Cavendish26