Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1758?

63 of the people we track were surely alive in 1758. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1758: James Monroe, Maximilien Robespierre and Horatio Nelson.

Died in 1758: Benedict XIV.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe9
  2. George Washington26
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart2
  4. Voltaire64
  5. Immanuel Kant34
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau46
  7. Thomas Jefferson15
  8. Adam Smith35
  9. Benjamin Franklin52
  10. Carl Linnaeus51
  11. Leonhard Euler51
  12. John Adams23
  13. James Cook30
  14. Francisco Goya12
  15. James Madison7
  16. William Blake1
  17. George Frideric Handel73
  18. James Watt22
  19. David Hume47
  20. Joseph Haydn26
  21. James Monroeborn
  22. Catherine II of Russia29
  23. Denis Diderot45
  24. Thomas Paine21
  25. Samuel Johnson49
  26. Marie Antoinette3
  27. Maximilien Robespierreborn
  28. Antoine Lavoisier15
  29. Pierre-Simon Laplace9
  30. Louis XVI of France4
  31. Frederick II of Prussia46
  32. Edmund Burke29
  33. Alessandro Volta13
  34. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert41
  35. William Herschel20
  36. Edward Jenner9
  37. Mikhail Lomonosov47
  38. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck14
  39. George III of Great Britain20
  40. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing29
  41. Louis XV of France48
  42. Maria Theresa of Austria41
  43. Giacomo Casanova33
  44. Marquis de Sade18
  45. Jeremy Bentham10
  46. Edward Gibbon21
  47. Horatio Nelsonborn
  48. Joseph-Louis Lagrange22
  49. Alexander Hamilton1
  50. Johann Gottfried Herder14
  51. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb22
  52. Isabelle de Charrière18
  53. Pius VII16
  54. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais26
  55. Carlo Goldoni51
  56. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord4
  57. Paul I of Russia4
  58. Jacques-Louis David10
  59. Joseph Priestley25
  60. Benedict XIV83 †
  61. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon51
  62. Pius VI41
  63. Henry Cavendish27