Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1760?

67 of the people we track were surely alive in 1760. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1760: Katsushika Hokusai and Leo XII.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe11
  2. George Washington28
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart4
  4. Voltaire66
  5. Immanuel Kant36
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau48
  7. Thomas Jefferson17
  8. Adam Smith37
  9. Benjamin Franklin54
  10. Carl Linnaeus53
  11. Leonhard Euler53
  12. John Adams25
  13. James Cook32
  14. Francisco Goya14
  15. Friedrich Schiller1
  16. Katsushika Hokusaiborn
  17. James Madison9
  18. William Blake3
  19. James Watt24
  20. David Hume49
  21. Joseph Haydn28
  22. James Monroe2
  23. Catherine II of Russia31
  24. Denis Diderot47
  25. Thomas Paine23
  26. Samuel Johnson51
  27. Marie Antoinette5
  28. Maximilien Robespierre2
  29. Antoine Lavoisier17
  30. Mary Wollstonecraft1
  31. Pierre-Simon Laplace11
  32. Louis XVI of France6
  33. Frederick II of Prussia48
  34. Edmund Burke31
  35. Robert Burns1
  36. Alessandro Volta15
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert43
  38. William Herschel22
  39. Edward Jenner11
  40. Mikhail Lomonosov49
  41. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck16
  42. George III of Great Britain22
  43. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing31
  44. Louis XV of France50
  45. Maria Theresa of Austria43
  46. Giacomo Casanova35
  47. Marquis de Sade20
  48. Jeremy Bentham12
  49. Edward Gibbon23
  50. Horatio Nelson2
  51. Joseph-Louis Lagrange24
  52. Alexander Hamilton3
  53. Johann Gottfried Herder16
  54. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb24
  55. Isabelle de Charrière20
  56. Pius VII18
  57. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais28
  58. Carlo Goldoni53
  59. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord6
  60. Paul I of Russia6
  61. Jacques-Louis David12
  62. Joseph Priestley27
  63. Georges Danton1
  64. Leo XIIborn
  65. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon53
  66. Pius VI43
  67. Henry Cavendish29