Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1763?

69 of the people we track were surely alive in 1763. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe14
  2. George Washington31
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart7
  4. Voltaire69
  5. Immanuel Kant39
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau51
  7. Thomas Jefferson20
  8. Adam Smith40
  9. Benjamin Franklin57
  10. Carl Linnaeus56
  11. Leonhard Euler56
  12. John Adams28
  13. James Cook35
  14. Francisco Goya17
  15. Friedrich Schiller4
  16. Katsushika Hokusai3
  17. James Madison12
  18. William Blake6
  19. James Watt27
  20. David Hume52
  21. Joseph Haydn31
  22. James Monroe5
  23. Catherine II of Russia34
  24. Denis Diderot50
  25. Thomas Paine26
  26. Samuel Johnson54
  27. Marie Antoinette8
  28. Maximilien Robespierre5
  29. Antoine Lavoisier20
  30. Mary Wollstonecraft4
  31. Pierre-Simon Laplace14
  32. Louis XVI of France9
  33. Frederick II of Prussia51
  34. Edmund Burke34
  35. Robert Burns4
  36. Alessandro Volta18
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert46
  38. William Herschel25
  39. Edward Jenner14
  40. Johann Gottlieb Fichte1
  41. Mikhail Lomonosov52
  42. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck19
  43. George III of Great Britain25
  44. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing34
  45. Louis XV of France53
  46. Maria Theresa of Austria46
  47. Giacomo Casanova38
  48. Marquis de Sade23
  49. Jeremy Bentham15
  50. Edward Gibbon26
  51. Horatio Nelson5
  52. Joseph-Louis Lagrange27
  53. Alexander Hamilton6
  54. Johann Gottfried Herder19
  55. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb27
  56. Isabelle de Charrière23
  57. Pius VII21
  58. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais31
  59. Carlo Goldoni56
  60. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord9
  61. Paul I of Russia9
  62. Jacques-Louis David15
  63. George IV of the United Kingdom1
  64. Joseph Priestley30
  65. Georges Danton4
  66. Leo XII3
  67. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon56
  68. Pius VI46
  69. Henry Cavendish32