Who was alive in 1765?
71 of the people we track were surely alive in 1765. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1765: Gregory XVI and William IV.
Died in 1765: Mikhail Lomonosov.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe16
- George Washington33
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart9
- Voltaire71
- Immanuel Kant41
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau53
- Thomas Jefferson22
- Adam Smith42
- Benjamin Franklin59
- Carl Linnaeus58
- Leonhard Euler58
- John Adams30
- James Cook37
- Francisco Goya19
- Friedrich Schiller6
- Katsushika Hokusai5
- James Madison14
- William Blake8
- James Watt29
- David Hume54
- Joseph Haydn33
- James Monroe7
- Catherine II of Russia36
- Denis Diderot52
- Thomas Paine28
- Samuel Johnson56
- Marie Antoinette10
- Maximilien Robespierre7
- Antoine Lavoisier22
- Mary Wollstonecraft6
- Pierre-Simon Laplace16
- Louis XVI of France11
- Frederick II of Prussia53
- Edmund Burke36
- Robert Burns6
- Alessandro Volta20
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert48
- William Herschel27
- Edward Jenner16
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte3
- Mikhail Lomonosov53 †
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck21
- George III of Great Britain27
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing36
- Louis XV of France55
- Maria Theresa of Austria48
- Giacomo Casanova40
- Marquis de Sade25
- Jeremy Bentham17
- Edward Gibbon28
- Horatio Nelson7
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange29
- Alexander Hamilton8
- Johann Gottfried Herder21
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb29
- Gregory XVIborn
- Isabelle de Charrière25
- Pius VII23
- William IVborn
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais33
- Carlo Goldoni58
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord11
- Paul I of Russia11
- Jacques-Louis David17
- George IV of the United Kingdom3
- Joseph Priestley32
- Georges Danton6
- Leo XII5
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon58
- Pius VI48
- Henry Cavendish34