Who Was Alive

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.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe16
  2. George Washington33
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart9
  4. Voltaire71
  5. Immanuel Kant41
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau53
  7. Thomas Jefferson22
  8. Adam Smith42
  9. Benjamin Franklin59
  10. Carl Linnaeus58
  11. Leonhard Euler58
  12. John Adams30
  13. James Cook37
  14. Francisco Goya19
  15. Friedrich Schiller6
  16. Katsushika Hokusai5
  17. James Madison14
  18. William Blake8
  19. James Watt29
  20. David Hume54
  21. Joseph Haydn33
  22. James Monroe7
  23. Catherine II of Russia36
  24. Denis Diderot52
  25. Thomas Paine28
  26. Samuel Johnson56
  27. Marie Antoinette10
  28. Maximilien Robespierre7
  29. Antoine Lavoisier22
  30. Mary Wollstonecraft6
  31. Pierre-Simon Laplace16
  32. Louis XVI of France11
  33. Frederick II of Prussia53
  34. Edmund Burke36
  35. Robert Burns6
  36. Alessandro Volta20
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert48
  38. William Herschel27
  39. Edward Jenner16
  40. Johann Gottlieb Fichte3
  41. Mikhail Lomonosov53 †
  42. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck21
  43. George III of Great Britain27
  44. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing36
  45. Louis XV of France55
  46. Maria Theresa of Austria48
  47. Giacomo Casanova40
  48. Marquis de Sade25
  49. Jeremy Bentham17
  50. Edward Gibbon28
  51. Horatio Nelson7
  52. Joseph-Louis Lagrange29
  53. Alexander Hamilton8
  54. Johann Gottfried Herder21
  55. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb29
  56. Gregory XVIborn
  57. Isabelle de Charrière25
  58. Pius VII23
  59. William IVborn
  60. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais33
  61. Carlo Goldoni58
  62. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord11
  63. Paul I of Russia11
  64. Jacques-Louis David17
  65. George IV of the United Kingdom3
  66. Joseph Priestley32
  67. Georges Danton6
  68. Leo XII5
  69. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon58
  70. Pius VI48
  71. Henry Cavendish34