Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1766?

73 of the people we track were surely alive in 1766. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1766: John Dalton, Thomas Robert Malthus and Germaine de Staël.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe17
  2. George Washington34
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart10
  4. Voltaire72
  5. Immanuel Kant42
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau54
  7. Thomas Jefferson23
  8. Adam Smith43
  9. Benjamin Franklin60
  10. Carl Linnaeus59
  11. Leonhard Euler59
  12. John Adams31
  13. James Cook38
  14. Francisco Goya20
  15. Friedrich Schiller7
  16. Katsushika Hokusai6
  17. James Madison15
  18. William Blake9
  19. James Watt30
  20. David Hume55
  21. Joseph Haydn34
  22. James Monroe8
  23. Catherine II of Russia37
  24. Denis Diderot53
  25. Thomas Paine29
  26. Samuel Johnson57
  27. Marie Antoinette11
  28. Maximilien Robespierre8
  29. Antoine Lavoisier23
  30. Mary Wollstonecraft7
  31. Pierre-Simon Laplace17
  32. Louis XVI of France12
  33. Frederick II of Prussia54
  34. Edmund Burke37
  35. Robert Burns7
  36. Alessandro Volta21
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert49
  38. William Herschel28
  39. Edward Jenner17
  40. Johann Gottlieb Fichte4
  41. John Daltonborn
  42. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck22
  43. George III of Great Britain28
  44. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing37
  45. Louis XV of France56
  46. Maria Theresa of Austria49
  47. Giacomo Casanova41
  48. Marquis de Sade26
  49. Jeremy Bentham18
  50. Thomas Robert Malthusborn
  51. Edward Gibbon29
  52. Horatio Nelson8
  53. Joseph-Louis Lagrange30
  54. Alexander Hamilton9
  55. Johann Gottfried Herder22
  56. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb30
  57. Gregory XVI1
  58. Isabelle de Charrière26
  59. Pius VII24
  60. William IV1
  61. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais34
  62. Carlo Goldoni59
  63. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord12
  64. Paul I of Russia12
  65. Jacques-Louis David18
  66. George IV of the United Kingdom4
  67. Joseph Priestley33
  68. Georges Danton7
  69. Leo XII6
  70. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon59
  71. Pius VI49
  72. Henry Cavendish35
  73. Germaine de Staëlborn