Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1772?

89 of the people we track were surely alive in 1772. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1772: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Novalis and David Ricardo.

  1. Napoleon3
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe23
  3. George Washington40
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart16
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven0–4
  6. Voltaire78
  7. Immanuel Kant48
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau60
  9. Thomas Jefferson29
  10. Adam Smith49
  11. Benjamin Franklin66
  12. Carl Linnaeus65
  13. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel2
  14. Leonhard Euler65
  15. John Adams37
  16. James Cook44
  17. Francisco Goya26
  18. Friedrich Schiller13
  19. Katsushika Hokusai12
  20. James Madison21
  21. John Quincy Adams5
  22. Andrew Jackson5
  23. William Blake15
  24. James Watt36
  25. David Hume61
  26. Joseph Haydn40
  27. James Monroe14
  28. Catherine II of Russia43
  29. Denis Diderot59
  30. Alexander von Humboldt3
  31. William Wordsworth2
  32. Walter Scott1
  33. Thomas Paine35
  34. Samuel Johnson63
  35. Marie Antoinette17
  36. Maximilien Robespierre14
  37. Joseph Fourier4
  38. Antoine Lavoisier29
  39. Mary Wollstonecraft13
  40. Pierre-Simon Laplace23
  41. Louis XVI of France18
  42. Frederick II of Prussia60
  43. Edmund Burke43
  44. Robert Burns13
  45. Samuel Taylor Coleridgeborn
  46. Alessandro Volta27
  47. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert55
  48. William Herschel34
  49. Edward Jenner23
  50. Johann Gottlieb Fichte10
  51. Novalisborn
  52. John Dalton6
  53. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck28
  54. George III of Great Britain34
  55. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing43
  56. Louis XV of France62
  57. Maria Theresa of Austria55
  58. Giacomo Casanova47
  59. Marquis de Sade32
  60. Jeremy Bentham24
  61. Thomas Robert Malthus6
  62. Edward Gibbon35
  63. Horatio Nelson14
  64. Joseph-Louis Lagrange36
  65. Alexander Hamilton15
  66. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington3
  67. Johann Gottfried Herder28
  68. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb36
  69. Gregory XVI7
  70. Wilhelm von Humboldt5
  71. David Ricardoborn
  72. Isabelle de Charrière32
  73. Pius VII30
  74. William IV7
  75. Friedrich Hölderlin2
  76. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais40
  77. Carlo Goldoni65
  78. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord18
  79. Paul I of Russia18
  80. Jacques-Louis David24
  81. George IV of the United Kingdom10
  82. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand4
  83. Joseph Priestley39
  84. Georges Danton13
  85. Leo XII12
  86. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon65
  87. Pius VI55
  88. Henry Cavendish41
  89. Germaine de Staël6