Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1773?

92 of the people we track were surely alive in 1773. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1773: William Henry Harrison, Klemens von Metternich and Thomas Young.

  1. Napoleon4
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe24
  3. George Washington41
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart17
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven1–5
  6. Voltaire79
  7. Immanuel Kant49
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau61
  9. Thomas Jefferson30
  10. Adam Smith50
  11. Benjamin Franklin67
  12. Carl Linnaeus66
  13. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel3
  14. Leonhard Euler66
  15. John Adams38
  16. James Cook45
  17. Francisco Goya27
  18. Friedrich Schiller14
  19. Katsushika Hokusai13
  20. James Madison22
  21. John Quincy Adams6
  22. Andrew Jackson6
  23. William Blake16
  24. James Watt37
  25. David Hume62
  26. Joseph Haydn41
  27. James Monroe15
  28. Catherine II of Russia44
  29. Denis Diderot60
  30. Alexander von Humboldt4
  31. William Wordsworth3
  32. William Henry Harrisonborn
  33. Walter Scott2
  34. Thomas Paine36
  35. Samuel Johnson64
  36. Marie Antoinette18
  37. Maximilien Robespierre15
  38. Joseph Fourier5
  39. Antoine Lavoisier30
  40. Mary Wollstonecraft14
  41. Pierre-Simon Laplace24
  42. Louis XVI of France19
  43. Frederick II of Prussia61
  44. Edmund Burke44
  45. Robert Burns14
  46. Samuel Taylor Coleridge1
  47. Alessandro Volta28
  48. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert56
  49. William Herschel35
  50. Edward Jenner24
  51. Johann Gottlieb Fichte11
  52. Novalis1
  53. John Dalton7
  54. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck29
  55. George III of Great Britain35
  56. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing44
  57. Louis XV of France63
  58. Maria Theresa of Austria56
  59. Giacomo Casanova48
  60. Marquis de Sade33
  61. Jeremy Bentham25
  62. Thomas Robert Malthus7
  63. Edward Gibbon36
  64. Horatio Nelson15
  65. Joseph-Louis Lagrange37
  66. Alexander Hamilton16
  67. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington4
  68. Johann Gottfried Herder29
  69. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb37
  70. Gregory XVI8
  71. Wilhelm von Humboldt6
  72. David Ricardo1
  73. Isabelle de Charrière33
  74. Pius VII31
  75. William IV8
  76. Friedrich Hölderlin3
  77. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais41
  78. Klemens von Metternichborn
  79. Carlo Goldoni66
  80. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord19
  81. Paul I of Russia19
  82. Jacques-Louis David25
  83. George IV of the United Kingdom11
  84. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand5
  85. Joseph Priestley40
  86. Georges Danton14
  87. Leo XII13
  88. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon66
  89. Thomas Youngborn
  90. Pius VI56
  91. Henry Cavendish42
  92. Germaine de Staël7