Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1774?

93 of the people we track were surely alive in 1774. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1774: Caspar David Friedrich.

Died in 1774: Louis XV of France.

  1. Napoleon5
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe25
  3. George Washington42
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart18
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven2–6
  6. Voltaire80
  7. Immanuel Kant50
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau62
  9. Thomas Jefferson31
  10. Adam Smith51
  11. Benjamin Franklin68
  12. Carl Linnaeus67
  13. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel4
  14. Leonhard Euler67
  15. John Adams39
  16. James Cook46
  17. Francisco Goya28
  18. Friedrich Schiller15
  19. Katsushika Hokusai14
  20. James Madison23
  21. John Quincy Adams7
  22. Andrew Jackson7
  23. William Blake17
  24. James Watt38
  25. David Hume63
  26. Joseph Haydn42
  27. James Monroe16
  28. Catherine II of Russia45
  29. Denis Diderot61
  30. Alexander von Humboldt5
  31. William Wordsworth4
  32. William Henry Harrison1
  33. Walter Scott3
  34. Thomas Paine37
  35. Samuel Johnson65
  36. Marie Antoinette19
  37. Maximilien Robespierre16
  38. Joseph Fourier6
  39. Antoine Lavoisier31
  40. Mary Wollstonecraft15
  41. Pierre-Simon Laplace25
  42. Louis XVI of France20
  43. Frederick II of Prussia62
  44. Edmund Burke45
  45. Robert Burns15
  46. Samuel Taylor Coleridge2
  47. Alessandro Volta29
  48. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert57
  49. William Herschel36
  50. Edward Jenner25
  51. Johann Gottlieb Fichte12
  52. Novalis2
  53. John Dalton8
  54. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck30
  55. George III of Great Britain36
  56. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing45
  57. Louis XV of France64 †
  58. Maria Theresa of Austria57
  59. Giacomo Casanova49
  60. Marquis de Sade34
  61. Jeremy Bentham26
  62. Thomas Robert Malthus8
  63. Edward Gibbon37
  64. Horatio Nelson16
  65. Joseph-Louis Lagrange38
  66. Alexander Hamilton17
  67. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington5
  68. Johann Gottfried Herder30
  69. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb38
  70. Gregory XVI9
  71. Wilhelm von Humboldt7
  72. David Ricardo2
  73. Isabelle de Charrière34
  74. Pius VII32
  75. William IV9
  76. Friedrich Hölderlin4
  77. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais42
  78. Klemens von Metternich1
  79. Carlo Goldoni67
  80. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord20
  81. Paul I of Russia20
  82. Jacques-Louis David26
  83. George IV of the United Kingdom12
  84. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand6
  85. Joseph Priestley41
  86. Georges Danton15
  87. Leo XII14
  88. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon67
  89. Thomas Young1
  90. Caspar David Friedrichborn
  91. Pius VI57
  92. Henry Cavendish43
  93. Germaine de Staël8