Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1775?

95 of the people we track were surely alive in 1775. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1775: Jane Austen, André-Marie Ampère and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

  1. Napoleon6
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe26
  3. George Washington43
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart19
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven3–7
  6. Voltaire81
  7. Immanuel Kant51
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau63
  9. Thomas Jefferson32
  10. Adam Smith52
  11. Benjamin Franklin69
  12. Carl Linnaeus68
  13. Jane Austenborn
  14. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel5
  15. Leonhard Euler68
  16. John Adams40
  17. James Cook47
  18. Francisco Goya29
  19. Friedrich Schiller16
  20. Katsushika Hokusai15
  21. James Madison24
  22. John Quincy Adams8
  23. Andrew Jackson8
  24. William Blake18
  25. James Watt39
  26. David Hume64
  27. Joseph Haydn43
  28. James Monroe17
  29. Catherine II of Russia46
  30. Denis Diderot62
  31. Alexander von Humboldt6
  32. William Wordsworth5
  33. William Henry Harrison2
  34. Walter Scott4
  35. Thomas Paine38
  36. Samuel Johnson66
  37. Marie Antoinette20
  38. Maximilien Robespierre17
  39. Joseph Fourier7
  40. Antoine Lavoisier32
  41. Mary Wollstonecraft16
  42. Pierre-Simon Laplace26
  43. Louis XVI of France21
  44. Frederick II of Prussia63
  45. Edmund Burke46
  46. Robert Burns16
  47. Samuel Taylor Coleridge3
  48. André-Marie Ampèreborn
  49. Alessandro Volta30
  50. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert58
  51. William Herschel37
  52. Edward Jenner26
  53. Johann Gottlieb Fichte13
  54. Novalis3
  55. John Dalton9
  56. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck31
  57. George III of Great Britain37
  58. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing46
  59. Maria Theresa of Austria58
  60. Giacomo Casanova50
  61. Marquis de Sade35
  62. Jeremy Bentham27
  63. Thomas Robert Malthus9
  64. Edward Gibbon38
  65. Horatio Nelson17
  66. Joseph-Louis Lagrange39
  67. Alexander Hamilton18
  68. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington6
  69. Johann Gottfried Herder31
  70. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb39
  71. Gregory XVI10
  72. Wilhelm von Humboldt8
  73. David Ricardo3
  74. Isabelle de Charrière35
  75. Pius VII33
  76. William IV10
  77. Friedrich Hölderlin5
  78. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais43
  79. Klemens von Metternich2
  80. Carlo Goldoni68
  81. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord21
  82. Paul I of Russia21
  83. Jacques-Louis David27
  84. George IV of the United Kingdom13
  85. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand7
  86. Joseph Priestley42
  87. Georges Danton16
  88. Leo XII15
  89. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schellingborn
  90. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon68
  91. Thomas Young2
  92. Caspar David Friedrich1
  93. Pius VI58
  94. Henry Cavendish44
  95. Germaine de Staël9