Who was alive in 1779?
97 of the people we track were surely alive in 1779. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1779: James Cook.
- Napoleon10
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe30
- George Washington47
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart23
- Ludwig van Beethoven7–11
- Immanuel Kant55
- Thomas Jefferson36
- Adam Smith56
- Benjamin Franklin73
- Jane Austen4
- Carl Friedrich Gauss2
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel9
- Leonhard Euler72
- John Adams44
- James Cook50 †
- Francisco Goya33
- Friedrich Schiller20
- Katsushika Hokusai19
- James Madison28
- John Quincy Adams12
- Andrew Jackson12
- William Blake22
- James Watt43
- Joseph Haydn47
- James Monroe21
- Catherine II of Russia50
- Denis Diderot66
- Alexander von Humboldt10
- William Wordsworth9
- William Henry Harrison6
- Walter Scott8
- Thomas Paine42
- Samuel Johnson70
- Marie Antoinette24
- Maximilien Robespierre21
- Joseph Fourier11
- Antoine Lavoisier36
- Mary Wollstonecraft20
- Pierre-Simon Laplace30
- Louis XVI of France25
- Frederick II of Prussia67
- Edmund Burke50
- Robert Burns20
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge7
- André-Marie Ampère4
- Alessandro Volta34
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert62
- William Herschel41
- Edward Jenner30
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte17
- Novalis7
- John Dalton13
- Alexander I of Russia2
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck35
- George III of Great Britain41
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing50
- Maria Theresa of Austria62
- Giacomo Casanova54
- Marquis de Sade39
- Jeremy Bentham31
- Thomas Robert Malthus13
- Edward Gibbon42
- Horatio Nelson21
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange43
- Alexander Hamilton22
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington10
- Johann Gottfried Herder35
- Humphry Davy1
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb43
- Hans Christian Ørsted2
- Gregory XVI14
- Wilhelm von Humboldt12
- David Ricardo7
- Isabelle de Charrière39
- Pius VII37
- William IV14
- Friedrich Hölderlin9
- Amedeo Avogadro3
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais47
- Klemens von Metternich6
- Carlo Goldoni72
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord25
- Paul I of Russia25
- Jacques-Louis David31
- George IV of the United Kingdom17
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand11
- Joseph Priestley46
- Georges Danton20
- Leo XII19
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling4
- E. T. A. Hoffmann3
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon72
- Thomas Young6
- Caspar David Friedrich5
- Pius VI62
- Henry Cavendish48
- Germaine de Staël13