Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1782?

98 of the people we track were surely alive in 1782. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1782: Martin Van Buren and Niccolò Paganini.

  1. Napoleon13
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe33
  3. George Washington50
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart26
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven10–14
  6. Immanuel Kant58
  7. Thomas Jefferson39
  8. Adam Smith59
  9. Benjamin Franklin76
  10. Jane Austen7
  11. Carl Friedrich Gauss5
  12. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel12
  13. Leonhard Euler75
  14. John Adams47
  15. Francisco Goya36
  16. Friedrich Schiller23
  17. Katsushika Hokusai22
  18. James Madison31
  19. John Quincy Adams15
  20. Andrew Jackson15
  21. William Blake25
  22. James Watt46
  23. Joseph Haydn50
  24. James Monroe24
  25. Catherine II of Russia53
  26. Denis Diderot69
  27. Martin Van Burenborn
  28. Alexander von Humboldt13
  29. William Wordsworth12
  30. William Henry Harrison9
  31. Walter Scott11
  32. Thomas Paine45
  33. Samuel Johnson73
  34. Marie Antoinette27
  35. Maximilien Robespierre24
  36. Joseph Fourier14
  37. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres2
  38. Antoine Lavoisier39
  39. Mary Wollstonecraft23
  40. Pierre-Simon Laplace33
  41. Louis XVI of France28
  42. Frederick II of Prussia70
  43. Edmund Burke53
  44. Robert Burns23
  45. Samuel Taylor Coleridge10
  46. André-Marie Ampère7
  47. Alessandro Volta37
  48. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert65
  49. William Herschel44
  50. Edward Jenner33
  51. Johann Gottlieb Fichte20
  52. Novalis10
  53. John Dalton16
  54. Alexander I of Russia5
  55. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck38
  56. George III of Great Britain44
  57. Carl von Clausewitz2
  58. Giacomo Casanova57
  59. Marquis de Sade42
  60. Jeremy Bentham34
  61. Thomas Robert Malthus16
  62. Edward Gibbon45
  63. Horatio Nelson24
  64. Joseph-Louis Lagrange46
  65. Alexander Hamilton25
  66. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington13
  67. Niccolò Paganiniborn
  68. Johann Gottfried Herder38
  69. Humphry Davy4
  70. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb46
  71. Hans Christian Ørsted5
  72. Gregory XVI17
  73. Wilhelm von Humboldt15
  74. David Ricardo10
  75. Isabelle de Charrière42
  76. Pius VII40
  77. William IV17
  78. Friedrich Hölderlin12
  79. Amedeo Avogadro6
  80. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais50
  81. Klemens von Metternich9
  82. Carlo Goldoni75
  83. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord28
  84. Paul I of Russia28
  85. Jacques-Louis David34
  86. George IV of the United Kingdom20
  87. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand14
  88. Joseph Priestley49
  89. Georges Danton23
  90. Leo XII22
  91. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling7
  92. E. T. A. Hoffmann6
  93. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon75
  94. Thomas Young9
  95. Caspar David Friedrich8
  96. Pius VI65
  97. Henry Cavendish51
  98. Germaine de Staël16