Who was alive in 1783?
101 of the people we track were surely alive in 1783. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1783: Simón Bolívar, Stendhal and Washington Irving.
Died in 1783: Leonhard Euler and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
- Napoleon14
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe34
- George Washington51
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart27
- Ludwig van Beethoven11–15
- Immanuel Kant59
- Thomas Jefferson40
- Adam Smith60
- Benjamin Franklin77
- Jane Austen8
- Carl Friedrich Gauss6
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel13
- Leonhard Euler76 †
- John Adams48
- Francisco Goya37
- Friedrich Schiller24
- Katsushika Hokusai23
- James Madison32
- Simón Bolívarborn
- John Quincy Adams16
- Andrew Jackson16
- William Blake26
- James Watt47
- Joseph Haydn51
- James Monroe25
- Catherine II of Russia54
- Denis Diderot70
- Martin Van Buren1
- Alexander von Humboldt14
- William Wordsworth13
- William Henry Harrison10
- Walter Scott12
- Stendhalborn
- Thomas Paine46
- Samuel Johnson74
- Marie Antoinette28
- Maximilien Robespierre25
- Joseph Fourier15
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres3
- Antoine Lavoisier40
- Mary Wollstonecraft24
- Pierre-Simon Laplace34
- Louis XVI of France29
- Frederick II of Prussia71
- Edmund Burke54
- Robert Burns24
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge11
- André-Marie Ampère8
- Alessandro Volta38
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert65 †
- William Herschel45
- Edward Jenner34
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte21
- Novalis11
- John Dalton17
- Alexander I of Russia6
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck39
- Washington Irvingborn
- George III of Great Britain45
- Carl von Clausewitz3
- Giacomo Casanova58
- Marquis de Sade43
- Jeremy Bentham35
- Thomas Robert Malthus17
- Edward Gibbon46
- Horatio Nelson25
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange47
- Alexander Hamilton26
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington14
- Niccolò Paganini1
- Johann Gottfried Herder39
- Humphry Davy5
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb47
- Hans Christian Ørsted6
- Gregory XVI18
- Wilhelm von Humboldt16
- David Ricardo11
- Isabelle de Charrière43
- Pius VII41
- William IV18
- Friedrich Hölderlin13
- Amedeo Avogadro7
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais51
- Klemens von Metternich10
- Carlo Goldoni76
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord29
- Paul I of Russia29
- Jacques-Louis David35
- George IV of the United Kingdom21
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand15
- Joseph Priestley50
- Georges Danton24
- Leo XII23
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling8
- E. T. A. Hoffmann7
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon76
- Thomas Young10
- Caspar David Friedrich9
- Pius VI66
- Henry Cavendish52
- Germaine de Staël17