Who was alive in 1786?
99 of the people we track were surely alive in 1786. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1786: Frederick II of Prussia.
- Napoleon17
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe37
- George Washington54
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart30
- Ludwig van Beethoven14–18
- Immanuel Kant62
- Thomas Jefferson43
- Adam Smith63
- Benjamin Franklin80
- Jane Austen11
- Carl Friedrich Gauss9
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel16
- John Adams51
- Francisco Goya40
- Friedrich Schiller27
- Katsushika Hokusai26
- James Madison35
- Simón Bolívar3
- John Quincy Adams19
- Andrew Jackson19
- William Blake29
- James Watt50
- Joseph Haydn54
- James Monroe28
- Catherine II of Russia57
- Martin Van Buren4
- Zachary Taylor2
- Alexander von Humboldt17
- William Wordsworth16
- William Henry Harrison13
- Walter Scott15
- Stendhal3
- Thomas Paine49
- Marie Antoinette31
- Maximilien Robespierre28
- Joseph Fourier18
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres6
- Antoine Lavoisier43
- Mary Wollstonecraft27
- Pierre-Simon Laplace37
- Louis XVI of France32
- Frederick II of Prussia74 †
- Edmund Burke57
- Robert Burns27
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge14
- André-Marie Ampère11
- Alessandro Volta41
- William Herschel48
- Edward Jenner37
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte24
- Novalis14
- John Dalton20
- Alexander I of Russia9
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck42
- Washington Irving3
- George III of Great Britain48
- Carl von Clausewitz6
- Alessandro Manzoni1
- Giacomo Casanova61
- Marquis de Sade46
- Jeremy Bentham38
- Thomas Robert Malthus20
- Edward Gibbon49
- Horatio Nelson28
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange50
- Alexander Hamilton29
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington17
- Niccolò Paganini4
- Johann Gottfried Herder42
- Humphry Davy8
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb50
- Hans Christian Ørsted9
- Gregory XVI21
- Wilhelm von Humboldt19
- David Ricardo14
- Isabelle de Charrière46
- Pius VII44
- William IV21
- Friedrich Hölderlin16
- Amedeo Avogadro10
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais54
- Klemens von Metternich13
- Carlo Goldoni79
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord32
- Paul I of Russia32
- Jacques-Louis David38
- George IV of the United Kingdom24
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand18
- Joseph Priestley53
- Georges Danton27
- Leo XII26
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling11
- E. T. A. Hoffmann10
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon79
- Thomas Young13
- Caspar David Friedrich12
- Pius VI69
- Henry Cavendish55
- Germaine de Staël20