Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1787?

98 of the people we track were surely alive in 1787. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Napoleon18
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe38
  3. George Washington55
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart31
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven15–19
  6. Immanuel Kant63
  7. Thomas Jefferson44
  8. Adam Smith64
  9. Benjamin Franklin81
  10. Jane Austen12
  11. Carl Friedrich Gauss10
  12. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel17
  13. John Adams52
  14. Francisco Goya41
  15. Friedrich Schiller28
  16. Katsushika Hokusai27
  17. James Madison36
  18. Simón Bolívar4
  19. John Quincy Adams20
  20. Andrew Jackson20
  21. William Blake30
  22. James Watt51
  23. Joseph Haydn55
  24. James Monroe29
  25. Catherine II of Russia58
  26. Martin Van Buren5
  27. Zachary Taylor3
  28. Alexander von Humboldt18
  29. William Wordsworth17
  30. William Henry Harrison14
  31. Walter Scott16
  32. Stendhal4
  33. Thomas Paine50
  34. Marie Antoinette32
  35. Maximilien Robespierre29
  36. Joseph Fourier19
  37. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres7
  38. Antoine Lavoisier44
  39. Mary Wollstonecraft28
  40. Pierre-Simon Laplace38
  41. Louis XVI of France33
  42. Edmund Burke58
  43. Robert Burns28
  44. Samuel Taylor Coleridge15
  45. André-Marie Ampère12
  46. Alessandro Volta42
  47. William Herschel49
  48. Edward Jenner38
  49. Johann Gottlieb Fichte25
  50. Novalis15
  51. John Dalton21
  52. Alexander I of Russia10
  53. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck43
  54. Washington Irving4
  55. George III of Great Britain49
  56. Carl von Clausewitz7
  57. Alessandro Manzoni2
  58. Giacomo Casanova62
  59. Marquis de Sade47
  60. Jeremy Bentham39
  61. Thomas Robert Malthus21
  62. Edward Gibbon50
  63. Horatio Nelson29
  64. Joseph-Louis Lagrange51
  65. Alexander Hamilton30
  66. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington18
  67. Niccolò Paganini5
  68. Johann Gottfried Herder43
  69. Humphry Davy9
  70. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb51
  71. Hans Christian Ørsted10
  72. Gregory XVI22
  73. Wilhelm von Humboldt20
  74. David Ricardo15
  75. Isabelle de Charrière47
  76. Pius VII45
  77. William IV22
  78. Friedrich Hölderlin17
  79. Amedeo Avogadro11
  80. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais55
  81. Klemens von Metternich14
  82. Carlo Goldoni80
  83. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord33
  84. Paul I of Russia33
  85. Jacques-Louis David39
  86. George IV of the United Kingdom25
  87. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand19
  88. Joseph Priestley54
  89. Georges Danton28
  90. Leo XII27
  91. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling12
  92. E. T. A. Hoffmann11
  93. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon80
  94. Thomas Young14
  95. Caspar David Friedrich13
  96. Pius VI70
  97. Henry Cavendish56
  98. Germaine de Staël21