Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1789?

102 of the people we track were surely alive in 1789. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1789: Georg Simon Ohm and James Fenimore Cooper.

  1. Napoleon20
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe40
  3. George Washington57
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart33
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven17–21
  6. Immanuel Kant65
  7. Thomas Jefferson46
  8. Adam Smith66
  9. Lord Byron1
  10. Benjamin Franklin83
  11. Jane Austen14
  12. Carl Friedrich Gauss12
  13. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel19
  14. John Adams54
  15. Francisco Goya43
  16. Friedrich Schiller30
  17. Katsushika Hokusai29
  18. James Madison38
  19. Simón Bolívar6
  20. Arthur Schopenhauer1
  21. John Quincy Adams22
  22. Andrew Jackson22
  23. William Blake32
  24. James Watt53
  25. Joseph Haydn57
  26. James Monroe31
  27. Catherine II of Russia60
  28. Martin Van Buren7
  29. Zachary Taylor5
  30. Alexander von Humboldt20
  31. William Wordsworth19
  32. William Henry Harrison16
  33. Walter Scott18
  34. Stendhal6
  35. Thomas Paine52
  36. Marie Antoinette34
  37. Maximilien Robespierre31
  38. Joseph Fourier21
  39. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres9
  40. Antoine Lavoisier46
  41. Mary Wollstonecraft30
  42. Pierre-Simon Laplace40
  43. Louis XVI of France35
  44. Edmund Burke60
  45. Robert Burns30
  46. Samuel Taylor Coleridge17
  47. André-Marie Ampère14
  48. Alessandro Volta44
  49. William Herschel51
  50. Edward Jenner40
  51. Johann Gottlieb Fichte27
  52. Novalis17
  53. John Dalton23
  54. Alexander I of Russia12
  55. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck45
  56. Washington Irving6
  57. George III of Great Britain51
  58. Carl von Clausewitz9
  59. Alessandro Manzoni4
  60. Giacomo Casanova64
  61. Marquis de Sade49
  62. Jeremy Bentham41
  63. Thomas Robert Malthus23
  64. Edward Gibbon52
  65. Horatio Nelson31
  66. Joseph-Louis Lagrange53
  67. Alexander Hamilton32
  68. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington20
  69. Niccolò Paganini7
  70. Georg Simon Ohmborn
  71. Johann Gottfried Herder45
  72. Humphry Davy11
  73. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb53
  74. Shaka Zulu0–4
  75. Hans Christian Ørsted12
  76. Gregory XVI24
  77. Wilhelm von Humboldt22
  78. David Ricardo17
  79. Isabelle de Charrière49
  80. Pius VII47
  81. William IV24
  82. Friedrich Hölderlin19
  83. Amedeo Avogadro13
  84. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais57
  85. Klemens von Metternich16
  86. Carlo Goldoni82
  87. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord35
  88. Paul I of Russia35
  89. Jacques-Louis David41
  90. George IV of the United Kingdom27
  91. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand21
  92. Joseph Priestley56
  93. James Fenimore Cooperborn
  94. Georges Danton30
  95. Leo XII29
  96. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling14
  97. E. T. A. Hoffmann13
  98. Thomas Young16
  99. Caspar David Friedrich15
  100. Pius VI72
  101. Henry Cavendish58
  102. Germaine de Staël23