Who was alive in 1794?
106 of the people we track were surely alive in 1794. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1794: Maximilien Robespierre, Antoine Lavoisier, Edward Gibbon and Georges Danton.
- Napoleon25
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe45
- George Washington62
- Ludwig van Beethoven22–26
- Immanuel Kant70
- Thomas Jefferson51
- Lord Byron6
- Jane Austen19
- Carl Friedrich Gauss17
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel24
- John Adams59
- Francisco Goya48
- Friedrich Schiller35
- Michael Faraday3
- Katsushika Hokusai34
- James Madison43
- Simón Bolívar11
- Arthur Schopenhauer6
- John Quincy Adams27
- Andrew Jackson27
- William Blake37
- James Watt58
- Joseph Haydn62
- James Monroe36
- Catherine II of Russia65
- Martin Van Buren12
- Zachary Taylor10
- James Buchanan3
- John Tyler4
- Percy Bysshe Shelley2
- Alexander von Humboldt25
- William Wordsworth24
- William Henry Harrison21
- Walter Scott23
- Stendhal11
- Thomas Paine57
- Maximilien Robespierre36 †
- Joseph Fourier26
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres14
- Antoine Lavoisier50 †
- Mary Wollstonecraft35
- Pierre-Simon Laplace45
- Edmund Burke65
- Robert Burns35
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge22
- André-Marie Ampère19
- Alessandro Volta49
- William Herschel56
- Edward Jenner45
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte32
- Novalis22
- Charles Babbage3
- John Dalton28
- Alexander I of Russia17
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck50
- Washington Irving11
- Alphonse de Lamartine4
- Pius IX2
- George III of Great Britain56
- Carl von Clausewitz14
- Alessandro Manzoni9
- Gioachino Rossini2
- Giacomo Casanova69
- Marquis de Sade54
- Jeremy Bentham46
- Thomas Robert Malthus28
- Edward Gibbon56 †
- Horatio Nelson36
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange58
- Alexander Hamilton37
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington25
- Niccolò Paganini12
- Georg Simon Ohm5
- Johann Gottfried Herder50
- Humphry Davy16
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb58
- Shaka Zulu5–9
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky2
- Hans Christian Ørsted17
- Gregory XVI29
- Wilhelm von Humboldt27
- David Ricardo22
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse3
- Isabelle de Charrière54
- Pius VII52
- William IV29
- Friedrich Hölderlin24
- Amedeo Avogadro18
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais62
- Klemens von Metternich21
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord40
- Paul I of Russia40
- Jacques-Louis David46
- George IV of the United Kingdom32
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand26
- Joseph Priestley61
- James Fenimore Cooper5
- Georges Danton34 †
- Leo XII34
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling19
- E. T. A. Hoffmann18
- Thomas Young21
- Caspar David Friedrich20
- Pius VI77
- Henry Cavendish63
- Germaine de Staël28