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Who was alive in 1750?

730 well-known people were alive in 1750, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach. Here are the 80 most notable:

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) — German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
• George Washington (1732–1799) — Founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) — German composer (1685–1750)
• Voltaire (1694–1778) — French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) — German philosopher (1724-1804)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) — Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
• Adam Smith (1723–1790) — Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) — American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
• Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) — Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
• Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) — Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
• John Adams (1735–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
• James Cook (1728–1779) — British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
• Francisco Goya (1746–1828) — Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
• James Watt (1736–1819) — British engineer (1736–1819)
• David Hume (1711–1776) — Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
• Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) — Austrian composer (1732–1809)
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) — German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
• Montesquieu (1689–1755) — French philosopher (1689–1755)
• Catherine II of Russia (1729–1796) — eighth Emperor of Russia, called the Great, r. 1762–1796 (lived 1729-1796)
• Denis Diderot (1713–1784) — French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
• Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) — English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
• Thomas Paine (1737–1809) — American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
• Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) — French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
• Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) — French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
• Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786) — King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
• Edmund Burke (1729–1797) — Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher (1729–1797)
• Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) — Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
• Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) — French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
• William Herschel (1738–1822) — German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
• Edward Jenner (1749–1823) — English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination (1749–1823)
• Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) — Russian polymath (1711-1765)
• George Berkeley (1685–1753) — Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)
• George III of Great Britain (1738–1820) — King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820 (1738–1820)
• Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744–1829) — French naturalist (1744-1829)
• Louis XV of France (1710–1774) — King of France and of Navarre from 1715 to 1774 (1710–1774)
• Maria Theresa of Austria (1717–1780) — ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) — German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)
• Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) — French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
• Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) — Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)
• Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) — Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
• Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) — English historian and politician (1737–1794)
• Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) — British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
• Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) — German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) — French physicist (1736-1806)
• Pius VII (1742–1823) — head of the Catholic Church, ruler of the Papal States from 1800 to 1823 (1742–1823)
• Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805) — Dutch French-language writer and composer (1740-1805)
• Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) — Italian playwright (1707-1793)
• Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732–1799) — French playwright, diplomat and polymath (1732–1799)
• Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) — French painter (1748–1825)
• Benedict XIV (1675–1758) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758
• Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) — English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) — French natural historian (1707-1788)
• Pius VI (1717–1799) — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799
• Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) — Russian marshal (1730–1800)
• Henry Cavendish (1731–1810) — English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
• George II of Great Britain (1683–1760) — King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760
• Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) — Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
• Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827) — Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer (1746-1827)
• Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) — Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
• Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793) — politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
• Nicolas Appert (1749–1841) — French inventor of airtight food preservation (1749–1841)
• Elizabeth I of Russia (1709–1762) — The sixth Emperor of Russia (1741–1762)
• Peter III of Russia (1728–1762) — The seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)
• Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741–1790) — Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790, (1741-1790).
• Abigail Adams (1744–1818) — First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801
• Clement XIII (1693–1769) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769
• William Hogarth (1697–1764) — English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)
• Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789) — German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)
• Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) — Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774)
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) — German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
• Henry Fielding (1707–1754) — English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)
• Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714–1787) — opera composer (1714–1787)
• Clement XIV (1705–1774) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774
• Luigi Galvani (1737–1798) — Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
• Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) — Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718–1799)
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786) — Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen
• Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) — French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)
• Charles Messier (1730–1817) — 18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
• John Wesley (1703–1791) — founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)

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