Who was alive in 1760?

777 well-known people were alive in 1760, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Washington. Here are the 80 most notable:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) — German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) — Austrian composer of the Classical period (1756-1791)
George Washington (1732–1799) — Founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)
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)
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) — German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) — Japanese artist (1760-1849)
James Madison (1751–1836) — President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
William Blake (1757–1827) — English poet and artist (1757–1827)
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)
James Monroe (1758–1831) — president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (1758–1831)
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)
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) — French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)
Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) — last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution (1755–1793)
Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) — French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) — English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
Louis XVI of France (1754–1793) — King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792 (1754-1793)
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)
Robert Burns (1759–1796) — Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)
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 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
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805) — British admiral (1758–1805)
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)
Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) — American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
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)
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1839) — French diplomat (1754-1838)
Paul I of Russia (1754–1801) — The ninth Emperor of Russia (1796–1801)
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) — French painter (1748–1825)
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) — English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
Leo XII (1760–1829) — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1823 to 1829
Georges Danton (1759–1794) — French revolutionary (1759–1794)
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)
Louis XVIII of France (1755–1824) — King of France and Navarre from 1815 to 1824 (1755-1824)
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
William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) — British statesman (1759–1806)

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