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Who was alive in 1790?

1,005 well-known people were alive in 1790, including Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Here are the 80 most notable:

• Napoleon (1769–1821) — French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
• 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)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) — German composer (1770-1827)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) — German philosopher (1724-1804)
• 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)
• Lord Byron (1788–1824) — English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) — American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
• Jane Austen (1775–1817) — English novelist (1775–1817)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) — German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) — German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
• John Adams (1735–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
• 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)
• Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) — Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)
• James Madison (1751–1836) — President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) — German philosopher (1788-1860)
• John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) — President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
• Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) — president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
• William Blake (1757–1827) — English poet and artist (1757–1827)
• James Watt (1736–1819) — British engineer (1736–1819)
• 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)
• Martin Van Buren (1782–1862) — president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
• Zachary Taylor (1784–1850) — president of the United States from 1849 to 1850
• John Tyler (1790–1862) — president of the United States from 1841 to 1845
• Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) — Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
• William Henry Harrison (1773–1841) — president of the United States in 1841
• William Wordsworth (1770–1850) — English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
• Walter Scott (1771–1832) — Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
• Stendhal (1783–1842) — French writer (1783–1842)
• Thomas Paine (1737–1809) — American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
• Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) — French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) — French painter (1780–1867)
• Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) — last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution (1755–1793)
• Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) — French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
• 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)
• Robert Burns (1759–1796) — Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)
• Edmund Burke (1729–1797) — Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher (1729–1797)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) — English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834)
• André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) — French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
• Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) — Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
• William Herschel (1738–1822) — German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
• Novalis (1772–1801) — German poet and writer (1772-1801)
• Edward Jenner (1749–1823) — English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination (1749–1823)
• John Dalton (1766–1844) — British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) — German philosopher (1762–1814)
• Alexander I of Russia (1777–1825) — The tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)
• Washington Irving (1783–1859) — American writer, historian and diplomat (1783-1859)
• 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)
• Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) — German-Prussian general and military theorist
• Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) — Italian writer and poet (1785–1873)
• Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) — French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
• Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) — British political economist (1766–1834)
• Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) — French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)
• 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)
• Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840) — Italian violinist and composer (1782–1840)
• Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854) — German physicist and mathematician
• Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) — German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) — British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834 (1769-1852)
• Humphry Davy (1778–1829) — British chemist
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) — French physicist (1736-1806)
• Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851) — Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
• Shaka Zulu (1786–1828) — leader of the Zulu Kingdom
• Pius VII (1742–1823) — head of the Catholic Church, ruler of the Papal States from 1800 to 1823 (1742–1823)
• William IV (1765–1837) — King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
• Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) — Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)

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