Who was alive in the 18th century
96 people and 12 events and eras
Events and eras
- Ottoman Empire c. 1299–1922
- Early Modern Period c. 1500–c. 1800
- Mughal Empire 1526–1857
- Baroque Period c. 1600–c. 1750
- Edo Period 1603–1868
- Golden Age of Piracy c. 1650–c. 1730
- Age of Enlightenment c. 1685–c. 1815
- Steam Engine 1712
- Industrial Revolution c. 1760–c. 1840
- American Revolution 1765–1783
- French Revolution 1789–1799
- Late Modern Period c. 1800–
People
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist
- Christopher Wren 1632–1723, architect
- John Locke 1632–1704, philosopher
- Robert Hooke 1635–1703, scientist
- Louis XIV 1638–1715, king
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727, scientist
- William Penn 1644–1718, religious leader
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716, philosopher and mathematician
- Captain Kidd c. 1655–1701, pirate
- Daniel Defoe c. 1660–1731, writer
- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745, satirist
- Peter the Great 1672–1725, tsar
- Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741, composer
- Blackbeard c. 1680–1718, pirate
- Vitus Bering 1681–1741, explorer
- Calico Jack 1682–1720, pirate
- George Frideric Handel 1685–1759, composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750, composer
- Mary Read c. 1685–1721, pirate
- Daniel Fahrenheit 1686–1736, physicist
- Montesquieu 1689–1755, political philosopher
- Voltaire 1694–1778, philosopher
- Anne Bonny c. 1697–c. 1782, pirate
- Baal Shem Tov c. 1698–1760, rabbi
- John Wesley 1703–1791, religious leader
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703–1792, religious leader
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790, statesman and inventor
- Carl Linnaeus 1707–1778, biologist
- Leonhard Euler 1707–1783, mathematician
- Samuel Johnson 1709–1784, writer
- David Hume 1711–1776, philosopher
- Frederick the Great 1712–1786, king
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778, philosopher
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784, philosopher
- Maria Theresa 1717–1780, ruler
- Adam Smith 1723–1790, economist and philosopher
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
- Casanova 1725–1798, adventurer
- James Cook 1728–1779, explorer
- Catherine the Great 1729–1796, empress
- Edmund Burke 1729–1797, political thinker
- Josiah Wedgwood 1730–1795, potter
- George Washington 1732–1799, US president
- Joseph Haydn 1732–1809, composer
- Richard Arkwright 1732–1792, industrialist
- John Adams 1735–1826, US president
- Paul Revere 1735–1818, American patriot
- James Watt 1736–1819, inventor
- Thomas Paine 1737–1809, political theorist
- Marquis de Sade 1740–1814, nobleman
- Jean-François de La Pérouse 1741–c. 1788, explorer
- Antoine Lavoisier 1743–1794, chemist
- Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826, US president
- Toussaint Louverture 1743–1803, revolutionary
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744–1812, banker
- Francisco Goya 1746–1828, painter
- Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825, painter
- Edward Jenner 1749–1823, physician
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832, writer
- Betsy Ross 1752–1836, American patriot
- Kitagawa Utamaro c. 1753–1806, artist
- Marie Antoinette 1755–1793, queen
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791, composer
- Marquis de Lafayette 1757–1834, military leader
- Robespierre 1758–1794, statesman
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759–1797, philosopher
- Katsushika Hokusai 1760–1849, artist
- Alexander von Humboldt 1769–1859, naturalist and explorer
- Napoleon 1769–1821, military leader
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831, philosopher
- Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827, composer
- William Clark 1770–1838, explorer
- William Wordsworth 1770–1850, poet
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834, poet
- Meriwether Lewis 1774–1809, explorer
- J. M. W. Turner 1775–1851, painter
- Jane Austen 1775–1817, writer
- Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855, mathematician
- Simón Bolívar 1783–1830, military leader
- Davy Crockett 1786–1836, frontiersman
- John Franklin 1786–1847, explorer
- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788–1860, philosopher
- Lord Byron 1788–1824, poet
- Sacagawea c. 1788–c. 1812, guide
- Charles Babbage 1791–1871, mathematician
- Michael Faraday 1791–1867, physicist
- Samuel Morse 1791–1872, inventor
- Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794–1877, shipping and railroad tycoon
- Franz Schubert 1797–1828, composer
- Mary Shelley 1797–1851, writer
- Sojourner Truth c. 1797–1883, abolitionist
- Auguste Comte 1798–1857, philosopher
- Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863, painter
- Honoré de Balzac 1799–1850, writer
- John Brown 1800–1859, abolitionist
- Katsushika Ōi c. 1800–c. 1866, artist