Who was alive in 1688?
27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1688. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1688: Alexander Pope.
- Isaac Newton45
- Johann Sebastian Bach3
- John Locke56
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz42
- Matsuo Bashō44
- Louis XIV of France50
- Peter the Great16
- Antonio Vivaldi10
- Jonathan Swift21
- George Frideric Handel3
- Jean de La Fontaine67
- Daniel Defoe26–29
- Alexander Popeborn
- Christiaan Huygens59
- Jean Racine49
- Robert Boyle61
- George Berkeley3
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek56
- Charles Perrault60
- Robert Hooke53
- Edmond Halley32
- John Dryden57
- Aurangzeb70
- Anne of Great Britain23
- Benedict XIV13
- William III of England38
- Robert Walpole12