Who was alive in 1690?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1690. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton47
2. Johann Sebastian Bach5
3. John Locke58
4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz44
5. Matsuo Bashō46
6. Louis XIV of France52
7. Peter the Great18
8. Antonio Vivaldi12
9. Jonathan Swift23
10. George Frideric Handel5
11. Montesquieu1
12. Jean de La Fontaine69
13. Daniel Defoe28–31
14. Alexander Pope2
15. Christiaan Huygens61
16. Jean Racine51
17. Robert Boyle63
18. George Berkeley5
19. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek58
20. Charles Perrault62
21. Robert Hooke55
22. Edmond Halley34
23. John Dryden59
24. Aurangzeb72
25. Anne of Great Britain25
26. Benedict XIV15
27. William III of England40
28. Robert Walpole14