Who was alive in 1693?

27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1693. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton50
2. Johann Sebastian Bach8
3. John Locke61
4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz47
5. Matsuo Bashō49
6. Louis XIV of France55
7. Peter the Great21
8. Antonio Vivaldi15
9. Jonathan Swift26
10. George Frideric Handel8
11. Montesquieu4
12. Jean de La Fontaine72
13. Daniel Defoe31–34
14. Alexander Pope5
15. Christiaan Huygens64
16. Jean Racine54
17. George Berkeley8
18. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek61
19. Charles Perrault65
20. Robert Hooke58
21. Edmond Halley37
22. John Dryden62
23. Aurangzeb75
24. Anne of Great Britain28
25. Benedict XIV18
26. William III of England43
27. Robert Walpole17