Who was alive in 1696?

25 of the people we track were surely alive in 1696. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton53
2. Johann Sebastian Bach11
3. Voltaire2
4. John Locke64
5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz50
6. Louis XIV of France58
7. Peter the Great24
8. Antonio Vivaldi18
9. Jonathan Swift29
10. George Frideric Handel11
11. Montesquieu7
12. Daniel Defoe34–37
13. Alexander Pope8
14. Jean Racine57
15. George Berkeley11
16. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek64
17. Charles Perrault68
18. Robert Hooke61
19. Edmond Halley40
20. John Dryden65
21. Aurangzeb78
22. Anne of Great Britain31
23. Benedict XIV21
24. William III of England46
25. Robert Walpole20