Who was alive in 1698?

25 of the people we track were surely alive in 1698. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton55
2. Johann Sebastian Bach13
3. Voltaire4
4. John Locke66
5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz52
6. Louis XIV of France60
7. Peter the Great26
8. Antonio Vivaldi20
9. Jonathan Swift31
10. George Frideric Handel13
11. Montesquieu9
12. Daniel Defoe36–39
13. Alexander Pope10
14. Jean Racine59
15. George Berkeley13
16. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek66
17. Charles Perrault70
18. Robert Hooke63
19. Edmond Halley42
20. John Dryden67
21. Aurangzeb80
22. Anne of Great Britain33
23. Benedict XIV23
24. William III of England48
25. Robert Walpole22