Who was alive in 1700?
24 of the people we track were surely alive in 1700. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1700: John Dryden.
- Isaac Newton57
- Johann Sebastian Bach15
- Voltaire6
- John Locke68
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz54
- Louis XIV of France62
- Peter the Great28
- Antonio Vivaldi22
- Jonathan Swift33
- George Frideric Handel15
- Montesquieu11
- Daniel Defoe38–41
- Alexander Pope12
- George Berkeley15
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek68
- Charles Perrault72
- Robert Hooke65
- Edmond Halley44
- John Dryden68 †
- Aurangzeb82
- Anne of Great Britain35
- Benedict XIV25
- William III of England50
- Robert Walpole24