Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1704?

21 of the people we track were surely alive in 1704. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1704: John Locke.

  1. Isaac Newton61
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach19
  3. Voltaire10
  4. John Locke72 †
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz58
  6. Louis XIV of France66
  7. Peter the Great32
  8. Antonio Vivaldi26
  9. Jonathan Swift37
  10. George Frideric Handel19
  11. Montesquieu15
  12. Daniel Defoe42–45
  13. Alexander Pope16
  14. George Berkeley19
  15. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek72
  16. Edmond Halley48
  17. Anders Celsius3
  18. Aurangzeb86
  19. Anne of Great Britain39
  20. Benedict XIV29
  21. Robert Walpole28