Who was alive in 1708?

24 of the people we track were surely alive in 1708. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton65
2. Johann Sebastian Bach23
3. Voltaire14
4. Benjamin Franklin2
5. Carl Linnaeus1
6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz62
7. Leonhard Euler1
8. Louis XIV of France70
9. Peter the Great36
10. Antonio Vivaldi30
11. Jonathan Swift41
12. George Frideric Handel23
13. Montesquieu19
14. Daniel Defoe46–49
15. Alexander Pope20
16. George Berkeley23
17. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek76
18. Edmond Halley52
19. Anders Celsius7
20. Carlo Goldoni1
21. Anne of Great Britain43
22. Benedict XIV33
23. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon1
24. Robert Walpole32