Who was alive in 1709?
25 of the people we track were surely alive in 1709. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1709: Samuel Johnson.
- Isaac Newton66
- Johann Sebastian Bach24
- Voltaire15
- Benjamin Franklin3
- Carl Linnaeus2
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz63
- Leonhard Euler2
- Louis XIV of France71
- Peter the Great37
- Antonio Vivaldi31
- Jonathan Swift42
- George Frideric Handel24
- Montesquieu20
- Daniel Defoe47–50
- Samuel Johnsonborn
- Alexander Pope21
- George Berkeley24
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek77
- Edmond Halley53
- Anders Celsius8
- Carlo Goldoni2
- Anne of Great Britain44
- Benedict XIV34
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon2
- Robert Walpole33