Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1714?

31 of the people we track were surely alive in 1714. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1714: Anne of Great Britain.

  1. Isaac Newton71
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach29
  3. Voltaire20
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau2
  5. Benjamin Franklin8
  6. Carl Linnaeus7
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz68
  8. Leonhard Euler7
  9. Louis XIV of France76
  10. Peter the Great42
  11. Antonio Vivaldi36
  12. Jonathan Swift47
  13. George Frideric Handel29
  14. Montesquieu25
  15. David Hume3
  16. Denis Diderot1
  17. Daniel Defoe52–55
  18. Samuel Johnson5
  19. Frederick II of Prussia2
  20. Alexander Pope26
  21. George Berkeley29
  22. Mikhail Lomonosov3
  23. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek82
  24. Louis XV of France4
  25. Edmond Halley58
  26. Anders Celsius13
  27. Carlo Goldoni7
  28. Anne of Great Britain49 †
  29. Benedict XIV39
  30. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon7
  31. Robert Walpole38