Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1715?

30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1715. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1715: Louis XIV of France.

  1. Isaac Newton72
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach30
  3. Voltaire21
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau3
  5. Benjamin Franklin9
  6. Carl Linnaeus8
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz69
  8. Leonhard Euler8
  9. Louis XIV of France76 †
  10. Peter the Great43
  11. Antonio Vivaldi37
  12. Jonathan Swift48
  13. George Frideric Handel30
  14. Montesquieu26
  15. David Hume4
  16. Denis Diderot2
  17. Daniel Defoe53–56
  18. Samuel Johnson6
  19. Frederick II of Prussia3
  20. Alexander Pope27
  21. George Berkeley30
  22. Mikhail Lomonosov4
  23. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek83
  24. Louis XV of France5
  25. Edmond Halley59
  26. Anders Celsius14
  27. Carlo Goldoni8
  28. Benedict XIV40
  29. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon8
  30. Robert Walpole39