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.
- Isaac Newton72
- Johann Sebastian Bach30
- Voltaire21
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau3
- Benjamin Franklin9
- Carl Linnaeus8
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz69
- Leonhard Euler8
- Louis XIV of France76 †
- Peter the Great43
- Antonio Vivaldi37
- Jonathan Swift48
- George Frideric Handel30
- Montesquieu26
- David Hume4
- Denis Diderot2
- Daniel Defoe53–56
- Samuel Johnson6
- Frederick II of Prussia3
- Alexander Pope27
- George Berkeley30
- Mikhail Lomonosov4
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek83
- Louis XV of France5
- Edmond Halley59
- Anders Celsius14
- Carlo Goldoni8
- Benedict XIV40
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon8
- Robert Walpole39