Who was alive in 1716?
29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1716. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1716: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
- Isaac Newton73
- Johann Sebastian Bach31
- Voltaire22
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau4
- Benjamin Franklin10
- Carl Linnaeus9
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz70 †
- Leonhard Euler9
- Peter the Great44
- Antonio Vivaldi38
- Jonathan Swift49
- George Frideric Handel31
- Montesquieu27
- David Hume5
- Denis Diderot3
- Daniel Defoe54–57
- Samuel Johnson7
- Frederick II of Prussia4
- Alexander Pope28
- George Berkeley31
- Mikhail Lomonosov5
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek84
- Louis XV of France6
- Edmond Halley60
- Anders Celsius15
- Carlo Goldoni9
- Benedict XIV41
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon9
- Robert Walpole40