Who was alive in 1724?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1724. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton81
2. Johann Sebastian Bach39
3. Voltaire30
4. Immanuel Kantborn
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau12
6. Adam Smith1
7. Benjamin Franklin18
8. Carl Linnaeus17
9. Leonhard Euler17
10. Peter the Great52
11. Antonio Vivaldi46
12. Jonathan Swift57
13. George Frideric Handel39
14. Montesquieu35
15. David Hume13
16. Denis Diderot11
17. Daniel Defoe62–65
18. Samuel Johnson15
19. Frederick II of Prussia12
20. Alexander Pope36
21. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert7
22. George Berkeley39
23. Mikhail Lomonosov13
24. Louis XV of France14
25. Maria Theresa of Austria7
26. Edmond Halley68
27. Anders Celsius23
28. Carlo Goldoni17
29. Benedict XIV49
30. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon17
31. Robert Walpole48
32. Pius VI7