Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1725?

33 of the people we track were surely alive in 1725. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1725: Giacomo Casanova.

Died in 1725: Peter the Great.

  1. Isaac Newton82
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach40
  3. Voltaire31
  4. Immanuel Kant1
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau13
  6. Adam Smith2
  7. Benjamin Franklin19
  8. Carl Linnaeus18
  9. Leonhard Euler18
  10. Peter the Great52 †
  11. Antonio Vivaldi47
  12. Jonathan Swift58
  13. George Frideric Handel40
  14. Montesquieu36
  15. David Hume14
  16. Denis Diderot12
  17. Daniel Defoe63–66
  18. Samuel Johnson16
  19. Frederick II of Prussia13
  20. Alexander Pope37
  21. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert8
  22. George Berkeley40
  23. Mikhail Lomonosov14
  24. Louis XV of France15
  25. Maria Theresa of Austria8
  26. Giacomo Casanovaborn
  27. Edmond Halley69
  28. Anders Celsius24
  29. Carlo Goldoni18
  30. Benedict XIV50
  31. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon18
  32. Robert Walpole49
  33. Pius VI8