Who was alive in 1726?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1726. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton83
2. Johann Sebastian Bach41
3. Voltaire32
4. Immanuel Kant2
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau14
6. Adam Smith3
7. Benjamin Franklin20
8. Carl Linnaeus19
9. Leonhard Euler19
10. Antonio Vivaldi48
11. Jonathan Swift59
12. George Frideric Handel41
13. Montesquieu37
14. David Hume15
15. Denis Diderot13
16. Daniel Defoe64–67
17. Samuel Johnson17
18. Frederick II of Prussia14
19. Alexander Pope38
20. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert9
21. George Berkeley41
22. Mikhail Lomonosov15
23. Louis XV of France16
24. Maria Theresa of Austria9
25. Giacomo Casanova1
26. Edmond Halley70
27. Anders Celsius25
28. Carlo Goldoni19
29. Benedict XIV51
30. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon19
31. Robert Walpole50
32. Pius VI9