Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1728?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1728. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1728: James Cook.

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach43
  2. Voltaire34
  3. Immanuel Kant4
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau16
  5. Adam Smith5
  6. Benjamin Franklin22
  7. Carl Linnaeus21
  8. Leonhard Euler21
  9. James Cookborn
  10. Antonio Vivaldi50
  11. Jonathan Swift61
  12. George Frideric Handel43
  13. Montesquieu39
  14. David Hume17
  15. Denis Diderot15
  16. Daniel Defoe66–69
  17. Samuel Johnson19
  18. Frederick II of Prussia16
  19. Alexander Pope40
  20. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert11
  21. George Berkeley43
  22. Mikhail Lomonosov17
  23. Louis XV of France18
  24. Maria Theresa of Austria11
  25. Giacomo Casanova3
  26. Edmond Halley72
  27. Anders Celsius27
  28. Carlo Goldoni21
  29. Benedict XIV53
  30. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon21
  31. Robert Walpole52
  32. Pius VI11