Who was alive in 1730?

35 of the people we track were surely alive in 1730. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Johann Sebastian Bach45
2. Voltaire36
3. Immanuel Kant6
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau18
5. Adam Smith7
6. Benjamin Franklin24
7. Carl Linnaeus23
8. Leonhard Euler23
9. James Cook2
10. Antonio Vivaldi52
11. Jonathan Swift63
12. George Frideric Handel45
13. Montesquieu41
14. David Hume19
15. Catherine II of Russia1
16. Denis Diderot17
17. Daniel Defoe68–71
18. Samuel Johnson21
19. Frederick II of Prussia18
20. Edmund Burke1
21. Alexander Pope42
22. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert13
23. George Berkeley45
24. Mikhail Lomonosov19
25. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing1
26. Louis XV of France20
27. Maria Theresa of Austria13
28. Giacomo Casanova5
29. Edmond Halley74
30. Anders Celsius29
31. Carlo Goldoni23
32. Benedict XIV55
33. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon23
34. Robert Walpole54
35. Pius VI13