Who was alive in 1739?

47 of the people we track were surely alive in 1739. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. George Washington7
2. Johann Sebastian Bach54
3. Voltaire45
4. Immanuel Kant15
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau27
6. Adam Smith16
7. Benjamin Franklin33
8. Carl Linnaeus32
9. Leonhard Euler32
10. John Adams4
11. James Cook11
12. Antonio Vivaldi61
13. Jonathan Swift72
14. George Frideric Handel54
15. Montesquieu50
16. James Watt3
17. David Hume28
18. Joseph Haydn7
19. Catherine II of Russia10
20. Denis Diderot26
21. Thomas Paine2
22. Samuel Johnson30
23. Frederick II of Prussia27
24. Edmund Burke10
25. Alexander Pope51
26. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert22
27. William Herschel1
28. George Berkeley54
29. Mikhail Lomonosov28
30. George III of Great Britain1
31. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing10
32. Louis XV of France29
33. Maria Theresa of Austria22
34. Giacomo Casanova14
35. Edward Gibbon2
36. Joseph-Louis Lagrange3
37. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb3
38. Edmond Halley83
39. Anders Celsius38
40. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais7
41. Carlo Goldoni32
42. Joseph Priestley6
43. Benedict XIV64
44. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon32
45. Robert Walpole63
46. Pius VI22
47. Henry Cavendish8