Who was alive in 1685?
27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1685. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and George Berkeley.
Died in 1685: Charles II of England.
- Isaac Newton42
- Johann Sebastian Bachborn
- John Locke53
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz39
- Matsuo Bashō41
- Louis XIV of France47
- Peter the Great13
- Antonio Vivaldi7
- Jonathan Swift18
- George Frideric Handelborn
- Jean de La Fontaine64
- Daniel Defoe23–26
- Christiaan Huygens56
- Jean Racine46
- Robert Boyle58
- George Berkeleyborn
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek53
- Charles Perrault57
- Robert Hooke50
- Charles II of England54 †
- Edmond Halley29
- John Dryden54
- Aurangzeb67
- Anne of Great Britain20
- Benedict XIV10
- William III of England35
- Robert Walpole9