Who was alive in 1686?

26 of the people we track were surely alive in 1686. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton43
2. Johann Sebastian Bach1
3. John Locke54
4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz40
5. Matsuo Bashō42
6. Louis XIV of France48
7. Peter the Great14
8. Antonio Vivaldi8
9. Jonathan Swift19
10. George Frideric Handel1
11. Jean de La Fontaine65
12. Daniel Defoe24–27
13. Christiaan Huygens57
14. Jean Racine47
15. Robert Boyle59
16. George Berkeley1
17. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek54
18. Charles Perrault58
19. Robert Hooke51
20. Edmond Halley30
21. John Dryden55
22. Aurangzeb68
23. Anne of Great Britain21
24. Benedict XIV11
25. William III of England36
26. Robert Walpole10