Who was alive in 1689?
28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1689. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1689: Montesquieu.
- Isaac Newton46
- Johann Sebastian Bach4
- John Locke57
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz43
- Matsuo Bashō45
- Louis XIV of France51
- Peter the Great17
- Antonio Vivaldi11
- Jonathan Swift22
- George Frideric Handel4
- Montesquieuborn
- Jean de La Fontaine68
- Daniel Defoe27–30
- Alexander Pope1
- Christiaan Huygens60
- Jean Racine50
- Robert Boyle62
- George Berkeley4
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek57
- Charles Perrault61
- Robert Hooke54
- Edmond Halley33
- John Dryden58
- Aurangzeb71
- Anne of Great Britain24
- Benedict XIV14
- William III of England39
- Robert Walpole13