Who was alive in 1697?
25 of the people we track were surely alive in 1697. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
- Isaac Newton54
- Johann Sebastian Bach12
- Voltaire3
- John Locke65
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz51
- Louis XIV of France59
- Peter the Great25
- Antonio Vivaldi19
- Jonathan Swift30
- George Frideric Handel12
- Montesquieu8
- Daniel Defoe35–38
- Alexander Pope9
- Jean Racine58
- George Berkeley12
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek65
- Charles Perrault69
- Robert Hooke62
- Edmond Halley41
- John Dryden66
- Aurangzeb79
- Anne of Great Britain32
- Benedict XIV22
- William III of England47
- Robert Walpole21