Who was alive in 1699?
25 of the people we track were surely alive in 1699. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1699: Jean Racine.
- Isaac Newton56
- Johann Sebastian Bach14
- Voltaire5
- John Locke67
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz53
- Louis XIV of France61
- Peter the Great27
- Antonio Vivaldi21
- Jonathan Swift32
- George Frideric Handel14
- Montesquieu10
- Daniel Defoe37–40
- Alexander Pope11
- Jean Racine59 †
- George Berkeley14
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek67
- Charles Perrault71
- Robert Hooke64
- Edmond Halley43
- John Dryden68
- Aurangzeb81
- Anne of Great Britain34
- Benedict XIV24
- William III of England49
- Robert Walpole23