Who was alive in 1701?
24 of the people we track were surely alive in 1701. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1701: Anders Celsius.
- Isaac Newton58
- Johann Sebastian Bach16
- Voltaire7
- John Locke69
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz55
- Louis XIV of France63
- Peter the Great29
- Antonio Vivaldi23
- Jonathan Swift34
- George Frideric Handel16
- Montesquieu12
- Daniel Defoe39–42
- Alexander Pope13
- George Berkeley16
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek69
- Charles Perrault73
- Robert Hooke66
- Edmond Halley45
- Anders Celsiusborn
- Aurangzeb83
- Anne of Great Britain36
- Benedict XIV26
- William III of England51
- Robert Walpole25