Who was alive in 1705?
20 of the people we track were surely alive in 1705. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
- Isaac Newton62
- Johann Sebastian Bach20
- Voltaire11
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz59
- Louis XIV of France67
- Peter the Great33
- Antonio Vivaldi27
- Jonathan Swift38
- George Frideric Handel20
- Montesquieu16
- Daniel Defoe43–46
- Alexander Pope17
- George Berkeley20
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek73
- Edmond Halley49
- Anders Celsius4
- Aurangzeb87
- Anne of Great Britain40
- Benedict XIV30
- Robert Walpole29