Who was alive in 1706?
21 of the people we track were surely alive in 1706. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1706: Benjamin Franklin.
- Isaac Newton63
- Johann Sebastian Bach21
- Voltaire12
- Benjamin Franklinborn
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz60
- Louis XIV of France68
- Peter the Great34
- Antonio Vivaldi28
- Jonathan Swift39
- George Frideric Handel21
- Montesquieu17
- Daniel Defoe44–47
- Alexander Pope18
- George Berkeley21
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek74
- Edmond Halley50
- Anders Celsius5
- Aurangzeb88
- Anne of Great Britain41
- Benedict XIV31
- Robert Walpole30