Who was alive in 1712?
30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1712. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Frederick II of Prussia.
- Isaac Newton69
- Johann Sebastian Bach27
- Voltaire18
- Jean-Jacques Rousseauborn
- Benjamin Franklin6
- Carl Linnaeus5
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz66
- Leonhard Euler5
- Louis XIV of France74
- Peter the Great40
- Antonio Vivaldi34
- Jonathan Swift45
- George Frideric Handel27
- Montesquieu23
- David Hume1
- Daniel Defoe50–53
- Samuel Johnson3
- Frederick II of Prussiaborn
- Alexander Pope24
- George Berkeley27
- Mikhail Lomonosov1
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek80
- Louis XV of France2
- Edmond Halley56
- Anders Celsius11
- Carlo Goldoni5
- Anne of Great Britain47
- Benedict XIV37
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon5
- Robert Walpole36