Who was alive in 1717?
31 of the people we track were surely alive in 1717. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1717: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Maria Theresa of Austria and Pius VI.
- Isaac Newton74
- Johann Sebastian Bach32
- Voltaire23
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau5
- Benjamin Franklin11
- Carl Linnaeus10
- Leonhard Euler10
- Peter the Great45
- Antonio Vivaldi39
- Jonathan Swift50
- George Frideric Handel32
- Montesquieu28
- David Hume6
- Denis Diderot4
- Daniel Defoe55–58
- Samuel Johnson8
- Frederick II of Prussia5
- Alexander Pope29
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembertborn
- George Berkeley32
- Mikhail Lomonosov6
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek85
- Louis XV of France7
- Maria Theresa of Austriaborn
- Edmond Halley61
- Anders Celsius16
- Carlo Goldoni10
- Benedict XIV42
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon10
- Robert Walpole41
- Pius VIborn