Who was alive in 1718?

31 of the people we track were surely alive in 1718. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton75
2. Johann Sebastian Bach33
3. Voltaire24
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau6
5. Benjamin Franklin12
6. Carl Linnaeus11
7. Leonhard Euler11
8. Peter the Great46
9. Antonio Vivaldi40
10. Jonathan Swift51
11. George Frideric Handel33
12. Montesquieu29
13. David Hume7
14. Denis Diderot5
15. Daniel Defoe56–59
16. Samuel Johnson9
17. Frederick II of Prussia6
18. Alexander Pope30
19. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert1
20. George Berkeley33
21. Mikhail Lomonosov7
22. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek86
23. Louis XV of France8
24. Maria Theresa of Austria1
25. Edmond Halley62
26. Anders Celsius17
27. Carlo Goldoni11
28. Benedict XIV43
29. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon11
30. Robert Walpole42
31. Pius VI1