Who was alive in 1719?

31 of the people we track were surely alive in 1719. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton76
2. Johann Sebastian Bach34
3. Voltaire25
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau7
5. Benjamin Franklin13
6. Carl Linnaeus12
7. Leonhard Euler12
8. Peter the Great47
9. Antonio Vivaldi41
10. Jonathan Swift52
11. George Frideric Handel34
12. Montesquieu30
13. David Hume8
14. Denis Diderot6
15. Daniel Defoe57–60
16. Samuel Johnson10
17. Frederick II of Prussia7
18. Alexander Pope31
19. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert2
20. George Berkeley34
21. Mikhail Lomonosov8
22. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek87
23. Louis XV of France9
24. Maria Theresa of Austria2
25. Edmond Halley63
26. Anders Celsius18
27. Carlo Goldoni12
28. Benedict XIV44
29. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon12
30. Robert Walpole43
31. Pius VI2