Who was alive in 1720?

31 of the people we track were surely alive in 1720. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton77
2. Johann Sebastian Bach35
3. Voltaire26
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau8
5. Benjamin Franklin14
6. Carl Linnaeus13
7. Leonhard Euler13
8. Peter the Great48
9. Antonio Vivaldi42
10. Jonathan Swift53
11. George Frideric Handel35
12. Montesquieu31
13. David Hume9
14. Denis Diderot7
15. Daniel Defoe58–61
16. Samuel Johnson11
17. Frederick II of Prussia8
18. Alexander Pope32
19. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert3
20. George Berkeley35
21. Mikhail Lomonosov9
22. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek88
23. Louis XV of France10
24. Maria Theresa of Austria3
25. Edmond Halley64
26. Anders Celsius19
27. Carlo Goldoni13
28. Benedict XIV45
29. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon13
30. Robert Walpole44
31. Pius VI3