Who was alive in 1721?

31 of the people we track were surely alive in 1721. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton78
2. Johann Sebastian Bach36
3. Voltaire27
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau9
5. Benjamin Franklin15
6. Carl Linnaeus14
7. Leonhard Euler14
8. Peter the Great49
9. Antonio Vivaldi43
10. Jonathan Swift54
11. George Frideric Handel36
12. Montesquieu32
13. David Hume10
14. Denis Diderot8
15. Daniel Defoe59–62
16. Samuel Johnson12
17. Frederick II of Prussia9
18. Alexander Pope33
19. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert4
20. George Berkeley36
21. Mikhail Lomonosov10
22. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek89
23. Louis XV of France11
24. Maria Theresa of Austria4
25. Edmond Halley65
26. Anders Celsius20
27. Carlo Goldoni14
28. Benedict XIV46
29. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon14
30. Robert Walpole45
31. Pius VI4