Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1727?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1727. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1727: Isaac Newton.

  1. Isaac Newton84 †
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach42
  3. Voltaire33
  4. Immanuel Kant3
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau15
  6. Adam Smith4
  7. Benjamin Franklin21
  8. Carl Linnaeus20
  9. Leonhard Euler20
  10. Antonio Vivaldi49
  11. Jonathan Swift60
  12. George Frideric Handel42
  13. Montesquieu38
  14. David Hume16
  15. Denis Diderot14
  16. Daniel Defoe65–68
  17. Samuel Johnson18
  18. Frederick II of Prussia15
  19. Alexander Pope39
  20. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert10
  21. George Berkeley42
  22. Mikhail Lomonosov16
  23. Louis XV of France17
  24. Maria Theresa of Austria10
  25. Giacomo Casanova2
  26. Edmond Halley71
  27. Anders Celsius26
  28. Carlo Goldoni20
  29. Benedict XIV52
  30. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon20
  31. Robert Walpole51
  32. Pius VI10