Who was alive in 1729?
35 of the people we track were surely alive in 1729. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1729: Catherine II of Russia, Edmund Burke and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
- Johann Sebastian Bach44
- Voltaire35
- Immanuel Kant5
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau17
- Adam Smith6
- Benjamin Franklin23
- Carl Linnaeus22
- Leonhard Euler22
- James Cook1
- Antonio Vivaldi51
- Jonathan Swift62
- George Frideric Handel44
- Montesquieu40
- David Hume18
- Catherine II of Russiaborn
- Denis Diderot16
- Daniel Defoe67–70
- Samuel Johnson20
- Frederick II of Prussia17
- Edmund Burkeborn
- Alexander Pope41
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert12
- George Berkeley44
- Mikhail Lomonosov18
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessingborn
- Louis XV of France19
- Maria Theresa of Austria12
- Giacomo Casanova4
- Edmond Halley73
- Anders Celsius28
- Carlo Goldoni22
- Benedict XIV54
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon22
- Robert Walpole53
- Pius VI12