Who was alive in 1731?
36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1731. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1731: Henry Cavendish.
Died in 1731: Daniel Defoe.
- Johann Sebastian Bach46
- Voltaire37
- Immanuel Kant7
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau19
- Adam Smith8
- Benjamin Franklin25
- Carl Linnaeus24
- Leonhard Euler24
- James Cook3
- Antonio Vivaldi53
- Jonathan Swift64
- George Frideric Handel46
- Montesquieu42
- David Hume20
- Catherine II of Russia2
- Denis Diderot18
- Daniel Defoe†
- Samuel Johnson22
- Frederick II of Prussia19
- Edmund Burke2
- Alexander Pope43
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert14
- George Berkeley46
- Mikhail Lomonosov20
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing2
- Louis XV of France21
- Maria Theresa of Austria14
- Giacomo Casanova6
- Edmond Halley75
- Anders Celsius30
- Carlo Goldoni24
- Benedict XIV56
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon24
- Robert Walpole55
- Pius VI14
- Henry Cavendishborn