Who was alive in 1734?

39 of the people we track were surely alive in 1734. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. George Washington2
2. Johann Sebastian Bach49
3. Voltaire40
4. Immanuel Kant10
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau22
6. Adam Smith11
7. Benjamin Franklin28
8. Carl Linnaeus27
9. Leonhard Euler27
10. James Cook6
11. Antonio Vivaldi56
12. Jonathan Swift67
13. George Frideric Handel49
14. Montesquieu45
15. David Hume23
16. Joseph Haydn2
17. Catherine II of Russia5
18. Denis Diderot21
19. Samuel Johnson25
20. Frederick II of Prussia22
21. Edmund Burke5
22. Alexander Pope46
23. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert17
24. George Berkeley49
25. Mikhail Lomonosov23
26. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing5
27. Louis XV of France24
28. Maria Theresa of Austria17
29. Giacomo Casanova9
30. Edmond Halley78
31. Anders Celsius33
32. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais2
33. Carlo Goldoni27
34. Joseph Priestley1
35. Benedict XIV59
36. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon27
37. Robert Walpole58
38. Pius VI17
39. Henry Cavendish3