Who was alive in 1720?

727 well-known people were alive in 1720, including Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire. Here are the 80 most notable:

Isaac Newton (1643–1727) — English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) — German composer (1685–1750)
Voltaire (1694–1778) — French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) — Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) — American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) — Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) — Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
Peter the Great (1672–1725) — Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) — Italian composer and violinist (1678-1741)
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) — Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
David Hume (1711–1776) — Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) — German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
Montesquieu (1689–1755) — French philosopher (1689–1755)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) — French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) — English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) — English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786) — King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) — English poet (1688–1744)
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) — French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) — Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) — Russian polymath (1711-1765)
George Berkeley (1685–1753) — Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)
Louis XV of France (1710–1774) — King of France and of Navarre from 1715 to 1774 (1710–1774)
Maria Theresa of Austria (1717–1780) — ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)
Edmond Halley (1656–1742) — English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
Anders Celsius (1701–1744) — Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) — Italian playwright (1707-1793)
Benedict XIV (1675–1758) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758
Robert Walpole (1676–1745) — British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) — French natural historian (1707-1788)
Pius VI (1717–1799) — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799
George II of Great Britain (1683–1760) — King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760
Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) — Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) — Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
Clement XII (1652–1740) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1730 to 1740
George I of Great Britain (1660–1727) — King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727
Elizabeth I of Russia (1709–1762) — The sixth Emperor of Russia (1741–1762)
Christopher Wren (1632–1723) — English architect (1632–1723)
Vitus Bering (1681–1741) — Danish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736) — German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
Benedict XIII (1649–1730) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730
Clement XIII (1693–1769) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769
William Hogarth (1697–1764) — English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)
Clement XI (1649–1721) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
Innocent XIII (1655–1724) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1721 to 1724
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) — English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)
Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714–1787) — opera composer (1714–1787)
Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) — Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist
Philip V of Spain (1683–1746) — King of Spain from 1700 to 1746 (1683–1746)
Catherine I of Russia (1684–1727) — The first Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727
Nader Shah (1688–1747) — Shah of Iran (r. 1736–47) and founder of the Afsharid dynasty
Clement XIV (1705–1774) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685–1740) — 18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) — Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718–1799)
Anna I of Russia (1693–1740) — The fourth Emperor of Russia (1730–1740)
John Wesley (1703–1791) — founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) — Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (1713–1768)
Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771) — French philosopher; (1715-1771)
Peter II of Russia (1715–1730) — Emperor of Russia (1715-1730)
Charles III of Spain (1716–1788) — King of Spain from 1759 to 1788
Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748) — Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) — German composer
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) — German composer (1714–1788)
Ahmed III (1673–1736) — 23th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1703–1730)
Canaletto (1697–1768) — Italian painter of landscapes (1697–1768)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) — French composer and music theorist (1683–1764)
Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736) — prince of the house of Savoy, then commander in chief of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire (1663-1736)
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) — French painter (1684-1721)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) — Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti
Mahmud I (1696–1754) — 24th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1730–1754)
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708–1765) — Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany (1708-1765).
Mustafa III (1717–1774) — 26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1757–1774)
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713–1762) — French astronomer
Horace Walpole (1717–1797) — English writer and politician (1717–1797)
Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) — German composer (1719–1787)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) — Italian painter (1696–1770)
Osman III (1699–1757) — 25th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1754–1757)
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) — Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768 (1708–1778)
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1697–1745) — Holy Roman Emperor
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792) — Islamic Saudi scholar, jurist and eponym of Wahhabi movement (1703–1792)

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