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1683-1760, King of Great Britain and Ireland, reigned 1727-1760

George II

1683 - 1760
1691-1759, draftsman; printmaker, German

Georg Daniel Heumann

1691 - 1759
1692-1762, astronomer, English; British

James Bradley

1692 - 1762
1683-1744, natural philosopher; engineer, French born, active England

John Theophilus Desaguliers

1683 - 1744
active 1728, d. 1775

John Sigismund Tanner

1700 - 1775
1694-1757, court jester of August the Strong, Austrian

Joseph Fröhlich

1694 - 1757
1685-1746, man-midwife; surgeon, French

Jacques Mesnard

1685 - 1746
1692-1761, natural philosopher (physicist), Dutch

Pieter van Musschenbroek

1692 - 1761
Baron Anson, 1697-1762, naval officer; politician, British; English

George Anson

1697 - 1762
1687-1765, antiquary; natural philosopher, British

William Stukeley

1687 - 1765
1692-1767, artist; printmaker, Dutch

Jacob Folkema

1692 - 1767
1689-1752, artist; painter, British

Isaac Whood

1689 - 1752
1697-1764, painter; engraver, English; British

William Hogarth

1697 - 1764
1684/5-1761, medical practitioner; inventor of medicines, English

Joshua Ward

1684 - 1761
1695-1769, physician; botanist; publisher, German?

Christopher Jacob Trew

1695 - 1769
1693-1768, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne; first duke of Newcastle under Lyme, prime minister, English

Thomas Pelham-Holles

1693 - 1768
1697-1732, shipwright, Portsmouth naval Dockyard, English

William Hammond

1697 - 1732
1695-1766, active 1720-1750, mathematical, philosophical, optical instrument maker, London, England

Benjamin Cole

1695 - 1766
1688-1752, surgeon; anatomist, English

William Cheselden

1688 - 1752
1697-1763, man-midwife, Scottish; British

William Smellie

1697 - 1763
1682-1744, natural philosopher; optical instrument maker; mathematician, British; English

John Hadley

1682 - 1744
1682-1771, physician; anatomist, Italian

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

1682 - 1771
c. 1692-1776, active 1742-1770, medallist; coin engraver, Italian-born, British

Thomas Pingo

1692 - 1712
1688-1763, mathematical instrument maker; science lecturer, British; English

Francis Hauksbee

1604 - 1763
1687-1748, instrument maker, Dutch

Jan van Musschenbroek

1687 - 1748
1700-1772, physician to Empress Maria Theresa, Dutch

Gerard Van Swieten

1700 - 1772
1690-1762, politician, English; British

Wallop, John

1690 - 1762
active 1724-1747, optical instrument maker, English; British

Matthew Loft

1697 - 1747
1684-1734

John Chadwicke

1684 - 1734
1681-1754, artist, draughtsman, engraver, painter, printmaker, French

J Rigaud

1681 - 1754
1697-1751, painter; mezzotint engraver; printmaker, British American

Peter Pelham

1697 - 1751
1693-1776, horologist and clock-maker, English

John Harrison

1693 - 1776

William Hogarth

1697 - 1764
Baron Anson

George Anson

1697 - 1762

John Harrison

1693 - 1776
1700-1770, clergyman; physicist, French

Jean Antoine Nollet

1700 - 1770
c. 1687-1722

Jane Dallyson

1687 - 1722
1692-1780, writer, English; British

Richard Lovett

1692 - 1780
1688-1768, geographer/cartographer, physicist & astronomer, French

Joseph Nicolas De L'Isle

1688 - 1768
c. 1680-1751, portrait painter; artist, British

Thomas Gibson

1680 - 1751
active 1712-1751, mathematical instrument maker, British; English

Benjamin Scott

1690 - 1751
1688-1742, scientist; professor at the University of Leiden, Dutch

Willem Jacob 's Gravesande

1688 - 1742
active 1710-1748, scientific instrument maker, English

William Deane

1690 - 1750
1694-c. 1776, astronomer, English

Thomas Phelps

1694 - 1776
1684-1756, engraver; antiquary, British

George Vertue

1684 - 1756
1681-1755, active 1707-1730, mathematical instrument maker & map surveyor, English; British

Richard Glynne

1681 - 1755
1697-1764, astronomer; politician, England, British

George Parker

1697 - 1764
1682-1745, garden designer; writer, English

Stephen Switzer

1682 - 1745
1696-1776, illustrator, British

Gerard Vandergucht

1696 - 1776
active 1722-1747, mathematical instrument maker, Strand, London, England

Jonathan Sisson

1690 - 1747