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1713-1784, encyclopaedist, French

Denis Diderot

1713 - 1784
1710-1777, printmaker; engraver, French born; active England

Pierre-Charles Canot

1710 - 1777
1691-1759, draftsman; printmaker, German

Georg Daniel Heumann

1691 - 1759
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1692-1762, astronomer, English; British

James Bradley

1692 - 1762
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837
active 1760s-1790s, clock and watchmaker, Swiss; British

Justin Vulliamy

1712 - 1797
active 1728, d. 1775

John Sigismund Tanner

1700 - 1775
1710-1767, 10th Earl of Buchan; draughtsman; engraver, Scottish

Henry David Erskine

1710 - 1767
1694-1757, court jester of August the Strong, Austrian

Joseph Fröhlich

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

Jacques Mesnard

1685 - 1746
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1715-1795, Moravian minister; bookseller, English; British

James Hutton

1715 - 1795
1709/10-1783, Pinchbeck the younger, clock-maker; watchmaker, British

Christopher Pinchbeck

1709 - 1783
1709-1780, landscape engraver, French-born; British

Francis Vivares

1709 - 1780
1705-1779, portrait artist, Swedish

Fredrik Brander

1705 - 1779
1713-1772, physician; inventor of geomagnetic instruments, English

Gowin Knight

1713 - 1772
1704-1764, clock maker (NOT the inventor of the the flying shuttle), English

John Kay

1704 - 1764
1692-1761, natural philosopher (physicist), Dutch

Pieter van Musschenbroek

1692 - 1761
1703-1772, itinerant oculist, English

John Taylor

1703 - 1772
Baron Anson, 1697-1762, naval officer; politician, British; English

George Anson

1697 - 1762
1701-1779, artist; portrait painter; art collector, English

Thomas Hudson

1701 - 1779
1687-1765, antiquary; natural philosopher, British

William Stukeley

1687 - 1765
1703-1781, surgeon, French

Frère Côme

1703 - 1781
1692-1767, artist; printmaker, Dutch

Jacob Folkema

1692 - 1767
1712-1780, physician; naturalist, English; British

John Fothergill

1712 - 1780
active 1715-1780, manufacturer of ceramics, French

Hustin

1715 - 1780
1689-1752, artist; painter, British

Isaac Whood

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

William Hogarth

1697 - 1764
1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi

1711 - 1778
1791-1870, physician, Scottish, British

James Copland

1711 - 1870
1695-1769, physician; botanist; publisher, German?

Christopher Jacob Trew

1695 - 1769
1712-1789, philanthropic educator, French

l'Epee, Charles Michel de

1712 - 1789
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
1702/1705-1762, sculptor, French

Louis-François Roubiliac

1702 - 1762
1715 or 1716-1794, horologist; marine escapement and watchmaker, London, England, English

Thomas Mudge

1715 - 1794
1711-1788, active 1748-1776, optician, Edinburgh & London, Scottish; British

Thomas Short

1711 - 1788
1713-1788, horologist; scientist, British

John Whitehurst

1713 - 1788
1715-1781, industrialist; manufacturer of silk textiles, English

Charles Roe

1715 - 1781
active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Georg Friedrich Brander

1713 - 1783
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
1711-1756, physician, anatomist, and physicist, German

Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn

1711 - 1756
1697-1763, man-midwife, Scottish; British

William Smellie

1697 - 1763
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807
active 1752-1761, optician, previously a silk weaver, English; British

John Dollond

1707 - 1761
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