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active 1757-1809, shipbuilder, Sweden, Swedish

Chapman, Fredrik Henrik

1721 - 1808
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Woltman, Reinhard

1712 - 1837
1710-1777, printmaker; engraver, French born; active England

Canot, Pierre-Charles

1710 - 1777
1713-1784, encyclopaedist, French

Diderot, Denis

1713 - 1784
1729-1777, [nicknamed the Macaroni Parson] Church of England clergyman; forger, British

Dodd, William

1729 - 1777

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790

Labelye, Charles

1705 - 1781

Hunter, William

1718 - 1783

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795

Black, Joseph

1728 - 1799

Darwin, Erasmus

1731 - 1802

Filley de la Barre, Pierre

1713 - 1779

Anson, George

1697 - 1762

Simpson, Thomas

1710 - 1761

Short, James

1710 - 1768

Demainbray, Stephen Charles Triboudet

1710 - 1782

Harrison, John

1693 - 1776

Martin, Benjamin

1705 - 1782
1697-1732, shipwright, Portsmouth naval Dockyard, English

Hammond, William

1697 - 1732
1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Bassi, Laura Maria Caterina

1711 - 1778
1718-1791, physician, Irish

Quin, Henry

1718 - 1791
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
1694-1757, court jester of August the Strong, Austrian

Fröhlich, Joseph

1694 - 1757
1697-1763, man-midwife, Scottish; British

Smellie, William

1697 - 1763
1693-1768, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne; first duke of Newcastle under Lyme, prime minister, English

Holles, Thomas Pelham-

1693 - 1768
1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Bowles, Carington

1724 - 1793
1724-1792, civil engineer, English

Smeaton, John

1724 - 1792
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

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

Hutton, James

1715 - 1795
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Cavendish, Henry

1731 - 1810
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

Wilkinson, John

1728 - 1808
1709/10-1783, Pinchbeck the younger, clock-maker; watchmaker, British

Pinchbeck, Christopher

1709 - 1783
active 1724-1747, optical instrument maker, English; British

Loft, Matthew

1697 - 1747
1727-1805, chemist, Irish

Woulfe, Peter

1727 - 1805
1709-1780, landscape engraver, French-born; British

Vivares, Francis

1709 - 1780
c1716-1788, active 1756-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, John

1716 - 1788
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

Hunter, John

1728 - 1793
active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Brander, Georg Friedrich

1713 - 1783
1729-1799, priest; physiologist; biologist, Italian

Spallanzani, Lazzaro

1729 - 1799
1697-1751, painter; mezzotint engraver; printmaker, British American

Pelham, Peter

1697 - 1751
1705-1779, portrait artist, Swedish

Brander, Fredrik

1705 - 1779
active 1752-1761, optician, previously a silk weaver, English; British

Dollond, John

1707 - 1761
1713-1772, physician; inventor of geomagnetic instruments, English

Knight, Gowin

1713 - 1772
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
bap. 1731, d. 1817, engraver, English

Hancock, Robert

1731 - 1817
bap 1716-1783, landscape gardener; architect, English; British

Brown, Capability

1716 - 1783
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

Hargreaves, James

1720 - 1778
1711-1756, optical instrument maker, German (Prussian)

Mittsdorfer, Johan Georg

1711 - 1756
1791-1870, physician, Scottish, British

Copland, James

1711 - 1870