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1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1709/10-1783, Pinchbeck the younger, clock-maker; watchmaker, British

Pinchbeck, Christopher

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

Vivares, Francis

1709 - 1780
1705-1779, portrait artist, Swedish

Brander, Fredrik

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

Dollond, John

1707 - 1761
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
1701-1779, artist; portrait painter; art collector, English

Hudson, Thomas

1701 - 1779
1710-1767, 10th Earl of Buchan; draughtsman; engraver, Scottish

Erskine, Henry David

1710 - 1767
1703-1781, surgeon, French

Côme, Frère

1703 - 1781

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790

Labelye, Charles

1705 - 1781

Simpson, Thomas

1710 - 1761

Short, James

1710 - 1768

Demainbray, Stephen Charles Triboudet

1710 - 1782

Martin, Benjamin

1705 - 1782
Comte de Buffon, 1707-1788, naturalist, French

Leclerc, Georges Louis

1707 - 1788
active 1728, d. 1775

Tanner, John Sigismund

1700 - 1775
active 1740-1760, optician, optical instrument maker, Italian

Burlini, Biasio

1709 - 1771
1704-1764, clock maker (NOT the inventor of the the flying shuttle), English

Kay, John

1704 - 1764
1703-1772, itinerant oculist, English

Taylor, John

1703 - 1772
1700-1772, physician to Empress Maria Theresa, Dutch

Van Swieten, Gerard

1700 - 1772
1702/1705-1762, sculptor, French

Roubiliac, Louis-François

1702 - 1762
1710-1777, printmaker; engraver, French born; active England

Canot, Pierre-Charles

1710 - 1777

Kay, John

1704 - 1781

Adams, George

1709 - 1772

Lethieullier, Smart

1701 - 1760

South, James

1710 - 1867
1709-1782, engineer, French

Vaucanson, Jacques de

1709 - 1782
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
1706-1790, natural philosopher; writer; revolutionary politican, American

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790
1710-1768, active 1734-1768, optical instrument maker, British; Scottish

Short, James

1710 - 1768
1704-1782, active 1738-1777, science lecturer, philosophical, mathematical & optical instrument maker, Chichester, Sussex; London, England, British

Martin, Benjamin

1705 - 1782
1701-1770, Italian

Cervi, Joseph

1701 - 1770
1707-1783, mathematician; physicist, Swiss

Euler, Leonhard

1707 - 1783
1710-1782, natural philosopher; astronomer, British

Demainbray, Stephen Charles Triboudet

1710 - 1782
1710-1776, lecturer; inventor; astronomer, Scottish; British

Ferguson, James

1710 - 1776
1706-1775, ceramic modeller, German

Kändler, Johann Joachim

1706 - 1775
1709-1777, poet; dramatist, French

Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis

1709 - 1777
1708-1787, painter; draughtsman, Italian

Batoni, Pompeo

1708 - 1787
1710-1790, chemist; physician, Scottish; British

Cullen, William

1710 - 1790
1703-1791, Church of England clergyman; founder of Methodism, English

Wesley, John

1703 - 1791
1709-1776, active 1745-1776, mathematical instrument maker, British; English

Bird, John

1709 - 1776
1704-1767, artist; engraver, German

Haid, Johann Jakob

1704 - 1767
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

South, Sir James

1710 - 1867
1707-1778, naturalist; taxonomist, Swedish

Linnaeus, Carl

1707 - 1778
1709-1794, active 1761-1790, silversmith, English; British

Bateman, Hester

1709 - 1794
1709-1759, royal princess, British

Anne

1709 - 1759
1700?-1771, clockmaker; mechanician, British; English

Hindley, Henry

1701 - 1771
bap.1706-1737, bone-setter, English

Mapp, Mrs. Sarah

1706 - 1737