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1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

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

Everitt, Thomas Hills

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

Hutton, James

1715 - 1795
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
active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Brander, Georg Friedrich

1713 - 1783
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
1711-1756, optical instrument maker, German (Prussian)

Mittsdorfer, Johan Georg

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

Copland, James

1711 - 1870
1715 or 1716-1794, horologist; marine escapement and watchmaker, London, England, English

Mudge, Thomas

1715 - 1794
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
active 1715-1780, manufacturer of ceramics, French

Hustin

1715 - 1780

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790

Labelye, Charles

1705 - 1781

Filley de la Barre, Pierre

1713 - 1779

Simpson, Thomas

1710 - 1761

Short, James

1710 - 1768
1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Bassi, Laura Maria Caterina

1711 - 1778

Demainbray, Stephen Charles Triboudet

1710 - 1782

Martin, Benjamin

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

Leclerc, Georges Louis

1707 - 1788
active 1760s-1790s, clock and watchmaker, Swiss; British

Vulliamy, Justin

1712 - 1797
1713-1788, horologist; scientist, British

Whitehurst, John

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

Roe, Charles

1715 - 1781
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
1711-1770, politician; First Lord of the Admiralty, British; English

Perceval, John

1711 - 1770
1703-1772, itinerant oculist, English

Taylor, John

1703 - 1772
1712-1789, philanthropic educator, French

l'Epee, Charles Michel de

1712 - 1789
1711-1756, physician, anatomist, and physicist, German

Lieberkühn, Johann Nathanael

1711 - 1756
1702/1705-1762, sculptor, French

Roubiliac, Louis-François

1702 - 1762
1712-1780, physician; naturalist, English; British

Fothergill, John

1712 - 1780
1711-1788, active 1748-1776, optician, Edinburgh & London, Scottish; British

Short, Thomas

1711 - 1788
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

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
1715-1759, medallist, Swiss

Dassier, Jacques-Antoine

1715 - 1759
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