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1715-current, pharmaceutical manufacturer, England, British

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715
1717-c.1955, button maker, Birmingham

Hammond Turner and Sons Limited

1717 - 1955
1718-1807, physician; clergyman, English

Francis Willis

1718 - 1807
1716-1774, lecturer and professor of anatomy, Italian

Anna Morandi Manzolini

1716 - 1774
1716-1794, naval surgeon; physician, Scottish; British

James Lind

1716 - 1794
1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi

1711 - 1778
1704-1782, active 1738-1777, science lecturer, philosophical, mathematical & optical instrument maker, Chichester, Sussex; London, England, British

Benjamin Martin

1705 - 1782

Thomas Simpson

1710 - 1761
1707-1783, mathematician; physicist, Swiss

Leonhard Euler

1707 - 1783
1709-1772, active 1734-72, mathematical, philosophical & optical instrument maker, lecturer, English

George Adams

1709 - 1772
1716-1772, civil engineer, English; British

James Brindley

1716 - 1772
1707-1778, naturalist; taxonomist, Swedish

Carl Linnaeus

1707 - 1778
1715 or 1716-1794, horologist; marine escapement and watchmaker, London, England, English

Thomas Mudge

1715 - 1794
1713-1772, physician; inventor of geomagnetic instruments, English

Gowin Knight

1713 - 1772
active 1760s-1790s, clock and watchmaker, Swiss; British

Justin Vulliamy

1712 - 1797
active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Georg Friedrich Brander

1713 - 1783
c. 1717-1786, artist; printmaker; anatomist, French

Jacques-Fabien Gautier

1717 - 1786
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

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

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1721-1793, physician; surgeon, English; British

John Mudge

1710 - 1793
1710-1768, active 1734-1768, optical instrument maker, British; Scottish

James Short

1710 - 1768
1710-1776, lecturer; inventor; astronomer, Scottish; British

James Ferguson

1710 - 1776
1709/10-1783, Pinchbeck the younger, clock-maker; watchmaker, British

Christopher Pinchbeck

1709 - 1783
1708-1772, active 1731-1770, optician, optical instrument & microscope maker and seller, London, England, English

John Cuff

1708 - 1772

Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray

1710 - 1782
1715-1781, industrialist; manufacturer of silk textiles, English

Charles Roe

1715 - 1781
1709-1776, active 1745-1776, mathematical instrument maker, British; English

John Bird

1709 - 1776
1711-1788, active 1748-1776, optician, Edinburgh & London, Scottish; British

Thomas Short

1711 - 1788
1710-1782, natural philosopher; astronomer, British

Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray

1710 - 1782

Charles Labelye

1705 - 1781
active 1752-1761, optician, previously a silk weaver, English; British

John Dollond

1707 - 1761
1718-1783, physician; anatomist; man-midwife, Scottish; British

William Hunter

1718 - 1783
c1716-1788, active 1756-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

John Troughton

1716 - 1788
1706-1790, natural philosopher; writer; revolutionary politican, American

Benjamin Franklin

1706 - 1790
1706-1775, printer and typefounder, English; British

John Baskerville

1706 - 1701
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

James South

1710 - 1867
1717-1783, mathematician; mechanician; physicist; philosopher; music theorist, French

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

1717 - 1783
active 1740-1760, optician, optical instrument maker, Italian

Biasio Burlini

1709 - 1771

James Short

1710 - 1768

Benjamin Martin

1705 - 1782
1709-1794, active 1761-1790, silversmith, English; British

Hester Bateman

1709 - 1794
c. 1712-1777, painter; artist, English; British

John Cleveley

1712 - 1777
1866-1883, railway company, United Kingdom

Llynvi & Ogmore Railway

628 - 1883
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807
1710-1767, 10th Earl of Buchan; draughtsman; engraver, Scottish

Henry David Erskine

1710 - 1767
1715-1795, Moravian minister; bookseller, English; British

James Hutton

1715 - 1795
active 1715-1780, manufacturer of ceramics, French

Hustin

1715 - 1780
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
bap.1706-1737, bone-setter, English

Sarah Mapp

1706 - 1737
1713-1784, encyclopaedist, French

Denis Diderot

1713 - 1784