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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

Thomas Simpson

1710 - 1761
1716-1772, civil engineer, English; British

James Brindley

1716 - 1772
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
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

James Hargreaves

1720 - 1778
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
c. 1717-1786, artist; printmaker; anatomist, French

Jacques-Fabien Gautier

1717 - 1786
1721-1793, physician; surgeon, English; British

John Mudge

1710 - 1793
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Georg Friedrich Brander

1713 - 1783
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

Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray

1710 - 1782
active 1735-1790, chronometer maker; watchmaker, London, England

Larcum Kendall

1719 - 1790
active 1749-1783, mathematical instrument maker, Strand, London, England

Jeremiah Sisson

1720 - 1783
1711-1788, active 1748-1776, optician, Edinburgh & London, Scottish; British

Thomas Short

1711 - 1788
1715-1781, industrialist; manufacturer of silk textiles, English

Charles Roe

1715 - 1781
1710-1782, natural philosopher; astronomer, British

Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray

1710 - 1782
c1716-1788, active 1756-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

John Troughton

1716 - 1788
1718-1783, physician; anatomist; man-midwife, Scottish; British

William Hunter

1718 - 1783
1720-1789, transfer printer, English

John Sadler

1720 - 1789
1717-1783, mathematician; mechanician; physicist; philosopher; music theorist, French

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

1717 - 1783
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

James South

1710 - 1867

James Short

1710 - 1768
1720-1814, horologist; inventor; clock and watchmaker, French

Jean Antoine Lepine

1720 - 1814
1710-1767, 10th Earl of Buchan; draughtsman; engraver, Scottish

Henry David Erskine

1710 - 1767
1720-1793, naturalist; philosopher; lawyer, Swiss

Charles Bonnet

1720 - 1793
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807
c. 1712-1777, painter; artist, English; British

John Cleveley

1712 - 1777
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
active 1715-1780, manufacturer of ceramics, French

Hustin

1715 - 1780
(bap.) 1718-1792, first Baron Rodney; naval officer; politician, British

George Bridges Rodney

1718 - 1792
1720-1804, engraver, British

John Boydell

1720 - 1804
1713-1784, encyclopaedist, French

Denis Diderot

1713 - 1784
1720-1788, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobite claimant to English, Irish and Scottish throne, Italian

Charles Edward Stuart

1720 - 1788
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837
1713-1788, horologist; scientist, British

John Whitehurst

1713 - 1788
1720-1778, industrialist; entomologist, Swedish

Carl de Geer

1720 - 1778
1715-1795, Moravian minister; bookseller, English; British

James Hutton

1715 - 1795

William Hunter

1718 - 1783

Samuel Need

1718 - 1781
1712-1780, physician; naturalist, English; British

John Fothergill

1712 - 1780
1711-1756, optical instrument maker, German (Prussian)

Johan Georg Mittsdorfer

1711 - 1756
1710-1790, chemist; physician, Scottish; British

William Cullen

1710 - 1790