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1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
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
c1716-1788, active 1756-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, John

1716 - 1788
active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Brander, Georg Friedrich

1713 - 1783
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 1716-1783, landscape gardener; architect, English; British

Brown, Capability

1716 - 1783
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
1715 or 1716-1794, horologist; marine escapement and watchmaker, London, England, English

Mudge, Thomas

1715 - 1794
1710-1767, 10th Earl of Buchan; draughtsman; engraver, Scottish

Erskine, Henry David

1710 - 1767
1717-1799, Roman Catholic Pope 1775-1799, Italian

Pius VI

1717 - 1799
active 1715-1780, manufacturer of ceramics, French

Hustin

1715 - 1780
1716-1774, lecturer and professor of anatomy, Italian

Manzolini, Anna Morandi

1716 - 1774
1720-1789, transfer printer, English

Sadler, John

1720 - 1789
1722-1809, physician, Austrian

Auenbrugger, Josef Leopold

1722 - 1809

Hunter, William

1718 - 1783

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
1718-1791, physician, Irish

Quin, Henry

1718 - 1791

Demainbray, Stephen Charles Triboudet

1710 - 1782
1724-1792, medallist, Austrian

Wideman, Anton

1724 - 1792
active 1760s-1790s, clock and watchmaker, Swiss; British

Vulliamy, Justin

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

Whitehurst, John

1713 - 1788
active 1735-1790, chronometer maker; watchmaker, London, England

Kendall, Larcum

1719 - 1790
1715-1781, industrialist; manufacturer of silk textiles, English

Roe, Charles

1715 - 1781
1723-1777, architect; interior decorator, English

Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls

1723 - 1777
1716-1781, physicist, Italian

Beccaria, Giambatista

1716 - 1781
1721-1788, artist; painter, British

Wilson, Benjamin

1721 - 1788
1711-1770, politician; First Lord of the Admiralty, British; English

Perceval, John

1711 - 1770
1717-1788, mathematician; astronomer, English

Ludlam, William

1717 - 1788
1722-1765, discoverer of tungsten; mineralogist; chemist, Swedish

Cronstedt, Baron Axel Fredrik

1722 - 1765
1724-1968, book publisher, London

Longman

1724 - 1968
1723-1798, architect; draughtsman, English; British

Sandby, Thomas

1723 - 1798
1712-1789, philanthropic educator, French

l'Epee, Charles Michel de

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

Lieberkühn, Johann Nathanael

1711 - 1756
1723-1781, apothecary; chemist, British

Dalmahoy, Alexander

1723 - 1781
1718-1783, physician; anatomist; man-midwife, Scottish; British

Hunter, William

1718 - 1783
1725-1793, cartographer; hydrographer, French

Roux, Joseph

1725 - 1793
1720-1793, naturalist; philosopher; lawyer, Swiss

Bonnet, Charles

1720 - 1793
(bap.) 1718-1792, first Baron Rodney; naval officer; politician, British

Rodney, George Bridges

1718 - 1792
1712-1780, physician; naturalist, English; British

Fothergill, John

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

Short, Thomas

1711 - 1788
active 1757-1809, shipbuilder, Sweden, Swedish

Chapman, Fredrik Henrik

1721 - 1808