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Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795

Black, Joseph

1728 - 1799
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
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

Wilkinson, John

1728 - 1808
1727-1805, chemist, Irish

Woulfe, Peter

1727 - 1805
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

Hunter, John

1728 - 1793
1729-1799, priest; physiologist; biologist, Italian

Spallanzani, Lazzaro

1729 - 1799
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
1730-1795, potter; manufacturer of ceramics, English; British

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

Hargreaves, James

1720 - 1778
1791-1870, physician, Scottish, British

Copland, James

1711 - 1870
1728-1800, physician; surgeon; administrator, Italian

Brambilla, Giovanni Alessandro

1728 - 1800
1726-1765, printmaker; artist; draughtsman; engraver, British

Walker, Anthony

1726 - 1765
1720-1789, transfer printer, English

Sadler, John

1720 - 1789
1722-1809, physician, Austrian

Auenbrugger, Josef Leopold

1722 - 1809
1726-1790, engineer; surveyor and founder of the Ordnance Survey, Scottish

Roy, William

1726 - 1790
1724-1792, medallist, Austrian

Wideman, Anton

1724 - 1792
1729-1808, medallist, Dutch

Holtzhey, Johann Georg

1729 - 1808
1723-1777, architect; interior decorator, English

Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls

1723 - 1777
1729-1798, mathematician; cartographer, English

Donne, Benjamin

1729 - 1798
1721-1788, artist; painter, British

Wilson, Benjamin

1721 - 1788
1722-1765, discoverer of tungsten; mineralogist; chemist, Swedish

Cronstedt, Baron Axel Fredrik

1722 - 1765
1724-1968, book publisher, London

Longman

1724 - 1968
bap. 1730, d. 1802, engraver, British

Basire, James

1730 - 1802
1723-1798, architect; draughtsman, English; British

Sandby, Thomas

1723 - 1798
1723-1781, apothecary; chemist, British

Dalmahoy, Alexander

1723 - 1781
1726-1776, architect, British

Keene, Henry

1726 - 1776
1725-1793, cartographer; hydrographer, French

Roux, Joseph

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

Bonnet, Charles

1720 - 1793
bap. 1723, d. 1791; active 1747-1784, optician, Welsh; British

Watkins, Francis

1723 - 1791
1727-1817, chemist; botanist, Dutch-born; Austrian

Jacquin, Nicolas Joseph

1727 - 1817
active 1757-1809, shipbuilder, Sweden, Swedish

Chapman, Fredrik Henrik

1721 - 1808
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Woltman, Reinhard

1712 - 1837
1729-1777, [nicknamed the Macaroni Parson] Church of England clergyman; forger, British

Dodd, William

1729 - 1777
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
1730-1805, merchant; amateur astronomer, English; British

Aubert, Alexander

1730 - 1805
1728-1779, explorer, navigator; mariner; cartographer, English; British

Cook, Captain James

1728 - 1779
1866-1883, railway company, United Kingdom

Llynvi & Ogmore Railway

628 - 1883
1728-1799, chemist; physician, French-born; Irish/British

Black, Joseph

1728 - 1799
1728-1812, physician; naturalist, German

Bruckmann, Urban Friedrich Benedict

1728 - 1812
1730-1813, dentist; born Italy; naturalised British

Ruspini, Bartholomew

1730 - 1813
1724-1773, physician; writer, Scottish

Gregory, John

1724 - 1773
1720-1778, industrialist; entomologist, Swedish

Geer, Carl de

1720 - 1778
1730-1799, physician; natural philosopher, Dutch

Ingenhousz, Jan

1730 - 1799
1720-1788, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobite claimant to English, Irish and Scottish throne, Italian

Stuart, Charles Edward

1720 - 1788
1725-1797, politician, English

Wilkes, John

1725 - 1797