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1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

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

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

Wilkinson, John

1728 - 1808
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
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
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

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795

Black, Joseph

1728 - 1799
1726-1790, engineer; surveyor and founder of the Ordnance Survey, Scottish

Roy, William

1726 - 1790
1729-1808, medallist, Dutch

Holtzhey, Johann Georg

1729 - 1808
1729-1798, mathematician; cartographer, English

Donne, Benjamin

1729 - 1798
bap. 1730, d. 1802, engraver, British

Basire, James

1730 - 1802
1726-1776, architect, British

Keene, Henry

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

Roux, Joseph

1725 - 1793
1727-1817, chemist; botanist, Dutch-born; Austrian

Jacquin, Nicolas Joseph

1727 - 1817
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
1730-1795, potter; manufacturer of ceramics, English; British

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795
1727-1805, chemist, Irish

Woulfe, Peter

1727 - 1805

Smalley, John

1728 - 1782

Boulton, Matthew

1728 - 1809

Strutt, Jedediah

1729 - 1797

South, James

1710 - 1867
1727-1807, watchmaker, Paris, France, Swiss

Berthoud, Ferdinand

1727 - 1807
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
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
1730-1799, physician; natural philosopher, Dutch

Ingenhousz, Jan

1730 - 1799
1725-1797, politician, English

Wilkes, John

1725 - 1797
1727-1788, artist; printmaker, British

Gainsborough, Thomas

1727 - 1788
1730-1809, sculptor, French

Pajou, Augustin

1730 - 1809
1730-1805; artist; engraver, portrait painter; French

Huquier, Jacques-Gabriel

1730 - 1805
1726-1807, scientific instrument maker

Engelbrecht, Johann

1726 - 1807
active 1770s-1780s, marine chronometer maker; watchmaker, English; British

Emery, Josiah

1725 - 1794
1725-1807, brother of 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', Scottish

Stuart, Henry Benedict Clement

1725 - 1807
1729-1814, physician; natural historian; economist, German

Reimarus, Johann Albert Heinrich

1729 - 1814
1728-1809, mechanical engineer, manufacturer; entrepreneur, English; British

Boulton, Matthew

1728 - 1809
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

South, Sir James

1710 - 1867
1730-1819, artist; medallist, French

Duvivier, Pierre Simon Benjamin

1730 - 1819
active 1749-1806, sundial maker; optical, mathematical, philosophical inst. maker & natural philosopher, British

Nairne, Edward

1726 - 1806
1729-1786, philosopher, German; Jewish

Mendelssohn, Moses

1729 - 1786
1730-1788, Protestant theologian; hymn writer; hymn composer, Swiss

Zollikofer, Georg Joachim

1730 - 1788
1725-1792, sculptor, French

Caffiéri, Jean-Jacques

1725 - 1792