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

Edward Nairne

1726 - 1806
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

John Hunter

1728 - 1793

Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809
1725-1793, cartographer; hydrographer, French

Joseph Roux

1725 - 1793
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1727-1805, chemist, Irish

Peter Woulfe

1727 - 1805
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

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

John Wilkinson

1728 - 1808
active 1770s-1780s, marine chronometer maker; watchmaker, English; British

Josiah Emery

1725 - 1794
1728-1809, mechanical engineer, manufacturer; entrepreneur, English; British

Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809
1728-1779, explorer, navigator; mariner; cartographer, English; British

James Cook

1728 - 1779
1727-1817, chemist; botanist, Dutch-born; Austrian

Nicolas Joseph Jacquin

1727 - 1817

Joseph Black

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

Urban Friedrich Benedict Bruckmann

1728 - 1812
1730-1819, artist; medallist, French

Pierre Simon Benjamin Duvivier

1730 - 1819
1729-1798, mathematician; cartographer, English

Benjamin Donne

1729 - 1798
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

James South

1710 - 1867
1730-1799, physician; natural philosopher, Dutch

Jan Ingenhousz

1730 - 1799
1726-1790, engineer; surveyor and founder of the Ordnance Survey, Scottish

William Roy

1726 - 1790
1728-1799, chemist; physician, French-born; Irish/British

Joseph Black

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

Lazzaro Spallanzani

1729 - 1799
1729-1808, medallist, Dutch

Johann Georg Holtzhey

1729 - 1808
1730-1813, dentist; born Italy; naturalised British

Bartholomew Ruspini

1730 - 1813

Josiah Wedgwood

1730 - 1795
1728-1800, physician; surgeon; administrator, Italian

Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla

1728 - 1800
1730-1805, merchant; amateur astronomer, English; British

Alexander Aubert

1730 - 1805
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806

Jedediah Strutt

1729 - 1797
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807

John Smalley

1728 - 1782
1727-1807, watchmaker, Paris, France, Swiss

Ferdinand Berthoud

1727 - 1807
1730-1805; artist; engraver, portrait painter; French

Huquier, Jacques-Gabriel

1730 - 1805
1729-1814, physician; natural historian; economist, German

Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1729 - 1814
1730-1795, potter; manufacturer of ceramics, English; British

Josiah Wedgwood

1730 - 1795
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837
1726-1765, printmaker; artist; draughtsman; engraver, British

Anthony Walker

1726 - 1765
1726-1776, architect, British

Henry Keene

1726 - 1776
1725-1797, politician, English

John Wilkes

1725 - 1797
1726-1807, scientific instrument maker

Johann Engelbrecht

1726 - 1807
1726-1776, physician; encyclopedist, French

Augustin Roux

1726 - 1776
1729-1786, philosopher, German; Jewish

Moses Mendelssohn

1729 - 1786
1791-1870, physician, Scottish, British

James Copland

1711 - 1870
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James South

1710 - 1867
1725-1807, brother of 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', Scottish

Henry Benedict Clement Stuart

1725 - 1807
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
bap. 1730, d. 1802, engraver, British

James Basire

1730 - 1802
1730-1788, Protestant theologian; hymn writer; hymn composer, Swiss

Georg Joachim Zollikofer

1730 - 1788
1729-1777, [nicknamed the Macaroni Parson] Church of England clergyman; forger, British

William Dodd

1729 - 1777
1730-1809, sculptor, French

Augustin Pajou

1730 - 1809
1727-1788, artist; printmaker, British

Thomas Gainsborough

1727 - 1788