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1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

John Hunter

1728 - 1793
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

James Six

1731 - 1793
1732-1797, compass manufacturer, Germany

Johann Christoph Voigtlander

1732 - 1797

Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810
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Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

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

Thomas Hills Everitt

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

John Wilkinson

1728 - 1808
1731 or 1732-1814, watchmaker; mechanician, British

Alexander Cumming

1731 - 1814
1731-1820, active from 1750, optical instrument maker, scientific instrument maker, British

Peter Dollond

1731 - 1820
1728-1809, mechanical engineer, manufacturer; entrepreneur, English; British

Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809

Joseph Black

1728 - 1799
1728-1779, explorer, navigator; mariner; cartographer, English; British

James Cook

1728 - 1779
1730-1819, artist; medallist, French

Pierre Simon Benjamin Duvivier

1730 - 1819
1728-1812, physician; naturalist, German

Urban Friedrich Benedict Bruckmann

1728 - 1812
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

James South

1710 - 1867
1729-1798, mathematician; cartographer, English

Benjamin Donne

1729 - 1798
1730-1799, physician; natural philosopher, Dutch

Jan Ingenhousz

1730 - 1799
1728-1799, chemist; physician, French-born; Irish/British

Joseph Black

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

Lazzaro Spallanzani

1729 - 1799
1731-1815, banker; inventor, Scottish; British

Patrick Miller

1731 - 1815
1730-1813, dentist; born Italy; naturalised British

Bartholomew Ruspini

1730 - 1813
1729-1808, medallist, Dutch

Johann Georg Holtzhey

1729 - 1808

Jedediah Strutt

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

John Opie

1705 - 1807

Josiah Wedgwood

1730 - 1795
1733-1804, theologian; natural philosopher, English

Joseph Priestley

1733 - 1804
1728-1800, physician; surgeon; administrator, Italian

Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla

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

Alexander Aubert

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

Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1729 - 1814
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806

John Smalley

1728 - 1782
1730-1805; artist; engraver, portrait painter; French

Huquier, Jacques-Gabriel

1730 - 1805
1733-1811, architect; engineer, British; Scottish

Robert Mylne

1733 - 1811
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837
1730-1795, potter; manufacturer of ceramics, English; British

Josiah Wedgwood

1730 - 1795
1732-1800, army general, constructed first balloon in India, French

Claude Martin

1732 - 1800
1732-1799, army officer; statesman; president of the United States, American

George Washington

1732 - 1799

Nevil Maskelyne

1732 - 1811
1733-1799, mathematician, French

Jean Charles de Borda

1733 - 1799
1733-1817, anatomist, British; Scottish

Alexander Monro

1733 - 1817
active 1766-1804, optician, English; British

John Dollond

1733 - 1805
1731-1802, physician; natural philosopher, British

Erasmus Darwin

1731 - 1802
bap. 1731, d. 1817, engraver, English

Robert Hancock

1731 - 1817
1731-1809, painter; engraver; artist, British; English

Paul Sandby

1731 - 1809

Joseph Priestley

1733 - 1804
1729-1786, philosopher, German; Jewish

Moses Mendelssohn

1729 - 1786