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1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
1736-1818, traveller, author, Scottish, British

Brydone, Patrick

1736 - 1818
1737-1816, politician, chemist, lawyer, French

Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard

1737 - 1816
1741-1832, physician, French

Portal, Antoine

1741 - 1832
1738-1809, bookseller, British

Johnson, Joseph

1738 - 1809
1739/40-1817, aeronaut; military theorist; army officer, English

Money, John

1739 - 1817
1737-1828, physician; inventor of an aerated water apparatus, British

Nooth, Dr John Mervyn

1737 - 1828
1737-1802

Williams, Thomas

1737 - 1802
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1745-1798, portrait painter; artist, German

Hickel, Karl Anton

1745 - 1798
1735 or 1736-1799, active 1762-1796, watchmaker; chronometer maker, British, English

Arnold, John

1735 - 1799
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
1736-1806, mechanical engineer; mathematician, French

Coulomb, Charles Augustin

1736 - 1806
1742-1821, artist; collector, English; British

Cosway, Richard

1742 - 1821
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

Merlin, John Joseph

1735 - 1803
1740-1810, balloon pioneer, French

Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel

1740 - 1810
1741-1790, Holy Roman Emperor, Austrian

Joseph II

1741 - 1790
1791-1870, physician, Scottish, British

Copland, James

1711 - 1870
1740-1813, typographer; type-designer; printer; publisher, Italian

Bodonius, Giambattista

1740 - 1813
c. 1741-1793?, portraitist, British

Cunningham, Edward Francis

1741 - 1793
1744-1819, physician; balloonist; aeronaut, American

Jeffries, John

1744 - 1819
1744-1795, physician; anatomist; surgeon, French

Desault, Pierre Joseph

1744 - 1795
1740-1812, artist; painter, French-born, British

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

1740 - 1812
1741-1828, sculptor, French

Houdon, Jean-Antoine

1741 - 1828
1742-1806, man- midwife; surgeon; anatomist, English

Rowley, William

1742 - 1806
1736-1790, mineralogist, French

Romé de L'Isle, Jean-Baptiste Louis

1736 - 1790
1740-1827, physician, English

Haygarth, John

1740 - 1827
1741-1799, physician; inventor of 'Perkins Tractors', American

Perkins, Elisha

1741 - 1799

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822

Withering, William (MD, FRS)

1741 - 1799

Banks, Joseph (Bt)

1743 - 1820

Reynolds, Richard

1735 - 1816

Coke, Thomas William (first earl of Leicester of Holkham)

1745 - 1842
1738-1819, physician, Belgian

Hende, Jean-François-Laurent van

1738 - 1819

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

1740 - 1812
1745-1827, physicist, Italian

Volta, Alessandro

1745 - 1827
1744-1818, architect; artist; landscape designer; engineer, French

Belanger, Francois Joseph

1744 - 1818
1738-1822, musician and astronomer, German born; naturalised British

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822
c. 1739-1807, active 1768-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, John

1739 - 1807
1745-1830, mechanician, clock-maker, Swiss

Maillardet, Henri

1745 - 1830
1742-1786, chemist, Swedish

Scheele, Carl Wilhelm

1742 - 1786
1739-1812, printer, British

Walter, John

1739 - 1812
1743/4-1789, wife of John Arnold, mother of John Roger Arnold, chronometer makers, English

Arnold, Margaret

1743 - 1789
1736/7-1805, decorative artist, British; English

Eginton, Francis

1736 - 1805
1741-1801, physiognomist; poet, Swiss

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

1741 - 1801
1738-1820, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 1760-1820

George III

1738 - 1820
1744-1792, naval officer and politician, peer of Great Britain and Ireland, British

Phipps, Constantine John

1744 - 1792
1740-1814, medallist, German

Reich, Johann Christian

1740 - 1814
1736-1812, physician; amateur scientist, Scottish; British

Lind, James

1736 - 1812
1741-1819, geologist; sponsor, French

Faujas-de-Saint-Fond, Barthélémy

1741 - 1819