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1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

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

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
1742-1821, artist; collector, English; British

Cosway, Richard

1742 - 1821
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
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
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
1738-1819, physician, Belgian

Hende, Jean-François-Laurent van

1738 - 1819

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

1740 - 1812
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
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
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
1740-1814, medallist, German

Reich, Johann Christian

1740 - 1814
1741-1819, geologist; sponsor, French

Faujas-de-Saint-Fond, Barthélémy

1741 - 1819
c. 1745-1814?; active 1778-1814, print seller; publisher, British; English

Humphrey, Hannah

1742 - 1814
1742-1826, portrait etcher; miniature painter, Scottish

Kay, John

1742 - 1826
c1739-1790, engraver, Irish, British

Watson, James

1739 - 1790
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Woltman, Reinhard

1712 - 1837
1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Banks, Sir Joseph

1743 - 1820

Cartwright, Edmund

1743 - 1823

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

1743 - 1794

Saunders, William

1743 - 1817

South, James

1710 - 1867
1743-1830, medallist, coin-engraver, British

Pingo, Lewis

1743 - 1830
1739-1824, statesman, French

Lebrun, Charles-Francois

1739 - 1824
1742-1806, naturalist; mineralogist, French

Carangeot, Arnould

1742 - 1806
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
1741-1827, artist, American

Peale, Charles Willson

1741 - 1827
c 1738-1821, engraver, English

Pether, William

1738 - 1821
active 1739 - 1949, bell manufacturers, Cripplegate

J. Warner & Sons

1739 - 1949
1738-1820, artist, American

West, Benjamin

1738 - 1820
active 1739-1769, printmaker, London, England

Spilsbury, John

1739 - 1769
1743-1792, mechanical engineer; blacksmith; millwright, American

Rumsey, James

1743 - 1791