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1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Woltman, Reinhard

1712 - 1837
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
1745-1827, physicist, Italian

Volta, Alessandro

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

Belanger, Francois Joseph

1744 - 1818
1745-1830, mechanician, clock-maker, Swiss

Maillardet, Henri

1745 - 1830
1742-1786, chemist, Swedish

Scheele, Carl Wilhelm

1742 - 1786
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
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
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
1745-1812, aquatint engraver, English

Jukes, Francis

1745 - 1812
1744-1824, physician; naturalist, British; English

Watson, Sir William

1744 - 1825
1742-1826, portrait etcher; miniature painter, Scottish

Kay, John

1742 - 1826
1746-1818, priest; educational reformer, French

Gaultier, Aloisius Edouard Camille

1745 - 1818

Jackson, Cyril

1746 - 1819

Banks, Joseph (Bt)

1743 - 1820

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

1745 - 1842
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
1741-1832, physician, French

Portal, Antoine

1741 - 1832
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Banks, Sir Joseph

1743 - 1820
1745-1798, portrait painter; artist, German

Hickel, Karl Anton

1745 - 1798
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
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

Withering, William (MD, FRS)

1741 - 1799

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

1740 - 1812
1740-1824, physician, Danish/German

Callisen, Henry

1740 - 1824
1742-1823, Roman Catholic Pope, reigned 1800-1823, Italian

Pius VII

1742 - 1823
1742-1806, naturalist; mineralogist, French

Carangeot, Arnould

1742 - 1806
1741-1807, artist; musician, Swiss

Kauffmann, Angelica

1741 - 1807
1740-1799, naturalist, inventor, Swiss

Saussure, Horace Bénédict de

1740 - 1799
1745-1806, portrait painter; astronomer; artist, English; British

Russell, John

1745 - 1806
1743-1794, chemist & chemical pioneer, French

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

1743 - 1794
active 1765-1805, optical instrument maker, English; British

Lincoln, Charles

1744 - 1807
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

South, Sir James

1710 - 1867
1745-1816, physician, German

Bremer, , Johann Emanuel

1745 - 1816
active 1770s-1790s, shoemaker; bookseller; publisher, English; British

Lackington, James

1746 - 1815