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1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Woltman, Reinhard

1712 - 1837
1749-1836, engraver; cartographer, British; English

Faden, William

1749 - 1836
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823
1747-1832, physician; surgeon, Italian

Palletta, Giovanni Battista

1747 - 1832
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
1748-1827, engraver, British

Holloway, Thomas

1748 - 1827
1741-1799, physician; inventor of 'Perkins Tractors', American

Perkins, Elisha

1741 - 1799
1749-1806, surgeon; farmer Scottish

Bell, Benjamin

1749 - 1806
active 1748-1859, surgical instrument maker; cutler, Edinburgh, Scotland

Boog

1748 - 1859
1745-1827, physicist, Italian

Volta, Alessandro

1745 - 1827
1748-1808, clock and watchmaker, London, England, British

Margetts, George

1748 - 1808
1744-1818, architect; artist; landscape designer; engineer, French

Belanger, Francois Joseph

1744 - 1818
1749-1834, physician, Scottish

Blane, Sir Gilbert

1749 - 1834
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
active 1784-1824, pioneer optical glass maker, Swiss

Guinand, Peter Louis

1748 - 1824
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
1749-1806, politician; Whig statesman, British

Fox, Charles James

1749 - 1806
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
active 1770s-1790s, clockmaker; watchmaker, British

Vulliamy, Benjamin

1747 - 1811

Jackson, Cyril

1746 - 1819

Banks, Joseph (Bt)

1743 - 1820

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

1745 - 1842
1748-1832, philosopher; jurist; reformer, English

Bentham, Jeremy

1748 - 1832
1749-1806, engraver, British

Chesham, Francis

1749 - 1806
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
1747-1825, medal maker, French

Denon, Vivant

1747 - 1825
1741-1832, physician, French

Portal, Antoine

1741 - 1832
1747-1821, landscape painter; diarist, English; British

Farington, Joseph

1747 - 1821
1747-1823, watchmaker; horologist, Swiss; French

Bréguet, Abraham-Louis

1747 - 1823
1749-1799, clergyman; natural philosopher, English; British

Bennet, Abraham

1749 - 1799
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
1749-1829, chronometer maker; watchmaker, English; British

Earnshaw, Thomas

1749 - 1829
1748-1822, chemist; Savoyard French

Berthollet, Claude-Louis

1748 - 1822