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

Margaret Arnold

1743 - 1789
1755-1824, King of France and Navarre, 1815-1824

Louis XVIII

1755 - 1824
1756-1836, monarch, king of France

Charles

1756 - 1836
active 1770s-1790s, clockmaker; watchmaker, British

Benjamin Vulliamy

1747 - 1811
1765-1844, architectural writer; mathematician, Scottish; British

Peter Nicholson

1765 - 1844
1765-1847, chemist, British; English

Charles Hatchett

1765 - 1847
1756-1823, colliery manager, English; British

John Curr

1756 - 1823
1762-1836, physician; founder of macrobiotics; professor at Berlin University, German

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

1762 - 1836
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814
1749-1806, engraver, British

Francis Chesham

1749 - 1806
1768/9-1832, artist; architectural draughtsman, active in the UK, French-born

Augustus Charles Pugin

1762 - 1832
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1748-1808, clock and watchmaker, London, England, British

George Margetts

1748 - 1808
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837
1754-1811, engraver, French

Gilles Louis Chrétien

1754 - 1811
1763-1821, ophthalmologist, Austrian

Beer, Georg Joseph

1763 - 1821
1749-1799, clergyman; natural philosopher, English; British

Abraham Bennet

1749 - 1799
1769-1832, zoologist; naturalist, French

Baron Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier

1769 - 1832
1763-1805, engineer; cleric, French

Claude Chappe

1763 - 1805
1753-1809, aeronaut; balloonist, French

Jean Pierre François Blanchard

1753 - 1809
1742-1821, artist; collector, English; British

Richard Cosway

1742 - 1821
1757-1838, artist; painter, Austrian

Józef Grassi

1757 - 1838
1756-1827, physicist; inventor, German

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni

1756 - 1827
1761-1838, publisher; printseller, British

S W Fores

1761 - 1838
1747-1825, medal maker, French

Vivant Denon

1747 - 1825
active 1790-1820, mathematical, philosophical, nautical & optical instrument makers, Paris, France

Francoise-Antoine Jecker

1765 - 1834
1755-1816, engraver; artist; draughtsman, Swedish

Johann Frederik Martin

1755 - 1816
1770-1845, artist; portraitist, English; British

Thomas Phillips

1770 - 1845
1761-1844, engraver; medallist, French

André Galle

1761 - 1844
1769-1823, aeronaut; parachutist , French

Andre Jacques Garnerin

1769 - 1823
1749-1834, physician, Scottish

Gilbert Blane

1749 - 1834
1766-1832, mathematician; natural philosopher, Scottish; British

John Leslie

1766 - 1832
1758-1840, physician; astronomer, German

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

1758 - 1840
1756-1823, artist; portraitist, Scottish; British

Henry Raeburn

1756 - 1823
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1755-1839, mathematician; engineer, French

Gaspard de Prony

1755 - 1839
1769-1852, first Duke of Wellington; army officer; prime minister, British

Arthur Wellesley

1769 - 1852
1766-1844, chemist; educationist, British

Thomas Charles Hope

1766 - 1844
1750-1813, engineer; inventor of the extinguisher pump/lift pump, German

Carl Emanuel Löscher

1750 - 1813
1765-1854, inventor of apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks, British

George William Manby

1765 - 1854
1767-1839, scientific administrator; mathematician, British

Davies Gilbert

1767 - 1839
1748-1827, engraver, British

Thomas Holloway

1748 - 1827
1759-1842, mechanical engineer, English; British

Andrew Vivian

1759 - 1842
1745-1830, mechanician, clock-maker, Swiss

Henri Maillardet

1745 - 1830
c. 1741-1793?, portraitist, British

Cunningham, Edward Francis

1741 - 1793
1745-1798, portrait painter; artist, German

Karl Anton Hickel

1745 - 1798
1765-1833, inventor, Chalon-sur-Saône, France

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

1765 - 1833
1769-1837, artist; landscape painter; engraver, London, England, British

William Daniell

1769 - 1837
1764-1838, artist; engraver, British

William Ridley

1764 - 1838
1753-1815, chemist; natural philosopher; publisher, English; British

William Nicholson

1753 - 1815