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comte de Chanteloup, 1756-1832, chemist; statesman, French

Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude

1756 - 1832
1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Lunardi, Vincenzo

1759 - 1806
1759-1806, politcian, English

Pitt, William

1759 - 1806
active 1790s-1800s, journalist; writer; publisher, British

Heriot, John

1760 - 1833
1770-1850, artist; printmaker, active in the United States, British; English

Hill, John

1770 - 1850
1760-1818, botanist; taxonomist, Swedish

Swartz, Olof Peter

1760 - 1818
1761-1783, artistic society, London, English; British

Free Society of Artists

1761 - 1783
1751-1820, judge; politician, English; British

Gibbs, Sir Vicary

1751 - 1820
1757-1834, aristocrat; military officer; marquis de Lafayette, French

Lafayette

1757 - 1834
1769-1839, geologist; civil engineer, British

Smith, William

1769 - 1839
1768-1837, physician; writer, English; British

Thornton, Robert John

1768 - 1837
1767-1827, silversmith, British

Taylor, Joseph

1767 - 1827
1753-1827, inventor, English; British

Crompton, Samuel

1753 - 1827
1752-1788, history painter, English; British

Farington, George

1752 - 1705
1757-1834, engraver; etcher, British

Heath, James

1757 - 1834
1759-1840, surgeon, Italian

Assalini, Paolo

1759 - 1840
1768-1835/6, tool maker; French? German?

Holtzapffel, John Jacob

1768
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

Dalton, John

1766 - 1844
1763-1814, married to Napoleon I (1796), Empress of France 1804-1809, French

Beauharnais, Josephine de

1763 - 1814
1768-1828; marine artist; English; British

Buttersworth, Thomas

1768 - 1828
1768-1838, slavery abolitionist, Scottish; British

Macaulay, Zacharay

1768 - 1838
1758-1838, shipwright; Surveyor of the Navy, English; British

Tucker, Joseph

1758 - 1811
1766-1828, chemist; physicist; physiologist, English; British

Wollaston, William Hyde

1766 - 1828
1760-1836, German nobility; physician, Austrian

Von Stifft, Andreas Joseph

1760 - 1836
1771-1844, physician, Austrian

Wirer von Rettenbach, Franz

1771 - 1844
1767-1835, diplomat; philosopher, German

Humboldt, Wilhelm von

1767 - 1835
1767-1840, naval architect, British

Seppings, Sir Robert

1767 - 1840
1766-1849, mechanical engineer; inventor; physicist, American

Perkins, Jacob

1766 - 1849
1752-1808, anatomist; surgeon, British

Sheldon, John

1752 - 1808
1765-1815, inventor; engineer; artist, American

Fulton, Robert

1765 - 1815
active 1753-1963, museum; research centre, London

British Museum (Natural History)

1753 - 1963
1757-1823, artist; engraver; printmaker; draughtsman; architect, British; English

Tomkins, Charles

1757 - 1823
1751-1816, playwright; politician, Irish

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

1751 - 1816
1766-1842, physician; military surgeon, French

Larrey, Jean Dominique

1766 - 1842
1765-1837, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland and Hanover

William IV

1765 - 1837
1758-1840, artist; painter; portraitist; landscapist; illustrator; engineer, Scottish; British

Nasmyth, Alexander

1758 - 1840
1761-1842, improver of cotton machinery, English; British

Radcliffe, William

1761 - 1842
1763-1829, chemist, French

Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas

1763 - 1829
1752-1832, physician; anatomist, Italian

Scarpa, Antonio

1752 - 1832
1753-1839, artist, portraitist, British

Beechey, Sir William

1753 - 1839
1763-1833, philologist; educator,Bohemian; Czech

Klar, Alois

1763 - 1833
1769-1843, active from 1783, watchmaker; chronometer maker, English, son of John Arnold

Arnold, John Roger

1769 - 1843
1759-1825, marine painter; artist, British

Serres, John Thomas

1759 - 1825
1770-1818, chemist; apothecary, German

Bucholz, Christian Friedrich

1770 - 1818
1758-1842, naval surgeon, served on HMS Victory, Northern Irish

Gillespie, Leonard

1758 - 1842
1758-1828, anatomist; physiologist; phrenologist, German

Gall, Franz Joseph

1758 - 1828
1758-1805, British naval officer; admiral of the fleet, English

Nelson, Horatio

1758 - 1805
1760-1843, active 1785-1835, physician; surgeon; professor, Swedish

Afzelius, Pehr von

1760 - 1843
1755-1826, sculptor; decorative designer; illustrator, British; English

Flaxman, John

1755 - 1826
1754-1816, botanist; explorer, Spanish

Ruiz López, Hipólito

1754 - 1816