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William Farish

1759 - 1837
1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Vincenzo Lunardi

1759 - 1806
active 1789-1825, optician nautical instrument and telescope maker, English; British

William Cary

1759 - 1825

William Reynolds

1758 - 1803
active 1788-1817, mathematical, philosophical (globes) & optical instrument maker, English; British

Dudley Adams

1760 - 1830

Andrew Vivian

1759 - 1842
1757-1831, naval architect; mechanical engineer; inventor, English, British

Samuel Bentham

1757 - 1831

John Curr

1756 - 1823
1758-1828, anatomist; physiologist; phrenologist, German

Franz Joseph Gall

1758 - 1828
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

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

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1756-1827, physicist; inventor, German

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni

1756 - 1827
1759-1837, scientist; chemist; university professor; minister of religion, English; British

William Farish

1759 - 1837
1759-1840, surgeon, Italian

Paolo Assalini

1759 - 1840
1787-1868, clockmaker, Barnard Castle

Thomas Humphreys

1758 - 1868
1756-1830, ?, British; English

William Strutt

1756 - 1830
aîné, the elder, 1758-1820, balloon manufacturer, French

Anne-Jean Robert

1758 - 1820
1758-1805, British naval officer; admiral of the fleet, English

Horatio Nelson

1758 - 1805
1758-1842, naval surgeon, served on HMS Victory, Northern Irish

Leonard Gillespie

1758 - 1842
1756-1821, scientific instrument maker, German

David Beringer

1756 - 1821
1757-1827, artist; engraver; poet; illustrator, English; British

William Blake

1757 - 1827
1757-1841, medallist; medalmaker, French

Jean Pierre Casimir de Marcassus de Puymaurin

1757 - 1841
c. 1759-1798, inventor of a type of mine pumping engine,

Edward Bull

1759 - 1798
1759-1832, Royal Navy Admiral; second baronet, British

Richard Hussey Bickerton

1759 - 1832
1757-1834, civil engineer, Scottish; British

Thomas Telford

1757 - 1834
1760-1850, artist, baron of Alderley, Cheshire, British

John Thomas Stanley

1760 - 1850
1758-1840, physician; astronomer, German

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

1758 - 1840
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

James South

1710 - 1867
1758-1840, artist; painter; portraitist; landscapist; illustrator; engineer, Scottish; British

Nasmyth, Alexander

1758 - 1840
1760-1818, botanist; taxonomist, Swedish

Olof Peter Swartz

1760 - 1818
1757-1823, artist; engraver; printmaker; draughtsman; architect, British; English

Charles Tomkins

1757 - 1823
1756-1837, physician; surgeon; obstetrician, French

Antoine Dubois

1756 - 1837
1759-1805, poet; dramatist, German

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

1759 - 1805
1757-1827, artist; painter; illustrator; caricaturist; watercolourist, English; British

Thomas Rowlandson

1757 - 1827
1757-1815, caricaturist; engraver, British; English

James Gillray

1757 - 1815
1759-1842, mechanical engineer, English; British

Andrew Vivian

1759 - 1842
active 1790s-1800s, journalist; writer; publisher, British

John Heriot

1760 - 1833
active, 1783-1818, globe maker, British

John Newton

1759 - 1844
1760-1802, manufacturer of ceramics, Lowestoft, England

Lowestoft Porcelain

1760 - 1802
Mustard George, 1760?-1809, caricaturist; author, British

G M Woodward

1760 - 1809
active 1782-1831, map, chart and globe seller, engraver, English; British

John Cary

1760 - 1831
1756-1805, physician, Scottish; British

James Currie

1756 - 1805
1758-1803, ironmaster; scientist; British; English

William Reynolds

1758 - 1803
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807
active 1760-1804, engravers; printmakers, London, English; British

John Boydell, Engravers

1760 - 1804

Thomas Beddoes

1760 - 1808
1758-1838, shipwright; Surveyor of the Navy, English; British

Joseph Tucker

1758 - 1811
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Benjamin Hallowell Carew

1760 - 1834
1756-1823, colliery manager, English; British

John Curr

1756 - 1823