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Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853

John Walker

1781 - 1859
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

James Barry

1789 - 1865
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789

Richard Roberts

1789 - 1864
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

William Brockedon

1787 - 1854
1789-1938?, iron smelter; coal miner; manufacturer of coal-based products, England

Newton, Chambers and Company Limited

1789 - 1972
1791-1867, natural philosopher; scientific adviser, England, British

Michael Faraday

1791 - 1867
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

William Cubitt

1785 - 1861
1788-1875, print seller; publisher, active London

McLean, Thomas

1788 - 1875
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Robert Brettell Bate

1782 - 1847
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

John Frederick Newman

1783 - 1860
1787-1851, inventor; scenographer; daguerreotypist, French

Louis Daguerre

1787 - 1851
1790-1870, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Henry Barrow

1790 - 1870
1781-1873, instrument maker; artist; optical inventor, English; British

Cornelius Varley

1781 - 1873

William Henry Smyth

1788 - 1865
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Charles Xavier Thomas

1785 - 1870
1786-1865, manufacturer of rubber; inventor, British

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
active 1806-1840, optician, mathematical, drawing & philosophical instrument maker, London, England

Charles Augustus Schmalcalder

1786 - 1843
1790-1970, textile machinery, ammunition and bomber wing manufacturer, Bolton, England

Dobson and Barlow Limited

1790 - 1970
1788-1872, engineer, Prussian

Augustus Siebe

1788 - 1872
1786-1875, engineer and inventor

Marc Seguin

1786 - 1875
Scottish physician; pathologist; associated with Burke and Hare

Robert Knox

1791 - 1862
1789-1848; cabinet-maker; British

William Hancock

1789 - 1848
1788-1871, printer, Stepney, London, British

Augustus Applegath

1788 - 1871
1789-1854, natural philosopher and mathematician, German

Georg Simon Ohm

1789 - 1854
1790-1869, shipbuilder; engineer, Scottish; British

David Napier

1790 - 1869
1781-1848, colliery engineer; railway engineer, English; British

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1786-1850, locomotive engineer, English; British

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
Sir

William Fairbairn

1789 - 1874
1781-1856, artist, British

George Walker

1781 - 1856
Mr

Francis Mewburn

1785 - 1867
1788-1842, organic chemist, French

Pierre Joseph Pelletier

1788 - 1842
1783-1831, mining engineer; inventor of steam locomotives and rail system, British

John Blenkinsop

1783 - 1831
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1790-1954, newspaper, York

York Herald

1790 - 1954

Gravener Henson

1785 - 1852
1786-1869, wine merchant; amateur microscopist, British; English

Joseph Jackson Lister

1786 - 1869
1788-1835; coach-maker; British

John Hancock

1788 - 1835
1788-1869, merchant and railway administrator and director, British

Henry Booth

1788 - 1869

William Scoresby

1789 - 1857
1783-1850, electrician; scientific lecturer, British

William Sturgeon

1783 - 1850
1790-1852, printing engineer; university teacher, British

Cowper, Edward Shickle

1790 - 1852
1788-1873, inventor, British

Thomas Shaw Brandreth

1788 - 1873