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1852-1926, engine fitter; LNWR engine driver, Westbury, Stafford, Staffordshire, England, British

Stainton, George

1852 - 1926
1857-1865, railway company, Scottish

Inverness & Aberdeen Junction Railway

1857 - 1865
1894-1989, Matsushita companies and Panasonic brand name founder, Osaka, Japan, Japanese

Matsushita, Konosuke

1894 - 1989
1899-1910, watchmaker, Prescot, England

Lancashire Watch Company Limited

1899 - 1910
1916-1918, admiral class battlecruiser, British

HMS Howe (1918)

1916 - 1918
1876-c.1975, engineering company, Manchester

Royles Ltd.

1876 - 1975
professional engineer, pianist, broadcasting star, writer

Wayne, Arthur

1905 - 1971
English sewing machine company established in Audenshawe, Manchester in 1859

Jones Sewing Machine Company Limited

1859 - 1968
1892-1965, musician; broadcaster, Britain

Harrison, Beatrice

1892 - 1965
1899-1931, aviator; naval officer, French

Brix, Joseph Le

1899 - 1931
1883-1959, medallist, French

Canale, Victor S

1883 - 1959
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Sanger, Margaret

1878 - 1966
1857-1937, professor of chemistry, British

Young, Sydney

1857 - 1937
orthopaedic surgeon; British; Civilian Consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery to the RAF

Watson-Jones, Reginald

1902 - 1972
1916-2004; physicist; worked with Crick, Watson, & Franklin on structure of DNA

Wilkins, Maurice

1916 - 2004
1835-1916, psychiatrist, French

Magnan, Valentin

1835 - 1916
1867-1943, dye manufacturer, chemist, Scottish

Morton, James

1867 - 1943
physician, educator, sculptor, athlete

McKenzie, R. Tait

1867 - 1938
1837-1936, physician; pathologist; hygienist, French

Brouardel, Paul Camille Hippolyte

1837 - 1906
?1871-1938, medallist, German

Bosselt, Rudolf

1871 - 1938
1851-1916, professor of chemistry, German

Hempel, Walther

1851 - 1916
c. 1865-1933, physician, British?

Bailey, Dr. Henry James

1865 - 1933
1860-1948, biologist; mathematician; classics scholar, Scottish

Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth

1860 - 1948
1848-1926, professor of chemistry, Austrian

Soxhlet, Franz von

1848 - 1926
1893-1950, mathematical tabulator, computer scientist, New Zealand; British

Comrie, Dr. Leslie John

1893 - 1950
1854-1897, engineer; aeronaut, Swedish

Andree, Salomon August

1854 - 1897
1922; railway preservationist; photographer; writer; publisher; film producer

Whitehouse, Patrick

1922 - 1993
1852-1931, active in field of anaesthesiology

Tyrrell, Walter

1852 - 1931

Schofield, James Stewart

1917 - 2000
1896-1993, scientist; inventor; patentee, Moscow, Russia, Russian

Theremin, Leon

1896 - 1993
1898-1994, printer, Geneva, Switzerland

Sonor SA

1898 - 1994
1843-1877, soldier; photographer, British

Swiney, Captain Hugh Bladen

1843 - 1877
1871-1948, aviator; inventor, American

Wright, Orville

1871 - 1948
1873-1903, inventor, British

Turner, Edward Raymond

1873 - 1903
1876-1958, poster artist; illustrator, British

Dexter, Walter

1876 - 1958
active 1844-1929, patentee of the Lowne's portable spirometer, British

Lowne, Robert Mann

1844 - 1929
1908-1994, artist; painter; poster artist, British; English

Hepple, Norman

1908 - 1994
1887-1942, painter; artist; porcelain painter; poster artist, British

Tittensor, Harry

1887 - 1942
1895-1970, medallist, British

Metcalfe, Percy

1895 - 1970
1866-1959, printer; publisher, London; Paris; New York

Raphael Tuck and Sons Limited

1866 - 1959
1900-1972, physician; ophthalmologist, Welsh; British

Pugh, Mary Agnes

1900 - 1972
1853-1917, inventor; camera manufacturer; manufacturer of optical devices; camera retailer, Belgian

van Neck, Louis

1853 - 1917
1905-1993, painter; woodcutter; graphic designer; poster designer, British; English

Knight, Edward Loxton

1905 - 1993
1850-1923, surgeon, British; English

Harrison Cripps, William

1850 - 1923
1862-1928, naturalist, author and lecturer, British

Kearton, Richard

1862 - 1928
1867-1944,active 1890-1920s, inventor; scientific & medical instrument maker, Austrian

Castagna, Ludwig

1867 - 1944
1863-1939; artist, British

Carter, Sir William

1863 - 1939
1907-1998, artist; painter; poster artist; printmaker, British; Scottish

Patrick, James Mcintosh

1907 - 1998
1913-1986, active 1950, poster artist, British?

Cowern, Raymond Teague

1913 - 1986
1883-1966, cartoonist; illustrator; poster artist, British; Welsh

Thomas, Herbert Samuel

1883 - 1966