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1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944
c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992
1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
c. 1875 -1998, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

Dunn Bennett and Company Limited

1878 - 1998
1877-1926, manufacturer of explosives, Ardeer, Scotland

Nobel's Explosives Company Limited

1877 - 1926
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
1881-1952, manufacturer of measuring and testing machines, Leipzig, Germany

Louis Schopper

1881 - 1952
1884-1987, match manufacturer, Liverpool, Lancashire, England; Bow, London, England, British

Bryant and May Limited

1884 - 1927
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Margaret Sanger

1878 - 1966

George Constantinesco

1881 - 1965
1880-1958, sexologist; advocate of birth control, British; Scottish

Marie Stopes

1880 - 1958
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Henry George Gawthorn

1879 - 1941
Captain

Henry Joseph Round

1881 - 1966
active c1880-1988, wallpaper manufacturer, London, Reading & Southall (manufactory), England

John Line and Sons Limited

1880 - 1988
1881-1955, bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin, British

Alexander Fleming

1881 - 1955
Hon.

Charles Stewart Rolls

1877 - 1910
1875-1976, manufacturer, Tunstall, British

Alfred Meakin

1875 - 1976
1874-1966, steelmakers; munitions makers, English; British

John Baker and Company Limited

1874 - 1966
1883-1908, optical instrument maker, London, England

W Watson and Sons

1882 - 1908
1883-1928, light bulb filament manufacturer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Royal Ediswan

1883 - 1928
1876-1960s, druggist; manufacturer of pharmaceutical & chemical preparations; distiller, Southwark

Wright, Layman and Umney Limited

1876 - 1969

Maurice-Louis Branger

1874 - 1950
1880-1941, pharmaceutical manufacturer, London, England, British

Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited

1880 - 1941
1880-1976, manufacturer of machinery, Bad Homburg, Germany

Maschinenfabrik Michael KAMPF KG

1880 - 1976
1884-1998, agricultural machinery maker, English; British

Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Limited

1884 - 1998
1880-1991, manufacturer of ceramics, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England

W H Grindley and Company Limited

1880 - 1991
1878-1929, electrical engineer; cryptologist, German

Arthur Scherbius

1878 - 1929

Elsie Holloway

1882 - 1971

Charles Jarrott

1877 - 1944
1883-1925, manufacturer of electrical equipment, England

Western Electric Company Limited

1883 - 1925
1878-1983, publisher of card games and stationery, London, England

Castell Brothers Limited

1878 - 1983
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
1879-1955, physicist, German; American

Albert Einstein

1879 - 1955
1884-1945, manufacturer of pharmaceutical products; manufacturer of dyestuffs, Basle, Switzerland

Society of Chemical Industry in Basel

1884 - 1945
1884 - c. 1962, manufacturer of ceramics, Longton, England

British Anchor Pottery

1884 - 1962
1883-1954, artist; painter; assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police,British

Herbert Alker Tripp

1883 - 1954
Sir

Felix John Clewett Pole

1877 - 1956
active 1881-1990, lithographer; printer, York, England

Ben Johnson and Company Limited

1881 - 1990
1878-1971, artist; marine painter; poster artist; etcher, English; British

Norman Wilkinson

1878 - 1971
photographer

Rudolf Franz Lehnert

1878 - 1948
1876-1941, locomotive engineer, Britain

Nigel Gresley

1876 - 1941

Harold Holcroft

1882 - 1973
1884-1976, Locomotive engineer, British

Frederick W Hawksworth

1884 - 1976
1882-1960, plastic surgeon, lecturer, Dunedin, New Zealander

Harold Delf Gillies

1882 - 1960