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•  Johann Friedrich Agricola

  Johann Friedrich Agricola (4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio.

  

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•  James Hargreaves

  James Hargreaves (1720 – 22 April 1778), also known as James Hargraves, was a weaver, carpenter and an inventor in Lancashire, England. He is credited with inventing the Spinning Jennifer (shortened to spinning Jenny in 1768) in 1764. Along with Richard Arkwright, Hargreaves is one of the most famous names of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, yet little is known of him as a person.

  

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•  Giovanni Battista Piranesi

  Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'Invenzione).

  

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•  Baron Münchhausen

  Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen (11 May 1720 – 22 February 1797) (often spelled Munchausen in English) was a German baron born in Bodenwerder, who in his youth was sent to serve as page to Anthony Ulrich II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and later joined the Russian military. He served until 1750, in particular taking part in two campaigns against the Ottoman Turks. Returning home, Münchhausen supposedly told a number of outrageous tall tales about his adventures.

  

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•  Richard Hurd (clergyman)

  Richard Hurd (January 13, 1720 – May 28, 1808) was an English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester.

  

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•  Emperor Sakuramachi

  Emperor Sakuramachi (桜町天皇 Sakuramachi-tennō) (February 8, 1720 – May 28, 1750) was the 115th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from April 13, 1735 to June 9, 1747. His personal name was Teruhito (昭仁) and his pre-accession title was Waka-no-miya (若宮).

  

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•  Charles Bonnet

  Charles Bonnet (March 13, 1720 – May 20, 1793), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century.

  

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•  John Boydell

  John Boydell (19 January 1720 – 12 December 1804) was an eighteenth-century British publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated a British tradition in the art form. A former engraver himself, Boydell promoted the interests of artists as well as patrons and as a result his business prospered.

  

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•  Samuel Whitbread (brewer)

  

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•  Margaret Woffington

  Margaret "Peg" Woffington (c. 1720 – 26 March 1760) was a well-known Irish actress in Georgian London.

  

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•  Freddie King

  Frederick Christian King (September 3, 1934 - December 28, 1976) also known as Freddie King, "The Texas Cannonball" and Freddy King, was an influential Afro-American blues guitarist and singer. King's mother and uncle began teaching Freddie to play guitar at the age of six. He moved with his family from Texas to the South Side of Chicago in 1950. In 1952 he married Jessie Burnett.

  

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•  Virginia is for Lovers

  Virginia is for Lovers is the tourism and travel slogan of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Used since 1969, it has become a well recognized and often imitated part of American jargon. For example, New York drew on its success to create the I Love New York logo nearly a decade later in 1977. Maryland also parodied this phrase with their own "Maryland is for Crabs" slogan. A team led by David N. Martin and George Woltz of Martin and Woltz Inc.

  

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•  Mohammed Knut Bernström

  Mohammed Knut Johan Richard Bernström (October 22, 1919 - October 21, 2009) was an former Swedish diplomat, who converted to Islam. He is also a Muslim scholar and translator of the Quran. As a diplomat, he worked in Spain, France, Soviet Union, United States, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Morocco. He was the Swedish ambassador to Venezuela 1963-1969, Spain 1973-1976 and Morocco 1976-1983.

  

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•  Karman-Howarth equation

  

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•  Manuel José de Arriaga

  

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