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•  Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.

  

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•  John Baskerville

  John Baskerville (28 January 1706 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer.

  

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•  Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck

  Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, 8th Laird of Auchinleck (1706–1782) was a judge of the supreme courts of Scotland. Boswell was the father of the author and biographer James Boswell, and grandfather of songwriter Sir Alexander Boswell. As a judge he took the courtesy title Lord Auchinleck from the name of his estate at Auchinleck House, of which he was the 8th Laird.

  

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•  Johann Heinrich Zedler

  Johann Heinrich Zedler (January 7, 1706 – March 21, 1751) was the publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon, in the 18th century. He was born in Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland).

  

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•  George Bickham the Younger

  George Bickham the Younger (c. 1706 – 1771) was an English etcher and engraver, a printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists. He produced didactic publications, political caricatures, and pornographical prints. He was the son (or nephew) of the engraver George Bickham the Elder (1684–1758), who published the Universal Penman (1733–1741).

  

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•  Giovanni Battista Martini

  Giovanni Battista Martini (24 April 1706 – 3 August 1784), also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian musician.

  

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•  James Abercrombie (British Army general)

  General James Abercrombie or Abercromby (1706 – April 23, 1781) was a British Army general and commander-in-chief of forces in North America during the French and Indian War, best known for the disastrous British losses in the 1758 Battle of Carillon.

  

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•  George Pocock

  Sir George Pocock, KB (6 March 1706 – 3 April 1792) was a British officer of the Royal Navy. He rose to the rank of admiral. Pocock was from Chieveley in Berkshire, the son of Thomas Pocock, a chaplain in the navy. George Pocock entered the navy in 1718, serving aboard HMS Superb under the patronage of his maternal uncle, Captain Streynsham Master (1682-1724). He became lieutenant in April 1725, commander in 1733, and post-captain in 1738.

  

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•  Baldassare Galuppi

  Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 1706 – 3 January 1785) was an Italian composer from Venice, noted for his operas, and particularly opera buffa.

  

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•  John Dollond

  John Dollond (10 June O.S. 1706 - 30 November 1761) was an English optician, known for his successful optics business and his discovery of achromatic doublets.

  

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•  Paracelsus

  Paracelsus (born Theophrastus Phillippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November or 17 December 1493 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland – 24 September 1541 in Salzburg, Austria) was a Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. "Paracelsus", meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus", refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the first century known for his tract on medicine.

  

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•  Dwayne Polee

  Dwayne L. Polee is a retired American professional basketball player. He graduated from Pepperdine University in 1986. Polee originally attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas after graduating from Manual Arts High School in 1981. He played in one game for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers during the 1986-87 season. Polee, a 6'5" (1.96 m) swingman, was the 1981 Los Angeles player of the year at Manual Arts.

  

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•  Saturn's moons

  

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•  Philip de Chabot, Comte de Neublanche

  

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•  Student's T

  

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