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* 1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English opticist and physicist ( d. 1869 )
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Joseph Brant, painted in London by Gilbert Stuart in 1786
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* Joseph Jackson Lister ( 1786 – 1869 ), British amateur opticist and physicist ; father of Joseph Lister
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