These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

* September 30 – James Brindley, British canal builder ( b. 1716 )

He also completed the Grand Trunk after James Brindley died due to being over-worked.

The second option gained most support, and a new committee was set up, who asked James Brindley to take over from Smeaton in 1765.

The plan of a canal connection from the Mersey to the Trent (" The Grand Trunk ") came from canal engineer James Brindley.

James Brindley, the engineer behind many of the canals in England, did his first canal work on the Trent and Mersey, though his first job in charge of construction was on the Bridgewater Canal.

James Brindley was employed as engineer and work got under way .” ( A quote from Canals, Routes and Roots, The Trent and Mersey Canal, by Peter Hardcastle )

James Brindley was the chief engineer of the canal, which was part of his Grand Cross plan for waterways connecting Hull, Liverpool and Bristol.

Hugh Henshall, who was the brother-in-law of James Brindley, was asked to re-survey the route in 1792, and recommended a diversion to Newent.

Yeoman had a high standing as a civil engineer, and the opponents to the scheme tried to engage a suitable engineer to counter the proposal, but many of the obvious choices, including James Brindley, declined because they were too busy.

James Brindley was the first to survey a route, which would have run from the Bristol Channel to Exeter, following the course of the River Tone for part of its route.

Leek was the home of James Brindley, the 18th century canal engineer.

James Brindley ( by Francis Parsons ( artist ) | Francis Parsons )

James Brindley died at Turnhurst within sight of the unfinished Harecastle Tunnel on 27 September 1772.

The inscription on his grave reads " James Brindley, of Turnhurst, Engineer, was interred Sept. 30, 1772, aged 56.

He is remembered in Birmingham by Brindley Drive ( on the site of former canal yards ), the Brindleyplace mixed-use development and a pub, The James Brindley ( both being canal-side features ), and the James Brindley School for children in Birmingham's hospitals ; in Leek with the James Brindley Mill ; and by numerous other streets in the areas in which he worked.

James Lind FRSE FRCPE ( 4 October 1716 in Edinburgh – 13 July 1794 in Gosport ) was a Scottish physician.

Patrick Abercromby ( 1656 – c. 1716 ), Scottish physician and antiquarian, noted for being physician to King James VII ( II of England ) and his fervent opposition to the Act of Union between Scotland and England.

* July 13 – James Lind, pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy ( b. 1716 )

The first permanent European settler in the Montgomery area was James McQueen, a Scots trader who settled there in 1716 .< ref name =" Owen 1037 ">< cite id = refOwen ></ cite ></ ref > He married a high-status woman in the Coushatta or Alabama tribe.

Gibbs was removed from his post in 1716 and replaced by John James.

To the side of the Grove was a patte d ' oie, or ' Goosefoot ', three avenues which terminated by buildings including the ' Bagnio ' ( or Casino, designed by Lord Burlington and Colen Campbell ) in 1716, the ' Pagan Temple ' ( designed by the Catholic Baroque architect James Gibbs ) and the Rustic House ( designed by Lord Burlington ).

James Thornhill painted the ceiling of the hall in 1716.

Baker, though he had opposed James, refused to take the oaths to William ; he resigned Long Newton on 1 August 1690, and retired to St John's, in which he was protected till 20 January 1716 / 1717, when he and twenty-one others were deprived of their fellowships.

** James Stanley, Lord Strange ( 1716 – 1771 ), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, son of 11th Earl and father of 12th Earl.

* James Stanhope: 12 December 1716 – 12 April 1717

* James Stanhope MP: 27 September 1714-22 June 1716

The final chapter of the ill-fated 1715 Jacobite rebellion was also played out in Montrose After the short lived uprising on 4 February 1716, James Francis Edward Stuart ( the Old Pretender ; formerly James, Prince of Wales ) arrived in Montrose, where he spent his last night in Scotland.

The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, contains an allegorical painting by James Thornhill, Peace and Liberty Triumphing Over Tyranny ( 1708 – 1716 ) in which William and Mary accept an olive branch from Peace.

* James Brindley: An Illustrated Life of James Brindley, 1716 – 1772

In October 1716, Townshend's colleague, James Stanhope afterwards 1st Earl Stanhope, accompanied the king on his visit to Hanover, and while there he was seduced from his allegiance to his fellow ministers by Sunderland, George being led to believe that Townshend and his brother-in-law, Sir Robert Walpole, were caballing with the Prince of Wales, their intention being that the prince should supplant his father on the throne.

In 1716 he replaced James Gibbs as one of the two surveyors to the Commissioners for the Building of Fifty New Churches-the other being Nicholas Hawksmoor.

In 1716, he briefly joined James in Scotland during the Jacobite rising, before returning to France and serving as lord chamberlain to Mary of Modena until her death in 1718.

James Pylarini described it again in the Transactions in 1716.

Up until 1716, the land around the Blyth area — the Newsham Estate — was owned by the Earls of Derwentwater, but when the third Earl, James Radclyffe, was executed for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, the land was forfeited to the crown.

* James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth ( c. 1649 – 1716 ) ( attainted ), 3rd Earl's son.

* James Drummond, 1st Duke of Perth ( c. 1649 – 1716 ) 4th Earl of Perth, created Duke of Perth in the Jacobite Peerage in 1701, non-Jacobite titles forfeited by attainder 1716

In 1857 – 58, Douglas broke with President James Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )

* 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate

* 1972 – Ami James, Israeli-American tattoo artist

* 1976 – James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, and actor

* 1983 – James Wade, English darts player

* 1985 – James Alexandrou, English actor

* 1988 – Jessie James, American singer-songwriter

* 1964 – Kent James, American singer-songwriter, actor, and actvist

* 1977 – Pell James, American actress

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1965 – Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1958 – James Lileks, American columnist

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1975 – James Carpinello, American actor

* 1983 – Stephen James King, Australian actor

* 1984 – James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist