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Months in Year 1775: January February June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

Jan 8th - John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68
Jan 10th - Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies
Jan 11th - Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia
Jan 11th - Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (b. 1723)
Jan 15th - Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies
Feb 5th - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
Feb 6th - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
Feb 15th - Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
Jun 11th - Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67
Jun 17th - Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)
Jun 23rd - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
Jul 11th - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
Aug 6th - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72
Sep 7th - Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer, dies at 48
Sep 16th - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
Sep 18th - Andrew Foulis, bookseller/printer, dies
Oct 2nd - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
Oct 14th - Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer, dies at 57
Oct 18th - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
Oct 21st - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
Nov 16th - Marian Paradeiser, composer, dies at 28
Nov 21st - John Hill, British writer
Nov 24th - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
Nov 29th - Lorenzo Somis, composer, dies at 87
Dec 7th - Charles Saunders, British admiral
Dec 28th - Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of (Neth Indies), dies at 61
Dec 31st - Richard Montgomery, General in Continental Army during American Revolutionary War, dies in attack on Quebec