page_title: 1775
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1775 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a painting of Peter Harrison done in 1800 by Louis Sands, a copy of c. 1756 portrait by Nathaniel Smibert
context_page_description: 1775 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1775th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 775th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1775, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Ahmad Shah Bahadur (b. 1725)
  January 6 – Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari, Sindhi Sufi poet (b. 1713)
  January 8 – John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1707)
  January 10 – Stringer Lawrence, English soldier (b. 1697)
  January 11 – Prithvi Narayan Shah, last ruler of the Gorkha Kingdom in the Indian subcontinent (b. 1723)
  January 13 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)
  January 14 – Peter Schenk the Younger, Dutch engraver and map publisher active in Leipzig (b. 1693)
  January 17 – Vincenzo Riccati, Venetian mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
  February 2 – Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet, England (b. 1685)
  February 5 – Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
  February 6 – William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
  February 15 – Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
  February 28 – Empress Xiaoyichun, of China (b. 1727)
  March 5 – Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy, French dramatist and actor (b. 1727)
  March 6 – Job Baster, Dutch naturalist (b. 1711)
  March 21 – Thomas Penn, son of American colonial leader William Penn (b. 1702)
  March 22 – Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (b. 1697)
  March 30 – Christian Ditlev Reventlow, Danish Privy Councillor (b. 1710)
  April 14 – Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach, wife of Landgrave William II (b. 1697)
  April 19 – Isaac Davis, gunsmith and a militia officer who commanded a company of Minutemen from Acton (b. 1745)
  April 30 – Peter Harrison, colonial American architect who was born in York (b. 1716)
  May 1 – Israel Lyons (b. 1739)
  May 2 – Fredericka of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, German noblewoman (b. 1715)
  May 3 – George Boscawen, British general (b. 1712)
  May 10
  Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1757)
  Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (b. 1751)
  Caroline Matilda, British princess, queen consort of Denmark (b. 1751)
  May 18 – Magnus Beronius (b. 1692)
  May 27 – Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, daughter of Louis (b. 1693)
  June 15 – Asa Pollard, American soldier (b. 1735)
  June 17
  Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)
  Joseph Warren, American Patriot, physician (b. 1741)
  June 21 – Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1718–1775) and Nassau-Saarbrücken (1728–1735) (b. 1712)
  June 23 – Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
  July 3 – Col. Thomas Gardner, political figure and heroic soldier (b. 1724)
  July 11 – Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
  July 13
  Louis Charles, Count of Eu, grandson of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs (b. 1701)
  John Ratcliffe, Master of Pembroke (b. 1700)
  July 21 – Szymon Czechowicz, prominent Polish painter of the Baroque (b. 1689)
  August 10 – Elihu Adams, soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1741)
  August 13 – Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski, Polish nobleman (b. 1696)
  August 21 – Zahir al-Umar (b. 1689)
  August 22 – Remember Baker, member of the Green Mountain Boys (b. 1737)
  August 27 – James Burgh, British Whig politician and writer (b. 1714)
  September 6 – Jean-Baptiste Bullet, French writer (b. 1669)
  September 13 – Klaas Annink (b. 1710)
  September 16 – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
  September 17 – John Parker, American colonial farmer (b. 1729)
  September 23 – John Bentinck, officer of the Royal Navy (b. 1737)
  September 24 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter (b. 1705)
  October 2 – Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
  October 3 – Cluer Dicey (b. 1715)
  October 13 – James Cholmondeley, British Army officer who also sat in Parliament (b. 1708)
  October 18 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
  October 21 – Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
  October 22 – Peyton Randolph, planter and public official from the Colony of Virginia (b. 1721)
  November 4 – Luis Jayme (b. 1740)
  November 5 – Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German noble (b. 1722)
  November 9 – Francisco Ximenes de Texada, 69th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1703)
  November 13 – Jeanne
caption: Peter Harrison (architect) died 30 April
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