page_title: 1795
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1795 / Deaths / January–March
caption_attribution_description: Poet and composer Carl Michael Bellman in shirtsleeves of the Swedish court dress, playing the Cittern.
context_page_description: 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1795th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 795th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1795, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 3 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, entrepreneur (b. 1730)
  January 5
  Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 6th Duke of Liria and Jérica, second surviving son of the Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart (b. 1792)
  Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch, German Prince-Bishop (b. 1716)
  January 10 – David Blackburn, Royal Navy officer (b. 1753)
  January 19 – Thomas Balguy, English churchman (b. 1716)
  January 21 – Samuel Wallis, English navigator
  January 22 – Richard Clinton, officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (b. 1741)
  January 23 – John Sullivan, American General in the American Revolutionary War, delegate in the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
  January 25 – Morgan Edwards, British historian and minister (b. 1722)
  January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German harpsichordist, composer (b. 1732)
  February 3 – Richard Edwards, naval officer and colonial governor of Newfoundland (b. c. 1715)
  February 7 – Antoine Polier, Swiss adventurer (b. 1741)
  February 11 – Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet (b. 1740)
  February 14 – Samuel Cook Silliman, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk (b. 1741)
  February 27
  Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1750)
  Richard Clarke, Massachusetts merchant (b. 1711)
  March 4 – John Collins, third Governor of the U (b. 1717)
  March 5 – Josef Reicha (b. 1752)
  March 9 – John Armstrong, Sr., American civil engineer and major general during the Revolutionary War (b. 1717)
  March 15 – Louisa Catharina Harkort, German ironmaster (b. 1718)
  March 18 – Jonathan Buck, Bucksport (b. 1719)
  March 21
  Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
  Honoré III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1720)
caption: Carl Michael Bellman
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