Editing 1775 (section)

=== January ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Ahmad Shah Bahadur]], 13th Mughal Emperor (b. [[1725]])
* [[January 2]]
** [[St George St George, 1st Baron St George]], Irish politician (b. [[1710]])
** [[William Napier, 7th Lord Napier]], British noble (b. [[1730]])
* [[January 3]]
** [[Henry Beekman]], New York landowner and provincial assemblyman (b. [[1687]])
** [[Robert Campbell (Nova Scotia politician)|Robert Campbell]], Nova Scotia politician (b. [[1718]])
* [[January 6]] – [[Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari]], Sindhi Sufi poet (b. [[1713]])
* [[January 8]] – [[John Baskerville]], British printer (b. [[1706]])
* [[January 10]]
** [[Stringer Lawrence]], Early British military leader in India (b. [[1697]])
** [[Yemelyan Pugachev]], leader of a Russian peasant uprising (b. [[1742]])
* [[January 11]]
** [[Indra Kumari Devi]], Queen consort of Nepal (b. [[1724]])
** [[Queen Narendra of Nepal]], Queen consort of Gorkha (b. [[1723]])
** [[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 in Leipzig (b. [[1693]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Giovanni Battista Sammartini]], Italian composer (b. [[1700]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Vincenzo Riccati]], Venetian mathematician and physicist (b. [[1707]])
* [[January 20]]
** [[Sebastian Klotz]], German violin maker (b. [[1696]])
** [[Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1694]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Isaac de Forcade de Biaix]], Prussian colonel (b. [[1704]])
* [[January 25]]
** [[Bernardo de Rossi]], Italian theologian (b. [[1687]])
** [[Georg Friedrich Schmidt]], German artist (b. [[1712]])
* [[January 26]]
** [[Domingo de Bonechea]], Spanish explorer (b. [[1713]])
** [[Johann Gregor Herold]], German painter (b. [[1696]])
** [[Shuja-ud-Daula]], Subedar Nawab of Oudh, India (b. [[1732]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Henry Willoughby, 16th Baron Willoughby of Parham]], Peer in House of Lords (b. [[1696]])