Editing 1775 (section)

=== May ===
* [[May 1]] – [[Israel Lyons]], English mathematician and botanist (b. [[1739]])
* [[May 2]]
** [[Mary Montagu, Duchess of Montagu (1711–1775)|Mary Montagu, Duchess of Montagu]], wife of George Brudenell Montagu, Duke of Montagu (b. [[1711]])
** [[Fredericka of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg]], duchess consort of Saxe-Weissenfels (b. [[1715]])
* [[May 3]] – [[George Boscawen (British Army general)|George Boscawen]], British Army general (b. [[1712]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[John Blennerhassett (1691–1775)|John Blennerhassett]], Anglo-Irish politician (b. [[1691]])
** [[Benjamin Dass]], Norwegian teacher and book collector (b. [[1706]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel]], German organist and composer (b. [[1697]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Domingo de Basavilbaso]], Argentinian businessperson (b. [[1709]])
** [[Vittoria Tesi]], Italian opera singer and music teacher (b. [[1701]])
* [[May 10]]
** [[Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann]], German actress (b. [[1757]])
** [[Caroline Matilda of Great Britain]], Queen consort of Denmark and Norway, 1766–1772 (b. [[1751]])
** [[Samuel of Constantinople]], Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. [[1700]])
* [[May 15]]
** [[Hans-Friedrich von Krusemark]], Lieutenant General in the Prussian Army of Frederick the Great (b. [[1720]])
** [[Johann Daniel Ritter]], German historian (b. [[1709]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Ulla von Liewen]], Swedish courtier and baroness (b. [[1747]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Carlo Carlone]], painter (b. [[1686]])
* [[May 18]]
** [[Magnus Beronius]], Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden (b. [[1692]])
** [[Johann Joachim Kändler]], German artist (b. [[1706]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Karl Gottlieb Guichard]], German writer (b. [[1724]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon]], French noblewoman (b. [[1693]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Barlow Trecothick]], English merchant and politician (b. [[1719]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Jean Capperonnier]], French classical scholar (b. [[1716]])