Editing 1775 (section)

=== August ===
* [[August 4]] – [[Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Baronet]], English art collector and landowner (b. [[1689]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Maharaja Nandakumar]], tax official (b. [[1705]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky]], Prussian merchant, art dealer and diplomat (b. [[1710]])
* [[August 10]]
** Elihu Adams, soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (b. [[1741]])
** [[César de Missy]], Prussian book collector and theologian (b. [[1703]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Remember Baker]], American soldier, member of the Green Mountain Boys (murdered) (b. [[1737]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski]], Polish nobleman (b. [[1696]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande]], Dutch governor of the colonies of Essequibo and Demerara (b. [[1704]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Jakob Langebek]], Danish historian (b. [[1710]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Zahir al-Umar]], Arab ruler of northern Palestine (b. [[1689]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Felipe de Castro]], Spanish sculptor (b. [[1711]])
* [[August 27]] – [[James Burgh]], British Whig politician and writer (b. [[1714]])
* [[August 28]] – [[James Habersham]], Merchant and politician in the British colony of Georgia (b. [[1712]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Francesco Sleter]], Italian painter (b. [[1685]])
* [[August 30]] – [[George Faulkner]], Irish publisher and bookseller (b. [[1699]])