Editing 1775 (section)

=== December ===
* [[December 3]] – [[Giovanni Bianchi (physician)|Giovanni Bianchi]], Italian physician and zoologist (b. [[1693]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Saunders]], British politician (b. [[1715]])
** [[Fabrizio Serbelloni]], Catholic cardinal (b. [[1695]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Josef Ignaz Mildorfer]], Austrian painter (b. [[1719]])
* [[December 9]]
** [[Pietro Gnocchi]], Italian composer (b. [[1689]])
** [[Robert Livingston (1718–1775)|Robert Livingston]], landowner and politician in Colonial America (b. [[1718]])
* [[December 15]]
** [[Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc]], French feral child (b. [[1712]])
** [[Princess Tarakanova]], Pretender to the Russian throne (b. [[1753]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Gustavus Hamilton (painter)|Gustavus Hamilton]], Irish painter (b. [[1739]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Sigismund Streit]], German art collector (b. [[1687]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Theresa Parker]], English art patron (b. [[1745]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[John Campbell (author)|John Campbell]], Scottish author (b. [[1708]])
** [[Petrus Albertus van der Parra]], Dutch colonial governor (b. [[1714]])
** [[John Phillips (c. 1709–1775)|John Phillips]], English master carpenter and architect (b. [[1709]])
* [[December 31]]
** [[Richard Montgomery]], American general (killed in battle) (b. [[1738]])
** [[Anna Vorontsova]], Russian lady-in-waiting (b. [[1722]])

* Date unknown – [[Sarah Buttall]], English silversmith