Year (''' MDCCLXXV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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states "The American Revolution began on April 19 , 1775,
with the Battles of Lexington and Concord."
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- January 22 - André-Marie Ampère , French physicist (d. 1836 )
- January 27 - Friedrich Schelling , German physicist (d. 1854 )
- February 10 Charles Lamb , English writer (d. 1834 )
- February 12 - Louisa Adams , First Lady , wife of President John Quincy Adams (d. 1852 )
- March 17 - Ninian Edwards , Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (d. 1833 )
- April 30 - Guillaume Dode De La Brunerie , Marshal Of France , (d. 1851 )
- May 10 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle , French cavalry general (d. 1809 )
- June 12 - Karl Freiherr Von Müffling , Prussian field marshal (b. 1851 )
- June 13 - Antoni Radziwiłł , Polish politician (d. 1833 )
- July 23 - Eugène François Vidocq , French criminal and private detective agency (d. 1857 )
- September 1 - Honoré Charles Reille , Marshal Of France (d. 1860 )
- December 14 - Philander Chase , American university founder (d. 1852 )
- December 14 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl Of Dundonald , British admiral (d. 1860 )
- December 16 - Jane Austen , English novelist (d. 1817 )
- December 16 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu , French composer (d. 1834 )
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- January 8 - John Baskerville , English printer (b. 1706 )
- January 13 - Johann Georg Walch , German theologian (b. 1693 )
- February 5 - Eusebius Amort , German Catholic theologian (b. 1692 )
- February 6 - William Dowdeswell , English politician (b. 1721 )
- February 15 - Peter Dens , Belgian Catholic theologian (b. 1690 )
- April 27th - Col. Thomas Gardner . A political figure and heroic soldier (b. 1724 )
- June 17 - Major John Pitcairn , British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722 )
- June 23 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr Von Pöllnitz , German adventurer and writer (b. 1692 )
- July 11 - Simon Boerum , American Continental Congressman (b. 1724 )
- September 16 - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst , English privy councillor (b. 1684 )
- October 2 - Chiyo-ni , Japanese poet (b. 1703 )
- October 18 - Christian August Crusius , German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715 )
- October 21 - Peyton Randolph , American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721 )
- November 21 - John Hill , English writer
- November 24 - Lorenzo Ricci , Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703 )
- December 7 - Charles Saunders , British admiral
: ''See also .''
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