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the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court case NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. allowed all workers in unionized workplaces to have a union representative present during management inquiries that might result in discipline?
the Angolan War of Independence lasted from 1961 until 1989, even though Portugal left Angola in 1975?
the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, launched in 1975, was one of the first demonstrations that showed the potential of satellite technology as an effective mass communication media?
in 1975 a freak typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people?
in 1975 a freak Typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people?
public broadcasting in New Zealand of color television began in 1975?
J.M. Legard's 2006 novel Giraffe is based on the real-life mass killing of giraffes at the zoo in the Czechoslovakian town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 30 April 1975?
footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?

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1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1975
Jan. · Feb. · March · April ·
May · June · July · Aug. ·
Sept. · Oct. · Nov. · Dec. ·
Undated · Ongoing
Births
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Nobel Prizes · World population
See also · Notes · External links

The year 1975 was declared International Women's Year by the United Nations.

Events of 1975

January

January – Altair 8800 is released, sparking the era of the microcomputer.
January – Volkswagen introduces the Golf, its new front-wheel-drive economy car, in the United States and Canada as the Volkswagen Rabbit.
January 1 – Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
January 1 – Work is abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel.

January 1 – Malawi changed its capital city from Zomba to Lilongwe.
January 2 – Patent and Trademark Office renamed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
January 2 – The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
January 5 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
January 6 – Wheel of Fortune premieres on NBC.
January 6 – AM America makes its television debut on ABC.
January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
January 8 – Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman U.S. governor who did not succeed her husband.
January 8 – U.S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.
January 10 – Japanese soldier Teruo Nakamura surrenders on the Indonesian island of Morota.
January 12 – Super Bowl IX: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16–6 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana.
January 14 – Heiress Lesley Whittle, 17, is kidnapped from her home in Shropshire, England by Donald Neilson.
January 15 – International Women's Year is launched in Britain by Princess Alexandra and Barbara Castle.
January 15 – Portugal grants independence to Angola.
January 18 – Atomic Energy Commission divided between ERDA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
January 19 – Earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
January 19 – Energy Research and Development Administration.
January 20 – In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam.
January 20 – Michael Ovitz founds the Creative Artists Agency.
January 29 – The Weather Underground bombs the U.S. State Department main office in Washington, D.C..

February

February 1 – The Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation is launched in the Philippines.
February 4 – The Haicheng earthquake, the first successfully predicted earthquake, kills 2,041 and injures 27,538 in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
February 9 – The Soyuz 17 crew (Georgi Grechko, Aleksei Gubarev) returns to Earth after 1 month aboard the Salyut 4 space station.
February 11 – Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.
February 11 – Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar, is assassinated.
February 13 – A "Turkish Federated State of North Cyprus" is declared as an unsuccessful first step to international recognition of a Turkish Cypriot separatist state in Cyprus.
February 13 – Fire breaks out in the World Trade Center.
February 21 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.
February 23 – In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly 2 months early in the United States.
February 26 – A fleeing Provisional Irish Republican Army member shoots and kills off-duty London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, as he gives chase.
February 27 – The Movement 2 June kidnaps West German politician Peter Lorenz. He is released on March 4 after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.
February 28 – A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
February 28 – In Lomé, Togo, the European Economic Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.

March

March 1 – Aston Villa wins the Football League Cup at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1–0 in the final.
March 4 – Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
March 4 – A Canadian parliamentary committee is televised for the first time.
March 6 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement in their border dispute.
March 6 – A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of the Springer Press. The 6 March Group (connected to the Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.
March 7 – The body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle, kidnapped 7 weeks earlier by the Black Panther, is discovered in Staffordshire, England.
March 8 – The United Nations proclaims International Women's Day.
March 9 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
March 10 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
March 10 – The Rocky Horror Show opens on Broadway in New York City with 4 performances.
March 10 – Shinkansen opens between Osaka and Fukuoka.
March 11 – The leftist military government in Portugal defeats a rightist coup attempt.
March 13 – Vietnam War: South Vietnam President Nguyen van Thieu orders the Central Highlands evacuated. This turns into a mass exodus involving troops and civilians (the Convoy of Tears).
March 15 – In Brazil, the Estado da Guanabara (State of Guanabara) merges with the state of Rio de Janeiro, under the name of Rio de Janeiro. The state's capital moves from the city of Niterói to the city of Rio de Janeiro.
March 22 – Ding-a-dong by Teach-In (music by Dick Bakker, text by Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens) wins the 20th Eurovision Song Contest 1975 for the Netherlands.
March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew; the killer is beheaded on June 18. (King Khalid succeeds Faisal.)
March 28 – A fire in the maternity wing at Kucic Hospital in Rijeka, former Yugoslavia, kills 25 people.
March 31 – Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (39th government, a four party coalition, so called First National Front (Turkish: Milliyetçi cephe))

April

April 3 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
April 4 – Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.
April 4 – Bill Gates founds Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
April 9 – Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association, plays its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.
April 13 – Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, triggering the Lebanese civil war.
April 13 – A coup d'état in Chad led by the military overthrows and kills President François Tombalbaye.
April 17 – Following several weeks successful fighting, the Communist Khmer Rouge guerilla forces capture Phnom Penh, prompting a forcible mass evacuation of the city.
April 24 – Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police. (See West German embassy siege)
April 25 – Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
April 30 – Vietnam War: The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.

May

May 5 – The Busch Gardens Williamsburg Theme Park opens in Virginia.
May 12 – Mayaguez incident: Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia seize the United States merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
May 15 – Mayaguez incident: The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued by the U.S. Navy and Marines; 38 Americans are killed.
May 16 – Sikkim accedes to India after a referendum.
May 16 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, 435 mile (696 km) race.
May 27 – The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England results in 32 deaths (the highest ever toll in a United Kingdom road accident).
May 28 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.

June

June 5 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
June 5 – The United Kingdom votes yes in a referendum to stay in the European Community.
June 6 – Georgetown Agreement formally creating the ACP Group signed.
June 9 – The Order of Australia is awarded for the first time.
June 10 – In Washington, DC, the Rockefeller Commission issues its report on CIA abuses, recommending a joint congressional oversight committee on intelligence.
June 19 – Richard Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan is found guilty in absentia of the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett.
June 25 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.
June 25 – Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
June 26 – Two FBI agents and 1 AIM member die in a shootout, at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

July

July 1 – The Postmaster-General's Department is disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission (trading as Telecom Australia) and the Australian Postal Commission (trading as Australia Post).
July 4 – Sydney newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen disappears, and is presumed to have been murdered.
July 5 – Cape Verde gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
July 6 – The Comoros declare their independence from France.
July 9 – The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a multi-party system (albeit highly restricted).
July 12 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
July 17 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations.
July 31 – In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.

August

August 1 – The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.
August 5 – U.S. President Ford posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee, restoring full rights of citizenship.
August 8 – The Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, fails after a freak typhoon; over 200,000 people perish.
August 8 – Samuel Bronfman, son of the president of Seagram's, is kidnapped in Purchase, New York.
August 11 – British Leyland Motor Corporation comes under British government control.
August 11 – Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese East Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a UDT coup and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
August 15 – The Birmingham Six are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment in Great Britain.
August 15 – President Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh is killed during a coup.
August 20 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
August 24 – Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens. The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment.

September

September 5 – In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
September 5 – The London Hilton hotel is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 2 people are killed and 63 injured.^[1]
September 6 – A Richter Scale 6.7 magnitude earthquake kills at least 2,085 in Diyarbakir and Lice, Turkey.
September 14 – Elizabeth Seton is canonized, becoming the first American Roman Catholic saint.
September 14 – Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch" is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
September 15 – The French department of Corse, comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
September 16 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
September 18 – Fugitive Patricia Hearst is captured in San Francisco.
September 19 – General Vasco Goncalves is ousted as Prime Minister of Portugal.
September 20 – The term of Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, ends.
September 21 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, Sultan of Kelantan, becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 22 – U.S. President Gerald Ford survives a second assassination attempt, this time by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco.
September 27 – Francoist Spain executes five ETA and FRAP members, the last executions in Spain to date.
September 27 – The Norwood Football Club beats the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL Australian Rules Football Grand Final.
September 28 – The Spaghetti House siege takes place in London.
September 30 – The Hughes Helicopters (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing IDS) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

October

October 1 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
October 2 – A blast at an explosives factory kills 6 in Beloeil, Quebec.
October 9 – A bomb explosion outside the Green Park tube station near Piccadilly in London kills 1 and injures 20.
October 11 – NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live (George Carlin is the first host; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the first musical guests).
October 16 – Five Australian-based journalists are killed at Balibo by Indonesian forces, during their incursion into Portuguese Timor.
October 21 – 1975 World Series: The Boston Red Sox defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Game Six off Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning home run to cap off what many consider to be the best World Series game ever played.
October 22 The Reds defeat the Red Sox four games to three in a broadcast that breaks records for a televised sporting event.
October 27 – Robert Poulin kills 1 and wounds 5 at St. Pius X High School in Ottawa, Canada before shooting himself.
October 29 – Peter Sutcliffe (the "Yorkshire Ripper") commits his first murder, Wilma McCann.
October 30 – Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting Head of State after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.

November

November 3 – An independent audit of Mattel, one of the United States' largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."
November 3 – The first petroleum pipeline opens from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth, Scotland.
November 3 – The long running The Price is Right goes from being 30 minutes long to its current hour long format.
November 6 – The Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
November 10 – United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379: By a vote of 72–35 (with 32 abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The resolution provokes an outcry among Jews around the world.
November 10 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board (an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot).
November 10 – Lev Leshchenko revives Den Pobedy, one of the most popular World War II songs in the USSR.
November 11 – Angola becomes independent from Portugal; civil war soon erupts.
November 11 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.
November 11 – The first annual Vogalonga rowing "race" is held in Venice, Italy.
November 14 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
November 15 – “Group of 6” (G-6) industrailized nations formed.
November 20 – Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.
November 20 – Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies in Madrid, effectively marking the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of Spain's transition to democracy.
November 22 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
November 25 – Suriname gains independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
November 25 – The Irish Republican Army is outlawed in the United Kingdom.
November 26 – The 1975 cult classic movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show came out in America.
November 27 – Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for offering reward money to informers.
November 28 – Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor.
November 29 – The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).
November 29 – While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at 2 of the harbor's public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.

December

December 1 – Lambda Theta Phi founded
December 2 – The communist Pathet Lao takes power in Laos.
December 3 – The wreck of the HMHS Britannic is found in the Kea Channel by Jacques Cousteau.
December 8 – New York City is approved for bailout of 2.3 billion each year through to 1978 – 6.9 billion total.
December 7 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
December 21 – Six people, including Carlos (the Jackal), kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna.
December 29 – A bomb explosion at LaGuardia Airport kills 11.

Undated

In New Zealand, Māori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5,000 people in support of Maori claims to their land.
The Third Cod War between UK and Iceland lasts from November 1975-June 1976.
The government of Colombia announces the finding of Ciudad Perdida.
The Spanish army quits Spanish (Western) Sahara, the last remnant of Spain's Empire. The Sahrawi Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco invades ex-Spanish Western Sahara.
The term fractal is first used.
Victoria (Australia) abolishes capital punishment.
South Australia becomes the first Australian state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.
Some members of Jehovah's Witnesses, based on the group's chronology,^[2] believe that Armageddon will happen in 1975 and a few of them sell their houses and businesses to prepare for the new world paradise which they believe will exist when Jesus sets up God's Kingdom on earth.

Ongoing

Cold War.

Fictional

March 12 – Wrongly convicted murderer Andrew Dufresne escapes from Shawshank State Prison.
In the film The Omega Man a war involving biological weapons between China and the Soviet Union took place in 1975.
September – A catastrophic earthquake – 9.9 on the Richter scale – strikes Los Angeles, California in the film Earthquake.

World population

World population
	1975	1970		1980
World	4,068,109,000	3,692,492,000	375,617,000	4,434,682,000	366,573,000
Africa	408,160,000	357,283,000	50,877,000	469,618,001	61,458,000
Asia	2,397,512,000	2,143,118,000	254,394,000	2,632,335,000	234,823,000
Europe	675,542,000	655,855,000	19,687,000	692,431,000	16,889,000
Latin-America	321,906,000	284,856,000	37,050,000	361,401,000	39,495,000
Northern America	243,425,000	231,937,000	11,488,000	256,068,000	12,643,000
Oceania	21,564,000	19,443,000	2,121,000	22,828,000	1,264,000

Births

**1975 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1975 MCMLXXV
Ab urbe condita	2728
Armenian calendar	1424 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԴ
Bahá'í calendar	131 – 132
Bengali calendar	1382
Berber calendar	2925
Buddhist calendar	2519
Burmese calendar	1337
Byzantine calendar	7483 – 7484
Chinese calendar	甲寅年十一月十九日 (4611/4671-11-19) — to — 乙卯年十一月廿九日 (4612/4672-11-29)
Coptic calendar	1691 – 1692
Ethiopian calendar	1967 – 1968
Hebrew calendar	5735 – 5736
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2030 – 2031
- Shaka Samvat	1897 – 1898
- Kali Yuga	5076 – 5077
Holocene calendar	11975
Iranian calendar	1353 – 1354
Islamic calendar	1394 – 1395
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 50 (昭和50年)
Korean calendar	4308
Thai solar calendar	2518
Unix time	157766400 – 189302399

January

January 1 – Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist
January 2 – Chris Cheney, Australian rock musician (The Living End)
January 3 – Danica McKellar, American actress
January 4 – Jill Marie Jones, American actress
January 5 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
January 5 – Mike Grier, American hockey player
January 6 – Ricardo Santos, Brazilian beach volleyball player
January 8 – Chris Simmons, British actor
January 9 – Kim Mathers, ex-wife of rapper Eminem
January 10 – Jake Delhomme, American football player
January 11 – Rory Fitzpatrick, American hockey player
January 13 – Shazia Mirza, British comedian
January 15 – Edith Bowman, British radio DJ
January 17 – Tony Brown, New Zealand rugby union footballer
January 17 – Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican actor
January 20 – David Eckstein, American baseball player
January 20 – Mark Allan Robinson, Canadian recall leader
January 22 – Balthazar Getty, American actor
January 23 – Tito Ortiz, American mixed martial arts fighter
January 25 – Tim Montgomery, American athlete
January 25 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
January 25 – John Wade, American football player
January 28 – David Zingler, American writer
January 29 – Sara Gilbert, American actress; also Kelly Packard, American singer-actress-hostess
January 30 – Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
January 31 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress
January 31 – Jackie O, Australian radio DJ and TV presenter

February

February 1 – Big Boi, American rapper
February 2 – Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian hockey player
February 2 – Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
February 4 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian actress and singer
February 5 – Adam Carson, American rock drummer (AFI)
February 6 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
February 10 – Amber Frey, Massage therapist & author
February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball pitcher
February 11 – Jacque Vaughn, American basketball player
February 14 – Scott Owen, Australian rock musician (The Living End)
February 14 – Malik Zidi, French actor
February 15 – Brandon Boyd, American rock musician (Incubus)
February 17 – Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
February 17 – Todd Harvey, Canadian National Hockey League player
February 17 – Vaclav Prospal, Czech National Hockey League player
February 18 – Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer
February 18 – Gary Neville, English footballer
February 18 – Sarah Brown, American actress
February 19 – Daniel Adair, Canadian rock drummer (Nickelback)
February 20 – Brian Littrell, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys)
February 21 – Heri Joensen, Faroese rock musician (Týr)
February 22 – Drew Barrymore, American actress
February 23 – Michael Cornacchia, American actor

March

March 1 – Cristián Berríos, Chilean writer
March 4 – Kim Jung-Eun, South Korean actress
March 4 – Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
March 4 – Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
March 5 – Jolene Blalock, American actress
March 5 – Niki Taylor, American model
March 9 – Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer
March 11 – Eric the Midget, American member of the Wack Pack
March 11 – Buvaisar Saitiev, Chechen wrestler, Olympic gold-medalist
March 14 – Rico Yan, Philippine movie/TV actor (d. 2002)
March 15 – will.i.am, American rapper
March 15 – Eva Longoria, American actress
March 15 – Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
March 17 – Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2009)
March 18 – Sutton Foster, American actress
March 18 – Brian Griese, American football player
March 19 – Matthew Richardson,Australian rules footballer
March 19 – Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
March 19 – Le Jingyi, Chinese swimmer
March 25 – Ladislav Benysek, Czech ice hockey player
March 27 – Stacy Ferguson (Fergie), American pop/R&B singer and actress
March 29 – Jan Bos, Dutch speed skater
March 30 – Bahar Soomekh, American actress

April

April 2 – Adam Rodriguez, American actor
April 3 – Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball pitcher
April 3 – Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese professional baseball player
April 4 – Scott Rolen, American baseball player
April 4 – Delphine Arnault, French billionaire businesswoman
April 6 – Zach Braff, American actor
April 7 – Ronde Barber, American football player
April 7 – Tiki Barber, American football player
April 9 – Robbie Fowler, British footballer
April 10 – Chris Carrabba, American rock musician (Dashboard Confessional)
April 10 – Matthew Phillips, Italian rugby union footballer
April 13 – Bruce Dyer, English footballer
April 14 – Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
April 14 – Stefano miceli, Italian Conductor and Pianist
April 14 – Anderson Silva, Brazilian UFC Middleweight Champion
April 15 – Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
April 16 – Nick Pickard, British actor
April 17 – Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
April 22 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)
April 22 – Carlos Sastre, Spanish road bicycle racer
April 23 – Olga Kern, Russian pianist
April 25 – Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer
April 26 – Joey Jordison, American rock drummer and guitarist (Slipknot, Murderdolls)
April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japanese ski jumper
April 30 – Mike Chat, American actor

May

May 1 – Danielle Bisutti, American Actress
May 1 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
May 2 – David Beckham, English footballer
May 2 – Ahmed Hassan, Egyptian footballer
May 3 – Kimora Lee Simmons, American fashion designer
May 4 – Laci Peterson, American murder victim (d. 2002)
May 7 – Jason Tunks, Canadian Olympic discus thrower
May 8 – Jussi Markkanen, Finnish hockey player
May 8 – Enrique Iglesias, American singer
May 10 – Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
May 11 – Coby Bell, American actor
May 12 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
May 13 – Itatí Cantoral, Mexican actress
May 15 – Peter Iwers, Swedish rock bassist (In Flames)
May 15 – Ray Lewis, American football player
May 16 – Tonéx, American singer
May 16 – Tony Kakko, Finnish singer
May 17 – Sasha Alexander, American actress
May 18 – John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
May 18 – Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter
May 19 – London Fletcher, American football player
May 19 – Zhang Ning, Chinese badminton player
May 20 – Andrew Sega, American musician
May 20 – Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
May 22 – Janne Niinimaa, Finnish hockey player
May 25 – Lauryn Hill, American musician
May 26 – Nicki Aycox, American actress
May 27 – Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
May 28 – Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
May 31 – Toni Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper

June

June 4 – Angelina Jolie, American actress
June 4 – Russell Brand, English comedian
June 7 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
June 8 – Shilpa Shetty, Bollywood actress
June 9 – Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
June 10 – Nicole Bilderback, American actress
June 10 – Darren Eadie, English footballer
June 11 – Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
June 12 – Răzvan Ţupa, Romanian poet
June 14 – Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
June 17 – Chloe Jones, American pornstar (d. 2005)
June 18 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
June 19 – Ed Coode, British rower
June 23 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter
June 24 – Christie Rampone, American footballer
June 25 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
June 25 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
June 27 – Tobey Maguire, American actor
June 30 – Ralf Schumacher, German racing car driver
June 30 – Angela Tong, Hong Kong actress

July

July 1 – Sufjan Stevens, American folk musician
July 5 – Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
July 5 – Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player
July 5 – Gunnar H. Thomsen, Faroese rock bassist (Týr)
July 6 – Curtis Jackson, American rapper (50 Cent)
July 9 – Jack White, American rock and blues musician
July 9 – Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
July 9 – Isaac Brock, American musician
July 9 – Shona Fraser, British born music journalist and judge
July 10 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
July 11 – Lil' Kim, American rapper
July 12 – Hannah Waterman, British actress
July 14 – Tameka Cottle known as "Tiny", American singer/songwriter member of the group Xscape
July 15 – Jill Halfpenny, British actress
July 17 – Konnie Huq, English television presenter
July 18 – Torii Hunter, American baseball player
July 18 – Daron Malakian, American rock guitarist (System of a Down)
July 18 – M.I.A., English musician
July 19 – Patricia Ja Lee, American model/actress
July 20 – Ray Allen, American basketball player
July 21 – Fredrik Johansson, Swedish rock guitarist
July 22 – Kenshin Kawakami, Japanese baseball pitcher
July 24 – Torrie Wilson, American professional wrestler and model
July 25 – Evgeni Nabokov, Russian goaltender currently in the NHL
July 25 – Håvard Ellefsen, Norwegian rock (metal) artist (Mortiis),
July 27 – Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
July 27 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
July 29 – Terrence Wilkins, American football player
July 30 – Graham Nicholls, British artist
July 31 – Simon Hirst, British DJ

August

August 1 – Danny Chan Kwok Kwan, Hong Kong actor
August 3 – Yoyo Mung, Hong Kong actress
August 5 – Kajol Devgan, Indian actress
August 5 – Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
August 7 – Charlize Theron, South African actress
August 7 – Gaahl (Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian metal artist
August 12 – David Filmore, American actor, director
August 12 – John Stevenson, American songwriter/musician
August 15 – Kara Wolters, American women's basketball player
August 22 – Sheree Murphy, English actress
August 24 – Hayato Sakurai, Japanese martial artist
August 27 – Björn Gelotte, Swedish musician

September

September 1 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer
September 3 – Jennifer Paige, American singer
September 4 – Mark Ronson, British DJ and music producer
September 5 – Kate Allan, British author
September 6 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka
September 7 – Renato "Babalu" Sobral, Brazilian martial artist
September 8 – Richard Hughes, British rock drummer (Keane)
September 9 – Michael Bublé, Canadian musician
September 11 – Brad Fischetti, American musician
September 17 – Constantine Maroulis, American singer
September 17 – Austin St. John, American actor
September 17 – Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
September 17 – Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
September 18 – Richard Appleby, English footballer
September 22 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian hockey player
September 23 – Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
September 23 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
September 25 – Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
September 25 – Declan Donnelly, British TV presenter (Ant and Dec)
September 27 – Sam Lee, Hong Kong actor
September 28 – Karan Ashley, American actor
September 30 – Marion Cotillard, French actress
September 30 – Georges-Alain Jones, French singer

October

October 1 – Kim Sun Ah, South Korean actress
October 2 – Michel Trudeau, son of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau (d. 1998)
October 5 – Parminder Nagra, British actress
October 5 – Kate Winslet, British actress
October 7 – Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
October 9 – Joe McFadden, British actor
October 14 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
October 15 – Ginuwine, American singer
October 17 – Janne Aikala, Finnish murder victim (d. 1986)
October 19 – Benjamin Heckendorn, Electronics modifier and independent film maker
October 20 – Natalie Gregory, American child actress
October 21 – Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
October 23 – Odalys Garcia, Cuban-born actress
October 25 – Zadie Smith, English writer
October 27 – Max Lilja, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
October 30 – Ian D'Sa, Canadian rock guitarist (Billy Talent)

November

November 3 – Marta Dominguez, Spanish athlete
November 4 – Éric Fichaud, Canadian hockey player
November 5 – Jamie Spaniolo (Jamie Madrox), American rapper
November 8 – Tara Reid, American actress
November 8 – Ángel Corella, Spanish dancer
November 10 – Markko Märtin, Estonian race car driver
November 12 – Aaron Solowoniuk, Canadian rock drummer (Billy Talent)
November 14 – Travis Barker, American rock drummer (Blink-182, The Aquabats!, Transplants, Box Car Racer, +44)
November 16 – Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player
November 17 – Diane Neal, American actress
November 18 – David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player
November 18 – Anthony McPartlin, British TV presenter (Ant and Dec)
November 19 – Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
November 19 – Tamika Scott, American singer/songwriter and producer
November 20 – Davey Havok, American rock lead singer of (AFI)
November 20 – Jeffrey Lewis, American Anti-folk singer
November 21 – Chris Moneymaker, American poker player
November 24 – Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
November 24 – Lee Wan Wah, Malaysian badminton player
November 28 – Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
November 30 – Ben Thatcher, Welsh international footballer

December

December 2 – Malinda Williams, American actress
December 3 – Csaba Czébely, Hungarian heavy metal drummer (Pokolgép)
December 5 – Ronnie O'Sullivan, British snooker player
December 6 – Ashin, Taiwanese rock lead singer (Mayday (Taiwanese band))
December 8 – Kevin Harvick, American race car driver
December 10 – Joe Mays, American baseball pitcher
December 10 – Steve Bradley, American WWE Development Star (d. 2008)
December 11 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
December 12 – Mayim Bialik, American actress and neuroscientist
December 13 – Tom Delonge, American rock musician (Blink 182, Box Car Racer, Angels & Airwaves)
December 14 – Justin Furstenfeld, American rock musician (Blue October)
December 16 – Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian rock lead singer (Billy Talent)
December 16 – Frode Fjerdingstad, Norwegian photographer
December 17 – Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian actress and model
December 17 – Tim Clark, South African golfer
December 17 – Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan athlete
December 18 – Eugene, American professional wrestler
December 18 – Masaki Sumitani, Japanese television performer
December 18 – Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler and fitness model
December 19 – Jon Smith, British writer
December 20 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
December 21 – Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
December 22 – Crissy Moran, American erotic actress
December 23 – Sky Lopez, American actress
December 23 – Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
December 26 – Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
December 27 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (d. 1988)
December 30 – Tiger Woods, American golfer

Deaths

January–February

January 4 – Carlo Levi, Italian writer (b. 1902)
January 8 – David Marshall "Carbine" Williams, American inventor (b. 1900)
January 8 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
January 18 – Chester Kallman, American poet (b. 1921)
January 19 – Thomas Hart Benton, American artist (b. 1889)
January 24 – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (b. 1902)
January 24 – Erich Kempka, German chauffeur of Adolf Hitler (b. 1910)
January 27 – Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (b. 1913)
January 28 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
February 3 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian actress and singer (b. 1904)
February 4 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
February 8 – Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
February 10 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (stroke) (b. 1910)
February 11 – Richard Ratsimandrava, Madagascar President (assassinated) (b. 1931)
February 13 – André Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
February 14 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
February 14 – P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
February 16 – Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
February 17 – George Marshall, American film director (b. 1891)
February 19 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
February 20 – Robert Strauss, American actor (b. 1913)
February 24 – Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
February 25 – Elijah Muhammad, African-American Nation of Islam leader (b. 1897)
February 26 – Stephen Tibble, London police officer (shot) (b. 1953)

March–April

March 3 – Therese Giehse, German actress (b. 1898)
March 7 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar (b. 1895)
March 7 – Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1901)
March 8 – George Stevens, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1904)
March 9 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian American sculptor (b. 1888)
March 9 – Joseph Dunninger, American mentalist (b. 1892)
March 13 – Ivo Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
March 14 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
March 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1906)
March 16 – T-Bone Walker, African-American musician (b. 1910)
March 16 – Richard W. DeKorte, American New Jersey Energy Administrator and former member of the New Jersey General Assembly (b. 1936)
March 19 – Harry Lachman, American set designer and film director (b. 1886)
March 22 – Cass Daley, American actress (b. 1915)
March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
March 25 – Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian politician (b. 1894)
April 3 – Mary Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
April 5 – Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
April 5 – Harold Osborn, American Olympic athlete (b. 1899)
April 10 – Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)
April 10 – Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)
April 12 – Josephine Baker, African-American dancer (b. 1906)
April 13 – N'Garta Tombalbaye, President of Chad (b. 1918)
April 13 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
April 14 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
April 15 – Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
April 17 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and president (b. 1888)
April 23 – William Hartnell, British actor (b. 1908)
April 24 – Peter Ham, Welsh musician (b. 1947)
April 30 – Gen Paul, French artist (b. 1895)

May–June

May 5 – Moe Howard, American actor (The Three Stooges) (b. 1897)
May 8 – Avery Brundage, American President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)
May 9 – Philip Dorn, Dutch actor (b. 1901)
May 13 – Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., American inventor of the drive-in theatre (b. 1900)
May 13 – Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
May 18 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
May 22 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
May 22 – Torben Meyer, Danish actor (b. 1884)
May 23 – Moms Mabley, African-American comedian (b. 1894)
May 25 – Count Dante, American martial artist (b. 1939)
May 30 – Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (b. 1951)
May 30 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist and founder of Isshin-ryu karate (b. 1908)
May 30 – Michel Simon, Swiss actor (b. 1895)
June 3 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor (b. 1906)
June 3 – Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
June 4 – Evelyn Brent, American actress (b. 1899)
June 5 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess grandmaster (b. 1916)
June 6 – Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
June 14 – Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
June 18 – Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. 1883)
June 26 – Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (b. 1902)
June 28 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (The Twilight Zone) (b. 1924)
July 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
June 29 – Tim Buckley, American singer/songwriter (b. 1947)

July–August

July 2 – James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907)
July 15 – Charles Weidman, American choreographer and dancer (b. 1901)
July 18 – Vaughn Bode, American artist and psychedelic cartoonist (b. 1941)
July 19 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928)
July 21 – Billy West, American actor (b. 1892)
July 29 – James Blish, American science fiction writer (b. 1921)
August 8 – Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
August 9 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
August 10 – Robert Barton, Irish politician and last surviving signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (b. 1881)
August 11 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel (b. 1885)
August 15 – Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
August 16 – Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner (b. 1927)
August 17 – Sig Arno, German actor (b. 1895)
August 19 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (b. 1937)
August 19 – Frank Shields, American tennis player (b. 1909)
August 23 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
August 23 – Hank Patterson, American actor (b. 1888)
August 26 – Cullen Landis, American actor (b. 1895)
August 27 – Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
August 28 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
August 29 – Eamon de Valera, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
August 31 – Pierre Blaise, French actor (b. 1955)

September–October

September 5 – Georg Ots, Estonian opera singer (b. 1920)
September 9 – Minta Durfee, American actress (b. 1889)
September 9 – Ethel Griffies, English actress (b. 1878)
September 9 – John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913)
September 10 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
September 16 – Irene Hayes, American Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
September 19 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
September 20 – Vincent Lopez, American bandleader (b. 1895)
September 20 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
September 23 – Ian Hunter, British actor (b. 1900)
September 24 – Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
September 27 – Mark Frechette, American actor (b. 1947)
September 27 – Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
September 29 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
October 4 – May Sutton, American tennis champion (b. 1886)
October 10 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b. 1912)
October 10 – Lillian Walker, American actress (b. 1887)
October 21 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1889)
October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, British historian (b. 1889)
October 27 – Rex Stout, American author (b. 1886)
October 28 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

November–December

November 1 – Sinn Sisamouth, The highly prolific King of Khmer music is executed by the Khmer Rouge ending the Golden Age of the Cambodian music industry.(b. 1935)
November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
November 5 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
November 5 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
November 5 – Lionel Trilling, American literary critic (b. 1905)
November 13 – R.C. Sherriff, English writer (b. 1896)
November 20 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (b. 1892)
November 27 – Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
November 29 – Tony Brise, English racing driver (b. 1952)
November 29 – Graham Hill, English race car driver (b. 1929)
December 1 – Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)
December 1 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
December 7 – Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903)
December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)
December 9 – William A. Wellman, American film director (b. 1896)
December 10 – Andrew "Boy" Charlton, Australian Olympic swimmer (b. 1907)
December 11 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
December 14 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
December 17 – Noble Sissle, American jazz composer (b. 1889)
December 20 – William Lundigan, American actor (b. 1914)
December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (b. 1911)

Unknown dates

Will Mastin, American vaudevillian

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Aage Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater
Chemistry – John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
Medicine – David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
Literature – Eugenio Montale
Peace – Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
Economics – Leonid Kantorovich, Tjalling Koopmans

Templeton Prize

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Notes

^ 1975: London Hilton bombed
^ The Watchtower, 15 August 1968, p.494–501; Awake!, 22 May 1969, p.15; The Watchtower, 15 March 1980, p.17, para.5–6

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Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1972 1973 1974 - 1975 - 1976 1977 1978

1975 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
Aviation - Film - Home video - Literature (Poetry) Meteorology - Music (Country, Metal) Rail transport - Radio - Science
Sports - Television - Video gaming
Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Zimbabwe
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Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

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1 Events of 1975

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional
- World population

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes - Templeton Prize

5 See also - Notes - External links

Year 1975 was declared International Women's Year by the United Nations.

Events of 1975

January

January 1 - Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
January 1 - Work is abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel.

January 2 - The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
January 5 - The bulk ore carrier MV Lake Illawarra strikes the Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, killing 12.
January 6 - "Wheel of Fortune" premiers on NBC.
January 7 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
January 8 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman U.S. governor who did not succeed her husband.
January 8 - U.S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.
January 10 - Japanese soldier Teruo Nakamura surrenders on the Indonesian island of Morota.
January 12 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 in Super Bowl IX to capture their first-ever Pro Football World Championship.
January 14 - Heiress Lesley Whittle, 17, is kidnapped from her home in Shropshire, England by Donald Neilson.
January 15 - International Women's Year launched in Britain by Princess Alexandra and Barbara Castle.
January 15 - Portugal grants independence to Angola.
January 20 - In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam.
January 20 - Michael Ovitz founds the Creative Artists Agency.
January 29 - The Weather Underground bombs the U.S. State Department main office in Washington.
January - Altair 8800 is released, sparking the era of the microcomputer.

February

February 1 - The Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation is launched, becoming the first TV network in the Philippines.
February 4 - The first successfully predicted earthquake occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
February 9 - The Soyuz 17 crew (Georgi Grechko, Aleksei Gubarev) returns to Earth after 1 month aboard the Salyut 4 space station.
February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.
February 11 - Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar, is assassinated.
February 13 - A "Turkish Federated State of North Cyprus" is declared as an unsuccessful first step to international recognition of a Turkish Cypriot separatist state in Cyprus.
February 13 - Fire breaks out in the World Trade Center.
February 21 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.
February 23 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly 2 months early in the United States.
February 26 - A fleeing Irish Republican Army member shoots and kills off-duty London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, as he gives chase.
February 27 - The Movement 2 June kidnaps West German politician Peter Lorenz. He is released on March 4 after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.
February 28 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
February 28 - In Lomé, Togo, the European Economic Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.

March

March 1 - Color television transmissions begin in Australia.
March 1 - Aston Villa win the Football League Cup at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1-0 in the final.
March 4 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
March 4 - First television coverage of a Canadian parliamentary committee.
March 6 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement in their border dispute.
March 6 - A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of the Springer Press. The 6 March Group (connected to the Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.
March 7 - The body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle, kidnapped 7 weeks earlier by the Black Panther, is discovered in Staffordshire, England.
March 8 - The United Nations proclaims International Women's Day.
March 9 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
March 10 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
March 10 - The Rocky Horror Show opens on Broadway in New York City with 4 performances.
March 11 - The leftist military government in Portugal defeats a rightist coup attempt.
March 13 - Vietnam War: South Vietnam President Nguyen van Thieu orders the Central Highlands evacuated. This turns into a mass exodus involving troops and civilians, (the Convoy of Tears).
March 15 - In Brazil, the Estado da Guanabara (State of Guanabara) merges with the state of Rio de Janeiro, under the name of Rio de Janeiro. The state's capital moves from the city of Niterói to the city of Rio de Janeiro.
March 22 - Ding-a-dong by Teach-In (music by Dick Bakker, text by Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens) wins the 20th Eurovision Song Contest 1975 for the Netherlands.
March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness; the killer is beheaded on June 18. (King Khalid succeeds Faisal.)
March 28 - A fire in the maternity wing at Kucic Hospital in Rijeka, Yugoslavia, kills 25 babies.

April

April 3 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
April 4 - Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.
April 4 - BBC TV: The first episode of BBC sitcom The Good Life is broadcast
April 9 - Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association, plays its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.
April 13 - Bus massacre: 27 Palestinians killed by the kataeb militia during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, the incident triggered the Lebanese civil war.
April 13 - A coup d'état in Chad led by the military overthrows and kills the President François Tombalbaye.
April 17 - Following the Khmer Rouge capture of Phnom Penh, Pol Pot proclaims the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1975-1979).
April 24 - Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police. (See 1975 Occupation of the West German embassy)
April 25 - Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
April 30 - Vietnam War: The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.

May

May 5 - The Busch Gardens Williamsburg Theme Park opens in Virginia.
May 12 - Mayaguez incident: Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia seize the United States merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
May 15 - Mayaguez incident: The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued by the U.S. Navy and Marines; 38 Americans are killed.
May 16 - Sikkim accedes to India after a referendum.
May 16 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
May 25 - Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, 435 mile (696 km) race.
May 28 - Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
May 30 - 1972 Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine dies in a car accident.

June

June 5 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
June 5 - The United Kingdom votes yes in a referendum to stay in the European Community.
June 9 - The Order of Australia is awarded for the first time.
June 10 - In Washington, the Rockefeller Commission issues its report on CIA abuses, recommending a joint congressional oversight committee on intelligence.
June 19 - Richard Bingham is found guilty in absentia of the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett.
June 20 - This "first day of Summer" is also the first for the father of the summer blockbuster movie and one of the first "high concept" films. The "Summer Blockbuster" film Jaws is released, a thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg.
June 25 - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares Emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.
June 25 - Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
June 26 - Two FBI agents and 1 AIM member die in a shootout, at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

July

July 1 - The Postmaster-General's Department is disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission (trading as Telecom Australia) and the Australian Postal Commission (trading as Australia Post).
July 4 - Sydney newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen disappears, and is presumed to have been murdered.
July 5 - Cape Verde gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
July 6 - The Comoros declare their independence from France.
July 9 - The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a multi-party system(albeit highly restricted).
July 12 - São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
July 17 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations.
July 31 - In Detroit, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.

August

August 1 - The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.
August 5 - U.S. President Ford posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee, restoring full rights of citizenship.
August 8 - The Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, fails after a freak typhoon; over 200,000 people perish.
August 8 - Samuel Bronfman, son of the president of Seagram's, is kidnapped in Purchase.
August 11 - British Leyland Motor Corporation comes under British government control.
August 11 - Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a UDT coup and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
August 15 - The Birmingham Six are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment in Great Britain.
August 15 - President Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh is killed during a coup.
August 20 - Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
August 24 - Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens. The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment.
August 25 - Rock musician Bruce Springsteen releases his third album, Born to Run.
August 30- Noted Catholic religious educator, author and professor, Dr. Philip A. Franco is born in Brooklyn, New York.

September

september 1 Mount Neighbour Primary School is opened.
September 5 - In Sacramento, Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
September 5 - The London Hilton hotel is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 2 people are killed and 63 injured.^[1]
September 14 - Elizabeth Seton is canonized becoming the first American saint.
September 14 - Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch" is slashed a dozen times at a gallery in Amsterdam.
September 14 - Kieron Johnson is born
September 15 - The French department of Corse, comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
September 15 - Pink Floyd releases their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here.
September 18 - Fugitive Patricia Hearst is captured in San Francisco.
September 20 - The term of Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, ends.
September 21 - Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, Sultan of Kelantan becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 22 - U.S. President Gerald Ford survives a second assassination attempt, this time by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco.
September 27 - The Norwood Football Club beats the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL Australian Rules Football Grand Final.
September 28 - The Spaghetti House siege takes place in London.
September 30 - The Hughes Helicopters (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing IDS) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

October

October 1 - Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
October 9 - A bomb explosion outside Green Park tube station near Piccadilly in London kills 1 and injures 20.
October 11 - NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live (George Carlin is the very first host; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the very first musical guests).
October 11 - Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham, whom he met at Yale Law School. His wife will remain known by her maiden name for a few years.
October 16 - Five Australian-based journalists are killed at Balibo by Indonesian forces, during an incursion into Portuguese Timor.
October 21 - Carlton Fisk of the Boston Red Sox hits a home run in Fenway Park, in the 12th inning of the 6th game of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, to win what many consider the greatest World Series game of all time.
October 22 - Cincinnati Reds defeat Boston Red Sox 4-3 to win 1975 World Series.
October 27 - Robert Poulin, 18, begins shooting at St. Pius X High School in Ottawa, Canada and then shoots himself, killing 1 and wounding 5.
October 29 - Peter Sutcliffe (the "Yorkshire Ripper") commits his first murder, Wilma McCann.
October 30 - Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting Head of State after dictator Francisco Franco concedes

that he is too ill to govern.

October 31 - Queen (band) released their most famous single Bohemian Rhapsody. It spent 9 weeks at number 1# in the UK charts. It has often been credited as the best song of all time.

November

Sir John Kerr, Governor-General of Australia with newly appointed Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Fraser.

November 3 - An independent audit of Mattel, one of the United States' largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."
November 3 - The first petroleum pipeline opens from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth, Scotland.
November 6 - The Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
November 10 - United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379: By a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The resolution provokes an outcry among Jews around the world.
November 10 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board (an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot).
November 10 - Lev Leshchenko revives Den Pobedy, one of the most popular World War II songs in the USSR.
November 11 - Angola becomes independent from Portugal; civil war soon erupts.
November 11 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.
November 11 - The first annual Vogalonga rowing "race" is held in Venice, Italy.
November 14 - Spain abandons Western Sahara.
November 18 - General Vasco Goncalves is ousted as Prime Minister of Portugal.
November 20 - Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.
November 21 - The rock group Queen releases the album A Night at the Opera, including their hit single "Bohemian Rhapsody."
November 22 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
November 25 - Suriname gains independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
November 25 - The Irish Republican Army is outlawed in the United Kingdom.
November 27 - Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for offering reward money to informers.
November 28 - Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor.
November 29 - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).
November 29 - While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at 2 of the harbor's public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.

December

December 2 - The communist Pathet Lao takes power in Laos.
December 7 - East Timor is invaded by Indonesia.
December 21 - Left-wing terrorists, including Carlos (the Jackal), kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna. They kill 3 hostages, extort $5 million ransom and escape into the Middle East.
December 29 - A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 11.

Undated

January - Volkswagen introduces the Golf, its new front-wheel-drive economy car, in the United States and Canada as the Volkswagen Rabbit.
In New Zealand, Maori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5000 people in support of Maori claims to their land.
The Third Cod War between UK and Iceland lasted between November 1975 - June 1976.
Government of Colombia announces finding of Ciudad Perdida.
Spanish army quits Spanish (Western) Sahara. Sahrawi Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco invades ex-Spanish Western Sahara.
First use of the term fractal.
Victoria abolishes capital punishment.
South Australia becomes first Australian state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.
Some members of Jehovah's Witnesses, based on the group's chronology,^[2] thought that Armageddon would happen in 1975 and a few of them sold their houses and businesses to prepare for the new world paradise which they believe will exist when Jesus sets up God's Kingdom on earth.

Ongoing

Cold War.

Fictional

In the film The Omega Man a war involving biological weapons between the Soviet Union and the United States took place in 1975.

World population

World population
	1975	1970		1980
World	4,068,109,000	3,692,492,000	375,617,000	4,434,682,000	366,573,000
Africa	408,160,000	357,283,000	50,877,000	469,618,001	61,458,000
Asia	2,397,512,000	2,143,118,000	254,394,000	2,632,335,000	234,823,000
Europe	675,542,000	655,855,000	19,687,000	692,431,000	16,889,000
Latin-America	321,906,000	284,856,000	37,050,000	361,401,000	39,495,000
Northern America	243,425,000	231,937,000	11,488,000	256,068,000	12,643,000
Oceania	21,564,000	19,443,000	2,121,000	22,828,000	1,264,000

Births

**1975 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1975 MCMLXXV
Ab urbe condita	2728
Armenian calendar	1424 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԴ
Bahá'í calendar	131 – 132
Buddhist calendar	2519
Coptic calendar	1691 – 1692
Ethiopian calendar	1967 – 1968
Hebrew calendar	5735 – 5736
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2030 – 2031
- Shaka Samvat	1897 – 1898
- Kali Yuga	5076 – 5077
Holocene calendar	11975
Iranian calendar	1353 – 1354
Islamic calendar	1394 – 1395
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 50 (昭和 50年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2635 (皇紀2635年)
Julian calendar	2020
Korean calendar	4308
Thai solar calendar	2518

January

January 1 - Eiichiro Oda, Japanese Manga artist
January 2 - Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
January 3 - Danica McKellar, American actress
January 4 - Jill Marie Jones, American actress
January 5 - Bradley Cooper, American actor
January 5 - Mike Grier, American ice hockey player
January 9 - Kim Mathers, former wife of rapper Eminem
January 11 - Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player
January 11 - Bunny Poe, American musician
January 13 - Shazia Mirza, British comedian
January 15 - Edith Bowman, British radio DJ
January 17 - Tony Brown, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer
January 20 - Mark Allan Robinson, Canadian recall leader
January 22 - Balthazar Getty, American actor
January 23 - Tito Ortiz, American mixed martial arts fighter.
January 25 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete
January 25 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
January 25 - John Wade, National Football League player
January 28 - David Zingler, American writer
January 29 - Sara Gilbert, American actress
January 30 - Yumi Yoshimura, famous Japanese singer Puffy Amiyumi
January 31 - Preity Zinta, Indian actress

February

February 2 - Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian hockey player
February 2 - Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
February 4 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian actress and singer
February 5 - Adam Carson, American drummer
February 6 - Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
February 8 - Joe Eshwar, Indian writer & filmaker
February 11- Jacque Vaughn, NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs
February 14 - Scott Owen, Australian musician (The Living End)
February 17 - Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
February 17 - Todd Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player
February 17 - Vaclav Prospal, Czech ice hockey player
February 18 - Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer
February 18 - Gary Neville, English footballer
February 18 - Sarah Brown, American actress
February 19 - Daniel Adair, Canadian drummer (Nickelback)
February 20 - Brian Littrell, American singer, member of Backstreet Boys
February 21 - Heri Joensen, Faroese musician (Týr)
February 22 - Drew Barrymore, American actress
February 23 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor

March

March 4 - Kim Jung-Eun, South Korean actress
March 4 - Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
March 4 - Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
March 5 - Jolene Blalock, American actress
March 5 - Niki Taylor, American model
March 8 - Richard Henriques American screenwriter & internet journalist
March 9 - Roy Makaay, Dutch football player
March 11 - Eric the Midget, member of the Wack Pack from radio's The Howard Stern Show
March 11 - Buvaisar Saitiev, Chechen wrestler, Olympic gold-medalist
March 14 - Rico Yan, Philippine Movie/TV Actor (d. 2002)
March 15 - will.i.am, American rapper
March 15 - Eva Longoria, American actress (Desperate Housewives)
March 15 - Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
March 17 - Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler known as Test
March 19 - Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
March 21 - Aaron Suski, American skateboarder
March 25 - Ladislav Benysek, Czech ice hockey player
March 27 - Stacy Ann Ferguson, American actress/singer
March 30 - Bahar Soomekh, American actress

April

April 4 - Scott Rolen, baseball player
April 4 - Delphine Arnault, billionaire French businesswoman LVMH
April 6 - Zach Braff, American actor
April 7 - Ronde Barber, American football player
April 7 - Tiki Barber, American football player
April 9 - Robbie Fowler, British footballer
April 10 - Chris Carrabba, American musician (Dashboard Confessional)
April 13 - Bruce Dyer, English footballer
April 14 - Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
April 15 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (Indy Racing League) (d. 2006)
April 22 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)
April 26 - Joey Jordison, American drummer and guitarist
April 30 - Mike Chat, American actor

May

May 1 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
May 2 - David Beckham, English footballer
May 3 - Kimora Lee Simmons, American fashion designer
May 4 - Laci Peterson, American murder victim (d. 2002)
May 7 - Jason Tunks, Canadian Olympic discus thrower
May 8 - Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
May 8 - Enrique Iglesias, American singer
May 10 - Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
May 12 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
May 15 - Ray Lewis, American football player
May 16 - Tonéx, American singer
May 17 - Sasha Alexander, American actress
May 18 - John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
May 18 - Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter
May 19 - London Fletcher, American football player
May 20 - Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
May 22 - Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice hockey player
May 27 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
May 25 - Lauryn Hill, American musician
May 27 - André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
May 28 - Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress

June

June 4 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
June 7 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player
June 9 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
June 10 - Nicole Bilderback, Asian American actress
June 10 - Darren Eadie, English footballer
June 11 - Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
June 14 - Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
June 17 - Chloe Jones, American actress
June 18 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
June 19 - Ed Coode, British rower
June 23 - KT Tunstall, singer-songwriter from St Andrews, Scotland
June 24 - Christie Rampone, American soccer player
June 25 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
June 25 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
June 27 - Tobey Maguire, American actor

July

July 1 - Sufjan Stevens, American folk musician
July 5 - Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
July 5 - Gunnar H. Thomsen, Faroese bassist (Týr)
July 6 - Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, American rapper
July 8 - Dan Palmer, American musician
July 9 - Jack White, American rock and blues musician
July 9 - Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
July 9 - Isaac Brock, American musician
July 9 - Shona Fraser British born music journalist and Idol Judge
July 10 - Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
July 12 - Hannah Waterman, British actress
July 15 - Jill Halfpenny, British actress
July 17 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter
July 18 - Torii Hunter, baseball player
July 19 - Patricia Ja Lee, Korean American model/actress
July 23 - Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
July 24 - Torrie Wilson, American professional wrestler and model
July 25 - Håvard Ellefsen, a.k.a. Mortiis, Norwegian metal artist
July 27 - Shea Hillenbrand, baseball player
July 27 - Alex Rodriguez, baseball player
July 30 - Graham Nicholls, British artist
July 31 - Simon Hirst, British DJ
July 31 - Annie Parisse, American actress (Law & Order)

August

August 5 - Kajol Devgan, Indian actress
August 5 - Eicca Toppinen, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
August 12 - David Filmore, American actor, director
August 15 - Kara Wolters, American basketball player
August 22 - Sheree Murphy, English actress
August 24 - Hayato Sakurai, Japanese martial artist
August 25 - Luis Fernando Pinzon, Colombian artist

September

September 1 - Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer (Rogue Traders)
September 5 - Kate Allan, UK author
September 7 - Renato "Babalu" Sobral, Brazilian martial artist
September 8 - Richard Hughes, drummer for British rock band Keane
September 9 - Michael Bublé, Canadian musician
September 11 - Brad Fischetti, American musician
September 17 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
September 17 - Austin St. John, American actor
September 17 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
September 17 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
September 18 - Richard Appleby, English football player
September 22 - Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player
September 23 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
September 25 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
September 25 - Declan Donnelly, British TV presenter and half of TV duo Ant and Dec
September 28 - Karan Ashley, American actor

October

October 2 - Michel Trudeau, son of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau (d. 1998)
October 5 - Parminder Nagra, British actress
October 5 - Kate Winslet, British actress
October 7 - Rhino, American professional wrestler
October 14 - Floyd Landis, American cyclist
October 18 - Graham Webb, British engineer
October 20 - Lisa Murphy, Just and Aussie Girl
October 21 - Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
October 23 - Odalys Garcia, Cuban-born actress
October 27 - Max Lilja, a Finnish cellist, a former member from the band Apocalyptica
October 30 - Ian D'Sa, guitarist for the Canadian rock band Billy Talent

November

 November 4  - Tremayne Tatem

November 4 - Eric Fichaud, Canadian ice hockey player
November 5 - Jamie Madrox,American Rapper (Psychopathic Records-Twiztid)

November 10 - Markko Märtin, Estonian race car driver

November 12 - Aaron Solowoniuk, drummist for the Canadian rock band Billy Talent
November 14 - Travis Barker, American musician (Drummer) Blink 182, The Aquabats!, Transplants, Box car racer and +44
November 17 - Diane Neal, American actress
November 18 - David Ortiz, Dominican Major League Baseball player
November 18 - Anthony McPartlin, British TV presenter and one half of Ant and Dec.
November 19 - Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
November 20 - Tímea Vágvölgyi, Hungarian erotic star
November 20 - Davey Havok, American lead singer of AFI
November 21 - Chris Moneymaker, American poker player
November 24 - Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
November 24 - Lee Wan Wah, Malaysian badminton player
November 28 - Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
November 30 - Ben Thatcher, Welsh international footballer

December

December 2 - Malinda Williams, African American actress
December 5 - Ronnie O'Sullivan, British snooker player
December 8 - Kevin Harvick, American race car driver
December 11 - Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
December 13 - Tom Delonge American musician (vocals and guitar) Blink 182, Box car racer and Angels & Airwaves
December 16 - Benjamin Kowalewicz, lead singer of Canadian rock band Billy Talent
December 16 - Frode Fjerdingstad, Norwegian photographer
December 17 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian actress and model
December 18 - Eugene, American professional wrestler
December 18 - Masaki Sumitani, Japanese television performer
December 18 - Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler and fitness model
December 20 - Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
December 21 - Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer (American Ballet Theatre)
December 22 - Crissy Moran, American erotic actress
December 23 - Sky Lopez, American actress
December 23 - Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
December 26 - Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
December 27 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (d. 1988)
December 30 - Tiger Woods, American golfer

For musicians born in 1975, see 1975 in music.

Deaths

January

January 8 - David Marshall "Carbine" Williams American inventor (b. 1900)
January 8 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
January 19 - Thomas Hart Benton, American artist (b. 1889)
January 24 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
January 27 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (b. 1913)

February

February 4 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
February 8 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
February 10 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (stroke) (b. 1910)
February 11 - Richard Ratsimandrava, Madagascar President (assassinated) (b. 1931)
February 13 - André Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
February 14 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
February 14 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
February 16 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
February 19 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
February 24 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
February 25 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)
February 26 - Stephen Tibble, London police officer (shot) (b. 1953)

March-April

March 7 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar (b. 1895)
March 7 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1901)
March 8 - George Stevens, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1904)
March 9 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian American sculptor (b. 1888)
March 9 - Joseph Dunninger, American mentalist (b. 1892)
March 13 - Ivo Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
March 14 - Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
March 15 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1906)
March 16 - T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
March 16 - Richard W. DeKorte NJ State Energy Administrator and former member of the New Jersey General Assembly (b. 1936)
March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
April 5 - Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
April 10 - Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)
April 13 - N'Garta Tombalbaye, President of Chad (b. 1918)
April 17 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and president (b. 1888)
April 23 - William Hartnell, British actor (b. 1908)
April 24 - Peter Ham, Welsh musician (b. 1947)
April 30 - Gen Paul, French artist (b. 1895)

May-July

May 5 - Moe Howard, American actor (b. 1897)
May 8 - Avery Brundage, American President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)
May 13 - Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
May 18 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
May 23 - Moms Mabley, American comedian (b. 1894)
May 25 - Count Dante, American martial artist
May 30 - Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (b. 1951)
June 3 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
June 5 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess grandmaster (b. 1916)
June 26 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (b. 1902)
June 28 - Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (b. 1924)
July 17 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
July 19 - Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928)
July 29 - James Blish, American writer (b. 1921)

August-September

August 8 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
August 10 - Robert Barton, Irish politician and last surviving signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (b. 1881)
August 15 - Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
August 16 - Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner (b. 1927)
August 19 - Mark Donohue, American race car driver (b. 1937)
August 28 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
August 29 - Eamon de Valera, third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
September 10 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
September 16 - Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
September 20 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
September 24 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
September 27 - Mark Frechette, American actor (b. 1947)
September 27 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
September 27 - Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian Emperor (b. 1892)

October - December

October 10 - Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b. 1912)
October 21 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1889)
October 27 - Rex Stout, American author (b. 1886)
October 30 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
November 5 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
November 20 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (b. 1892)
November 27 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
November 29 - Tony Brise, English racing driver (b. 1952)
November 29 - Graham Hill, English race car driver (b. 1929)

December 1 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)
December 1 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (b. 1927)
December 4 - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
December 24 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (b. 1911)

Unknown date

Will Mastin, American vaudevillian

Nobel prizes

Simpleton Prize

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

People of the year 1975 at Familypedia

30 people were born in 1975

	Father	Mother	Age mother at birth
Lisois de Craon (860-917)	Lisois de Craon (827-907) Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
Berthe de Ponthieu (827-?)	Helgaud II de Ponthieu (c805-863) Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	Berthe de Ponthieu (c805-859) June M MacFarland (1955)
Dirk van Brederode ca 1270-1306	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
Johann Georg Trump (1830-1886)/Descendants	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)	3535
Dirck Jansz van Hodenpijl (c1342-1426)/ancestors	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
Arnoud Engelenberg (c1759-?)	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
Agathe Adama van Scheltema (1917)	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
Hubert II van Beusichem ca 1220-/1271	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
William Daniel Harrington (1872-1960)/Descendants	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)	3232
Alijd Jansdr van Hodenpijl (c1343-bef1434)/Ancestors	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
Agniese van Bentheim (?-aft1203)/ancestors	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
Jacobus Frederik Theodorus Bergman (1879-1918)/ancestors	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
John Thomas Harrison (1880-1959)/pedigree	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)	1919
Hendrick I van der Lecke (c1210-1271)	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)
Jan Willem te Kolstee (1830-1895)/Descendants	Wilfred F Schulte (1955)	June M MacFarland (1955)	4242
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1 children were born to the 1 women born in 1975

22 people died in 1975

	Father	Mother	Age at death
Adele Ruve Bowden (1913-1975)	Reginald Alwyn Bowden (1888-1916)	Sylvia Leighton Scard (1887-1956)	6262
Mary Elizabeth Bowden (1889-c1975)	George Bowden (1859-1943)	Emma Jane May (1861-1947)	8686
Ernest James Bray (1896-1975)	Edward Charles Bray (1857-1942)	Lucy Muriel Howard (1872-1963)	7979
Alexander Caldwell (c1896-c1975)	Alexander Caldwell (bef1878-aft1896)	Nellie Lehane (bef1878-aft1896)	7979
Elizabeth Mary Connolly (1889-1975)	Patrick John Connolly (1853-1942)	Bridget Heywood (1864-1894)	8686
Hazel Annie Cork (1887-1975)	Frederick Arthur Henry Cork (1858-1939)	Isabella Edith Single (1865-1911)	8888
Roy Edward Curtis (1917-1975)	Alfred George Curtis (1887-1974)	Gladys Adelaide Shoesmith (1896-1968)	5858
Eldon Lindsey Cyrus (1895-1975)	Joseph Morgan Cyrus (1871-1939)	Sarah Elvessa Hayes (1872-1934)	8080
Gladys Jean Edmonds (1911-1975)	Thomas Davenport Edmonds (1870-1943)	Mary Margaret Wilkinson (1888-1952)	6464
William Neville Gray (1903-1975)	William Gray (1874-1942)	Eliza Nixon (1873-1968)	7272
James R Hammond (1883-1975)	Reuben Hammond (c1836-1907)	Charlotte Delves (1842-1907)	9292
Clarice Elaine Kable (1887-1975)	George Mills Kable (1857-1929)	Annie Matilda Bayliss (1864-1937)	8888
Douglas Alexander Kidd (1900-1975)	George Dowling Kidd (1866-1933)	Catherine McNeil (c1870-1947)	7575
Anne Isabel Levingston (1895-1975)	William Henry Levingston (1874-1942)	Ellen Elizabeth Ryan (1878-1941)	8080
Daphne Victoria Monday (1886-1975)	Reginald Charles Monday (1861-1920)	Adelaide Mary Louise Bayly (1863-1930)	8989
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394 people lived in 1975

	Father	Mother
Carl David Anderson (1905-1991)	Carl David Anderson (1878)	Emma Adolfina Ajaxson (1878)
Adella May Anthoney (1907-1990)	Charles Anthoney (c1867-1955)	Esther Louisa Long (1871-1946)
Ruby Apps (1906-1991)	William Apps (1861-1941)	Olive Mary Hannah Crouch (1877-1926)
Grace Enid Baglin (1933-2006)	Edward William Burgess Baglin (1906-1969)	Florence Eveline Jenner (1901-1994)
Caroline Louisa Baker (1886-1980)	Thomas Baker (1886-?)	Louisa Back (1867-?)
Marion Zena Baker (1908-1996)	William Josiah Baker (1875-1957)	Lydia Jessie Tracey (1877-1964)
Ruth Baker (1885-1978)	Robert Baker (1849-1919)	Elizabeth Wellard (1849-1926)
James Edward Purcell Baldwin (1905-1990)	John Henry Baldwin (1877-1948)	Agnes Agatha Purcell (1875-1948)
Arthur Allan Bang (1922-2004)	Hans Bang (1897-1972)	Clara Anna Bertha Andersen (1897-1968)
Henry Jefferson Percival Bate (1906-1984)	Henry John Bate (1881-1967)	Lily Percival (?-?)
Geertje Beentjes (1907-1991)	Johannes Beentjes (?-?)	Maria Catharine de Boer (?-?)
Donald E. Beers (1923-1998)	Pearl A. Beers (1888-1962)	Mary B. Nichols (1895-1960)
Eleanor C. Beers (1916-2004)	Pearl A. Beers (1888-1962)	Mary B. Nichols (1895-1960)
Mabel Elizabeth Bennett (1900-1979)	William Bennett (1863-1923)	Clara Bloomer (1870-1925)
Ingrid of Sweden (1910-2000)	Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (1882-1973)	Margaret of Connaught (1882-1920)
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There were 0 military battles in 1975.

Notes

^ 1975: London Hilton bombed
^ The Watchtower, 15 August 1968, p.494-501; Awake!, 22 May 1969, p.15; The Watchtower, 15 March 1980, p.17, para.5-6

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1972 1973 1974 - 1975 - 1976 1977 1978

1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Films released
5 Hit songs

Events

January 28 – George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars. At this time, the title of the story was Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode One of The Star Wars.
March – Production begins on Star Wars
March 26 – The film version of The Who's Tommy premiers in London
July – In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
July 5 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win Wimbledon singles tennis title.
September 5 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to shoot President Gerald Ford, but is stopped.
September 22 - US President Gerald Ford survives another assassination attempt, this time by Sara Jane Moore.
October 11 - Saturday Night Live airs for the first time.
November 10 - The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks.
November 11 – Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam sacked by Governor-General Sir John Kerr.
November 20 - Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco dies at the age of 82.
Jaws becomes the first movie to ever gross US$100 million in North America, setting the standard for future blockbusters.
The Vietnam War ends.

Births

January 8 – Tift Merritt, American singer and songwriter
January 17 – CoCo Lee, Chinese singer
February 4 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer and actress
February 22 - Drew Barrymore, American actress
March 15 – Eva Longoria, American actress
March 27 – Fergie, American singer (Black Eyed Peas)
April 6 – Zach Braff, American actor, director, and screenwriter
April 14 – Anderson Silva, Brazilian martial artist
April 26 – Joey Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
May 2 – David Beckham, English football player
May 2 – Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, American astronaut
May 8 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer
May 27 – Jamie Oliver, English celebrity chef
June 4 – Russell Brand, English comedian and actor
June 4 – Angelina Jolie, American actress
June 8 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress and model
June 30 - Ralf Schumacher, German racing driver
June 30 - Rami Shaaban, Swedish footballer
July 6 – 50 Cent, American rapper
July 9 – Shelton Benjamin, American wrestler
July 9 – Jack White, American actor and musician
July 11 – Lil' Kim, American rapper
July 17 – Terence Tao, Australian mathematician
August 7 – Charlize Theron, South African actress
August 22 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
September 17 – Constantine Maroulis, American singer
September 20 – Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian NASCAR driver
September 22 – Ole Petter Andreassen, Norwegian musician
October 5 – Kate Winslet, English actress
October 9 – Sean Lennon, American musician
October 10 – Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese manga artist
October 14 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
November 22 – Aiko, Japanese singer
November 25 – Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer
December 5 – Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player
December 17 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American model and actress
December 27 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (d. 1988)
December 30 - Scott Chipperfield, Australian footballer
December 30 – Tiger Woods, American golfer

Deaths

April 23 – Peter Ham, Welsh singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
April 23 – William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908)
May 28 – Ezzard Charles, American boxer (b. 1921)
August 9 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
August 27 - Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
October 29 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician (b. 1882)
November 20 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (b. 1892)
November 21 - Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer (b. 1889)

Films released

Hit songs

"At 17"-Janis Ian
"Bad Time" – Grand Funk Railroad
"Ballroom Blitz" – Sweet
"Blitzkrieg Bop"- The Ramones
"Born To Run" – Bruce Springsteen
"Calypso" – John Denver
"Cut The Cake" – Average White Band
"Feelings" – Morris Albert
"Free Bird" – Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Get Down Tonight" – K.C. and the Sunshine Band
"Hey You" – Bachman Turner Overdrive
"Holy Roller" – Nazareth
"How Sweet It Is" – James Taylor
"I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" – ABBA
"The Late Show" – Jackson Browne
"Lyin' Eyes" – The Eagles
"No No Song" – Ringo Starr
"Rock and Roll All Night" – Kiss
"Roll On Down The Highway" – Bachman Turner Overdrive
"Saturday Night Special" – Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Shame, Shame, Shame" – Shirley and Company
"SOS" – ABBA
"Sweet Emotion" – Aerosmith
"Trampled Underfoot" – Led Zeppelin
"When Will I Be Loved" – Linda Ronstadt
"Who Loves You" – The Four Seasons
"Why Can't We Be Friends" – War
"You Are So Beautiful" – Joe Cockerkrc:1975 джылrue:1975

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