Year '1975' ('
MCMLXXV') was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
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, D.C..
★ 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
English 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 29 - An unusual occurrence- a lunar and solar eclipse, the stock markets crashed, earthquakes, volcanos and tornados devastated the world. The world would never be the same again........
★
August 30- Noted Catholic religious educator, author and professor Philip A. Franco is born in Brooklyn, New York.
September
★
september 1 Mount Neighbour Primary School is opened.
★
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 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 15 - The
French department of
Corse, comprising the entire island of
Corsica, is divided into two departments:
Haute-Corse and
Corse-du-Sud.
★
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.
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 (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 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 (Australia) 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
The following are references to year 1975 in fiction: (unknown).
World population
| World population |
|---|
| 1975 | 1970 | 1980 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | '4,068,109,000' | 3,692,492,000 | | 4,434,682,000 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | '408,160,000' | 357,283,000 | | 469,618,001 | |
|---|
| Asia | '2,397,512,000' | 2,143,118,000 | | 2,632,335,000 | |
|---|
| Europe | '675,542,000' | 655,855,000 | | 692,431,000 | |
|---|
| Latin-America | '321,906,000' | 284,856,000 | | 361,401,000 | |
|---|
| Northern America | '243,425,000' | 231,937,000 | | 256,068,000 | |
|---|
| Oceania | '21,564,000' | 19,443,000 | | 22,828,000 | |
|---|
Births
January-February
★
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 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-April
★
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 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 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 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-June
★
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 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-August
★
July 1 -
Sufjan Stevens, American folk musician
★
July 5 -
Hernan 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 5 -
Kajol Devgan, Indian actress
★
August 7 -
Charlize Theron, South African actress
★
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-October
★
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 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 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 21 -
Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
★
October 23 -
Odalys Garcia, Cuban-born actress
★
October 30 -
Ian D'Sa, guitarist for the Canadian rock band
Billy Talent
November
★
November 4 -
Eric Fichaud, Canadian ice hockey player
★
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 - March
★
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 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 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 - June
★
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 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 - September
★
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 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
★
Physics -
Aage Niels 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
Simpleton Prize
★
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
See also
★
20th century
Notes
1. 1975: London Hilton bombed
2. ''The Watchtower'', 15 August 1968, p.494-501; ''Awake!'', 22 May 1969, p.15; ''The Watchtower'', 15 March 1980, p.17, para.5-6
External links
★
1975 Coin Pictures
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