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Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It was also declared the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events - January
- January 1
- January 2
- January 5 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
- January 6
- January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
- January 8
- 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
- January 18 – Atomic Energy Commission divided between ERDA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
- January 19
- January 20
- January 24 – Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett plays the solo improvisation 'The K ln Concert' at the Cologne Opera, which, recorded live, becomes the best-selling piano recording in history.[1]
- January 26 – Immaculata University defeats the University of Maryland 80-48 in the first nationally televised women's basketball game in the United States.[2]
- 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
- February 13
- 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
March April - April 3 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
- April 4
- April 5
- The Soviet manned space mission Soyuz 18a ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging, resulting with the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle.
- April 9
- April 13
- April 17 – Following several weeks of successful fighting the Khmer Republic surrenders there fore the Cambodian Civil War ends, in which the Communist party of the Khmer Rouge guerilla forces capture Phnom Penh, prompting a forcible mass evacuation of the city and starting off the infamous genocide.
- 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 from North Vietnam take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
May June July August September - September–October – In New Zealand, M ori leader Whina Cooper leads a march 5,000 people in support of Maori claims to their land.
- September 5
- September 6 – A Richter Scale 6.7 magnitude earthquake kills at least 2,085 in Diyarbakir and Lice, Turkey.
- September 9 – Riverfront Coliseum opens in Cincinnati.
- September 14
- 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
- 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 November December Date unknown World population | World population | | !1975 | 1970 | 1980 | | World | 4,068,109,000 | 3,692,492,000 | 10px 375,617,000 | 4,434,682,000 | 10px 366,573,000 | | Africa | 408,160,000 | 357,283,000 | 10px 50,877,000 | 469,618,001 | 10px 61,458,000 | | Asia | 2,397,512,000 | 2,143,118,000 | 10px 254,394,000 | 2,632,335,000 | 10px 234,823,000 | | Europe | 675,542,000 | 655,855,000 | 10px 19,687,000 | 692,431,000 | 10px 16,889,000 | | Latin-America | 321,906,000 | 284,856,000 | 10px 37,050,000 | 361,401,000 | 10px 39,495,000 | | Northern America | 243,425,000 | 231,937,000 | 10px 11,488,000 | 256,068,000 | 10px 12,643,000 | | Oceania | 21,564,000 | 19,443,000 | 10px 2,121,000 | 22,828,000 | 10px 1,264,000 | Births January Bradley Cooper Sara Gilbert - January 1
- January 3 – Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
- January 5
- January 6 – Ricardo Santos, Brazilian beach volleyball player
- January 8 – Chris Simmons, British actor
- January 10 – Jake Delhomme, American football player
- January 11 – Rory Fitzpatrick, American hockey player
- January 13 – Shazia Mirza, British comedian
- January 15 – Mary Pierce, French tennis player
- January 16 – Anthony Taberna, Filipino broadcast journalist and radio commentator
- January 17
- January 20
- January 22 – Balthazar Getty, American actor
- January 23 – Tito Ortiz, American mixed martial arts fighter
- January 24 – Paul Marazzi, English singer (A1)
- January 25
- January 28
- January 29
- January 30 – Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
- January 31
February Drew Barrymore - February 1 – Big Boi, American rapper
- February 2
- February 4 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian actress and singer
- February 6 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
- February 9 – Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
- February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball pitcher
- February 11 – Jacque Vaughn, American basketball player
- February 14 – Malik Zidi, French actor
- February 17
- February 18
- February 20 – Brian Littrell, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys)
- February 21 – Mark Ross, American Rock Singer and Entrepreneur
- February 22 – Drew Barrymore, American actress
- February 23 – Wilfred Kibet Kigen, Kenyan long-distance runner
March Eva Longoria Stacy Ferguson April Zach Braff - April 2 – Adam Rodriguez, American actor
- April 3
- April 4
- April 6 – Zach Braff, American actor
- April 7
- April 9 – Robbie Fowler, British footballer
- April 10 – Matthew Phillips, Italian rugby union footballer
- April 13 – Bruce Dyer, English footballer
- April 14
- April 15 – Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
- April 17 – Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
- April 22
- April 23 – Olga Kern, Russian pianist
- April 25 – Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer
- April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japanese ski jumper
- April 30 – Mike Chat, American actor
May David Beckham Jamie Oliver - May 1 – Marc-Vivien Fo , Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
- May 2
- May 3
- May 4 – Laci Peterson, American murder victim (d. 2002)
- May 7 – Jason Tunks, Canadian Olympic discus thrower
- May 8
- May 10 – H lio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
- May 12 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
- May 13 – Itat Cantoral, Mexican actress
- May 15
- May 16 – Tony Kakko, Finnish singer
- May 18
- May 19
- May 20
- May 22 – Janne Niinimaa, Finnish hockey player
- May 23 – Molly Wood, executive editor at CNET.com
- May 25 – Lauryn Hill, American singer
- May 27
- Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
- Andre 3000, American rapper, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor
- May 28 – Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
- May 29
- May 31 – Toni Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper
June Russell Brand Angelina Jolie Tobey Maguire - June 4
- June 7 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
- June 8 – Shilpa Shetty, Bollywood actress
- June 9 – Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
- June 10 – Darren Eadie, English footballer
- June 11 – Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
- June 12 – R zvan upa, Romanian poet
- June 14 – Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
- June 15 – Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
- June 17 – Chloe Jones, American pornstar (d. 2005)
- June 18 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
- June 19
- June 23 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter
- June 24 – Christie Rampone, American footballer
- June 25
- June 27 – Tobey Maguire, American actor
- June 28
- June 30
July Evgeni Nabokov - July 5
- July 6 – Curtis Jackson, American rapper (50 Cent)
- July 9
- July 10 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
- July 14 – Flore Zo , Dutch photographer
- July 15 – Jill Halfpenny, British actress
- July 17
- July 18 – Torii Hunter, American baseball player
- 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
- July 25
- July 27
- July 29 – Terrence Wilkins, American football player
- July 30 – Graham Nicholls, British artist
- July 31 – Simon Hirst, British DJ
August Charlize Theron September Michael Bubl Moon Bloodgood Marion Cotillard - September 1 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer
- September 3
- September 5 – Kate Allan, British author
- September 6 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka
- September 7 – Renato "Babalu" Sobral, Brazilian martial artist
- September 9 – Michael Bubl , Canadian musician
- September 10 – R. Luke DuBois, American composer and artist
- September 11 – Brad Fischetti, American musician
- September 13 – Peter Ho, American-Taiwanese singer and actor
- September 16 – Shannon Noll, Australian singer
- September 17
- September 18 – Richard Appleby, English footballer
- September 20
- September 22
- September 23 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
- September 25
- September 27 – Sam Lee, Hong Kong actor
- September 28 – Karan Ashley, American actor
- September 30
October Kate Winslet - October 2 – Michel Trudeau, son of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau (d. 1998)
- October 5
- October 7
- October 9 – Joe McFadden, Scottish actor
- October 14
- October 15 – Ginuwine, American singer
- October 16 – Jacques Kallis, South African Cricket All-Rounder
- 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 Hil rio, Portuguese footballer
- October 22
- October 23 – Odalys Garcia, Cuban-born actress
- October 25 – Zadie Smith, English writer
- October 30 – Ian D'Sa, Canadian guitarist
November Anthony McPartlin December Milla Jovovich Tiger Woods - December 2 – Malinda Williams, American actress
- December 3 – Csaba Cz bely, Hungarian heavy metal drummer (Pokolg p)
- December 5
- December 6 – Ashin, Taiwanese rock lead singer (Mayday)
- December 8 – Kevin Harvick, American race car driver
- December 10 – Joe Mays, American baseball pitcher
- December 11 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
- December 12 – Mayim Bialik, American actress and neuroscientist
- December 13 – Tom DeLonge, American guitarist and vocalist
- December 16
- December 17
- December 18
- December 19 – Michiel van den Bos, Dutch composer
- December 20 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
- December 21 – Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
- December 23
- December 26 – Marcelo R os, Chilean tennis player
- December 27 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (d. 1988)
- December 30
Deaths January–February - January 4 – Carlo Levi, Italian writer (b. 1902)
- January 8 – David Marshall Williams ("Carbine" Williams), American inventor (b. 1900)
- January 18 – Chester Kallman, American poet (b. 1921)
- January 19 – Thomas Hart Benton, American artist (b. 1889)
- January 24
- 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 – Andr Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
- February 14
- 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
- March 8 – George Stevens, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1904)
- March 9
- 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 – Richard W. DeKorte, American New Jersey Energy Administrator and former member of the New Jersey General Assembly (b. 1936)
- March 19
- March 22 – Cass Daley, American actress (b. 1915)
- March 25
- April 3 – Mary Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
- April 5
- April 10
- April 12 – Josephine Baker, African-American dancer (b. 1906)
- April 13
- 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 – Pete Ham, Welsh musician (b. 1947)
- April 30 – Gen Paul, French artist (b. 1895)
May–June - May 4 – 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 Hollingshead, American inventor of the drive-in theatre (b. 1900)
- May 18
- May 22
- May 23 – Moms Mabley, African-American comedian (b. 1894)
- May 25 – Count Dante, American martial artist (b. 1939)
- May 30
- June 3
- 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 – Josemar a Escriv , Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (b. 1902)
- June 28 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (The Twilight Zone) (b. 1924)
- June 29 – Tim Buckley, American singer/songwriter (b. 1947)
July–August - July 2 – James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907)
- July 7 – Henri Deglane, French wrestler (b. 1902)
- July 15 – Charles Weidman, American choreographer and dancer (b. 1901)
- July 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
- July 18 – Vaughn Bode, American artist and psychedelic cartoonist (b. 1941)
- July 19
- July 21 – Billy West, American actor (b. 1892)
- July 29 – James Blish, American science fiction writer (b. 1921)
- 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 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founder of Bangladesh, former President & Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
- August 16 – Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner (b. 1927)
- August 17 – Sig Arno, German actor (b. 1895)
- August 19
- August 23
- 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 – amon 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
- 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 – 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
- September 29 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
- October 4 – May Sutton, American tennis champion (b. 1886)
- October 10
- October 16 – Benjamin McCandlish, Governor of Guam (b. 1886)
- October 18 – Graham Haberfield, British actor (b. 1941)
- 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
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 4 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (b. 1893)
- November 5
- November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, English writer (b. 1896)
- November 20
- November 27 – Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
- November 29
- December 1
- December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
- December 7
- 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)
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