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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
* Altair 8800 is released, sparking the microcomputer revolution.
* 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.
* Work is abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel.
* Malawi changes its capital city from Zomba to Lilongwe.
January 2
* The United States Patent and Trademark Office is renamed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
* The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
* Bangladesh freedom fighter Shiraj Shikder was killed by country's ruthless president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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.
* 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 female U.S. governor who did not succeed her husband.
* 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.
* Portugal grants independence to Angola.
January 18 – Atomic Energy Commission divided between ERDA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
January 19
* Earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
* The United States Energy Research and Development Administration is founded, in response to the 1973 oil crisis.
January 20
* In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam.
* Michael Ovitz founds the Creative Artists Agency.
January 24 –
Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett plays the solo
improvisation '
The Köln Concert' at the
Cologne Opera, which, recorded live, becomes the best-selling piano recording in history.
January 27
* Immaculata University defeats the University of Maryland 85-63 in the first nationally televised women's basketball game in the United States.
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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
* A Canadian parliamentary committee is televised for the first time.
March 6
* Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement in their border dispute.
* 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.
* 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 ())
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.
* 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.
* Eight people in South Korea, who are involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Ruffian, an American champion thoroughbred racehorse breaks down in a match race against Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure. She had to be euthanized the following day.
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 3 – The Louisiana Superdome opens in New Orleans.
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.
* Samuel Bronfman II, son of the president of Seagram's, is kidnapped in Purchase, New York.
August 11
* British Leyland Motor Corporation comes under British government control.
* 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 – Founder President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh is killed during a coup led by Major Syed Faruque Rahman.
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–October – In New Zealand, Māori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5,000 people in support of Maori claims to their land.
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.
The London Hilton hotel is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 2 people are killed and 63 injured.
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.
* 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.
* 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 Cincinnati Reds are defeated by the Boston Red Sox 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, that of 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."
* The first petroleum pipeline opens from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth, Scotland.
* The long-running television game show The Price is Right expands from 30 minutes to its current hour-long format on CBS.
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.
The -long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board (an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot).
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 16 – Beginning of the Third Cod War between UK and Iceland, which lasts until June 1976.
November 20
* Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.
* 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.
* 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).
* While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at two 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 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 25 – Iron Maiden is formed by Steve Harris.
December 29 – A bomb explosion at LaGuardia Airport kills 11.
Date unknown
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.
Lyme disease first recognised at Lyme, Connecticut.
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, 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.
Peter Gabriel departs Genesis, and is replaced on lead vocals by drummer Phil Collins.
In addition, but unrelated, the first Monster Truck Bigfoot was created by Bob Chandler
World population
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1980
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4,068,109,000
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408,160,000
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2,397,512,000
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675,542,000
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321,906,000
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243,425,000
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21,564,000
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Births
January
January 1 – Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist
January 3 – Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
January 5
* Bradley Cooper, American actor
* Mike Grier, American hockey player
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 17
* Tony Brown, New Zealand rugby union footballer
* Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican actor
January 20
* David Eckstein, American baseball player
* 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
* Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
* John Wade, American football player
January 28 – David Zingler, American writer
January 29
* Sara Gilbert, American actress
* Sharif Atkins, American television actor
January 30 – Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
January 31 – Jackie O, Australian radio DJ and TV presenter
February
February 1 – Big Boi, American rapper
February 2
* Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian hockey player
* Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
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
* Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
* Todd Harvey, Canadian National Hockey League player
* Vaclav Prospal, Czech National Hockey League player
February 18
* Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer
* Gary Neville, English footballer
* Sarah Brown, American actress
February 20 – Brian Littrell, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys)
February 21 – Heri Joensen, Faroese rock musician (Týr)
February 22 – Drew Barrymore, American actress
March
March 1 – Maya Kulenovic, Canadian painter
March 4
* Kim Jung-Eun, South Korean actress
* Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
March 5
* Jolene Blalock, American actress
* Niki Taylor, American model
March 9
* Lisa Miskovsky, Swedish musician
* Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer
March 11
* Eric the Midget, American TV personality
* Buvaisar Saitiev, Chechen wrestler, Olympic gold-medalist
March 14 – Rico Yan, Philippine movie/TV actor (d. 2002)
March 15
* Eva Longoria, American actress
* Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
March 17 – Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2009)
March 18 – Brian Griese, American football player
March 19
* Matthew Richardson, Australian rules footballer
* Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
* Le Jingyi, Chinese swimmer
March 25 – Ladislav Benysek, Czech ice hockey player
March 27 – Stacy Ferguson (Fergie), American pop/R&B; singer/rapper of the Black Eyed Peas 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
* Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese professional baseball player
April 4
* Scott Rolen, American baseball player
* Delphine Arnault, French billionaire businesswoman
April 6 – Zach Braff, American actor
April 7
* Ronde Barber, American football player
* Tiki Barber, American football player
April 9 – Robbie Fowler, British footballer
April 10 – Matthew Phillips, Italian rugby union footballer
April 13 – Bruce Dyer, English footballer
April 14
* Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
* Stefano Miceli, Italian conductor and pianist
* Anderson Silva, Brazilian UFC Middleweight Champion
April 15 – Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
April 17 – Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
April 22
* Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)
* Carlos Sastre, Spanish road bicycle racer
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
May 1 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
May 2
* David Beckham, English footballer
* Ahmed Hassan, Egyptian footballer
May 3
* Christina Hendricks, American actress
* 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
* Enrique Iglesias, American singer
May 10 – Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
May 12 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
May 13 – Itatí Cantoral, Mexican actress
May 15
* Peter Iwers, Swedish rock bassist (In Flames)
* Ray Lewis, American football player
May 16 – Tony Kakko, Finnish singer
May 17 – Sasha Alexander, American actress
May 18
* John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
* Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter
May 19
* London Fletcher, American football player
* Zhang Ning, Chinese badminton player
May 20 – Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
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 31 – Toni Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper
June
June 4
* Angelina Jolie, American actress
* 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 – 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
* Michael Sutton, American actor
June 19 – Ed Coode, British rower
June 23 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter
June 24 – Christie Rampone, American footballer
June 25 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
June 27 – Tobey Maguire, American actor
June 28
* Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer (d. 2006)
* Ning Baizura, Malaysian singer
June 30
* Ralf Schumacher, German racing car driver
* Angela Tong, Hong Kong actress
July
July 5
* Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
* Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player
July 6 – Curtis Jackson, American rapper (50 Cent)
July 9
* Jack White, American rock and blues musician
* Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
July 10 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
July 14 – Flore Zoé, Dutch photographer
July 15 – Jill Halfpenny, British actress
July 17 – Konnie Huq, English television presenter
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 – Torrie Wilson, American professional wrestler and model
July 25
* Evgeni Nabokov, Russian hockey goaltender
* Håvard Ellefsen, Norwegian rock (metal) musician (Mortiis)
July 27
* Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
* 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
* Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
August 7
* Charlize Theron, South African actress
* Gaahl (Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian metal 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 5 – Kate Allan, British author
September 6 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka
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
* Austin St. John, American actor
* Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
* Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
September 18 – Richard Appleby, English footballer
September 22 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian hockey player
September 23 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
September 25
* Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
* Declan Donnelly, British TV presenter, actor and singer (Ant and Dec)
September 27 – Sam Lee, Hong Kong actor
September 28 – Karan Ashley, American actor
September 30
* Marion Cotillard, French actress
* 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
* Kate Winslet, British actress
October 7 – Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
* Kaspars Znotiņš, Latvian actor
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 22 – Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
October 23 – Odalys Garcia, Cuban-born actress
October 25 – Zadie Smith, English writer
October 30 – Ian D'Sa, Canadian guitarist
November
November 3 – Marta Dominguez, Spanish athlete
November 4 – Éric Fichaud, Canadian hockey player
November 8
* Tara Reid, American actress
* Ángel Corella, Spanish dancer
November 10 – Markko Märtin, Estonian race car driver
November 15 – Hiromi Ominami, Japanese long-distance runner
November 16 – Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player
November 17 – Diane Neal, American actress
November 18
* David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player
* Anthony McPartlin, British TV presenter, actor and singer (Ant and Dec)
November 19 – Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
November 21
* Chris Moneymaker, American poker player
* Aaron Solowoniuk, Canadian drummer
November 24
* Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
* 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 11 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
December 12 – Mayim Bialik, American actress and neuroscientist
December 16
* Frode Fjerdingstad, Norwegian photographer
* Ben Kowalewicz, vocalist
December 17
* Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian actress and model
* Tim Clark, South African golfer
* Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan athlete
December 18
* Eugene, American professional wrestler
* Masaki Sumitani, Japanese television performer
* Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler and fitness model
December 19 – Michiel van den Bos, Dutch composer
December 20 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
December 21 – Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
December 23
* Tom DeLonge, American punk musician
* Sky Lopez, American actress
* 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 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
* Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (b. 1902)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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 – 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)
* 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)
* Harold Osborn, American Olympic athlete (b. 1899)
April 10
* Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)
* 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)
* 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 – 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 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
May 22
* Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
* 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)
* Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist and founder of Isshin-ryu karate (b. 1908)
* Michel Simon, Swiss actor (b. 1895)
June 3
* Ozzie Nelson, American actor (b. 1906)
* 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)
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 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
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 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)
* Frank Shields, American tennis player (b. 1909)
August 23
* Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
* 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)
* Ethel Griffies, English actress (b. 1878)
* 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 – 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)
* 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)
* Lillian Walker, American actress (b. 1887)
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 – 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 4 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (b. 1893)
November 5
* Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
* Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
* 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)
* Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
December 7
* Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903)
* 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)
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
References
1975 Coin Pictures
BBC News archive 'On This Day' - 1975
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