1975
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday.
Events
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 Lake Illawarra strikes the Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, killing 12.
- 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 14 - Heiress Lesley Whittle, 17, is kidnapped from her home in Shropshire, England by Donald Neilson.
- January 20 - In Hanoi, the Politburo approves the final North Vietnamese 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 was launched, became the first TV station 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 terrorist 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 4 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
- 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 Picture Show opens 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 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 - An attack by Palestinians on a church in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, sparks over 15 years of 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 Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
May
June
July
August
- August 1 - The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.
- 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.
September
- September 5 - In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
- September 5 - The London Hilton hotel is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 2 people are killed and 63 injured.[1]
- September 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 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
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 - Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies.
- 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 PIRA 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
Unknown dates
- 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, Māori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5000 people in support of Māori 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.
World population
| World population |
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| 1975 | 1970 | 1980 |
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 World | 4,068,109,000 | 3,692,492,000 |  375,617,000 | 4,434,682,000 | 366,573,000 |
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 Africa | 408,160,000 | 357,283,000 | 50,877,000 | 469,618,000 | 61,458,000 |
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 Asia | 2,397,512,000 | 2,143,118,000 | 254,394,000 | 2,632,335,000 | 234,823,000 |
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 Europe | 675,542,000 | 655,855,000 | 19,687,000 | 692,431,000 | 16,889,000 |
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 Latin-America | 321,906,000 | 284,856,000 | 37,050,000 | 361,401,000 | 39,495,000 |
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 Northern America | 243,425,000 | 231,937,000 | 11,488,000 | 256,068,000 | 12,643,000 |
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 Oceania | 21,564,000 | 19,443,000 | 2,121,000 | 22,828,000 | 1,264,000 |
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Births
January-February
- January 2 - Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
- January 3 - Danica McKellar, American actress
- January 5 - Bradley Cooper, American actor
- January 9 - Kim Mathers, former wife of rapper Eminem
- January 11 - Bunny Poe, American musician
- January 13 - Shazia Mirza, British comedienne
- 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
- January 28 - David Zingler, American writer
- January 29 - Sara Gilbert, American actress
- January 30 - Yumi Yoshimura, famous Japanese Singer [Puffy Amiyumi]
- 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 8 - Joe Eshwar, Indian writer & filmaker
- February 14 - Scott Owen, Australian musician (The Living End)
- February 18 - Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer
- February 18 - Gary Neville, English footballer
- February 19 - Daniel Adair, Canadian drummer (Nickelback)
- February 20 - Brian Littrell, American singer, member of Backstreet Boys
- February 22 - Drew Barrymore, American actress
- February 23 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor
March-April
- 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 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, American Professional Wrestler
- March 19 - Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
- March 27 - Stacy Ann Ferguson, American actress/singer
- 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 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)
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 7 - Jason Tunks, Canadian Olympic discus thrower
- May 10 - Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
- May 12 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
- May 15 - Ray Lewis, American football player
- May 17 - Sasha Alexander, American actress
- May 18 - John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
- May 19 - London Fletcher, American football player
- May 27 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
- May 25 - Lauryn Hill, American musician
- May 27 - André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
- 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 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 6 - Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, American rapper
- July 9 - Jack White, American rock and blues musician. Shelton Benjamin, American Professional Wrestler
- 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 24 - Torrie Wilson, American professional wrestler and model
- 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
September-October
- 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, F1 Racing Driver
- September 18 - Richard Appleby, English football 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
- October 2 - Michel Trudeau, son of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau (d. 1998)
- October 5 - Kate Winslet, British actress
- October 7 - Rhino, American Professional Wrestler
- October 14 - Floyd Landis, American cyclist
- October 23 - Odalys Garcia, Cuban-born actress
November-December
- November 10 - Markko Märtin, Estonian race car driver
- 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 - Lee Wan Wah, Malaysian badminton player
- December 2- Malinda Williams, African American actress
- December 5 - Ronnie O'Sullivan, British snooker player
- December 11 - Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
- December 13 - Tom Delonge American musician (Vocals and gitaur) 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 22 - Stanislav Neckář, Czech ice hockey player
- December 23 - Sky Lopez, American actress
- December 26 - Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
- December 27 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (d. 1988)
- December 30 - Tiger Woods, American golfer
- December 30 - David Cameron, American Hockey Player
- For musicians born in 1975, see 1975 in music.
Deaths
Unknown date
January-February
- 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, Assisinated (b. 1931)
- February 13 - André Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
- February 14 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
- February 14 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
- February 16 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
- February 19 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
- February 24 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
- February 25 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)
- February 26 - Stephen Tibble, London police officer (shot) (b. 1953)
March-April
- March 7 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar (b. 1895)
- March 7 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1901)
- March 8 - George Stevens, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1904)
- March 9 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)
- March 9 - Joseph Dunninger, American mentalist (b. 1892)
- March 13 - Ivo Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- March 14 - Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
- March 15 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1906)
- March 16 - T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
- March 16 - Richard W. DeKorte NJ State Energy Administrator and former member of the New Jersey General Assembly (b. 1936)
- March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
- April 5 - Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
- April 10 - Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)
- April 13 - N'Garta Tombalbaye, President of Chad (b. 1918)
- April 17 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and president (b. 1888)
- April 23 - William Hartnell, British actor (b. 1908)
- April 24 - Peter Ham, Welsh musician (b. 1947)
- April 30 - Gen Paul, French artist (b. 1895)
May-July
- May 5 - Moe Howard, American actor (b. 1897)
- May 8 - Avery Brundage, American President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)
- May 13 - Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
- May 18 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
- May 23 - Moms Mabley, American comedienne (b. 1894)
- May 25 - Count Dante, American martial artist, founder of Black Dragon Fighting Society; noted for his self styled "Deadliest Man Alive" ad which ran in comic books.
- 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 26 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (b. 1902)
- June 28 - Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (b. 1924)
- July 17 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
- July 19 - Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928)
- July 29 - James Blish, American writer (b. 1921)
August-October
- 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 (d. 1975)
- August 16 - Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner (b. 1927)
- August 19 - Mark Donohue, American race car driver (b. 1937)
- August 28 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor
- 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, actor
- September 27 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
- September 27 - Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian Emperor (b. 1892)
- October 10 - Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b. 1912)
- October 21 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1889)
- October 30 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
November-December
- 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)
Nobel prizes
Templeton Prize
External links
References
- ^ 1975: London Hilton bombed
- ^ The Watchtower, 15 August 1968, p.494-501; Awake!, 22 May 1969, p.15; The Watchtower, 15 March 1980, p.17, para.5-6
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