1975 (
MCMLXXV) was a
common year starting on
Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
The year 1975 was declared
International Women's Year
by the
United Nations.
Events of 1975
January
- January 1– Malawi
change the
capital City from Zomba to Lilongwe
- January 2 – The Federal Rules of Evidence are
approved by the United States
Congress.
- January 5 – The
Tasman
Bridge
in Tasmania
, Australia, is struck
by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra,
killing twelve people.
- January 6 – Wheel of
Fortune premieres on NBC.
- January 6 – AM America makes its television debut on
ABC.
- January 7 – OPEC
agrees to raise crude oil prices by
10%.
- January 8 – Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first
woman U.S. governor who did not succeed her husband.
- January 8 – U.S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special
commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.
- January 10 –
Japanese soldier Teruo Nakamura
surrenders on the Indonesian
island of Morota.
- January 12 –
Super Bowl IX: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16–6 at Tulane Stadium
in New Orleans, Louisiana
.
- January 14 –
Heiress Lesley Whittle, 17, is
kidnapped from her home in Shropshire
, England by Donald
Neilson.
- January 15 – International Women's Year is
launched in Britain by Princess
Alexandra and Barbara
Castle.
- January 15 –
Portugal
grants independence to Angola
.
- January 19 –
Earthquake strikes Himachal
Pradesh
, India
- January 20 – In
Hanoi
, North Vietnam, the
Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam.
- January 20 – Michael Ovitz founds the Creative Artists Agency.
- January 29 – The Weather Underground bombs the U.S.
State
Department
main office in Washington, D.C.
.
February
- February 1 – The
Intercontinental
Broadcasting Corporation is launched, becoming the first TV
network in the Philippines
.
- February 4 – The
Haicheng earthquake, the
first successfully predicted
earthquake, kills 2,041 and injures 27,538 in Haicheng,
Liaoning
, China
.
- February 9 – The Soyuz 17 crew (Georgi Grechko, Aleksei Gubarev) returns to Earth after 1
month aboard the Salyut 4 space
station.
- February 11 –
Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership
of the UK Conservative Party
in the United
Kingdom
.
- February 11 –
Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava,
President of Madagascar
, is assassinated.
- February 13 – A
"Turkish Federated State of North
Cyprus
" is declared as an unsuccessful first step to
international recognition of a Turkish
Cypriot separatist state
in Cyprus
.
- February 13 –
Fire breaks out in the World Trade Center
.
- February 21 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney
General John N. Mitchell, and former White House
aides H.
R. Haldeman and John
Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in
prison.
- February 23 – In
response to the energy crisis,
daylight saving time commences
nearly 2 months early in the United States
.
- February 26 – A fleeing Provisional Irish Republican
Army member shoots and kills off-duty London police officer
Stephen Tibble, 22, as he gives
chase.
- February 27 – The
Movement 2 June kidnaps West German
politician Peter
Lorenz. He is released on March 4
after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.
- February 28 – A
major tube
train crash
at Moorgate station
, London
kills 43
people.
- February 28 – In
Lomé
, Togo
, the
European Economic
Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign
a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.
March
- March 1 – Aston Villa wins the Football League Cup at Wembley
, beating Norwich
City 1–0 in the final.
- March 4 – Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Elizabeth II of the United
Kingdom.
- March 4 – A Canadian parliamentary
committee is televised for the first time.
- March 6 – Algiers Accord: Iran
and
Iraq
announce a settlement in their border
dispute.
- March 6 – A bomb explodes in the Paris
offices of the Springer Press. The
6 March Group (connected to the Red
Army Faction) demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.
- March 7 – The body of teenage heiress
Lesley Whittle, kidnapped 7 weeks
earlier by the Black Panther, is
discovered in Staffordshire,
England.
- March 8 – The United Nations proclaims International Women's Day.
- March 9 –
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
begins.
- March 10 – Vietnam War: North
Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot
, South Vietnam, on
their way to capturing Saigon
.
- March 10 –
The Rocky Horror Show
opens on Broadway
in New York
City
with 4 performances.
- March 10 – Shinkansen opens between Osaka and Fukuoka.
- March 11 – The
leftist military government in Portugal
defeats a rightist coup attempt.
- March 13 – Vietnam War: South
Vietnam President Nguyen van
Thieu orders the Central
Highlands evacuated. This turns into a mass exodus involving
troops and civilians (the Convoy of Tears).
- March 15 – In
Brazil
, the
Estado da Guanabara (State of
Guanabara) merges with the state of Rio de Janeiro
, under the name of Rio de Janeiro
. The state's capital moves from the city of
Niterói
to the city of Rio de Janeiro
.
- March 22 –
Ding-a-dong by Teach-In (music by Dick Bakker, text by
Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens) wins the 20th Eurovision Song Contest 1975
for the Netherlands
.
- March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
is shot and killed by his nephew; the killer is
beheaded on June 18. (King Khalid succeeds Faisal.)
- March 28 – A fire in
the maternity wing at Kucic Hospital in Rijeka
, former
Yugoslavia, kills 25 people.
- March 31 – Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of
Turkey
(39th
government, a four party coalition, so called First National Front
( ))
April
- April 3 – Bobby
Fischer refuses to play in a chess match
against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov
the title.
- April 4 – Vietnam
War: The first military Operation
Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff,
killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.
- April 4 – Bill Gates
founds Microsoft in Albuquerque,
New Mexico
.
- April 9 – Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball
Association, plays its first game at the Araneta
Coliseum
.
- April 13 – Bus massacre: The Kataeb
militia kills 27 Palestinians during an
attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon
, triggering the Lebanese civil war.
- April 13 – A coup d'état in Chad led by the military
overthrows and kills President François Tombalbaye.
- April 17 – Following
several weeks successful fighting, the Communist Khmer Rouge
guerilla forces capture Phnom Penh
, prompting a forcible mass
evacuation of the city.
- April 24 – Six
Red Army Faction terrorists take
over the West German embassy in Stockholm
, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the
group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish
police. (See West German embassy siege
)
- April 25 – Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in
on the South Vietnamese capital
Saigon
, the
Australian Embassy is closed and
evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian
troop commitment to South Vietnam.
- April 30 – Vietnam War: The Fall
of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take
Saigon
, resulting
in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese. As
the capital is taken, South Vietnam
surrenders unconditionally.
May
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 5 – U.S. President Ford posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee,
restoring full rights of citizenship.
- August 8 – The
Banqiao
Dam
, in China's Henan Province
, fails after a freak typhoon; over 200,000 people
perish.
- August 8 – Samuel Bronfman, son of the president of
Seagram's, is kidnapped in Purchase,
New York
.
- August 11 – British Leyland Motor Corporation comes
under British government control.
- August 11 –
Governor Mário Lemos Pires of
Portuguese
East
Timor
abandons the capital Dili
, following
a UDT coup and the
outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
- August 15 – The
Birmingham Six are wrongfully
sentenced to life imprisonment in Great Britain
.
- August 15 –
President Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh
is killed during a coup.
- August 20 –
Viking program: NASA
launches
the Viking 1 planetary probe
toward Mars.
- August 24 –
Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece
in 1967
are sentenced to death in Athens
.
The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment.
September
- September 5 – In
Sacramento,
California
, Lynette Fromme, a
follower of jailed cult leader Charles
Manson, attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
- September 5 – The
London
Hilton
hotel is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican
Army; 2 people are killed and 63 injured.
- September 6 – A
Richter Scale 6.7 magnitude earthquake
kills at least 2,085 in Diyarbakir
and Lice,
Turkey
.
- September 14 – Elizabeth Seton is canonized, becoming the
first American Roman Catholic
saint.
- September 14 – Rembrandt's painting
"The Night Watch" is slashed
a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
- September 15 –
The French
department
of Corse
,
comprising the entire island of Corsica
, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse
and Corse-du-Sud
.
- September 16 –
Papua New
Guinea
gains its independence from Australia.
- September 18 –
Fugitive Patricia Hearst is captured
in San
Francisco
.
- September 19 –
General Vasco Goncalves is ousted as
Prime Minister of Portugal
.
- September 20 –
The term of
Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim
Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia
, ends.
- September 21 –
Sultan
Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, Sultan of Kelantan
, becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
.
- September 22 – U.S. President Gerald Ford survives a second assassination
attempt, this time by Sara Jane
Moore in San
Francisco
.
- September 27 –
Francoist
Spain
executes five ETA and
FRAP
members, the last executings in Spain
to
date.
- September 27 – The Norwood
Football Club beats the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL Australian Rules Football Grand Final.
- September 28 – The Spaghetti House siege takes place in
London.
- September 30 – The Hughes Helicopters (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing IDS) AH-64
Apache makes its first flight.
October
November
- November 3 – An
independent audit of Mattel, one of the
United
States
' largest toy manufacturers,
reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to
"maintain the appearance of continued corporate
growth."
- November 3 – The
first petroleum pipeline opens from Cruden Bay
to Grangemouth
, Scotland.
- November 3 – The long running The
Price is Right goes from being 30 minutes long to its current hour
long format.
- November 6 – The
Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed
Moroccans
converge on the southern city of Tarfaya
and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into
Western
Sahara
.
- November 10 – United Nations
General Assembly Resolution 3379: By a vote of 72–35 (with 32
abstentions), the United Nations
General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The
resolution provokes an outcry among Jews around the world.
- November 10 – The
729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald
sinks during a storm 17 miles from the
entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake
Superior
, killing
all 29 crew on board (an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot).
- November 10 – Lev
Leshchenko revives Den Pobedy,
one of the most popular World War II
songs in the USSR
.
- November 11 –
Angola
becomes
independent from Portugal
; civil war soon
erupts.
- November 11 – Australian
constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia
Sir John Kerr dismisses
the government of Gough Whitlam and
commissions Malcolm Fraser as
Prime Minister.
- November 11 – The
first annual Vogalonga rowing "race" is
held in Venice
, Italy
.
- November 14 –
Spain
abandons
Western
Sahara
.
- November 20 –
Former California
Governor Ronald Reagan
enters the race for the Republican presidential
nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.
- November 20 –
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco
dies in Madrid
, effectively marking the end of the dictatorship
established following the Spanish
Civil War and the beginning of Spain's transition to
democracy.
- November 22 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death
of dictator Francisco Franco.
- November 25 –
Suriname
gains independence from the Kingdom of the
Netherlands.
- November 25 – The
Irish Republican Army is
outlawed in the United
Kingdom
.
- November 26 – The 1975 cult classic
movie The Rocky Horror
Picture Show came out in America.
- November 27 – Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot
dead by the Provisional Irish Republican
Army for offering reward money to informers.
- November 28 –
Portuguese
Timor
declares its independence from Portugal
as East
Timor
.
- November 29 – The name "Micro-soft"
(for microcomputer software) is used by Bill
Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for
the first time (Microsoft becomes a
registered trademark on
November 26, 1976).
- November 29 –
While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus 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
Undated
- In
New
Zealand
, Maori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5,000 people in
support of Maori claims to their land.
- The Third Cod War between UK and Iceland
lasts from November 1975-June 1976.
- The
government of Colombia
announces the finding of Ciudad Perdida.
- The
Spanish
army quits Spanish (Western) Sahara, the last
remnant of Spain's Empire. The Sahrawi
Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco
invades ex-Spanish Western Sahara.
- The term fractal is first used.
- Victoria
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.
Ongoing
Fictional
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
- January 1 – Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist
- January 2 – Chris Cheney, Australian rock musician
(The Living End)
- January 3 – Danica McKellar, American actress
- January 4 – Jill Marie Jones, American actress
- January 5 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
- January 5 – Mike
Grier, American hockey player
- January 6 – Ricardo Santos, Brazilian beach volleyball
player
- January 8 – Chris Simmons, British actor
- January 9 – Kim Mathers, ex- wife of rapper
Eminem
- January 10 – Jake Delhomme, American football player
- January 11 – Rory Fitzpatrick, American hockey
player
- January 13 – Shazia Mirza, British comedian
- January 15 – Edith Bowman, British radio DJ
- January 17 – Tony Brown, New Zealand rugby union
footballer
- January 17 – Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican actor
- January 20 – David Eckstein, American baseball player
- January 20 – Mark Allan Robinson, Canadian recall
leader
- January 22 – Balthazar Getty, American actor
- January 23 – Tito Ortiz, American mixed martial arts fighter
- January 25 – Tim Montgomery, American athlete
- January 25 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
- January 25 – John Wade, American football
player
- January 28 – David Zingler, American writer
- January 29 – Sara Gilbert, American actress
- January 30 – Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
- January 31 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress
- January 31 – Jackie O, Australian radio DJ and TV
presenter
February
- February 1 – Big
Boi, American rapper
- February 2 – Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian hockey player
- February 2 – Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
- February 4 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian actress and
singer
- February 5 – Adam Carson, American rock drummer (AFI)
- February 6 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
- February 8 – Joe Eshwar, Indian writer & filmaker
- February 10 – Amber Frey, Massage therapist & author
- February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball pitcher
- February 11 – Jacque Vaughn, American basketball player
- February 14 – Scott Owen, Australian rock musician (The Living End)
- February 14 – Malik Zidi, French actor
- February 15 – Brandon Boyd, American rock musician (Incubus)
- February 17 – Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
- February 17 – Todd Harvey, Canadian National Hockey League
player
- February 17 – Vaclav Prospal, Czech National Hockey League
player
- February 18 – Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish
footballer
- February 18 – Gary Neville, English footballer
- February 18 – Sarah Brown, American actress
- February 19 – Daniel Adair, Canadian rock drummer (Nickelback)
- February 20 – Brian Littrell, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys)
- February 21 – Heri Joensen, Faroese rock musician (Týr)
- February 22 – Drew Barrymore, American actress
- February 23 – Michael Cornacchia, American actor
March
- March 4 – Kim
Jung-Eun, South Korean actress
- March 4 – Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey
player
- March 4 – Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock
singer-songwriter
- March 5 – Jolene Blalock, American actress
- March 5 – Niki
Taylor, American model
- March 9 – Roy
Makaay, Dutch footballer
- March 11 – Eric the Midget, American member of the
Wack Pack
- March 11 – Buvaisar Saitiev, Chechen wrestler, Olympic
gold-medalist
- March 14 – Rico
Yan, Philippine movie/TV actor (d. 2002)
- March 15 – will.i.am, American rapper
- March 15 – Eva
Longoria, American actress
- March 15 – Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
- March 17 – Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler
(d. 2009)
- March 18 – Sutton Foster, American actress
- March 19 – Matthew Richardson,Australian rules footballer
- March 19 – Vivian
Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
- March 19 – Le
Jingyi, Chinese swimmer
- March 25 – Ladislav Benysek, Czech ice hockey
player
- March 27 – Stacy Ferguson (Fergie), American pop/R&B
singer and actress
- March 29 – Jan
Bos, Dutch speed skater
- March 30 – Bahar Soomekh, American actress
April
- April 2 – Adam
Rodriguez, American actor
- April 3 – Koji
Uehara, Japanese baseball pitcher
- April 3 – Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese
professional baseball player
- April 4 – Scott
Rolen, American baseball player
- April 4 – Delphine Arnault, French billionaire
businesswoman
- April 6 – Zach
Braff, American actor
- April 7 – Ronde
Barber, American football player
- April 7 – Tiki
Barber, American football player
- April 9 – Robbie Fowler, British footballer
- April 10 – Chris Carrabba, American rock musician
(Dashboard Confessional)
- April 10 – Matthew Phillips, Italian rugby union
footballer
- April 13 – Bruce
Dyer, English footballer
- April 14 – Amy
Dumas, American professional wrestler
- April 14 – Stefano miceli, Italian Conductor and
Pianist
- April 14 – Anderson Silva, Brazilian UFC Middleweight
Champion
- April 15 – Paul
Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
- April 16 – Nick
Pickard, British actor
- April 17 – Lee
Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
- April 22 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car
driver (d. 1999)
- April 22 – Carlos Sastre, Spanish road bicycle racer
- April 23 – Olga
Kern, Russian pianist
- April 25 – Chris Lilley, Australian actor,
comedian, and writer
- April 26 – Joey Jordison, American rock drummer and
guitarist (Slipknot, Murderdolls)
- April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japanese ski jumper
- April 30 – Mike
Chat, American actor
May
- May 1 – 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 hockey player
- May 8 – Enrique Iglesias, American singer
- May 10 – Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car
driver
- May 11 – Coby
Bell, American actor
- May 12 – Jonah
Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
- May 15 – Peter
Iwers, Swedish rock bassist (In
Flames)
- May 15 – Ray Lewis, American football
player
- May 16 – Tonéx,
American singer
- May 16 – Tony
Kakko, Finnish singer
- May 17 – Sasha
Alexander, American actress
- May 18 – John Higgins, Scottish snooker
player
- May 18 – Jack Johnson, American
singer-songwriter
- May 19 – London Fletcher, American football
player
- May 19 – Zhang
Ning, Chinese badminton player
- May 20 – Andrew
Sega, American musician
- May 20 – Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
- May 22 – Janne
Niinimaa, Finnish hockey player
- May 25 – Lauryn
Hill, American musician
- May 26 – Nicki
Aycox, American actress
- May 27 – Jamie
Oliver, British chef and television personality
- May 28 – Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
- May 31 – Toni
Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper
June
- June 4 – Angelina Jolie, American actress
- June 4 – Russell
Brand, English comedian
- June 7 – Allen
Iverson, American basketball player
- June 8 – Shilpa
Shetty, Bollywood actress
- June 9 – Andrew
Symonds, Australian cricketer
- June 10 – Nicole Bilderback, American actress
- June 10 – Darren
Eadie, English footballer
- June 11 – Choi
Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
- June 12 – Răzvan Ţupa, Romanian poet
- June 14 – Chris
Onstad, American cartoonist
- June 17 – Chloe
Jones, American pornstar (d. 2005)
- June 18 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey
player
- June 19 – Ed
Coode, British rower
- June 21 – Gabriel Butnaru, Romanian
journalist
- June 23 – KT
Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter
- June 24 – Christie Rampone, American footballer
- June 25 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
- June 25 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- June 27 – Tobey
Maguire, American actor
- June 30 – Ralf Schumacher, German racing car
driver
- June 30 – Angela
Tong, Hong Kong actress
July
- July 1 – Sufjan
Stevens, American folk musician
- July 5 – Hernán Crespo, Argentinian
footballer
- July 5 – Ai
Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player
- July 5 – Gunnar H. Thomsen, Faroese rock bassist (Týr)
- July 6 – Curtis
Jackson, American rapper (50 Cent)
- July 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 judge
- July 10 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey
player
- July 11 – Lil'
Kim, American rapper
- July 12 – Hannah Waterman, British actress
- July 14 – Tameka Cottle known as "Tiny", American
singer/songwriter member of the group Xscape
- July 15 – Jill
Halfpenny, British actress
- July 17 – Konnie
Huq, English television presenter
- July 18 – Torii
Hunter, American baseball player
- July 18 – Daron Malakian, American rock guitarist
(System of a Down)
- July 18 – M.I.A., English musician
- July 19 – Patricia Ja Lee, American model/actress
- July 20 – Ray
Allen, American basketball player
- July 21 – Fredrik Johansson, Swedish
rock guitarist
- July 22 – Kenshin Kawakami, Japanese baseball
pitcher
- July 24 – Torrie Wilson, American professional wrestler
and model
- July 25 – Evgeni Nabokov, Russian goaltender currently
in the NHL
- July 25 – Håvard Ellefsen, Norwegian rock (metal)
artist (Mortiis),
- July 27 – Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball
player
- July 27 – Alex
Rodriguez, American baseball player
- July 29 – Terrence Wilkins, American football
player
- July 30 – Graham Nicholls, British artist
- July 31 – Simon
Hirst, British DJ
August
- August 1 – Danny Chan Kwok Kwan, Hong Kong
actor
- August 3 – Yoyo
Mung, Hong Kong actress
- August 5 – Kajol Devgan, Indian actress
- August 5 – Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
- August 7 – Charlize Theron, South African actress
- August 7 – Gaahl
(Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian metal artist
- August 12 – David Filmore, American actor, director
- August 12 – John Stevenson, American
songwriter/musician
- August 15 – Kara Wolters, American women's basketball
player
- August 22 – Sheree Murphy, English actress
- August 24 – Hayato Sakurai, Japanese martial artist
- August 27 – Björn Gelotte
September
- September 1 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte,
Australian actress and singer
- September 3 – Jennifer Paige, American singer
- September 4 – Mark Ronson, British DJ and music producer
- September 5 – Kate Allan, British author
- September 6 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka
- September 7 – Renato "Babalu" Sobral, Brazilian martial
artist
- September 8 – Richard Hughes, British rock
drummer (Keane)
- September 9 – Michael Bublé, Canadian musician
- September 11 – Brad Fischetti, American musician
- September 17 – Constantine Maroulis, American
singer
- September 17 – Austin St. John, American actor
- September 17 – Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
- September 17 – Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car
driver
- September 18 – Richard Appleby, English footballer
- September 22 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian hockey player
- September 23 – Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
- September 23 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton
player
- September 25 – Matt Hasselbeck, American football
player
- September 25 – Declan Donnelly, British TV presenter
(Ant and Dec)
- September 27 – Sam Lee, Hong Kong actor
- September 28 – Karan Ashley, American actor
- September 30 – Marion Cotillard, French actress
- September 30 – Georges-Alain Jones, French singer
October
- October 2 – Michel Trudeau, son of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau (d. 1998)
- October 5 – Parminder Nagra, British actress
- October 5 – Kate Winslet, British actress
- October 7 – Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
- October 9 – Joe McFadden, British actor
- October 14 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
- October 15 – Ginuwine, American singer
- October 17 – Janne Aikala, Finnish murder victim (d.
1986)
- October 19 – Benjamin Heckendorn, Electronics
Modifier and Independent film maker
- October 21 – Henrique Hilário, Portuguese
footballer
- October 23 – Odalys Garcia, Cuban-born actress
- October 27 – Max
Lilja, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
- October 30 – Ian
D'Sa, Canadian rock guitarist (Billy
Talent)
November
- November 3 – Marta Dominguez, Spanish athlete
- November 4 – Éric Fichaud, Canadian hockey player
- November 5 – Jamie Spaniolo (Jamie Madrox), American
rapper
- November 8 – Tara Reid, American actress
- November 8 – Ángel Corella, Spanish dancer
- November 10 –
Markko Märtin, Estonian
race car driver
- November 12 – Aaron Solowoniuk, Canadian rock drummer
(Billy Talent)
- November 14 – Travis Barker, American rock drummer (Blink-182, The
Aquabats!, Transplants,
Box Car Racer, +44)
- November 16 – Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player
- November 17 – Diane Neal, American actress
- November 18 – David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player
- November 18 – Anthony McPartlin, British TV presenter
(Ant and Dec)
- November 19 – Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and
actress
- November 19 – Tamika Scott, American singer/songwriter and
producer.
- November 20 – Davey Havok, American rock lead singer of
(AFI)
- November 21 – Chris Moneymaker, American poker
player
- November 24 – Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
- November 24 – Lee Wan Wah, Malaysian badminton player
- November 28 – Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
- November 30 – Ben Thatcher, Welsh international
footballer
December
- December 2 – Malinda Williams, American actress
- December 3 – Csaba Czébely, Hungarian heavy metal
drummer (Pokolgép)
- December 5 – Ronnie O'Sullivan, British snooker
player
- December 6 – Ashin, Taiwanese rock lead singer (Mayday )
- December 8 – Kevin Harvick, American race car driver
- December 10 – Joe Mays, American baseball pitcher
- December 10 – Steve Bradley, American WWE Development Star
(d. 2008)
- December 11 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
- December 12 – Mayim Bialik, American actress and
neuroscientist
- December 13 – Tom Delonge, American rock musician (Blink 182, Box Car
Racer, Angels &
Airwaves)
- December 14 – Justin Furstenfeld, American rock
musician (Blue October)
- December 16 – Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian rock lead
singer (Billy Talent)
- December 16 – Frode Fjerdingstad, Norwegian
photographer
- December 17 – Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian actress and
model
- December 17 – Tim Clark, South African golfer
- December 17 – Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan
athlete
- December 18 – Eugene, American professional wrestler
- December 18 – Masaki Sumitani, Japanese television
performer
- December 18 – Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler
and fitness model
- December 19 – Jon Smith, British writer
- December 20 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
- December 21 – Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
- December 22 – Chris Adler, American actor
- December 22 – Crissy Moran, American erotic actress
- December 23 – Sky Lopez, American actress
- December 23 – Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey
player
- December 26 – Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
- December 27 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress
(d. 1988)
- December 30 – Tiger Woods, American golfer
Unknown
- For musicians born in 1975, see 1975 in music.
Deaths
January–February
- January 4 – Carlo Levi, Italian writer (b. 1902)
- January 8 – David Marshall "Carbine" Williams, American
inventor (b. 1900)
- January 8 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
- January 18 – Chester Kallman, American poet (b. 1921)
- January 19 – Thomas Hart Benton, American
artist (b. 1889)
- January 24 – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian
(The Three Stooges) (b. 1902)
- January 24 – Erich Kempka, German chauffeur of Adolf Hitler (b. 1910)
- January 27 – Bill Walsh, American film producer and
writer (b. 1913)
- January 28 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and
philologist (b. 1887)
- February 3 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian actress and singer (b.
1904)
- February 4 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
- February 8 – Robert Robinson, British
chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1886)
- February 10 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer
(stroke) (b. 1910)
- February 11 – Richard Ratsimandrava, Madagascar
President (assassinated) (b. 1931)
- February 13 – André Beaufre, French general (b.
1902)
- February 14 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
- February 14 – P. G.
Wodehouse, English writer (b.
1881)
- February 16 – Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
- February 17 – George Marshall, American film
director (b. 1891)
- February 19 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b.
1904)
- February 20 – Robert Strauss, American actor (b.
1913)
- February 24 – Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b.
1895)
- February 25 – Elijah Muhammad, African-American Nation of
Islam leader (b. 1897)
- February 26 – Stephen Tibble, London police officer (shot)
(b. 1953)
March–April
- March 3 – Therese Giehse, German actress (b. 1898)
- March 7 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and
literary scholar (b. 1895)
- March 7 – Ben
Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1901)
- March 8 – George Stevens, American director, producer,
and cinematographer (b. 1904)
- March 9 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian American sculptor (b.
1888)
- March 9 – Joseph Dunninger, American mentalist (b.
1892)
- March 13 – Ivo
Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- March 14 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
- March 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate
(b. 1906)
- March 16 – T-Bone Walker, African-American musician (b.
1910)
- March 16 – Richard W. DeKorte, American New Jersey
Energy Administrator and former member of the
New Jersey General
Assembly (b. 1936)
- March 19 – Harry Lachman, American set designer and film
director (b. 1886)
- March 22 – Cass
Daley, American actress (b. 1915)
- March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
- April 3 – Mary
Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
- April 5 – Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of
China (b. 1887)
- April 5 – Harold Osborn, American Olympic athlete (b.
1899)
- April 10 – Walker Evans, American photographer (b.
1903)
- April 10 – Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)
- April 12 – Josephine Baker, African-American dancer (b.
1906)
- April 13 – N'Garta Tombalbaye,
President of Chad (b. 1918)
- April 13 – Larry
Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
- April 14 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
- April 15 – Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
- April 17 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian
philosopher and president (b. 1888)
- April 23 – William Hartnell, British actor (b.
1908)
- April 24 – Peter
Ham, Welsh musician (b. 1947)
- April 30 – Gen
Paul, French artist (b. 1895)
May–June
- May 5 – Moe
Howard, American actor (The Three Stooges) (b.
1897)
- May 8 – Avery
Brundage, American President of the International Olympic
Committee (b. 1887)
- May 9 – Philip
Dorn, Dutch actor (b. 1901)
- May 13 – Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., American inventor of
the drive-in theatre (b. 1900)
- May 13 – Bob
Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
- May 18 – Leroy
Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
- May 22 – Lefty
Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- May 22 – Torben
Meyer, Danish actor (b. 1884)
- May 23 – Moms
Mabley, African-American comedian (b. 1894)
- May 25 – Count
Dante, American martial artist (b. 1939)
- May 30 – Steve Prefontaine, American distance
runner (b. 1951)
- May 30 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist
and founder of Isshin-ryu karate (b.
1908)
- May 30 – Michel
Simon, Swiss actor (b. 1895)
- June 3 – Ozzie
Nelson, American actor (b. 1906)
- June 3 – Eisaku
Sato, Prime Minister of
Japan, recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize (b. 1901)
- June 4 – Evelyn
Brent, American actress (b. 1899)
- June 5 – Paul Keres, Estonian
chess grandmaster (b. 1916)
- June 6 – Larry
Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
- June 14 – Pablo
Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
- June 26 – Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish
priest and founder of Opus Dei (b. 1902)
- June 28 – Rod
Serling, American television screenwriter (The Twilight
Zone) (b. 1924)
- July 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian
writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
- June 29 – Tim
Buckley, American singer/songwriter (b. 1947)
July–August
- July 2 – James Robertson Justice, British
actor (b. 1907)
- July 15 – Charles Weidman, American choreographer and
dancer (b. 1901)
- July 18 – Vaughn
Bode, American artist and psychedelic cartoonist (b. 1941)
- July 19 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928)
- July 21 – Billy West, American actor
(b. 1892)
- July 29 – James
Blish, American science fiction writer (b. 1921)
- August 8 – Julian Cannonball Adderley,
American saxophonist (b. 1928)
- August 9 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
(b. 1906)
- August 10 – Robert Barton, Irish politician and last
surviving signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (b. 1881)
- August 15 – Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
- August 16 – Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner (b. 1927)
- August 17 – Sig
Arno, German actor (b. 1895)
- August 19 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (b.
1937)
- August 19 – Frank Shields, American tennis player (b.
1909)
- August 23 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter (b.
1902)
- August 23 – Hank Patterson, American actor (b. 1888)
- August 26 – Cullen Landis, American actor (b. 1895)
- August 27 –
Haile Selassie I, former emperor of
Ethiopia
(b. 1892)
- August 28 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
- August 29 – Eamon de Valera, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- August 31 – Pierre Blaise, French actor (b. 1955)
September–October
- September 9 – Minta Durfee, American actress (b. 1889)
- September 9 – Ethel Griffies, English actress (b. 1878)
- September 9 – John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913)
- September 10 – George Paget Thomson, English
physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1892)
- September 16 – Irene Hayes, American Ziegfeld girl and
businesswoman (b. 1896)
- September 19 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b.
1917)
- September 20 – Vincent Lopez, American bandleader (b.
1895)
- September 20 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and
writer, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1887)
- September 23 – Ian Hunter, British actor (b. 1900)
- September 24 – Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
- September 27 – Mark Frechette, American actor (b. 1947)
- September 27 – Jack Lang, Australian
politician (b. 1876)
- September 27 – Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian Emperor (b.
1892)
- September 29 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1890)
- October 4 – May
Sutton, American tennis champion (b. 1886)
- October 10 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b.
1912)
- October 10 – Lillian Walker, American actress (b. 1887)
- October 21 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b.
1889)
- October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, British historian (b. 1889)
- October 27 – Rex
Stout, American author (b. 1886)
- October 28 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b.
1894)
- October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1887)
November–December
- November 1 – Sinn Sisamouth, The highly prolific King of
Khmer music is executed by the Khmer
Rouge ending the Golden Age of the Cambodian music industry.(b.
1935)
- November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film
director (b. 1922)
- November 5 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and
actress (b. 1887)
- November 5 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American
geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (b. 1909)
- November 5 – Lionel Trilling, American literary critic
(b. 1905)
- November 13 – R.C. Sherriff,
English writer (b. 1896)
- November 20 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (b.
1892)
- November 27 – Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the
Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
- November 29 – Tony Brise, English racing driver (b. 1952)
- November 29 – Graham Hill, English race car driver (b.
1929)
- December 1 – Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b.
1906)
- December 1 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
- December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b.
1906)
- December 7 – Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903)
- December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b.
1897)
- December 9 – William A. Wellman, American film director (b.
1896)
- December 10 – Andrew "Boy" Charlton, Australian Olympic
swimmer (b. 1907)
- December 11 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
- December 14 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
- December 17 – Noble Sissle, American jazz composer (b.
1889)
- December 20 – William Lundigan, American actor (b.
1914)
- December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer
(b. 1911)
Unknown dates
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
See also
Notes
External links