1975
Events
January
February
March
April-May
June-July
August
- August 8 - The Banqiao Dam,
in China's Henan Province, failed after a freak typhoon. Over 200,000
people perished.
- August 8 - Samuel
Bronfman, son of the president of Seagrams, is kidnapped in Purchase, New York
- August 11 - British
Leyland comes under British government control
- August 11 - Mário Lemos Pires, Governor of Portuguese Timor, abandons the capital Dili following UDT coup and outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
- August 15 - Birmingham
Six sentenced to life imprisonment
- 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 29 - In Ireland the death occurs of Eamon de Valera, aged 92. He was a leader of the 1916 Rising, Prime Minister of Ireland for 21 years and
President of Ireland for 14 years. He was one of the most
influential Irish politicians of the 20th Century.
September-October
November
- November 3 - An independent audit of Mattel, 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 6 - 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
Resolution 3379: With 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 (then, the largest ship on the
Great Lakes) SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the
entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board
- November 11 - Angola becomes
independent from Portugal (a deadly civil war soon erupts)
- November 11 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Prime Minister
Gough Whitlam is sacked by the Australian Governor General, Sir John Kerr
- November 14 - Spain abandons
Western Sahara
- November 22 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
- November 25 - Suriname
independent from the Kingdom of the
Netherlands
- November 25 - Irish Republican Army outlawed in United
Kingdom
- November 27 - Ross
McWhirter, the co-founder of the Guinness Book of
Records, is shot dead by the IRA
- 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 became a registered trademark on November 26,
1976).
December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January-April
- January 3 - Danica
McKellar, actress
- January 5 - Bradley
Cooper, actor
- January 22 - Balthazar Getty, actor
- January 25 - Tim
Montgomery, American athlete
- January 27 - Bill Walsh,
movie producer and writer
- January 29 - Sara
Gilbert, actress
- February 2 - Todd
Bertuzzi, NHL ice hockey player
- February 4 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician
- February 11 - Chuck Watanabe, kayaker
- February 17 - Vaclav Prospal, NHL hockey player
- February 20 - Brian
Littrell, musician ("Backstreet Boys")
- February 21 - Affirmed,
race horse (d. 2001)
- February 22 - Drew
Barrymore, actress
- March 5 - Jolene
Blalock, US actress
- March 5 - Niki Taylor, fashion
model
- March 15 - Eva Longoria,
actress
- April 3 - Michael
Olowokandi, NBA basketball player
- April 4 - Scott Rolen,
baseball player
- April 22 - Greg Moore,
CART race car driver (d. 1999)
- April 30 - Elliott
Sadler, NASCAR driver
May-August
- May 1 - Marc-Vivien
Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
- May 2 - David Beckham,
English footballer
- May 3 - Maksim Mrvica, Famous
Croatian pianist
- May 8 - Enrique
Iglesias, singer
- May 10 - Hélio
Castroneves, Brazilian Indy Car driver, two-time Indianapolis 500
winner
- May 12 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
- May 15 - Ray Lewis,
American football player
- May 19 - London
Fletcher, American football player
- May 23 - Jewel,
singer
- May 25 - Lauryn Hill, hip-hop
singer
- May 27 - Jamie Oliver,
British celebrity
chef and TV personality
- June 4 - Angelina Jolie,
American actress
- June 9 - Andrew Symonds,
Australian cricketer
- June 18 - Martin St.
Louis, NHL star
- June 23 - Eric
Bruno Borgman, actor and filmmaker
- June 25 - Vladimir
Kramnik, Russian chess player
- July 18 - Torii Hunter,
baseball player
- July 27 - Shea
Hillenbrand, baseball player
- July 27 - Alex Rodriguez, baseball star
- July 30 - Graham
Nicholls, British artist
- August 7 - Charlize
Theron, South African actress
September-December
- September 2 - Michel Trudeau, Canadian microbiologist (d. 1998)
- September 16 - Shannon Noll, singer
- September 17 - Jimmie Johnson, NASCAR race car driver
- September 25 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football quarterback
- October 5 - Kate
Winslet, actress
- November 18 - David
Ortiz, Major League Baseball All-Star
- November 19 - Sushmita
Sen, actress
- December 11 - João
Vieira, Portuguese technologies specialist book writer and columnist
- December 17 - Milla
Jovovich, actress, model
- December 27 - Heather O'Rourke, child actress (d. 1988)
- December 30 - Tiger
Woods, golf superstar
Deaths
January-April
- January 8 - Richard
Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
- January 19 - Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. muralist
- January 24 - Larry Fine, actor (The Three
Stooges)
- February 4 - Louis
Jordan, musician
- February 14 - Julian
Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
- February 14 - P.
G. Wodehouse, writer
- February 16 - Morgan
Taylor, American athlete
- February 24 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier
of the Soviet Union
- February 25 - Elijah Muhammad, Black Muslim leader
- March 8 - George
Stevens, director, producer, cinematographer
- March 14 - Susan
Hayward, actress
- March 15 - Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate
- March 16 - T-Bone
Walker, musician
- March 24 - Ivo Andric,
Croatian writer (b. 1892)
- March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
- April 5 - Chiang
Kai-shek, President of the
Republic of China
- April 13 - N'Garta Tombalbaye, President of Chad
- April 17 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and
president
- April 30 - Gen Paul, French
artist
May-December
- May 5 - Moe Howard, actor (The Three Stooges)
- May 8 - Avery Brundage,
President of the International Olympic
Committee
- May 13 - Bob Wills, country musician
- May 18 - Leroy Anderson,
American composer (b. 1908)
- May 23 - Moms Mabley, comedienne
- May 30 - Steve
Prefontaine, American distance runner
- June 26 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Priest and founder of Opus
Dei
- June 28 - Rod Serling,
screenwriter of The Twilight Zone
- July 17 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor
- July 29 - James Blish, U.S.
science fiction author
- August 8 - Julian Cannonball Adderley - saxophonist
- August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, aged 68, Russian composer
- August 16 - Vladimir
Kuts, Soviet long-distance runner
- August 29 - Eamon de
Valera, Taoiseach & third President of Ireland
- September 27 - Jack Lang, Australian politician
- October 21 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete
- November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
- November 20 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (b. 1892)
- November 27 - Ross
McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records
co-founder
- December 1 - Anna E. Roosevelt, radio personality (b. 1906)
- December 1 - Nellie Fox,
Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1927)
- December 24 - Bernard Herrmann, composer
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