Famous People Who Died In 1975
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1975. This list includes people like Jimmy Hoffa, K. Kamaraj, Francisco Franco, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Haile Selassie and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, artists, composers and journalists who died in 1975. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & India and many more countries.
Haile Selassie23 July 1892, Ethiopian
Former Emperor of Ethiopia
Francisco Franco04 December 1892, Spanish
Dictator of Spain
Chiang Kai-shek31 October 1887, Chinese
President of the Republic of China
Jimmy Hoffa14 February 1913, American
Labor Union Leader
Rod Serling25 December 1924, American
Screenwriter, TV Producer, Narrator
Aristotle Onassis15 January 1906, Greek
Business magnate
Josephine Baker03 June 1906, French
Dancer
Elijah Muhammad07 October 1897, American
Religious Leader
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan05 September 1888, Indian
Confident, Ambitious
Hannah Arendt14 October 1906, German
Philosopher
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman17 March 1920, Bangladeshi
First Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Moe Howard19 June 1897, American
Actor
K. Kamaraj15 July 1903, Indian
Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
Steve Prefontaine25 January 1951, American
Long-distance Runner
Susan Hayward30 June 1917, American
Actress
Larry Fine05 October 1902, American
Comedian
Otto Skorzeny12 June 1908, Austrian, Spanish
Military Officer
Faisal of Saudi Arabia14 April 1906, Saudi Arabian
Former King of Saudi Arabia
Fredric March31 August 1897, American
Actor
Nikolai Bulganin11 June 1895, Russian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Pete Ham27 April 1947, British
Singer
Casey Stengel30 July 1890, American
American baseball manager
Anna Roosevelt Halsted03 May 1906, American
Writer, Editor
Ozzie Nelson20 March 1906, American
Actor
Cannonball Adderley15 September 1928, American
Jazz alto saxophonist
Percy Lavon Julian11 April 1899, American
Chemist
Marjorie Main24 February 1890, American
Actress
Barbara Hepworth10 January 1903, British
Artist
Euell Gibbons08 September 1911, American
Outdoorsman
George Stevens18 December 1904, American
Film Director & Producer
William A. Wellman29 February 1896, American
Director
Olga Hepnarová30 June 1951, Czech
Murderer
Roque Dalton14 May 1935, Salvadoran
Poet
George Paget Thomson03 May 1892, British
Physicist
Carl O. Sauer24 December 1889, American
Geographer
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz22 July 1887, German
Physicists
Neville Cardus03 April 1888, British
Writer & Critic
P G Wodehouse15 October 1881, British, American
Playwright and Author
Edward Lawrie Tatum14 December 1909, American
Biochemist
Thomas Hart Benton15 April 1889, American
Painter
Dmitry Shostakovich25 September 1906, Russian
Composer
Éamon de Valera14 October 1882, American
Former President of Ireland
Robert Robinson13 September 1886, British
Scientist
John Luke19 January 1906, Irish
Artist
Ivo Andric09 October 1892, Yugoslav
Novelist
Dmitri Shostakovich24 September 1906, Russian
Composer
Pier Paolo Pasolini05 March 1922, Italian
Film director, Writer, Actor, Poet, Screenwriter,
Tim Buckley14 February 1947, American
singer-songwriter, singer, banjoist, jazz
Sam Giancana15 June 1908, American
Graham Hill15 February 1929, British
British racing driver
Mary Ure18 February 1933, British
Stage actor, Film actor
Umm Kulthum18 December 1898, Egyptian
Singer
Bernard Herrmann29 June 1911, American
Composer, Conductor, Film score composer
Audrey Williams28 February 1923, American
Musician, Songwriter
Bob Wills1905 AD
Songwriter, Singer
Richard Conte24 March 1910, American
Actor
Mikhail Bakhtin17 November 1895, Russian
Philosopher, Linguist, Writer, Literary critic
Lefty Frizzell1928 AD
Songwriter, Singer
Arnold J. Toynbee14 April 1889, British
Historian, Professor, Diplomat
Louis Jordan08 July 1908, American
Singer, Actor, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Ezzard Charles07 July 1921, American
American professional boxer
T-Bone Walker1910 AD
Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer
Moms Mabley19 March 1894, American
American comedian
Julian Huxley22 June 1887, British
British director
Father Yod04 July 1922, American
Mark Donohue18 March 1937, American
Formula One driver, Motorcycle racer, Racecar
Ross McWhirter12 August 1925, British
Writer, Presenter, Journalist
Walker Evans03 November 1903, American
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist
Avery Brundage28 September 1887, American
Art collector, Basketball player, Athletics
Keith Park15 June 1892, British
Aviator, Military personnel
Mike Brant01 February 1947, French
Singer
Rex Stout01 December 1886, American
American writer
Gottlob Berger16 July 1896, German
Politician
Leroy Anderson29 June 1908, American
Classical composer, Conductor, Composer
Lionel Trilling04 July 1905, American
Literary critic, Writer, Novelist, University
József Mindszenty29 March 1892, Hungarian
Catholic priest
Bas Jan Ader19 April 1942
Performance artist, Visual artist, Photographer,
Maxwell Maltz10 March 1889, American
Physician, Writer, Playwright
Michel Simon09 April 1895, Swiss
Actor
Madeleine Vionnet22 June 1876, French
Grand couturier
Hans Bellmer13 March 1902, French
Painter, Sculptor, Photographer, Engraver
David Marshall Williams13 November 1900, American
Vayalar Ramavarma28 March 1928, Indian
Author, Lyricist, Songwriter
Paul Keres06 January 1916, Estonian
Writer
Guy Mollet31 December 1905, French
Politician
François Tombalbaye15 June 1918, Chadian
President
George R. Price06 October 1922, American
Mathematician, Geneticist
Franz Six12 August 1906, German
publisher, docent, propagandist, university
Antonín Novotný10 December 1904, Czech
Politician
Antonín Novotný10 December 1904, Czech
Politician
Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia23 June 1892, Ethiopian
Former Emperor of Ethiopia
Emlen Tunnell29 March 1925, American
American football player
Saint-John Perse31 May 1887, French, Guadeloupean
Poet, Writer, Diplomat
G. I. Taylor07 March 1886, British
Physicist, Engineer, Mathematician, Meteorologist
Leslie White19 January 1900, American
Anthropologist
Annette Kellerman06 July 1886, Australian