* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

* 1875 – Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist ( d. 1967 )

* 1875 – Albert Ketèlbey, English conductor, composer, and pianist ( d. 1959 )

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

* 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian painter ( d. 1957 )

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* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875

* Télesphore Fournier – September 30, 1875

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875

* Sir Samuel Henry Strong – September 30, 1875

* Jean-Thomas Taschereau – September 30, 1875

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* 1875 – Artur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil ( d. 1955 )

* 1875 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer ( d. 1912 )

* 1875 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer ( d. 1936 )

* Albert I of Belgium ( 1875 – 1934 ), third King of the Belgians

* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

* 1875 – William Eccles, English physicist ( d. 1966 )

* 1875 – Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter and sculptor ( d. 1946 )

* Alfons Karpiński ( 1875 – 1961 ), Polish painter

* 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer ( d. 1875 )

Later in life, Mary struggled with the stresses of losing her husband and sons, and Robert Lincoln committed her temporarily to a mental health asylum in 1875.

* May 18 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator ( b. 1875 )

Drawing of the Virgin Mary ' with her beloved Jesus | son ,' from a Ge ' ez manuscript copy of Weddasé Māryām, circa 1875.

In 1875, after several years of testing the effectiveness of her healing method, Mary published her discovery in a book entitled Science and Health ( years later retitled Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures ), which she called the textbook of Christian Science.

The property was passed down through the Lynch family and upon the death of Charles Henry Lynch ( 1800 – 1875 ), the property went to his niece, Mary Anna Dearing Fauntleroy.

Cultural anthropology and social anthropology were developed around ethnographic research and their canonical texts which are mostly ethnographies: e. g. Argonauts of the Western Pacific ( 1922 ) by Bronisław Malinowski, Ethnologische Excursion in Johore ( 1875 ) by Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Coming of Age in Samoa ( 1928 ) by Margaret Mead, The Nuer ( 1940 ) by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Naven ( 1936, 1958 ) by Gregory Bateson or " The Lele of the Kasai " ( 1963 ) by Mary Douglas.

He was raised by his maternal grandmother, Mary Eleanor " Eleanora " Willingham ( née Sawyer, 1875 – 1957 ), in California, and he and his father rarely saw one another.

* Clark, Mary Senior, Turnaside Cottage, London, Marcus Ward, 1875.

Bradley, the son of schoolteacher John Smith Bradley ( 1868 – 1908 ) and Mary Elizabeth Hubbard ( 1875 – 1931 ), was born into poverty in rural Randolph County, near Clark, Missouri.

Colby was the first all-male college in New England to accept female students, the first of whom was Mary Caffrey Low -- valedictorian of the Class of 1875.

One of the buildings is named after the first woman to attend, Mary Caffrey Low, who was the valedictorian of the Class of 1875.

They had three children: Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor ( 22 August 1875 – 8 July 1957 ), married 9th Earl of Shaftesbury in 1899 and had issue ; Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor ( 25 December 1876 – 28 July 1936 ), married 7th Earl Beauchamp in 1902 and had issue ; Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster ( 1879 – 1953 ).

Marmaduke Pickthall was born in 1875 to Mary O ' Brien and the Reverend Charles Grayson Pickthall, a comfortable middle-class English family, whose roots trace back to a knight of William the Conqueror.

In 1875, again with Bateman, he was seen as the title character in Macbeth ; in 1876 as Othello, and as Philip in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Queen Mary ; in 1877 in Richard III ; and in The Lyons Mail.

In March 1875, during a visit to Jacksonville, Florida, Mary became unshakably convinced that Robert was deathly ill. She traveled to Chicago to see him, but found he wasn't sick.

On the death of her uncle Francis in 1875, Maria Theresa became heir to his Jacobite claim to the throne of England, and is called either Queen Mary IV and III or Queen Mary III by Jacobites.

St John's, the Parish Church of St John the Baptist, built in 1875 at the same time as the Church school next door, Spalding Parish Church itself ( St Mary and St Nicolas, Spalding ) has a handsome spire visible for miles around and dates from the 13th century.

* Mary Knight Wood ( 1875 )-American pianist, music educator and composer

* George Eliot i. e. Mary Evans ( The Elms, 1875 )

After the young family moved to New York in 1866, Cara Leland Rogers was born in Fairhaven in 1867, Millicent was born in 1873, followed by Mary ( a. k. a. Mai ) in 1875.

* Mary Cecil Frankland, 17th Baroness Zouche ( 1875 – 1965 )

* Eva Mary Foley, 16th Baroness Berkeley ( by birth: Milman ) ( 1875 – 1964 ) ( abeyant 1964 )

Thomas's wife Mary ( who died in 1875 ) published The Diary of Mary Thomas, in which she described the journey on the Africaine and the early years in South Australia.