* 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 )

* Sam Raybould, Liverpool striker, born here 1875.

* Sam ( Simon ) Rodia ( 1875 – 1965 ) was an itinerant construction worker and untrained in the arts.

* Sam De Grasses ( 1875 – 1953 ), actor

Sam Hose, a. k. a. Sam Holt, was born Tom Wilkes in south Georgia near Marshallville ( Macon County ) around 1875.

* November 29 – Sam De Grasse, actor ( b. 1875 )

* 1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist and educator ( d. 1962 )

Other contributors were Ellis ( 1844 ), De Morgan ( 1864 ), Glaisher ( 1872 ), and Giovanni Schiaparelli ( 1875 ).

* July 29 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist ( b. 1875 )

In 2003, it emerged that the first inventors were two Dutch naval officers, Theo A. van Hengel ( 1875 – 1939 ) and R. P. C. Spengler ( 1875 – 1955 ) in 1915 ( De Leeuw, 2003 ).

The Aristotelian contrast between δύναμις (" power, might, strength ") and ἐντελέχεια (" entelechy ") ( Metaphysics, iii. 73 ) is found in Philo, De Allegoriis Legum, i. 64 ( on Aristotle see Freudenthal in " Monatsschrift ," 1875, p. 233 ).

* Lucian Müller De Phaedri et Aviani fabulis libellis ( 1875 )

This was followed in 1875 by a study of Hebrew prophecy, De profeten en de profetie onder Israel ( Eng.

) " De expugnatione terrae sanctae per Saladinum libellus " in Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum, 1875.

* 6 / 5 / 1875 De Guinon's System of Gas Lighting.

The plots of Mary Hollis ( 1860, 3 vols, English translation, London 1872, under the title of Mary Hollis, a Romance of the Days of Charles II and William, Prince of Orange, 3 vols ) and of Mylady Carlisle ( 1864, 4 vols ) are laid in England, whereas those of his Sinjeur Semeyns ( 1875, 3 vols ), a powerful picture of the terrible year 1672, and of De kapitein van de lijfgarde ( 1888, 3 vols, English adaptation, 1896, under the title of The Lifeguardsman, 1 vol.

Ritual blowing occurs in the liturgies of catechumenate and baptism from a very early period and survives into the modern Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic rites .< ref > Alongside Martène and Suntrup ( cited above ), convenient collections of illustrative material include W. G. Henderson, ed., < cite > Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis ,</ cite > Surtees Society Publications 63 ( Durham, 1875 for 1874 ), especially Appendix III " Ordines Baptismi " below as < cite > York Manual </ cite >; Joseph Aloysius Assemanus, < cite > Codex liturgicus ecclesiae universae, I: De Catechumenis </ cite > and < cite > II: De Baptismo </ cite > ( Rome, 1749 ; reprinted Paris and Leipzig, 1902 ); J. M. Neale, ed., < cite > The Ancient Liturgies of the Gallican Church ... together with Parallel Passages from the Roman, Ambrosian, and Mozarabic Rites </ cite > ( London, 1855 ; rpt.

De Robeck joined the Royal Navy in 1875.

), Searles Valentine Wood, John Morris, Alfred White ( zoologist ), N. T. Wetherell, surgeon of Highgate ( 1800 – 1875 ), and James De Carle Sowerby.

; see also F. Thedinga, De Numenio philosopho Platonico ( Bonn, 1875 ); Ritter and Preller, Hist.

Mathieu Hubertus Josephus Schoenmaekers ( 13 December 1875, Maastricht-18 December 1944, Laren ) was a mathematician and theosophist who formulated the plastic and philosophical principles of the De Stijl movement.