* 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 )

The Thomas Grenville | Grenville Library, ( 1875 )

* 1963 – Thomas Hicks, British-born American runner ( b. 1875 )

* 1875 – Thomas Burke, American sprinter ( d. 1929 )

* 1942 – Thomas Xenakis, Greek gymnast ( b. 1875 )

** Thomas Hicks, American runner ( b. 1875 )

* February 14 – Thomas Burke, American sprinter ( b. 1875 )

** Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1875 )

In the spring of 1875 he applied for the Archaeological Travelling Studentship offered by Oxford, but, as he says in a letter to Freeman later in life, he was turned down thanks to the efforts of Benjamin Jowett and Charles Thomas Newton, two Oxford dons having a low opinion of his work there.

One of the gadflies of Aestheticism, W. S. Gilbert, introduced Harlequin and Pierrot as love-struck twin brothers into Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing ( 1875 ), for which Thomas German Reed wrote the music.

Buddenbrooks ( 1901 ), by Thomas Mann ( 1875 – 1955 ), chronicles the moral decay of a rich family through its declines, material and spiritual, in the course of four generations, beginning with the patriarch Johann Buddenbrook Sr. and his son, Johann Buddenbrook Jr., who are typically successful German businessmen ; each is a reasonable man of solid character.

In 1875, the English trader Thomas Keams escorted Hopi leaders to meet President Chester A. Arthur in Washington D. C. Loololma, village chief of Oraibi at the time, was very impressed with Washington.

On September 1, 1875, Bonaparte married the former Ellen Channing Day ( 1852 – 1924 ), daughter of attorney Thomas Mills Day and Anna Jones Dunn.

* Thomas Bath ( 1875 – 1956 ), Australian politician and trade unionist

Marne got its beginnings when in 1875 when German investors from a settlement in Davenport, Iowa filed papers and plotted the land purchased from Thomas Meredith.

It was started in 1875 by Thomas Varco and at one time had a grain elevator.

1865, Lewis Sliter ; 1866, William M. Horton: 1867, William Moul ; 1868, John L. Lape ; 1869, Moses Coul ; 1870, James Clark ; 1871, William Moul ; 1872, Burton A. Thomas ; 1873, William M. Horton ; 1874, Jeremiah Conant, Moses Coul ; 1875, William Moni ; 1876, Burton A. Thomas ; 1877, Frank Pettit, Joel B. Peck ; 1878.

Early in 1875 Giles prepared his diaries for publication under the title Geographic Travels in Central Australia, and on 13 March 1875, with the generous help of Sir Thomas Elder, he began his third expedition.

* John Thomas Ball ( 1815 – 1898 ), Irish barrister and politician, Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Dublin University 1868 – 1875

In 2007 the auction house brokered a $ 68 million deal that transferred Thomas Eakins's The Gross Clinic ( 1875 ) from the Jefferson Medical College at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to joint ownership by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

* Thomas Point Shoal Light, Maryland ( 1875 )

File: EakinsTheGrossClinic. jpg | Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts