* 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor

* 1975 – Hal Gill, American hockey player

* 1975 – Damon Pampolina, American musician and actor ( The Party )

* 1975 – Joel West, American actor and model

* 1912 – Hound Dog Taylor, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon.

* 1975 – Elliott Sadler, American race car driver

* 1975 – Tomi Joutsen, Finnish metal vocalist ( Amorphis )

* 1975 – Michael Chaturantabut, Thai-American actor

* 1975 – Johnny Galecki, American actor

* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.

* 1975 – Blake Adams, American golfer

* 1975 – Björn Gelotte, Swedish guitarist and songwriter ( In Flames and All Ends )

* 1975 – Jonny Moseley, American skier

* 1975 – Mark Rudan, Australian footballer

* 1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian skier

* 1975 – Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player

* 1975 – Mahesh Babu, Indian Telugu Actor

* 1975 – Mike Lamb, American baseball player

* 1975 – Robbie Middleby, Australian footballer

* 1888 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer

* 1975 – James Carpinello, American actor

* 1975 – Joe Perry, English snooker player

Stanley Kramer directed a remake for television in 1975.

In 1975 Kramer left Electric Lady Studios to produce Kiss ' Alive!

* Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, a 1975 television film, a remake of the 1968 film, directed by Stanley Kramer

* 1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist ( disappeared 1975 )

* 1975 – Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress

* 1975 – Katja Schuurman, Dutch actress and singer

* 1975 – Brainpower, Dutch rapper

* 1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer

Suriname and Indonesia became independent of the Netherlands in the period of decolonization: Suriname in 1975 and Indonesia in 1945 ( it was not until 16 August 2005 that the Dutch government recognized 1945-and not 1949-as the country's year of independence ).

* 1975 – Abdelkader Benali, Dutch writer and journalist

In 1975, Keating married Annita van Iersel, a Dutch flight attendant for Alitalia.

The construction of this railway was financially funded by the Dutch government's independence / severance payments after November 25, 1975.

* 1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer

* Suriname, from the Dutch control, in 1975

Many of the Dutch settlements were lost or abandoned by the end of that century, but the Netherlands managed to retain possession of Suriname until it gained independence in 1975, as well as the former Netherlands Antilles, of which the islands remain within the Kingdom of the Netherlands today.

In 1973 the Dutch government started negotiations with the local government, led by the NPK ( a largely Creole party ) about independence, which was granted on November 25, 1975.

The area changed hands often between the English and Dutch but it was in Dutch hands again in 1667 and under Dutch rule from 1815 until the independence of Suriname in 1975.

Some Dutch films have received international distribution and recognition, such as Turkish Delight (" Turks Fruit ") ( 1973 ), Soldier of Orange (" Soldaat van Oranje ") ( 1975 ), Spetters ( 1980 ) and The Fourth Man (" De Vierde Man ") ( 1983 ) by director Paul Verhoeven.

For example, the 1961 Russian adaptation Ukroshchenie stroptivoy directed by Sergei Kolosov ; the 1964 French adaptation La mégère apprivoisée, directed by Pierre Badel, which aired on RTF ; the 1971 Polish adaptation Poskromienie złośnicy, directed by Zygmunt Hübner, which aired on TVP1 ; the 1974 German adaptation Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, directed by Otto Schenk, which aired on Das Erste ; the 1975 Dutch adaptation De getemde feeks, directed by Robert Lussac and Senne Rouffaer, which aired on KRO ; another Dutch production, from 1990, under the same name, directed by Berend Boudewijn and Dirk Tanghe, which also aired on KRO ; and the 1990 Polish adaptation Poskromienie złośnicy, directed by Michał Kwieciński, which aired on TVP1.

During her reign both Indonesia ( Dutch East Indies ) proclaimed in 1945, but recognized in 1949 and Suriname in 1975 became independent from the Netherlands.

* Bas Jan Ader ( 1942-lost at sea 1975 ), Dutch artist

For his political service, he was made a Companion in the Order of the Dutch Lion on 29 April 1975.

ADO Den Haag won the Dutch national football title in 1942 and 1943 and the KNVB Cup in 1968 and 1975 ( under the name FC Den Haag ).

Dutch elm disease reached eastern Canada during the Second World War, and spread to Ontario in 1967, Manitoba in 1975 and Saskatchewan in 1981.