* 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 – 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

Some of her notable films include Shyam Benegal's Nishant ( 1975 ), Junoon ( 1978 ), Susman ( 1986 ), and Antarnaad ( 1992 ); Satyajit Ray ’ s Shatranj Ke Khiladi ; Mrinal Sen ’ s Khandhar, Genesis, Ek Din Achanak ; Saeed Mirza ’ s Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai ; Sai Paranjpye ’ s Sparsh and Disha ; Gautam Ghose ’ s Paar ; Aparna Sen ’ s Picnic and Sati ; Mahesh Bhatt ’ s Arth ; Vinay Shukla ’ s Godmother.

Griffin dedicated two shows to the topic of Transcendental Meditation and its founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, one in 1975, the other in 1977.

Later, Griffin dedicated two shows to the topic of Transcendental Meditation and its founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, one in 1975, the other in 1977.

The TM-Sidhi program was introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1975.

Maharishi European Research University ( MERU ) was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Seelisberg, Switzerland in 1975.

* Babu ( 1975 film ), a 1975 Telugu film starring Shobhan Babu

Hanna-Barbera Productions produced an animated series Jeannie from September 1973 to 1975, which featured Jeannie ( voiced by Julie McWhirter ) and genie-in-training Babu ( voiced by former Three Stooges star Joe Besser ) as the servants of Corry Anders, a high-school student ( voiced by Mark Hamill ).

* 1975 – Vijay Bharadwaj, Indian cricketer

* 1975 – Rajeshwari Sachdev, Indian actress

Goa was invaded by India in 1961 and became an Indian state in 1987 ; East Timor was abandoned in 1975 and was then invaded by Indonesia.

* 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota ; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

* 1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress

* 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

* 1975 – Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer

* 1975 – Madan Mohan, Indian director ( b. 1924 )

* 1903 – Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Suriya, Indian actor and producer

* 1906 – Pran Nath Thapar, Indian military officer ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Puneet Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and director

For the first time in the Indian Subcontinent, a continuous sequence of dwelling-sites has been established from 7000 BCE to 500 BCE, ( as a result of the ) explorations in Pirak from 1968 to 1974 ; in Mehrgarh from 1975 to 1985 ; and of Nausharo from 1985 to 1996.

The Kingdom of Sikkim, which had already lost its Darjeeling region to British India in 1853, was annexed by the post-colonial Republic of India in April 1975 and, in the following month, Sikkim's people voted to join the Indian Union.

* 1975 – Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress

* 1975 – Venkat Prabhu, Indian film director

* 1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India ( d. 1975 )

* Warrant ( 1975 film ), an Indian Hindi-language film directed by Pramod Chakravorty

* Multiple conflicts and crises occur in India and Pakistan during the 1970s including the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Bangladesh Liberation War, and the Indian Emergency 1975 – 1977.

* December 3 – Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian politician ( d. 1975 )

* Sutton, Imre, Indian Land Tenure: Bibliographical Essays and a Guide to the Literature ( NY: Clearwater, 1975 ): tribe — pp. 101 – 02, 180 – 2, 186 – 7, 191 – 3.

* John, Elizabeth A. H. ( 1975 ) Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of the Indian, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795.