* 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

On May 12, 1975, Khmer Rouge forces seized the merchant ship SS Mayagüez and the National Security Council met to consider the American response.

* Mayagüez Operation: 15 May 1975

Brian Keith portrayed Roosevelt in the 1975 film The Wind and the Lion, a dramatization of the Perdicaris incident of 1904.

In Yunnan Province, the palace of the Dai people's king was torched, and an infamous massacre of Hui Muslim people at the hands of the People's Liberation Army in Yunnan, known as the “ Shadian incident ”, reportedly claimed over 1, 600 lives in 1975.

Within the nuclear power industry, the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission began using probabilistic risk assessment ( PRA ) methods including FTA in 1975, and significantly expanded PRA research following the 1979 incident at Three Mile Island.

The Mayaguez incident between the Khmer Rouge and the United States from May 12 – 15, 1975, was the last official battle of the Vietnam War.

The Church Committee stated in 1975 that " Moyers has publicly recounted his role in the incident, and his account is confirmed by FBI documents.

An incident that became a cause célèbre among some poets and artists was the Halloween party at the Snowmass Colorado Seminary in the fall of 1975, held during a 3-month period of intensive meditation and study of the Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana vehicles of Tibetan Buddhism.

* Miklós Jancsó's 1975 film Vizi Privati, Publiche Virtù ( Private Vices, Public Virtues ) is a daring reinterpretation of the Mayerling incident, in which the lovers and their friends are murdered by imperial authorities for plotting the Emperor's overthrow and for gross immorality and Mary Vetsera was portrayed as a hermaphrodite, which has no basis in history.

In 1975, Kunstler again defended AIM members in the slaying of two FBI agents at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, not far from the site of the Wounded Knee incident.

According to Watson, in June 1975 during a Greenpeace campaign to confront Soviet whaling, an incident occurred which changed his life.

An incident occurred with the suicide of Eli M. Black ( the father of Leon Black ) on February 3, 1975.

The incident serves as the inspiration for the Bob Dylan's epic " Joey " recorded in 1975.

The incident served as the basis for the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.

Luck was present at the incident at Wounded Knee in 1973 and the Menominee Warrior Society occupation of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate in Gresham, Wisconsin in 1975 and took a total of 66 photographs.

:- Last losses four CH-53's ( 68-10925, − 10926, − 10927, 70 – 1627 all from 21st SOS, 56th SOW ) to AAA on 15 May 1975, Koh Tang, Kampuchea, ( Mayaguez incident final aircraft losses of Vietnam War )

A visual and radar UFO incident occurred in the community on November 11, 1975, later reported in a press release by NORAD.

The Balcombe Street Siege was an incident involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) and the Metropolitan Police Service of London, England lasting from 6 December to 12 December 1975.

In December 1975 the Referee's Committee of the Scottish Football Association ordered the closure of Christie Park for two months following an incident in which a referee was knocked to the ground by supporters making their way home across the pitch after a match.

Graham Kennedy returned to the Nine Network after his departure from In Melbourne Tonight with The Graham Kennedy Show in 1973, but was banned from appearing from television in 1975 after an infamous ' crow-call ' incident.

In the 1960s, white flight issues caused by desegregation and an upsurge of crime on Mobile's north side ( highlighted by an incident in 1966 in which a white nun was raped by a black man at Catholic Cemetery on Stone Street, now Martin Luther King Avenue ) caused the district which was majority white in 1960 to become nearly 80 % black by 1975, and Toulminville was the bedrock of the district which elected John LeFlore, a Mobile NAACP leader who became the first black elected to the legislature in Mobile County.

Camp Trans was sparked by a 1991 incident in which a woman named Nancy Burkholder was ejected from the festival after her transsexual status became known to festival security guards Although the festival has maintained a women-born-women policy since its inception, as evidenced by posters from the first festival in 1975, the 1991 incident falsely led to the belief that the policy was only articulated as a means of preventing transsexual women from attending.

Gabriel García Márquez attended the trial and execution and used the incident as the basis for his 1975 novel, The Autumn of the Patriarch.

A notable incident involving the fleet occurred in 1975 when a mutiny broke out on the frigate Storozhevoy.

As Chairman, Brown was responsible for the handling of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, and the Mayaguez incident, the final act of the war in Vietnam in 1975.