* 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

* 1975 – Roland de Marigny, South African-born Italian rugby player

* 1975 – Roland System-100: Roland's first attempt at a modular synthesizer.

* Parisian Thoroughfare ( with Roland Hanna, Mel Lewis & George Mraz, Arista / Freedom Records 1975 )

In 1975 he wrote an autobiography titled Roland Barthes and in 1977 he was elected to the chair of Sémiologie Littéraire at the Collège de France.

In 1975, jazz artist Rahsaan Roland Kirk released The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color which apparently had only three sides.

* Abercrombie ( horse ) ( 1975 – 2000 ), a bay harness racing horse, won the 1978 E. Roland Harriman Award for harness horse of the year

Steve Roland " Pre " Prefontaine ( January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975 ) was an American middle and long-distance runner.

* Barthes, Roland ( 1975 ).

John Roland Lloyd Thomas ( 22 February 1908 – 11 April 1984 ) was a noted Anglican clergyman, and later the Principal of St David's University College from 1953 to 1975.

* On January 9, 1975 the United States Army selected Roland 2 as the winner of its SHORADS ( Short-Range Air Defense System ) competition to replace the MIM-72 Chaparral and M163 VADS divisional air defense systems with a requirement for more than 500 fire units to be designated the MIM-115.

Roland de Marigny ( born 17 November 1975 in Durban, South Africa ) is an Italian rugby union footballer.

* Roland John Michael Freeman ( C ): Cities of London and Westminster 1967 – 1970 ; Finchley May 15, 1975 – 1981

Among the earliest British small press comics was The Tale of Beem Gotelump, the story of an aging jazz musician who is tasked by the Archangel Gabriel with playing the last trump at the end of the world, created and published by Eddie Campbell under the pseudonym " Roland Bunn " in 1975.

After " retiring " his Fender Jazz Bass in 1975, which he had been using since his days with The Shadows in the early 1960s, Jones switched to using custom-designed Alembics ( as seen here ) while out on the road.

* Doctor Jazz ( 1975 )-musical-featured songwriter for " I Love It "

When Acket sold his company in 1975, he was able to start up and sponsor the North Sea Jazz Festival.

* 2009 Niemen-Kattorna / Pamflet na ludzkość Jazz Jamboree 1972 / Lampoon for Mankind: Jazz Jamboree 1975 ( Polskie Radio )

Earl " Fatha " Hines: one-hour " solo " documentary made in Blues Alley Jazz Club, Washington DC, for ATV, England, 1975: produced / directed by Charlie Nairn: original 16mm film plus out-takes of additional tunes archived in British Film Institute Library @ bfi. org. uk: also at http :// www. itvstudios. com: DVD copies with Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library ( who hold the The Earl Hines Collection / Archive ), University of California, Berkeley: also University of Chicago, Hogan Jazz Archive Tulane University New Orleans and Louis Armstrong House Museum Libraries: see also www. jazzonfilm. com / documentaries.

Abrams moved to New York permanently in 1975 where he was a factor in the local Loft Jazz scene.

Booker's performance at the 1975 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival earned him a recording contract with Island Records.

He performed at Montreux Jazz Festival in 1972 and 1973, then formed a new group called Players in 1975 with Arthur Blythe, Steve Turre, Barry Finnerty and Abdullah ; also, wrote and performed the musical score for the movie Coonskin in same year.

The NBA's New Orleans Jazz used the Superdome as their home court, from 1975 – 1979.

* 1975: Warne Marsh Quintet: Jazz Exchange ( Storyville ))

* 1975: Chicago ' n ' All That Jazz ( Denon: LaserLight )

* Doctor Jazz ( 1975 )

A ragtime pianist, Reiss was Musical Director on the Goldenrod Showboat on the Mississippi River levee during much of 1975, where he also participated in the National Ragtime Festival along with Dave Jason, Terry Waldo, and the Black Eagle Jazz Band.

* Greetings and Salutations ( 1975 ) Town Crier – Jones, Lewis and Jon Faddis with the Swedish Radio Jazz Group, Stockholm

* Best Jazz Instrumental Performance-Big Band: 1967 ( Live at the Village Vanguard ), 1969 ( Central Park North ), 1970 ( Consummation ), 1975 ( Potpourri ), 1976 ( New Life )

* Greetings and Salutations ( 1975 ) Town Crier – Jones, Lewis and Jon Faddis with the Swedish Radio Jazz Group, Stockholm

Wilson's rendition of " Jazz Ain't Nothing But Soul " was a radio hit on New York jazz radio in 1975.

* Live at the Great American Music Hall ( Concord Jazz CJ 222 ) 1975

* New Jazz Festival-Hamburg 1975 ( Various Artists ) 1975

On Aug 30, 1975 his appearance at the Willisau Jazz Festival was recorded and released later that year as Willi The Pig.

* Jazz a Confronto 27 ( 1975 )