* 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

More contemporary renditions include samples from such popular artists as Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers ( 1963 ), The Byrds ( 1970 ), Elvis Presley ( 1971 ), Skeeter Davis ( 1972 ), Mighty Clouds of Joy ( 1972 ), Amazing Rhythm Aces ( 1975 ), Willie Nelson ( 1976 ), and The Lemonheads ( 1992 ).

* 1975 – Sam Doumit, American actress

Sam Waterston later played the role himself at the Delacorte for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and the show transferred to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1975 ( Stephen Lang played Bernardo and other roles ).

* Action ( play ), a 1975 play by Sam Shepard

* Sam Ervin, ( 1896 – 1985 ), U. S. Senator from 1954 to 1975 ; famed Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973.

* Dec 1975 Christmas Bop / Telegram Sam / Metal Guru

In 1974 he replaced Dave Liebman in Miles Davis's ensemble, remaining until spring 1975, when he was succeeded by Sam Morrison.

Together, they formed Mallard, with Sam Galpin as vocalist and Rabbit Bundrick on keyboards, releasing their eponymous debut album in 1975, with logistical support from Ian Anderson ( of Jethro Tull fame ), who financed the recording using his mobile recording unit on his English estate.

It was developed in 1975 by Boogaloo Sam.

* Alfred Steinberg, Sam Rayburn ( Hawthorn, 1975 )

George Segal played Sam Spade, Jr., son of the original, in the 1975 film spoof, The Black Bird.

* Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Case ( 1975 ), starring George Peppard, is a television movie about this case.

The song has come to represent the decade of its creation, and it has been covered by many artists, from his peers like Glen Campbell, Bob Dylan, Percy Sledge and Sam & Dave to artists of various genres, including Jimmy Velvit ( whose cover version was included on his 2001 Grammy nominated album Sun Sea & Sand ), Widespread Panic ( 2006 ), Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, Kenny Rankin, Dennis Brown, Michel Pagliaro, Jacob Miller, Michael Bolton ( whose version of the song reached # 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1988 ), Pearl Jam, The Format, T. Rex ( as a b-side of " Dreamy Lady " on March 11, 1975 ), Brent Smith of Shinedown ( during an acoustic set in 2008 ), Justin Nozuka ( 2007 ) and Sara Bareilles ( 2008 ).

Three episodes from 1975 circulate amongst collectors, two as recorded by home viewers: the Password All-Stars Finale ; a studio master of episode # 15 of the big-money revamp ( March 14, 1975 ) with Betty White and Vicki Lawrence ; and the June 27, 1975 Finale with Kate Jackson and Sam Melville.

By 1975, the Patriots drafted Steve Grogan, who would become a fixture with the club for 16 seasons, and under the leadership of coach Chuck Fairbanks, New England's offense became more run-oriented, led by Sam Cunningham.

* Hudson, Sam ( 1975 ) " The story of Plymouth Michigan-A Midwest Microcosm "

Also in 1975, Sam Sharpe Teachers ' College in Granville, a suburb of Montego Bay, was founded and named in his honour.

Sam Riddle, who was one of the producers, served as field reporter in 1975 along with Dick Whittington, the latter being replaced by Regis Philbin in 1976.

Following this Temple produced a number of novels-The Explorer ( 1975 ), Stations ( 1979 ), Beak of the Moon ( 1981 ), Sam ( 1984 ), Dark of the Moon ( 1993 ), and To Each His Own ( 1999 )-and many children's books, among which the most notable are The Legend of the Kea ( 1986 ), Kakapo, Parrot of the Night ( 1988 ), and Kotuku, Flight of the White Heron ( 1994 ).

When the Church Committee report was released in December 1975, it said that a " close friend " of President Kennedy had also been a close friend of mobsters John Roselli and Sam Giancana.

Filmed in the fall of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, the film features appearances and performances by Ronee Blakley, T-Bone Burnett, Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Sam Shepard, and Harry Dean Stanton.

** Front Boss 1957 – 1966 — Salvatore " Sam " Giancana (" Momo ," " Mooney ") ( 1908 – 1975 )