* 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

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

* 1975 – Scott Chipperfield, Australian soccer player

Founded in 1975 by Scott B. Bizar, the company's first publications were the wargames Gladiators and Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age.

On the basis of these photographs, British naturalist Peter Scott announced in 1975 that the scientific name of the monster would henceforth be Nessiteras rhombopteryx ( Greek for " The Ness monster with diamond-shaped fin ").

* 1975 – Scott " Skippy " Chapman, American musician

Ridley Scott was married to Felicity Heywood from 1964 to 1975.

* 1975 – Scott Speedman, English-Canadian actor

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

Directed by Ridley Scott and co-starring Russell Crowe and Vince Colosimo, DiCaprio dyed his hair brown and wore brown contacts for the role, which he chose to pursue because he considered it a throwback to political films in the 1970s such as The Parallax View ( 1974 ) and Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ).

The site was opened to the public in 1975 by Sir Peter Scott.

* Previous Sikeston newspapers have included The Sikeston Star which was founded in 1884 ; The Sikeston Herald, a left-leaning Republican newspaper founded in 1903 or perhaps 1900 ; The Scott County Democrat and The Enterprise which was founded in 1883 and eventually became known as The Dexter Statesman ; and Delta Metro, a weekly news magazine, which was published from 1975 until 1977.

In 1975 Scott was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.

With an Oscar nomination on her resume ' Scott found steady movie work for the next four decades, appearing in some major epics like The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, The Desperate Hours, and Airport 1975.

* Scott Rand ( born 1975 ), English darts player

Scott Turow later became a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, serving until 1975, when he entered Harvard Law School.

The trend continued on a larger scale with The Hindenburg ( 1975 ) starring George C. Scott ; The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ) starring Burt Lancaster ; Two-Minute Warning ( 1976 ) starring Charlton Heston ; Black Sunday ( 1977 ) starring Robert Shaw ; Rollercoaster in Sensurround ( 1977 ) starring George Segal ; Damnation Alley ( 1977 ) starring Jan-Michael Vincent ; Avalanche ( 1978 ) starring Rock Hudson ; Gray Lady Down ( 1978 ) also starring Charlton Heston ; Hurricane ( a 1979 remake of John Ford's 1937 film ) starring Jason Robards ; and City on Fire ( 1979 ) starring Henry Fonda.

In 1975, she appeared with Peter Falk, Oskar Werner, and Martha Scott in the Columbo episode Playback, playing wheelchair-using Elizabeth Van Wick, whose husband ( Werner ) murders her wealthy mother ( Scott ).

Gloria D. Scott, an African American, was elected National President of the Girl Scouts in 1975.

* Scott Klug, 1975 former congressman from Wisconsin

Scott retired from the Air Force in 1975 with the rank of Colonel, and more than 5600 hours of logged flying time.

* On April 18, 1975, at age 42, Scott became the Center Director of NASA's Flight Research Center, a position he held until October 30, 1977.

The company has toured extensively both internationally and nationally The first national tour in 1975 to the Kennedy Center saw the company present Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, which was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon.

* The Doctor Who Never Gave Up by Carolyn Scott 1975