* 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

* October 18, 1975 episode ( host: Paul Simon ) – failed Candid Camera stunts and home movies

* 1975 – Simon Kvamm, Danish singer and comedian ( Nephew )

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.

Simon pursued solo projects after Bridge over Troubled Water, reuniting occasionally with Garfunkel for various projects, such as their 1975 Top Ten single " My Little Town ".

Released in October 1975 and produced by Simon and Phil Ramone, it marked another departure.

They had a son, Harper Simon, in 1972 and divorced in 1975.

However, at just the same time, the Flemish mathematician Simon Stevin ( 1548 – 1620 ) wrote an essay containing the correct mathematical formulation of equal temperament for the first time in Western musical theory, though his manuscript remained unpublished until long after the author's death ( Kutter 1975, 167 – 68 ; Stevin 1884 ).

Steven Berkoff's East ( 1975 ) includes a depiction of the event ; an eponymous play commemorating the events was written by Simon Blumenfeld and first performed in 1987 ; and in 2006 a short film was produced featuring a remembrance from a grandfather to his grandson.

In 1975, Elektra released her first greatest-hits album, The Best of Carly Simon, which became Simon's all time best selling disc and eventually reached Triple-Platinum status in the United States.

An additional athletics-related honor came on October 11, 1975, when Simon threw out the first pitch of the 1975 World Series at Boston's Fenway Park on behalf of President Ford.

* Simon Greenleaf, " The Testimony of the Evangelists ," reprinted from the 1903 edition as an appendix in John Warwick Montgomery, The Law Above The Law, ( Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1975 ), pp. 91 – 140 & 149-163.

He was awarded the ACM's A. M. Turing Award along with Herbert A. Simon in 1975 for their basic contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.

* 1975 — A. M. Turing Award ( with Herbert A. Simon ), Association for Computing Machinery

* Simon & Schuster ( 1975 )

Houseman played Energy Corporation Executive Bartholomew in the 1975 film Rollerball and parodied Sydney Greenstreet in the 1978 Neil Simon film, The Cheap Detective.

* Durant Will and Ariel, The Age of Napoleon, New York: Simon and Schuster ( 1975 )

For more than three decades after it was founded in 1975, the Norton Simon Museum maintained a no-loans policy.

Randall Carlito Simon ( born May 25, 1975 ) is a professional baseball first baseman.

Simon Burns was educated at Christ the King School, Accra, Ghana ; Stamford School ; and Worcester College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA Honours Degree in Modern History ( third class honours, resulting in the nickname ' third degree burns ') in 1975.

* ( With Eric Olson ) Explorations in Psychohistory: The Wellfleet Papers, Simon & Schuster, 1975.

Performances available include: The Music Makers, with Sir Adrian Boult conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1975 ( reissued 1999 ), paired with Elgar's Dream of Gerontius ; and the 2006 album Sea Pictures paired with The Music Makers, Simon Wright conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

* Simon Easterby ( born 1975 ), Ireland rugby player

Gradually a regular line-up evolved around Simon Jeffes and Helen Liebman: Neil Rennie, who joined in 1975 on ukulele ; Geoffrey Richardson, who had joined in 1976 and co-wrote three pieces on Broadcasting from Home ( 1984 ), played viola, cuatro, guitar, clarinet, mandolin and ukulele ; Julio Segovia answered an advert in the Melody Maker and joined in 1978 on percussion ; Paul Street joined in 1984 playing guitar, cuatro and ukulele, leaving in 1988 ; Jennifer Maidman joined in 1984 on percussion, bass, ukulele and cuatro ; Steve Fletcher replaced Steve Nye in 1988 on piano and keyboards and Annie Whitehead, who had also appeared on Broadcasting from Home ( 1984 ), joined the live band in 1988 on trombone.