* 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 Debbie Byrne-Best Australian Teenage Personality

Many 1970s TV movies were a source of controversy, such as Linda Blair's Born Innocent ( 1974 ) and Sarah T .-Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic ( 1975 ), as well as Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway ( 1976 ) and its sequel, Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn ( 1977 ), which were vehicles for former Brady Bunch actress Eve Plumb.

* Sarah T .-Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic ( 1975 ) ( TV-film )

Between these two films, she appeared in the TV movies Born Innocent ( 1974 ), Sarah T .-Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic ( 1975 ), and Sweet Hostage ( 1975 ) opposite Martin Sheen.

* Sarah T .-Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic ( 1975 )

Teenage Head was formed in 1975 when the band members were students at Westdale High School in Hamilton, Ontario.

* Teenage Hustler ( 1975 ) ( as Harry Nixon )

He wrote the musical scores to made-for-TV movies such as: Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic ( 1975 ), The Jericho Mile ( 1979 ), Two of a Kind ( 1982 ), The Shell Seekers ( 1989 ), The Killing Mind ( 1991 ), Runaway Father ( 1991 ), In the Best Interest of the Children ( 1992 ), Seduction: Three Tales from the " Inner Sanctum " ( 1992 ); and television series such as: Columbo, Lou Grant, Switch, Hawaii Five-O, McClain's Law, Cutter to Houston and Trauma Center.

* 1903 – Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress ( d. 1975 )

Bathpool Park, south of the town is where Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther, took 17-year-old heiress Lesley Whittle after kidnapping her in 1975, and prior to murdering her.

Deil Gustafson took control in 1971, but sold a 51 % share to chemical heiress Mitzi Stauffer Briggs in 1975.

Eventually she was cast in several prominent film roles, including Gustav von Aschenbach's wife in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film Death in Venice, the Jewish department store heiress Natalia Landauer in the 1972 film Cabaret, for which she received some acclaim ( including two Golden Globe nominations, a BAFTA nomination and an award from the National Board of Review ), and the tragic beauty Lady Lyndon in the Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon ( 1975 ).

Joan Whitney Payson ( February 5, 1903 – October 4, 1975 ) was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family.

Juanita Joan Nielsen ( 22 April 1937 – probably 4 July 1975 ) was an Australian publisher and heiress.

He married Lesley Evelyn Gosling on 2 August 1975 in Ashton-under-Lyne and they have a son, Thomas.

Lesley Susan Molseed ( 14 August 1964 – 5 October 1975 ) was an eleven-year old girl from Turf Hill, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, who was found dead on Rishworth Moor in West Yorkshire after being murdered.

On a national level, Highley is most known for being the village where 17-year-old murder victim Lesley Whittle lived and from which she was abducted by Donald Neilson, the Black Panther, in 1975.

Lesley, the daughter of bus firm owner George Whittle ( 1905 – 1967 ), was taken from her home on 13 January 1975 and found strangled on an underground ledge beneath Bathpool Park near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, on 7 March that year.

* Lesley Whittle ( 1957 – 1975 ), English murder victim

The FSS's innovative and highly sensitive DNA profiling technique called LCN ( low copy number ) was used in convicting Antoni Imiela ( the M25 rapist ) and Ronald Castree ( for the murder of Lesley Molseed in 1975 ), but was questioned during the 2007 trial of a suspect in the Omagh bombing.