* 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 – 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 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union ( UDT ) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

An instance of a Governor General exercising his power was during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, when the Australian Prime Minister of the time, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed by the Governor-General.

In 1975, Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam recommended to the Queen that Sir Colin Hannah, then Governor of Queensland, have his dormant commission revoked for having made public political statements.

* 1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.

Nancy was the First Lady of California when her husband was Governor from 1967 to 1975.

Governor Reagan's term ended in 1975, and he did not run for a third ; instead, he met with advisors to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

Long term political and government appointments, such as those of King Abdullah, who was the Commander of the National Guard from 1963 until 2010, when he then appointed his son to replace him ), Crown Prince Sultan, was Minister of Defence & Aviation from 1962 to 2011, Prince Nayef was the Minister of Interior from 1975 until his death in 2012, Prince Saud has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1975 and Prince Salman, was the Governor of the Riyadh Region from 1962 to 2011, resulting in the creation of " power fiefdoms " for senior princes.

* Charles W. Sandman, Jr., Republican Congressman for New Jersey's 2nd district ( 1967 – 1975 ) and Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey ( 1973 )

* June 3 – Benjamin McCandlish, Governor of Guam ( d. 1975 )

* Coke R. Stevenson ( 1888 – 1975 ), Governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947

Michael Stanley Dukakis (; born November 3, 1933 ) served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991.

* Governor Coke Stevenson ( 1888 – 1975 ) Born in Mason County

Prior to serving as Governor, Davis served as Chief of Staff to Governor Jerry Brown ( 1975 – 1981 ), a California State Assemblyman ( 1983 – 1987 ), California State Controller ( 1987 – 1995 ) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California ( 1995 – 1999 ).

Davis returned to California and entered politics, serving as Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff to Governor Edmund G. " Jerry " Brown Jr. from 1975 to 1981.

Recognized by Governor Carroll in 1975 for this achievement, he was just 11 years old when awarded his faith's religious emblem ( Religious emblems are not controlled by the BSA but rather by each participating church body ).

Senator ( 1979 – 1997 ) and Governor of Arkansas ( 1975 – 1979 )

* Robert Frederick Bennett, Mayor of Prairie Village, Governor of Kansas ( 1975 – 1979 )

* Donald R. Dwight ( 1931 –), Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1971 to 1975.

* John Swainson, the 42nd Governor of the State of Michigan ( 1961 – 1963 ) as well as Justice of the Michigan State Supreme Court ( 1971 – 1975 ), resided in Manchester from the mid-1970s until his death in 1994.

Brown ( 1888 – 1975 ), state Speaker of the House Solomon Blatt, Sr. ( 1895 – 1986 ), and Governor Joseph E. Harley ( 1880 – 1942 ).