* 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

Common ancestor of Korean, Japanese and traditional Altaic dated back to the 7th or 8th millennium BC ( 1975: 125 ).

Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

* 1975 – Nawo Kawakita, Japanese drummer ( Maximum the Hormone )

In 1975, the Japanese company Yamaha licensed the algorithms for frequency modulation synthesis ( FM synthesis ) from John Chowning, who had experimented with it at Stanford University since 1971.

* 1975 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer ( The Brilliant Green )

* 1975 – Nanase Aikawa, Japanese singer

Terror of Mechagodzilla, ( released in Japan as ) is a 1975 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho.

In 1975, Holden introduced the compact Gemini, the Australian version of the " T-car ", based on the Opel Kadett C. The Gemini was an overseas design developed jointly with Isuzu, GM's Japanese affiliate ; and was powered by a 1. 6-litre four-cylinder engine.

* 1975 – Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer ( Puffy Amiyumi )

* 1975 – Kenshin Kawakami, Japanese baseball player

* 1975 – Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player

* 1975 – Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress

* 1975 – Yukana, Japanese seiyū

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

* 1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer

* 1975 – Takashi Shimoda, Japanese footballer

* 1975 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer ( d. 2007 )

* 1975 – Akihiro Asai, Japanese race car driver

* 1908 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist ( d. 1975 )

Category: 1975 Japanese television series endings

** Yoshihiro Hattori, Japanese exchange student ( b. 1975 )

* February 24 – Tokushichi Mishima, Japanese inventor, engineer ( d. 1975 )

Sony's release of its Betamax unit to the Japanese market in 1975 placed further pressure on the MITI to side with the company.

1975 models featured Air Flow Control ( AFC ) Fuel Injection on U. S., Canadian, and Japanese Beetles, a derivative of the more complex Bosch fuel injection system used in the Volkswagen Type III – and equivalent to Bosch L-Jetronic.