* 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 – 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

Tomi Joutsen ( born April 30, 1975 ) is the current frontman for the bands Amorphis and Sinisthra.

* 1975 – Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model

* 1975 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer

* 1975 – Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician

* 1975 – Mikko Kavén, Finnish footballer

* 1975 – Samer el Nahhal, Finnish singer and bass player ( Lordi )

* 1975 – Elias Viljanen, Finnish singer and guitarist ( Sonata Arctica )

* 1975 – Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player

* 1975 – Kimmo Timonen, Finnish hockey player

* May 14 – Janne Aikala, Finnish murder victim ( b. 1975 )

Taisto Kalevi Sorsa ( December 21, 1930 – January 16, 2004 ) was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972 – 1975, 1977 – 1979, 1982 – 1983 and 1983 – 1987 and at the date of his death still held the Finnish record of most days of incumbency as prime minister.

The President has called an early election eight times in Finnish history ; however, this has not happened since 1975.

Sanna Laura Voutilainen ( born May 17, 1975 in Jyväskylä ), is a Finnish pop singer.

Finnish geologist Aarne Laitakari ( 1890 — 1975 ) had described the peculiar stone and sought its origin for years when his son Pekka discovered a deposit at Ylämaa in south-eastern Finland while building the Salpa Line fortifications there in 1940.

* Elias Viljanen ( born 1975 ), Finnish musician

The SM-liiga was constituted in 1975 to concentrate the development of top level Finnish ice hockey, and pave the way towards professionalism.

The team has won 15 Finnish league championships ( 1953, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 2003 ).

The bronze medals in 1973 and silver medals in 1974 were followed by the Finnish championship in 1975.

* Ilkka Villi ( born 1975 ), Finnish actor and writer

* Finnish singer Virve " Vicky " Rosti recorded a version titled " Kun nuori on " in 1975 with Finnish lyrics by Juha " Junnu " Vainio.

Kimmo Samuel Timonen ( born March 18, 1975 ) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenseman and an alternate captain for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

The Finnish Class Tr1 ( or R1 ) tender locomotive was built by Tampella, Lokomo and German locomotive builders Arnold Jung from 1940 and remained in service until 1975.

He was also the academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, the president of the Soviet All-Union Botanical Society ( 1973 ) and the International Association for Plant Taxonomy ( 1975 ), member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Literature ( 1971 ), the German Academy of Naturalists " Leopoldina " ( 1972 ) and other scientific societies.