* 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

More contemporary renditions include samples from such popular artists as Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers ( 1963 ), The Byrds ( 1970 ), Elvis Presley ( 1971 ), Skeeter Davis ( 1972 ), Mighty Clouds of Joy ( 1972 ), Amazing Rhythm Aces ( 1975 ), Willie Nelson ( 1976 ), and The Lemonheads ( 1992 ).

* 1975 – Willie Geist, American television host, writer, and producer

In 1975, Pepe Willie, the husband of Prince's cousin, Shauntel, formed the band 94 East with Marcy Ingvoldstad and Kristie Lazenberry.

Al Jackson, Jr. was murdered in 1975, after which the trio of Dunn, Cropper and Jones reunited on numerous occasions using various drummers, including Willie Hall, Anton Fig, Steve Jordan and Steve Potts.

When the 18-team First Division was superseded by a new 10-team Premier League for the 1975 – 76 season, at which time they were managed by Willie McLean and his assistant Craig Brown ( who would become manager almost 35 years later ).

* Willie Mays Aikens ( 1975 )

In 1975, Willie Brown authored and lobbied the successful passing of the Consenting Adult Sex Bill that legalized homosexuality in California, thus earning the strong and lasting support of San Francisco's gay community.

* Willie Boland ( born 1975 ), Irish professional football player

The song has come to represent the decade of its creation, and it has been covered by many artists, from his peers like Glen Campbell, Bob Dylan, Percy Sledge and Sam & Dave to artists of various genres, including Jimmy Velvit ( whose cover version was included on his 2001 Grammy nominated album Sun Sea & Sand ), Widespread Panic ( 2006 ), Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, Kenny Rankin, Dennis Brown, Michel Pagliaro, Jacob Miller, Michael Bolton ( whose version of the song reached # 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1988 ), Pearl Jam, The Format, T. Rex ( as a b-side of " Dreamy Lady " on March 11, 1975 ), Brent Smith of Shinedown ( during an acoustic set in 2008 ), Justin Nozuka ( 2007 ) and Sara Bareilles ( 2008 ).

He was replaced by NFL Hall of Famer Willie Wood for the entirety of the 1975 season.

* Willie Hernandez, P, Chicago Cubs ( 1977 – 83 ), Philadelphia ( 1983 ), Detroit ( 1984 – 89 ), played for Reading in 1975

* Willie Carson – Rose Bowl ( 1975, 1976 ), Trusted ( 1977 ), Homing ( 1978 ), Known Fact ( 1980 ), Teleprompter ( 1984 ), Lahib ( 1992 ), Bahri ( 1995 )

* Willie Nelson-Country icon Willie Nelson's 1975 cover reached the top thirty on the U. S. country singles charts.

Willie Murphy Crawford ( September 7, 1946 in Los Angeles, California – August 27, 2004 in Los Angeles, California ) was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played with Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1964 – 1975 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1976 ), Houston Astros ( 1977 ) and Oakland Athletics ( 1977 ).

* The Odd Couple ( 1975 ) ( episode " The Roy Clark Show " as Willie Boggs )

A script by Joseph Samachson from the 1940s — in which the elflike Willie Wisher banishes the Soldiers to " the Land of Magic ," where they encounter various supernatural characters — was later serialized in 1975 in Adventure Comics # 438-443, with each chapter illustrated by a different artist ( including Dick Dillin, Mike Grell, Lee Elias, and José Luis García-López ).

Willie Gathrel " Bill " Hefner ( April 11, 1930 – September 2, 2009 ), was a Democratic U. S. Congressman from North Carolina, serving between 1975 and 1999.

It was as a fresh-faced youngster in 1975 that Willie Tait began his lifelong association with the island.

When Mr. Burns introduces his new religion, most of the sequence is a parody of the promotional video of Michael Jackson's 1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Willie scratching his nails along the church window to get Marge and Reverend Lovejoy's attention is a reference to the 1975 film Jaws, in which the character Quint performs a similar action.

The Undisputed Truth, along with Rose Royce and Willie Hutch, followed Whitfield during his exodus from Motown to set up Whitfield Records in 1975.

Other famous owners included Dick Martin ( 1971 ), Lucille Ball ( who got her 1971 Blackhawk as a gift from her husband Gary Morton with a dash plaque saying I Love Lucy-Gary ), Sammy Davis Jr. ( who owned two 1972, one for himself and one for his wife ), Dean Martin ( who owned three and crashed his 1972 Blackhawk with vanity plate DRUNKY ), Robert Goulet ( 1972 ), Evel Knievel ( 1974 ), Wilson Pickett ( 1974 ), Luigi Colani ( 1974 ), Johnnie Taylor ( 1975 ), Johnny Cash ( 1975 ), Curd Jürgens ( 1977 ), Larry Holmes ( 1982 ), as well as Jerry Lewis, Liberace, Willie Nelson, Lou Brock, Isaac Hayes, Muhammed Ali, George Foreman, Tom Jones, Billy Joel, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Al Pacino, Wayne Newton and H. B.

The film's songs were written and performed by Willie Hutch, and a soundtrack album was released on Motown Records in 1975.