1975
Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 - 1975 - 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980
Births
- January 27 - Bill Walsh, Movie producer and writer.
- February 11 - Chuck Watanabe, kayaker.
- May 2 - David Beckham, English footballer
- June 4 - Angelina Jolie, US actress
- August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
Deaths
- July 29 - James Blish, U.S. science fiction author
- August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, aged 68, Russian composer
- November 20 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Events
- January 1 - John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21
- February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative Party leadership.
- April 17 - Pol Pot proclaims the "Democratic Republic of Kampuchea" in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1975-1979).
- April 30 - The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
- May 15 - The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by U.S. Navy and Marines. 38 are killed.
- July 15 - Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space
- September 5 - President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt in Sacramento, California.
- September 22 - President Ford survives a second assassination attempt.
- November 11 - Angola independent from Portugal.
- November 25 - Suriname independent from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- November 28 - East Timor independent from Portugal
- December 7 - East Timor invaded by Indonesia
Sport
- May 3 - FA Cup final - Fulham F.C. 0 - 2 West Ham United F.C. played at Wembley Stadium in front of 100,000
- January 12 - Super Bowl IX Pittsburgh Steelers (16) def. Minnesota Vikings (6)
- Physics Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater
- Chemistry - John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
- Medicine - David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
- Literature - Eugenio Montale
- Peace - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- Economics - Leonid Kantorovich, Tjalling Koopmans