List of Famous people who died at 75

Cornelius Lance "Connie" Hawkins was an American basketball player in the American Basketball League (ABL), American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA), Harlem Globetrotters, and Harlem Wizards. A New York City playground legend, "the Hawk" was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992.

Alain Devaquet was a French politician who was a minister under Jacques Chirac. A university professor before embarking on his political career with the Rally for the Republic, Devaquet was given the role of junior minister for universities. In this role he became the public face of a controversial proposal to reform the higher education system in 1986, the proposals becoming known as the Devaquet Law, despite originating from more senior members of the government. The plan allowed universities to be more selective in the admission of students and to charge fees.

Vivien Mollie Humphrey, known as Molly Peters, was an English actress and model best known for her role as Bond girl Patricia Fearing in the James Bond film Thunderball.

Ivan Stepanovich Konev was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, responsible for taking much of Axis-occupied Eastern Europe.

Ziona was the leader of Chana páwl, a polygamy-practising Christian sect. The sect was formed by his father Chana in June 1942, which survives in the mountains of Mizoram state of India, sharing borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar. The sect settled in Baktawng village Mizoram, India. Ziona was often attributed to as a world record holder for being the head of the "world's largest existing family" or the "world's biggest family." He had 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law, 33 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild; 181 family members in total and counting. He was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! top 11 strangest stories for the year 2011, and in 2013's Ripley Believe It or Not book 9.

Bahiga Hafez was an Egyptian screenwriter, composer, director, editor, producer and actress.

Gian Piero Galeazzi, also known as Giampiero Galeazzi, was an Italian competition rower, sport journalist, commentator, and television personality.

Winston Anthony Lloyd Cozier was a Barbadian cricket journalist, writer, and radio commentator on West Indian cricket for over fifty years. Scyld Berry wrote that he was both the voice and the conscience of West Indian cricket, the latter because of his harsh criticism of the West Indian board for "squandering the money and legacy that it had inherited".

Philip Dennis Arthur May was an English vocalist. He gained fame in the 1960s as the lead singer of Pretty Things, of which he was a founding member. May remained a member throughout the band's changing line-up over the years, and was one of the band's main lyricists. He was the primary lyricist for the album S.F. Sorrow.

Tony Joe White, nicknamed the Swamp Fox, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but which was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent for the Blues", both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner's producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who was a friend of White. "Polk Salad Annie" was also recorded by Joe Dassin, Elvis Presley, and Tom Jones.