List of Famous people who died at 75
Anne Shirley
Anne Shirley was an American actress.
Carlos Larrañaga
Carlos Larrañaga Ladrón de Guevara was a Spanish actor.
Jean Giono
Jean Giono was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
Joe Mafela
Joe "Sdumo" Mafela was a South African actor, writer, producer, director, singer, and businessman.
Al Matthews
Alexander Basil Matthews was an American actor and singer, best known for his appearance as Gunnery Sergeant Apone in the James Cameron film Aliens (1986). He reprised his role 27 years later, providing the voice of Apone for the video game Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013). Matthews' portrayal of Apone was the inspiration for Sgt. Avery Johnson of the Halo franchise.
Chandra Bahadur Dangi
Chandra Bahadur Dangi was a Nepali man who was the shortest man in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence, measuring 54.6 cm. Dangi was a primordial dwarf. He broke the record of Gul Mohammed (1957–1997), whose height was 57 cm.
Kamal Amrohi
Syed Amir Haider Kamal Naqvi, popularly known as Kamal Amrohi, was an Indian film director and screenwriter. He was also an Urdu and Hindi poet.
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati was a French mime, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. Throughout his long career, he worked as a comic actor, writer, and director. In a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly of the Greatest Movie Directors, Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time. With only six feature-length films to his credit as director, he directed fewer films than any other director on this list of 50.
Herbert Sobel
Herbert M. Sobel Sr. was an American commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Sobel was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by David Schwimmer.
Aleksandr Burdonsky
Alexander Vasilyevich Burdonsky was a Russian theater and film director and grandson of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin. He directed more than 20 plays at The Moscow Theater, and also directed films including Playing On the Keys of The Soul and This Madman Platanov. In 1996, Burdonsky was awarded the People's Artist of Russia Award for his works.