List of Famous people who died at 75

Thelma Carpenter was an American jazz singer and actress, best known as "Miss One", the Good Witch of the North in the movie The Wiz. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Fred and Mary Carpenter, and attended Girls' Commercial High School, where Susan Hayward was a few years ahead.

John Furlong was an American actor. He dubbed the voice of Russ Meyer in all of Meyer's film appearances.

Aída Bortnik was an Argentine screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for her work in the film La historia oficial (1985). She has the notable distinction of having written the screenplay for both the first Argentine film nominated for an Academy Award and the first Argentine film to win an Academy Award.

Alfio Caltabiano (1932–2007) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.

Lewis J. Rachmil was an American film producer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Art Direction for the film Our Town. In the mid and late 1940s, he produced several of William Boyd's popular Hopalong Cassidy B-Westerns. In 1959, he was producer of Men into Space, a one-season CBS TV series that tried to give a serious science fiction preview of where the then-new American space program seemed to be heading. During the 1960s he produced several films in England for Mirisch Films.

Joseph Dao was the Burkinabé-born Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kayes, Mali.

Barry Reed was an American trial lawyer and bestselling author.