List of Famous people who died at 75

Mohamed Negm was an Egyptian actor and comedian.

Heinz Reinefarth, 26 December 1903 – 7 May 1979) was a German SS commander during World War II and government official in West Germany after the war. During the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 his troops committed numerous atrocities. After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland, on the isle of Sylt, and member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag. Polish demands for extradition were never accepted, nor was Reinefarth ever convicted of any war crime.

Elizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill, OC, known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was the world's first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and was the first woman in Canada to receive a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. She worked as an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft construction during her years at Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William, Ontario. After her work at CC&F, she ran a successful consulting business. Between 1967 and 1970, she was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, published in 1970.

René Hardy was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Hardy was born in Mortrée, Orne. In spite of having rendered dedicated and valuable service as a member of the resistance group, Combat, he was still suspected of being instrumental in the arrest of Jean Moulin, General Charles Delestraint and other members of the resistance. Despite later being acquitted in 2 separate trials, those suspicions never went away.

Hu Lancheng was a Chinese writer and politician who was denounced as a traitor for serving a propaganda official in the Wang Jingwei regime, the Japanese puppet regime during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He was the first husband of the celebrated novelist Eileen Chang.

Abidin Cevher Özden was a Turkish banker and businessman who, in 1981–1982, was at the origin of Turkey's biggest banking scandal. Both he and the chain of events during the scandal are better known under the name of his company at the time, Banker Kastelli, referring to the village near Sürmene, a town of Trabzon, where he was born. The current name of this village is Baştımar and was now Mahno, which was derived from Mah-i New

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel was a leading Turkish poet, author and later politician.

Robert Lembke was a German television presenter and game show host.

Larbi Benbarek; also Ben Barek or Ben M'barek was a French-Moroccan football player. He represented the French national football team 17 times. He earned the sobriquet of "Black Pearl".

Elisabeth Hauptmann was a German writer who worked with fellow German playwright and director Bertolt Brecht.