List of Famous people who died at 75
Francis Borelli
Francis Borelli was a French businessman. He was the chairman of Paris Saint-Germain from 1978 to 1991.
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.
Barry Lopez
Barry Holstun Lopez was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. In a career spanning over 50 years, he visited over 80 countries, and wrote extensively about distant and exotic landscapes including the Arctic wilderness, exploring the relationship between human cultures and nature. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Arctic Dreams (1986) and his Of Wolves and Men (1978) was a National Book Award finalist. He was a contributor to magazines including Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, and The Paris Review.
Juan José Gerardi Conedera
Juan José Gerardi Conedera was a Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights defender who was long active in working with the indigenous Mayan peoples of the country. In the 1970s he gained government recognition of indigenous languages as official languages, and helped secure permission for radio stations to broadcast in indigenous languages. In 1988 he was appointed to the government's National Reconciliation Commission to begin the process of accounting for abuses during the civil war.
Slim Mahfoudh
Slim Mahfoudh was a Tunisian actor. He acted on the stage, in feature films like L'Étoile du Nord and on television series like Al Khottab Al Bab and Choufli Hal.
Eiji Okada
Eiji Okada was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor.
Marly Marley
Marly Marley was a Brazilian actress.
François Guérin
François Guérin (1927–2003) was a French film and television actor.
Hanns Blaschke
Hanns Blaschke was an Austrian politician. A member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) he served as mayor of Vienna from 30 December 1943 until 6 April 1945.
Jean Bernabé
Jean Bernabé was a writer and linguist.