List of Famous people who died at 75

Ahmed Achour ‎ was a Tunisian composer and conductor. He led the Tunisian Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 2010 and taught at the Higher Institute of Music in Tunis. He died in Tunis after a long illness, aged 75.

Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel, also known as Doy Laurel, was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the vice-president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 under President Corazon Aquino and briefly served as the last prime minister from 25 February to 25 March 1986, when the position was abolished. He was a major leader of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO), the political party that helped topple the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos with the 1986 People Power Revolution.

Sebastião do Rego Barros Netto was a Brazilian lawyer and diplomat. He served as Brazil's last Ambassador to the Soviet Union from January 26, 1990, until the country's dissolution on December 26, 1991. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, he served as Brazil's first post-Soviet Ambassador to both Russia and Ukraine from December 1991 until December 1994. His final diplomatic posting was as Ambassador to Argentina from January 26, 1999, until December 27, 2001.

Otto Küsel is considered to be an example of a prisoner functionary in Nazi concentration camp, who used his position in favour of other prisoners.

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lyapidevsky was a Soviet aircraft pilot and one of first people to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. A graduate of the Soviet Air Force Academy, he reached the rank of Major-General of the Soviet Air Force at 1946.

Maria Celina Dzielska was a Polish classical philologist, historian, translator, biographer of Hypatia, and political activist. She was a Professor of Ancient Roman History at Jagiellonian University.

Paul Felix Lazarsfeld was an Austrian-American sociologist. The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted influence over the techniques and the organization of social research. "It is not so much that he was an American sociologist," one colleague said of him after his death, "as it was that he determined what American sociology would be." Lazarsfeld said that his goal was "to produce Paul Lazarsfelds". The two main accomplishments he is associated with can be analyzed within two lenses of analysis: research institutes, methodology, as well as his research content itself. He was a founding figure in 20th-century empirical sociology.

Saïd Amara was a Tunisian handball player and coach.