List of Famous people who died in 1975
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association.
Friedrich Wiese
Friedrich Wiese was a German general in the Wehrmacht who commanded the 19th Army. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.
Joan Whitney Payson
Joan Whitney Payson was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was also co-founder and majority owner of Major League Baseball's New York Mets baseball franchise, and was the first woman to own a major-league team in North America without inheriting it.
Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro
Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro (1896–1975) was a Spanish film actress. She was the mother of the actress Luchy Soto.
Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib
Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, was the wife of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh. She was assassinated with her husband and three sons.
James Stopford, 8th Earl of Courtown
Geoffrey Cokayne Gibbs
Richard Gatty
Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold Joseph Toynbee was a British historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London. From 1918 to 1950, Toynbee was considered a leading specialist on international affairs.
Arnold McNair, 1st Baron McNair
Arnold Duncan McNair, 1st Baron McNair, was a British legal scholar, university teacher, judge of the International Court of Justice and later the first president of the European Court of Human Rights.