List of Famous people who died in 1975

Carlo Levi was an Italian painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor.

Gabriel Aresti Segurola was one of the most important writers and poets in Basque language in the 20th century.

Richard Houston Gaines was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962.

Joseph Laniel was a French conservative politician of the Fourth Republic, who served as Prime Minister for a year from 1953 to 1954. During the middle of his tenure as Prime Minister Laniel was an unsuccessful candidate for the French Presidency, a post won by René Coty.

Manuel Aznar Zubigaray was a diplomat under the Franco regime and one of the most important journalists of the 20th century in Spain.

Edward Lawrie Tatum was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg.