List of Famous people who died in 1975

Rolf Ripperger

First Name Rolf
Last Name Ripperger
Born on February 18, 1928
Died on February 25, 1975 (aged 47)
Born in Germany, Thuringia
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Luigi Raimondi

First Name Luigi
Last Name Raimondi
Born on October 25, 1912
Died on June 24, 1975 (aged 62)
Born in Italy, Piedmont

Luigi Raimondi was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 1973 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.

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John McGiver

First Name John
Last Name McGiver
Born on November 5, 1913
Died on September 9, 1975 (aged 61)

John Irwin McGiver was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975.

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John Dierkes

First Name John
Last Name Dierkes
Born on February 10, 1905
Died on January 8, 1975 (aged 69)

John Dierkes was an American actor who appeared in a number of classic Hollywood films. Before becoming an actor, he had been an economist.

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Louis Bugette

First Name Louis
Last Name Bugette
Born on May 29, 1904
Died on March 18, 1975 (aged 70)
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Lloyd Carlton Stearman

First Name Lloyd
Last Name Stearman
Born on October 26, 1898
Died on April 3, 1975 (aged 76)

Lloyd Carlton Stearman was an American aviator, aircraft designer, and early aviation entrepreneur.

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Philip Dorn

First Name Philip
Last Name Dorn
Born on September 30, 1901
Died on May 9, 1975 (aged 73)

Philip Dorn, sometimes billed as Frits van Dongen, was a Dutch American actor who had a career in Hollywood. He was best known for portraying the father in the film I Remember Mama (1948).

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Thornton Wilder

First Name Thornton
Last Name Wilder
Born on April 17, 1897
Died on December 7, 1975 (aged 78)

Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.

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Richard Wattis

First Name Richard
Last Name Wattis
Born on February 25, 1912
Died on February 1, 1975 (aged 62)

Richard Wattis was an English actor, co-starring in many popular British comedies of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Franz Sobek

First Name Franz
Last Name Sobek
Born on May 29, 1903
Died on December 10, 1975 (aged 72)
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