List of Famous people who died in 1975

Roger Douglas Branigin was the 42nd governor of Indiana, serving from January 11, 1965, to January 13, 1969. A World War II veteran and well-known public speaker, Branigin took office with a Democratic general assembly, the first time since the Great Depression that Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches of the Indiana state government. Branigin was a conservative Democrat who oversaw repeal of the state's personal property taxes on household goods, increased access to higher education, and began construction of Indiana's deep-water port at Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan. During his one term as governor, Branigin exercised his veto power one hundred times, a record number for a single term. Branigin was the last Democrat to serve as governor of Indiana until Evan Bayh took office in 1989.

Lilly Steinschneider, fully Lilly Helene Steinschneider-Wenckheim was a Hungarian pilot, the first qualified female pilot in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Karl Illner was her master. She got her licence on the 15th of August, 1912. On the 6th of October, 1912 she took part in the air show, Nagyvárad, Hungary (Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Kazimierz Fajans was a Polish American physical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the discoverer of chemical element protactinium.

Aleksey Shakhurin was a Soviet statesman, and Minister of Aviation Industry during World War II.

Hans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.