List of Famous people who died in 1975

Virgilio Ferrari was an Italian Democratic Socialist Party politician. He was mayor of Milan. He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

James Vincent Sheean was an American journalist and novelist.

Arthur Lester Matthews was an English actor born in Nottingham. In his career, the handsome Englishman made more than 180 appearances in film and on television. He was erroneously credited in later years as Les Matthews. Matthews played supporting roles in films like The Raven and Werewolf of London, but his career deteriorated into bit parts. He died on 5 June 1975, the day before his 75th birthday, in Los Angeles. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

Trefossa, pen name of Henri Frans de Ziel, was a neoromantic writer in Dutch and Sranan Tongo from Suriname. He is best known for the Sranan Tongo stanzas of Suriname's National Anthem.

Roma Bahn (1896–1975) was a German stage and film actress. On stage she was notable for her performances as Polly in the original 1928 production of The Threepenny Opera. In cinema she played supporting roles in films made during the Weimar and Nazi eras.

Sir Charles Seymour Wright, KCB, OBE, MC, nicknamed "Silas" Wright after novelist Silas Hocking, was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition of 1910–1913, the Terra Nova Expedition.

Günther Friedländer was a German pharmacist, botanist, pharmacognosist, food chemist, an industrialist of medical products, and the founder of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.

Pierre Montazel was a French cinematographer and screenwriter.