List of Famous people who died in 1975

Yi-Li Keng was a Chinese botanist, specializing in the study of grasses, particularly the tribe Triticeae of the Poaceae.

John Mylong, also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, born Adolf Heinrich Münz, was an Austrian actor who later settled in the United States.

Dong Biwu was a Chinese communist revolutionary and politician, who served as Acting Chairman of the People's Republic of China between 1972 and 1975.

Eric Emerson was an American musician, dancer, and actor. Emerson is best known for his roles in films by pop artist Andy Warhol, and as a member of the seminal glam punk group, the Magic Tramps.

Oscar Rasbach was an American pianist and composer and arranger of art songs and works for piano.

Louis Victor Wijnhamer, better known as Pah Wongso, was an Indo social worker popular within the ethnic Chinese community of the Dutch East Indies, and subsequently Indonesia. Educated in Semarang and Surabaya, Pah Wongso began his social work in the early 1930s, using traditional arts such as wayang golek to promote such causes as monogamy and abstinence. By 1938, he had established a school for the poor, and was raising money for the Red Cross to send aid to China.

Ettore Margadonna was an Italian screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film Bread, Love and Dreams (1953).