1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1975th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 975th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1970s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1975 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1975
MCMLXXV
Ab urbe condita2728
Armenian calendar1424
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԴ
Assyrian calendar6725
Baháʼí calendar131–132
Balinese saka calendar1896–1897
Bengali calendar1382
Berber calendar2925
British Regnal year23 Eliz. 2 – 24 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2519
Burmese calendar1337
Byzantine calendar7483–7484
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
4672 or 4465
    — to —
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4673 or 4466
Coptic calendar1691–1692
Discordian calendar3141
Ethiopian calendar1967–1968
Hebrew calendar5735–5736
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2031–2032
 - Shaka Samvat1896–1897
 - Kali Yuga5075–5076
Holocene calendar11975
Igbo calendar975–976
Iranian calendar1353–1354
Islamic calendar1394–1395
Japanese calendarShōwa 50
(昭和50年)
Javanese calendar1906–1907
Juche calendar64
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4308
Minguo calendarROC 64
民國64年
Nanakshahi calendar507
Thai solar calendar2518
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
2101 or 1720 or 948
    — to —
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
2102 or 1721 or 949
Unix time157766400 – 189302399

It was also declared the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.

Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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April 4: Allen and Gates four years prior to the founding of Microsoft
 
April 9th-21st: Battle of Xuân Lộc

June

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July

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August

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September

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Flag of Papua New Guinea

October

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November

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Protestors in Sydney immediately after the dismissal of Gough Whitlam, 11 November 1975
 
Flag of Suriname

December

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Date unknown

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World population

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World population
1975 1970 1980
World 4,068,109,000 3,692,492,000   375,617,000 4,434,682,000   366,573,000
Africa 408,160,000 357,283,000   50,877,000 469,618,001   61,458,000
Asia 2,397,512,000 2,143,118,000   254,394,000 2,632,335,000   234,823,000
Europe 675,542,000 655,855,000   19,687,000 692,431,000   16,889,000
South America 321,906,000 284,856,000   37,050,000 361,401,000   39,495,000
North America 243,425,000 231,937,000   11,488,000 256,068,000   12,643,000
Oceania 21,564,000 19,443,000   2,121,000 22,828,000   1,264,000

Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Dax Shepard
 
Danica McKellar
 
Bradley Cooper
 
Matteo Renzi
 
Sara Gilbert
 
Preity Zinta

February

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Natalie Imbruglia
 
Drew Barrymore
 
Gary Neville
 
Brian Littrell

March

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Valentina Monetta
 
Aracely Arámbula
 
Eva Longoria
 
Puneeth Rajkumar
 
Fergie

April

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Pedro Pascal
 
Zach Braff
 
Anouk
 
Jasey-Jay Anderson
 
Johnny Galecki
 
David Beckham
 
Christina Hendricks
 
Enrique Iglesias
 
Chris Diamantopoulos
 
Hélio Castroneves
 
Jonah Lomu
 
Keiko Fujimori
 
André 3000
 
Jamie Oliver
 
Mel B

June

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Nikol Pashinyan
 
Bryan Konietzko
 
Angelina Jolie
 
Linda Cardellini
 
Ismail ibn Musa Menk
 
Allen Iverson
 
Tobey Maguire

July

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50 Cent
 
Jack White
 
Cécile de France
 
Judy Greer
 
Suriya
 
David Dastmalchian

August

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Charlize Theron
 
Kaitlin Olson

September

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Mark Ronson
 
Michael Bublé
 
Jimmie Johnson
 
Jason Sudeikis
 
Marion Cotillard

October

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Kate Winslet
 
Jesse Tyler Ferguson

November

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Tara Reid

December

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Mayim Bialik
 
Tom DeLonge
 
Sia
 
Tiger Woods

Deaths

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January

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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla

February

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Sir Julian Huxley
 
Sir P. G. Wodehouse

March

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Ivo Andrić
 
Susan Hayward
 
Faisal of Saudi Arabia

April

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Chiang Kai-shek
 
Avery Brundage

June

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Eisaku Satō

July

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Konstantine Gamsakhurdia

August

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Dmitri Shostakovich
 
Haile Selassie I

September

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Sir George Paget Thomson
 
Saint-John Perse

October

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Gustav Ludwig Hertz

November

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Francisco Franco

December

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Hannah Arendt
 
Bernard Herrmann

Date unknown

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Nobel Prizes

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