Events from the year 1975 in the United States.

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• January 4 – Bob Montana, comic strip artist (b. 1920)
• January 7 – Harry Gunnison Brown, economist (b. 1880)
• January 8 – Louis P. Lochner, political activist, journalist and author (b. 1887)
• January 18 – Evelyn Greeley, silent film actress (b. 1888)
• January 19 – Thomas Hart Benton, painter (b. 1889)
• January 24 – Larry Fine, comedian and actor (b. 1902)
• January 27
  • Julia Sanderson, actress (b. 1887)
  • Bill Walsh, film producer and writer (b. 1913)
• February 4 – Louis Jordan, African American swing band leader (b. 1908)
• February 5 – George Rowe, silent film character actor (b. 1894)
• February 10 – Dave Alexander, musician (b. 1947)
• February 14 – P. G. Wodehouse, comic writer (b. 1881 in the United Kingdom)
• February 16 – Morgan Taylor, Olympic hurdler (b. 1903)
• February 20 – Robert Strauss, actor (b. 1913)
• February 23 – Frank Smith, animator and film director (b. 1911)
• February 25 – Elijah Muhammad, Nation of Islam leader (b. 1897)
• February 27 – Muriel Hazel Wright, Oklahoma author and historian (b. 1889)^[13]
• March 7 – Ben Blue, Canadian-American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
• March 8 – George Stevens, film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1904)
• March 14 – Susan Hayward, film actress (b. 1917)^[14]
• March 16 – T-Bone Walker, blues musician, composer, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1910)
• March 30 – Pancho Barnes, pioneer aviator (b. 1901)
• April 10 – Marjorie Main, actress (b. 1890)
• April 14 – Fredric March, actor (b. 1897)
• April 15 – Richard Conte, actor (b. 1910)
• April 16 – Joe Kirk, actor (b. 1903)
• April 19 – Percy Lavon Julian, African American research chemist (b. 1899)
• April 20 – John Vachon, photographer (b. 1914)
• May 4
  • Moe Howard, comedian and actor (b. 1897)
  • (Richard) Two Ton Baker, entertainer (b. 1916)
• May 13 – Bob Wills, musician, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1905)
• May 18 – Leroy Anderson, composer (b. 1908)
• May 22 – Lefty Grove, baseball player (b. 1900)
• May 23 – Moms Mabley, comedian and actress (b. 1897)
• May 28 – Ezzard Charles, professional boxer (b. 1921)
• June 3 – Ozzie Nelson, actor, musician, and filmmaker (b. 1906)
• June 6 – Larry Blyden, actor and game show host (b. 1925)
• June 15 – William Austin, film character actor (b. 1884 in the United Kingdom)
• June 28 – Rod Serling, writer, producer, narrator, and host (b. 1924)
• July 24 – Barbara Colby, actress (b. 1939)
• July 16 – Lester Dragstedt, surgeon (b 1893)
• August 8 – Cannonball Adderley, jazz alto saxophonist (b. 1928)
• August 23 – Hank Patterson, actor and musician (b. 1888)
• September 6 – Shelton Brooks, African American song composer (b. 1886 in Canada)
• September 9 – John McGiver, actor (b. 1913)
• September 28 – Sidney Fields, actor (b. 1898)
• September 29 – Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
• October 1
  • Al Jackson Jr., drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1935)
  • Larry MacPhail, lawyer and baseball executive (b. 1890)
• October 4 – May Sutton, tennis player (b. 1886)
• October 16 – Benjamin McCandlish, Governor of Guam (b. 1886)
• October 18 – Al Lettieri, actor (b. 1928)
• November 5 – Julian C. Smith, general (b. 1885)
• November 14 – Harry J. Anslinger, 1st Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (b. 1892)
• December 7 – Thornton Wilder, playwright and novelist (b. 1897)
• December 13 – Cyril Delevanti, English actor (b. 1889)
• December 14 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
• December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, composer and husband of Lucille Fletcher (b. 1911)
• December 29 – Euell Gibbons, outdoorsman, writer, and health food advocate (b. 1911)

• List of American films of 1975
• Timeline of United States history (1970–1989)