Aged 75
Famous people who died at 75
250 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 75, including Archimedes, Augustus and Augustine of Hippo. Here are the 100 best known.
- ArchimedesGreek mathematician and physicist · c. 287–212 BC
- AugustusFirst emperor of the Roman Empire and founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty · 63 BC–AD 14
- Augustine of HippoChristian theologian, philosopher, and saint · AD 354–430
- PythagorasAncient Greek philosopher and mathematician · c. 570–495 BC
- Michael FaradayBritish scientist · 1791–1867
- Alexander Graham BellCanadian-American scientist inventor of telephone · 1847–1922
- Yasser ArafatPalestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority · 1929–2004
- Václav HavelCzech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic · 1936–2011
- Leonid BrezhnevGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union · 1906–1982
- Samuel JohnsonEnglish writer and lexicographer · 1709–1784
- Titus LiviusRoman historian (59 BC – AD 17) · c. 59 BC–AD 17
- Al-Biruni11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath · 973–1048
- Clara ZetkinCommunist activist, and advocate for women's rights · 1857–1933
- Charles PerraultFrench author · 1628–1703
- Jerome4th and 5th-century Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint and Doctor of the Church · c. AD 345–420
- Abdul Hamid II34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1842–1918
- André MalrauxFrench novelist, art theorist, and statesman · 1901–1976
- Gabriel LippmannLuxembourgish physicist nationalized French · 1845–1921
- Ronald RossBritish doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist · 1857–1932
- Gerd MüllerGerman footballer · 1945–2021
- Edith WhartonAmerican writer and designer · 1862–1937
- Ibn ArabiSufi scholar and Sunni philosopher · 1165–1240
- Ivan KrylovRussian writer · 1769–1844
- Duke EllingtonAmerican jazz pianist and composer · 1899–1974
- Karl LandsteinerJewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate · 1868–1943
- Constantine StanislavskyRussian actor and theatre director · 1863–1938
- Frans Eemil SillanpääFinnish writer · 1888–1964
- Vilfredo ParetoItalian economist and sociologist · 1848–1923
- Sardar Vallabhbhai PatelIndian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India · 1875–1950
- Clement XIIIPope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769 · 1693–1769
- Jean-Bedel Bokassa2nd president (1966–76) and emperor (r. 1976–79) of the Central African Republic · 1921–1996
- Eusebius of CaesareaGreek Christian scholar, c. 260–c. 339 · c. AD 265–340
- H. H. AsquithBritish politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 · 1852–1928
- Lester B. Pearson14th Prime Minister of Canada, from 1963 to 1968 · 1897–1972
- Charles GounodFrench composer · 1818–1893
- Giambattista VicoItalian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist · 1668–1744
- Igor TammSoviet physicist · 1895–1971
- Shelley DuvallAmerican actress · 1949–2024
- Johannes RauGerman politician (SPD), 8th president of Germany from 1999 until 2004 · 1931–2006
- J. P. MorganAmerican financier, banker, and art collector · 1837–1913
- Donald PleasenceBritish actor · 1919–1995
- Vladimir ZhirinovskyRussian politician · 1946–2022
- Jules MicheletFrench historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance · 1798–1874
- Lucius IIIPope of the Catholic Church from 1181 to 1185 · c. 1110–1185
- Alejo CarpanterCuban-French writer and musicologist · 1904–1980
- Alfred DreyfusFrench artillery officer · 1859–1935
- Erich KästnerGerman children's writer · 1899–1974
- Juana I of CastileQueen of Castile from 1504 and of Aragon from 1516 · 1479–1555
- Robert HofstadterAmerican physicist and Nobel laureate · 1915–1990
- Rutger HauerDutch actor · 1944–2019
- Lou Andreas-SalomemGerman-Russian essayist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst · 1861–1937
- Werner von Siemens ↗German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist · 1816–1892
- Dizzy Gillespie ↗American jazz trumpeter · 1917–1993
- H. L. Mencken ↗American journalist and writer · 1880–1956
- Robert Coleman Richardson ↗American physicist · 1937–2013
- Wilhelm Busch ↗German painter, poet and cartoonist · 1832–1908
- Emil Theodor Kocher ↗Surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine · 1841–1917
- Hergé ↗Belgian comics writer · 1907–1983
- Penny Marshall ↗American actress, director and producer · 1943–2018
- Apollonius of Rhodes ↗3rd century BC Greek epic poet · c. 290–215 BC
- David Ogden Stiers ↗American actor · 1942–2018
- Ferdinand Porsche ↗Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor · 1875–1951
- Ivan Konev ↗Soviet military commander · 1897–1973
- John Edward Gray ↗British zoologist · 1800–1875
- Giovanni Schiaparelli ↗Italian astronomer and science historian · 1835–1910
- Jean Genet ↗French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist · 1910–1986
- Paulo Freire ↗Lawyer, college teacher, author · 1921–1997
- Timothy Leary ↗American psychologist · 1920–1996
- Yuri Nikulin ↗Soviet and Russian actor and clown · 1921–1997
- Stanisław Ulam ↗Polish-American mathematician · 1909–1984
- Christian Wolff ↗German philosopher · 1679–1754
- Manuel II Palaiologos ↗Byzantine emperor · 1350–1425
- Paul Doumer ↗French statesman · 1857–1932
- Pierre de Marivaux ↗French novelist and dramatist · 1688–1763
- Basil I ↗Byzantine emperor from 867 to 886 · c. AD 811–886
- Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle ↗French poet · 1818–1894
- Cornelius Nepos ↗Roman historian and biographer · c. 100–25 BC
- Paul Flory ↗American chemist · 1910–1985
- James Mason ↗British actor · 1909–1984
- Siad Barre ↗Head of State of Somalia · 1919–1995
- Carol I of Romania ↗King of Romania from 1881 to 1914 · 1839–1914
- Edward Lear ↗British artist, illustrator, author and poet · 1812–1888
- Jerry Goldsmith ↗American film composer · 1929–2004
- Lázaro Cárdenas ↗51st President of Mexico · 1895–1970
- Roger Scruton ↗English conservative philosopher and writer · 1944–2020
- Tom Wilkinson ↗English actor · 1948–2023
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman ↗American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer · 1860–1935
- Jacques Tati ↗French filmmaker · 1907–1982
- Ludwig Uhland ↗German poet and politician · 1787–1862
- Semyon Timoshenko ↗Soviet military commander · 1895–1970
- Tobias Asser ↗Dutch lawyer and legal scholar · 1838–1913
- Columba ↗6th‑century Gaelic Irish missionary monk, Christian saint, pioneer of Celtic Christianity in Scotland and “Apostle of the Picts” · AD 521–597
- Fatema Mernissi ↗1940-2015, Moroccan sociologist, writer and feminist · 1940–2015
- Jean Giono ↗French writer · 1895–1970
- Ruđer Josip Bošković ↗Croat physicist · 1711–1787
- Élisée Reclus ↗French geographer and writer · 1830–1905
- Fritz Zwicky ↗Swiss astronomer · 1898–1974
- Marcel Achard ↗French writer · 1899–1974
- Roy Scheider ↗American actor · 1932–2008
- Wallace Stevens ↗American poet · 1879–1955
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