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1875 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). Events January - April May - August September - December Unknown date Births - January 5 - James Stuart Blackton, American film producer of the Silent Era
- January 7 - Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner
- January 9 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, socialite (d. 1942)
- January 14 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, philosopher, and musician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952 (d. 1965)
- January 15 - Tom Burke, American runner
- January 22 - D. W. Griffith, director
- February 2 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962)
- February 11 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
- February 21 - Jeanne Calment, oldest documented human being of all time (d. 1997)
- February 26 - Hans Bckler, unionist and politician (d. 1951)
- March 1- Although later deemed Unconstitutional, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 allows blacks equal rights on jury duty and at public events
- March 7 - Maurice Ravel, composer (d. 1937)
- March 26 - Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
- March 30 - Jonathan Campbell, Film pioneer (d. 1942)
- April 1 - Edgar Wallace, writer (d. 1932)
- April 2 - Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
- April 4 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964)
- April 5 - Mistinguett, French cabaret singer
- April 8 - Albert I of Belgium
- April 15 - James J. Jeffries, world heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1953)
- May 11 - Harriet Quimby, first licensed female pilot in the United States (d. 1912)
- June 12 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1953)
- June 24 - Diedrich Westermann, German linguist (d. 1956)
- June 28 - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (d. 1941)
- August 18 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (d. 1912)
- August 21 - Winnifred Eaton, author (d. 1954)
- August 27 - Katharine McCormick, U.S. women's rights activist
- September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
- October 1 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter
- October 12 - Aleister Crowley, British occultist (d. 1947)
- October 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist
- December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet (d. 1926)
- December 5 - Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader (d. 1933)
- December 25 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna from 1932-1955
- Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya
- Abd al-Hafiz, sultan of Morocco (uncertain date)
Deaths - January 23 - Charles Kingsley, English writer
- February 22 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist.
- May 17 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States
- June 3 - Georges Bizet, French composer
- July 31 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
- August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer.
- August 10 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
- August 17 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist
- September 22 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur.
- October 10 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, novelist, poet and dramatist
- November 22 - Henry Wilson, United States Vice President
- November 24 - William Backhouse Astor, Sr., American business tycoon
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