1965: Year

 

• January 30 – state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in London
• February 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
• March 7 – Bloody Sunday: Alabama State Troopers attack civil rights demonstrators as they attempt to march to the state capitol of Montgomery
• May 25 – Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship boxing rematch
• June 15 - Victoria, Australia, coldest day on record -11.7°C at Omeo
• July 16 – The Mont Blanc tunnel opens
• August 9 – Singapore proclaims its independence from the Malaysian Federation.
• September 9 – Hurricane Betsy is in Louisiana
• October 3 – Fidel Castro announces that Che Guevara resigned and left Cuba
• November 5 – Martial law is announced in Rhodesia
• December 9 – A Charlie Brown Christmas debuts on CBS.
• December 20 – World Food Programme is made a permanent agency of the United Nations
• The Left Banke forms
• Pete Best attempts suicide

 

• January 8 – John Catliff, Canadian footballer
• February 21 - Steve Lee, Sound effects wrangler and film historian
• February 1 – Brandon Lee, Chinese-American actor (d. 1993)
• March 1 – Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler
• March 23 - Jonathan Dow, British actor
• April 16 – Jon Cryer, American actor
• April 20 - Susan Cookson, British actress
• May 1 – Todd Spikes, American former police officer and convicted sex offender
• May 7 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999)
• June 1 – Nigel Short, English chess player
• July 31 – J. K. Rowling, writer
• August 25 – Mia Zapata, singer
• August 28 – Shania Twain, singer
• September 2 – Lennox Lewis, British boxer
• October 5 – Patrick Roy, Canadian retired ice hockey player
• November 20 – Ben Stiller, actor
• December 31 – Nicholas Sparks, American author

January

 

 

• January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American poet (b. 1888)
• January 24 – Winston Churchill, British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1874)

February

 

 

 

• February 15 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
• February 21 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
• February 23 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)

March

 

• March 18 – King Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)

April

• April 18 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)

May

• May 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)

June

• June 5 – Eleanor Farjeon, English author of children's literature (b. 1881)

July

 

• July 1 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
• July 7 – Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)

August

 

 

• August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
• August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)

September

 

• September 16 – Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (b. 1886)
• September 27 – Clara Bow, American actress and sex-symbol (b. 1905)

October

November

• November 24 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
• November 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)

December

 

• December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

• Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard P. Feynman for work in the development of quantum electrodynamics
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Robert B. Woodward, American chemist (for his synthetic work with natural products)
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by François Jacob, André Lwoff, and Jacques Monod
• Nobel Prize in Literature won by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian novelist
• Nobel Peace Prize won by UNICEF