* 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

* 1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Frank Black, American singer-songwriter ( Pixies, Frank Black and the Catholics, and Grand Duchy )

* 1965 – Sterling Sharpe, American football player

* 1965 – Lieve Slegers, Belgian athlete

* 1965 – Kim Bodnia, Danish actor

* 1965 – Tom O ' Brien, American actor and producer

* 1965 – Mihai Stoica, Romanian football manager

* 1965 – Adrian Pasdar, American actor

* 1965 – Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer

* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

* 1965 – The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.

* 1965 – Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer ( See-Saw )

* 1965 – Juliane Köhler, German actress

* 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player

* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1965 – Vincent Wells, England cricketer

* 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

* 1965 – A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

* 1965 – Mark Lemke, American baseball player

* 1965 – Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer

* 1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Kate Langbroek, Australian talk show host

* 1965 – Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer ( d. 2007 )

* 1890 – David Drummond, Australian politician ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Vicki Wilson, Australian netballer

Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ) was knighted during his term of office, but all the other governors-general until 1989 were already either peers or knights ; the only Australian peer was Lord Casey ( 1965 – 69 ).

In 1965, the Menzies conservative government appointed an Australian, Lord Casey, and the position has since been held only by Australians.

* 1965 – Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player

Among the students who attended his workshops were Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack ( German / Australian ( 1893 – 1965 ), Hans Friedrich Grohs ( German 1892-1981 ) and Margarete Koehler-Bittkow ( German / American, 1898 – 1964 ).

* 1965 – Glenn Seton, Australian race car driver

* 1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1, 200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.

* 1965 – Amanda Brown, Australian musician ( The Go-Betweens )

* 1965 – Constantine Koukias, Australian composer

A new generation of Australian garage rock bands, inspired mainly by The Stooges and MC5, was coming even closer to the sound that would soon be called " punk ": In Brisbane, The Saints also recalled the raw live sound of the British Pretty Things, who had made a notorious tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1965.

In 1965, Menzies committed Australian troops to the Vietnam War, and also to reintroduce conscription.

Sir Robert William Askin GCMG, ( 4 April 19079 September 1981 ) was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party of Australia.

* 1965 – David Wenham, Australian actor

* 1965 – David Brabham, Australian race car driver

* 1965 – Darlene Zschech, Australian singer-songwriter, and pastor

The song had been recorded earlier as an Australian single from the 1964 album Hide and Seekers and appeared on the 1965 American debut, The New Seekers.

Colonial churchmen such as Sydney's first Catholic archbishop, John Bede Polding strongly advocated for Aboriginal rights and dignity and prominent Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson ( born 1965 ), who was raised at a Lutheran mission in Cape York, has written that Christian missions throughout Australia's colonial history " provided a haven from the hell of life on the Australian frontier while at the same time facilitating colonisation ".

Florey was Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1965 until his death in 1968.

* Australian — The Seekers: " The Carnival Is Over " ( 1965: " But the joys of love are fleeting / For Pierrot and Columbine ").