* 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 – Ange Postecoglou, Australian footballer

* 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

* 1965 – Chris Jones, American baseball player

* 1965 – Chris Dudley, American basketball player

* 1965 – Chris Rock, American actor and comedian

The Ford X-1 was a roadster built to contest the Fall 1965 North American Pro Series, a forerunner of Can-Am, entered by the Bruce McLaren team and driven by Chris Amon.

* 1965 – Chris Ballew, American singer and bassist ( The Presidents of the United States of America and Caspar Babypants )

* 1965 – Chris Penn, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1965 – Chris Gore, American critic and writer

* 1965 – Chris Morris, English comedian and actor

* 1965 Snake Dike ( 5. 7 ), FFA by Eric Beck, Jim Bridwell and Chris Fredericks

* Chris Dudley ( 1965 – ), NBA player from 1987 – 2003 and 2010 Republican nominee for Governor of Oregon

* Chris Rock ( born 1965 ), comedian, actor.

* Martin Kratt ( born 1965 ), brother of Chris, and also an educational nature show host.

* Chris Barnes ( actor ) ( born 1965 ), American child actor

Climber Chris Bonington was the first to scale the Coronation Street route in 1965.

* Chris Penn ( 1965 – 2006 ), actor

Sixth Form Challenge, hosted by Chris Kelly, appeared briefly between 1965 and 1967.

* Chris Pig ( born 1965 ) is an internationally respected master printmaker, lived in Hemel Hempstead and attended Longdean School.

* Chris Dudley ( born 1965 ), American basketball player

Michael Watson, MBE ( born 15 March 1965 in Hackney, London ) is a retired British boxer whose career ended prematurely as a result of near-fatal injury sustained in a WBO super-middleweight title fight defeat by Chris Eubank in September 1991.

* Allen Isaacman and Chris Sneddon, " Portuguese Colonial Intervention, Regional Conflict and Post-Colonial Amnesia: Cahora Bassa Dam, Mozambique 1965 – 2002 ," Conference on Lusophone Africa: Intersections between the Social Sciences, Cornell Institute for African Development ( May 2003 ).

); tenors Carl Tanner ( 1992, 93 ), William Burden ( 1989 – 90 ), Richard Croft ( 1978 ), Chris Merritt ( 1974 – 75 ), and Neil Shicoff ( 1973 ); baritones David Gockley ( 1965 – 67 ; he went on to become general manager of the Houston Grand Opera and, since 2005, the San Francisco Opera ) and Sherrill Milnes ( 1959 ); and basses Mark Doss ( 1983 ), James Morris ( 1969 ) and Samuel Ramey ( 1966 ).

In 1965, North landed the lead role in the MGM family comedy film Zebra in the Kitchen as Chris Carlyle, a boy who, unhappy with the living conditions he finds at his local zoo, decides to set the animals free, causing chaos throughout the town.

* Chris Spielman ( born 1965 ), American football player

Christopher " Chris " Hillman ( born December 4, 1944 in Los Angeles, California ) was one of the original members of The Byrds, which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby and Michael Clarke.