* 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 – Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach

* 1965 – Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game designer, founded Game Freak

* 1965 – Yoshiki Kuroda, Japanese urban planner

* 1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer, created Resident Evil

* 1965 – Naoki Sano, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1965 – Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler ( d. 2005 )

* 1886 – Jun ' ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese novelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Ken Nomura, Japanese race car driver

* 1965 – Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian

* 1965 – Yoriko Douguchi, Japanese actress

* 1965 – Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician ( X Japan )

* 1965 – Pata, Japanese musician

* 1965 – Toshi, Japanese singer ( X Japan )

* 1965 – Genji Hashimoto, Japanese racing driver

* 1965 – Ricky Fuji, Japanese wrestler

* April 25 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese songwriter ( b. 1965 )

* June 9 – Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor ( d. 1965 )

* July 24 – Jun ' ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer ( d. 1965 )

The narration reminds the viewing audience that the civil defence policies of 1965 have not realistically prepared for such events, and that perhaps no adequate preparation is ever possible ; it emphasizes that the government and the public have wrongly thought of nuclear war as a survivable ordeal like the Blitz, when it is more likely to resemble the devastating firebombing of Japanese and German cities in World War II, but on a much larger scale.

The anime was an adaptation from its precursor manga entitled Seton's Wild Animals ( Japanese: シートン動物記 ) by Sanpei Sirato published between 1961 and 1965 and consisting of a total of Five volumes.

Deserted the U. S. Army in 1965 while on a DMZ patrol in South Korea for life in North Korea ; now lives on the remote Japanese island of Sado.

* 1965: Protested against Japanese regime and president Park, Jung-Hee for their attempt for an alliance