* 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 – Jeff Blumenkrantz, American actor and composer

* 1965 – DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor

* 1965 – Jeff Blauser, American baseball player

* 1965 – Jeff Scott Soto, American musician ( Yngwie Malmsteen, Journey )

In Britain, the Yardbirds, with Jeff Beck as their guitarist, increasingly moved into psychedelic territory, adding up-tempo improvised " rave ups ", Gregorian chant and world music ( in particular Indian ) influences to their songs, including " Still I'm Sad " ( 1965 ) and " Over Under Sideways Down " ( 1966 ), and singles such as " Heart Full of Soul " ( 1965 ), " Shapes of Things " ( 1966 ) and " Happenings Ten Years Time Ago " ( 1966 ).

* 1965 – Jeff Ross, American comedian, actor, author, and director

* Jeff Norton ( b. 1965 ), NHL professional hockey player

As well, Adams drew 18 sample dailies ( three weeks ' continuity ) of a proposed dramatic serial, Tangent, about construction engineer Barnaby Peake, his college-student brother Jeff, and their teenaged sibling Chad, in 1965, but it was not syndicated.

* Jeff's book: A chronology of Jeff Beck's career 1965 – 1980: from the Yardbirds to Jazz-Rock.

* Harvey Comics, which had several other comic strip reprint comics running at the time, picked up Mutt and Jeff from Dell, and this version of the comic ran to 1965 for a total of 33 issues, plus two short-lived spinoff titles: Mutt & Jeff Jokes and Mutt & Jeff New Jokes.

* Jeff Hooker ( born 1965 ), American retired soccer player and current coach

* Jeff Nelson ( umpire ) ( born 1965 ), baseball umpire

Jeff Davis's biography " Papa Bear " states that Halas informally told Allen in 1964 and 1965 that he would ultimately name him as head coach.

The album features three songs that were recorded when the Yardbirds were on their first US tour in August – September 1965: " Train Kept A-Rollin '", " You're a Better Man than I ", and " I'm a Man " ( studio version with Jeff Beck ).

The advent of raga rock is often traced to the July 1965 release of " See My Friends ", a Top 10 single for The Kinks in the UK, although The Yardbirds ' " Heart Full of Soul ", released the previous month, featured a sitar-like riff by guitarist Jeff Beck.

* Jeff Zimmerman ( American football ) ( born 1965 ), American offensive lineman in NFL for four seasons

In 1965, he formed a trio with John Stevens and Jeff Clyne, which opened the Little Theatre Club.

* Jeff Martin ( game designer ) ( born 1965 ), founder of True Adventures company and president of Dwarven Forge LLC

In Milwaukee, 1965, The band consisted of Peter Barnes-lead guitar, Greg Jeresek-bass guitar, Jesse Roe-organ, Jeff Taylor-lead vocals, and Augie Jurishica-drums.

The first students enrolled at Jeff State in September 1965.

From 1965, while working by day in a men's outfitters shop and playing by night with his semi-professional band, he wrote a string of million-selling hit songs: as well as " For Your Love " he penned " Heart Full of Soul " and " Evil Hearted You " for The Yardbirds, " Bus Stop " and " Look Through Any Window " for The Hollies, " No Milk Today " and " Listen People " for Herman's Hermits, " Pamela, Pamela " for Wayne Fontana, " Behind the Door " for The St. Louis Union and Cher, " Tallyman " for Jeff Beck and " Going Home ", which was a 1967 Australian hit for Normie Rowe.