* 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 – 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

* Lieve Slegers, long-distance runner ( b. 1965 )

* 1965 – Erwin Mortier, Belgian author

* 1965 – Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist

* 1965 – Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress

In the general election of 1965 Eyskens was elected to the Belgian Senate ( reelected in 1968 and 1971 ).

Sergio, real name Serge Quisquater, is a Belgian musician born in Leuven in 1965.

A revival of Espinas's approach in France was revealed in the works of Pierre Massé ( 1946 ), the eminent cybernetician, Georges Théodule Guilbaud ( 1953 ), the Belgian logician, Leo Apostel ( 1957 ), the cybernetician, Anatol Rapoport ( 1962 ), Henry Pierron, psychologist and lexicographer ( 1957 ), François Perroux, economist ( 1957 ), the social psychologist, Robert Daval ( 1963 ), the well-known sociologist, Raymond Aron ( 1963 ) and the methodologists, Abraham Antoine Moles and Roland Caude ( 1965 ).

It is Rod McKuen's 1965 adaptation of " Le moribond ", a 1962 original by Belgian singer Jacques Brel ; for his version, Jacks made some modifications to the lyrics.

Tindemans was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1961 and re-elected in 1965, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1978.

* Joan Daemen ( born 1965 ), Belgian cryptographer and inventor of Rijndael

* 1965: Prize of the Belgian Government and the gold medal at the International Competition for Composers in Brussels for Violin Concerto No. 7

The 1965 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 13 June 1965.

A philatelic stamp, featuring John Berchmans ( alongside his parental home in Diest ) was issued by the Belgian postal department in 1965.

On the circuit, Pilette raced for Carlo Abarth in 1963 and 1965, and in 1967 he started racing for the Belgian VDS team.

Jeroen Van Herzeele ( born September 13, 1965 ) is a Belgian jazz saxophonist.

Luc Donckerwolke, ( born June 19, 1965 ) is a Belgian car designer now Design Director of Volkswagen since 22 July 2011.

He remained in Belgian government until 1965.

David Linx ( born 22 March 1965 ) is a Belgian jazz singer, composer and songwriter.

Alexandra Vandernoot ( born 19 September 1965 in Brussels, Belgium ) is a Belgian actress.

Both Gueuze and Lambic are protected under Belgian ( since 1965 ) and European ( since 1992 ) law.

In 1965, Belgian Count Alain de Villegas met and teamed up with Italian inventor, Aldo Bonassoli.

Wim Delvoye ( born 1965 in Wervik, West Flanders ) is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his inventive and often shocking projects.

Marc Gabriel Degryse ( born 4 September 1965 in Roeselare ), nicknamed Le Lutin d ' Ardooie (" The Imp of Ardooie ") and The Little One, is a former Belgian footballer, who played as a forward.

Joseph Hers ( 1884 – 1965 ) was a Belgian railroad engineer who served as a botanist in northern China from 1919-1924 where he discovered several new varieties of lilac.