* 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

Shania Twain, OC (; born Eilleen Regina Edwards ; August 28, 1965 ) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter.

* Shania Twain – ( born 1965 ), Canadian singer-songwriter

These included the Tebtunis Archive of ancient papyri, excavated by an Egyptian expedition funded by Phoebe Apperson Hearst in 1899-1900 and the largest such collection in the Western Hemisphere ; the papers of Mark Twain, the object of the Mark Twain Project, which since 1965 has been editing everything written by him ; a large collection of medieval manuscripts, incunabula, and rare printed books from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries ; and the literary manuscripts of such California writers as Ina Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate, George Sterling, figures associated with the Beat Generation in San Francisco, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Philip Whalen, and William Everson ( Brother Antoninus ), and contemporary authors such as John Mortimer, Sean O ' Faolain, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joan Didion.

* 1965 – Roger Avary, Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer

* 1965 – Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress, director, and producer

* 1965 – Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player and manager

* 1965 – James Tupper, Canadian actor

* 1965 – Ed Belfour, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1965 – Jeff Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1965 – Roger Leger, Canadian hockey player ( b. 1919 )

* 1965 – Darrin C. Huss, Canadian singer ( Psyche )

* 1965 – Claude Champagne, Canadian composer ( b. 1891 )

* 1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.

* 1965 – Bruce Bell, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1965 – Paula Devicq, Canadian actress

* 1965 – Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1965 – Claude Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1965 – Tina Tyler, Canadian porn actress

* 1965 – Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey

* 1965 – Leslie Hope, Canadian actress

* 1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1965 – Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler ( d. 1999 )

* 2009 – Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player ( b. 1965 )

* 1965 – John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1992 )

* 1892 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist, co-discoverer of insulin ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.

* 1965 – Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer.