* 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

* Slash ( musician ) ( born Saul Hudson in 1965 ), Velvet Revolver guitarist and former Guns N ' Roses guitarist

* 1965 – Kirk Windstein, English-American singer and guitarist ( Crowbar, Down, Valume Nob, and Kingdom of Sorrow )

* 1965 – El Hefe, American guitarist ( NOFX )

* 1965 – Mark Collins, English guitarist and songwriter ( The Charlatans and The Waltones )

* Sylvain Luc ( born 1965 ), jazz guitarist

* 1965 – John Norum, Norwegian guitarist ( Europe )

The Beatles song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).

* 1965 – Ken Mellons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1965 – Rob Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Catherine Wheel )

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 ).

Tony McManus ( born 1965 ) is a Scottish Steel-string guitarist of Irish descent born in Paisley, Scotland.

In 1965 Nico met Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones and recorded her first single, " I'm Not Sayin '" with the b-side " The Last Mile ", produced by Jimmy Page for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label.

In early 1965 Alex Snouffer, a Lancaster rhythm and blues guitarist, invited Vliet to sing with a group that he was assembling.

The 13th Floor Elevators were an American rock band from Austin, Texas formed by guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland, which existed from 1965 to 1969.

Black Francis ( born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV on April 6, 1965 ) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Gavin McGregor Rossdale ( born 30 October 1965 ) is an English musician, known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush as well as an actor.

In April 1965, former Yardbirds guitarist Eric Clapton replaced Roger Dean and John Mayall's career entered a decisive phase.

The Meters formed in 1965 with a line-up of keyboardist and vocalist Art Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter Jr. and drummer Joseph " Zigaboo " Modeliste.

After Peter Watson ( born 18 October 1941, Romford, Essex ) joined them as an additional guitarist in 1965, they changed their name to The Action.

Bryan Keith " Dexter " Holland ( born December 29, 1965 in Garden Grove, California ) is the singer, rhythm guitarist and primary songwriter for the California punk rock band The Offspring.

Gregory David Kriesel ( born January 20, 1965, in Glendale, California ), best known by his stage name Greg K., is an American bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the punk band, The Offspring.

In 1966, after a short spell in Parlophone recording band The Image ( 1965 – 1966 ), with local drummer Tommy Riley, Edmunds shifted to a more blues-rock sound, reuniting with Congo Jones and bassist John Williams and adding second guitarist Mickey Gee to form the short lived Human Beans, a band that played mostly in London and on the UK university circuit.

Scott G. Shriner ( born July 11, 1965 ) is the bass guitarist for the alternative rock band Weezer.