* 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

Marion " Suge " Knight, Jr. (; born April 19, 1965 ) ( a. k. a. Big Suge or Big Simon ) is the founder and CEO of Black Kapital Records and co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ) was founded by Damon Knight in 1965 as a non-profit organization to serve the community of professional science fiction authors, 24 years after his essay " Unite or Fie!

It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA.

* Damon Knight ( 1965 – 1967 )

* In 1965, while he was still an American citizen, Menuhin was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which entitled him to use the postnominal letters KBE, but not to style himself Sir Yehudi.

They had three chart hits, " Baby, Please Don't Go " ( 1964 ), " Here Comes the Night " ( 1965 ), and " Mystic Eyes " ( 1965 ), though it was the b-side of " Baby, Please Don't Go ", the garage band classic, " Gloria ", that went on to become a rock standard covered by Patti Smith, The Doors, Shadows of Knight, Jimi Hendrix and many others.

Paul Knight of the Houston Press said in a 2009 article that some people blamed the development of the artificial Cedar Creek Lake, which opened in 1965, and development of the area surrounding the lake for the initial influx of crime and recreational drugs into the county and the East Texas region.

The Royal High Knight mascot and colors, black and gold, were selected by the ASB class officers of 1965, including ASB President, J. Lamar Gilbert.

In 1965 he was named " Australian of the Year ", and in 1968 he was appointed a Knight Bachelor.

He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ) in 1965, and a Knight of the Order of the Garter ( KG ) in 1969.

: " Up Christopher to Madness ," Knight Magazine, 1965

James Philip Knight, Baron Knight of Weymouth FRSA ( born 6 March 1965 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for South Dorset from 2001 until 2010, when he lost his seat.

In 1965 / 66 they wrote The Bed-Sit Girl starring Sheila Hancock, and in 1967 Sorry I'm Single starring Derek Nimmo, Gwendolyn Watts and Elizabeth Knight.

After performing in and around Chicago's northwest suburbs in 1964 and 1965, the Shadows of Knight became the house band at The Cellar in Arlington Heights, Illinois, owned by Sampson.

In January 1965 he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ), honouring his contribution as Chief Justice of the High Court.

Knight was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church in the USA in 1964 and was priested in that church in 1965.

He also appointed a Knight of the Garter on 16 September 1963 and Constable of the Tower on 1 August 1965.

In 1965 they changed the label's name to Dunwich, and in December released a cover version of Van Morrison's " Gloria " by the Chicago band Shadows of Knight.

Advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1963 Birthday Honours and promoted to full admiral on 29 September 1965, he became Commander-in-Chief, Middle East in December 1965.

He was knighted in 1965 and for his work in Northern Ireland he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) in 1971.