* 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 – Rob Thomas, American writer

* 1965 – Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

FitzGibbon ’ s 1965 biography ignores Thomas ' heavy drinking and skims over his death, giving just two pages in his detailed book to Thomas ' demise.

* 1965: Thomas l ' imposteur directed by Georges Franju, script by Jean Cocteau based on his novel

* 1965: Thomas l ' imposteur directed by Georges Franju

* 1965 – Thomas Jahn, German actor and director

* Thapar, Romila ; Thomas George Percival Spear ( 1990, 1965 ).

** Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer ( d. 1965 )

* In 1965, Berton Roueché described his wonderful trip along the Green River that set out from the Circle S Ranch in Cora, Wyoming in Subletter County with the ranch's foreman Thomas Scholebo.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

William Thomas " W. T ." Cosgrave (; 6 June 1880 – 16 November 1965 ), was an Irish politician who succeeded Michael Collins as Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government from August to December 1922.

James also claimed that Allen was to blame for the collapse of the 1965 Philadelphia Phillies because of a fight with Frank Thomas.

The expanded 30th anniversary edition of the 1965 official book, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, was notable for its exclusion of most of the evidence against the map's authenticity, concentrating instead on vindications by George Painter, and Thomas Cahill with colleague Bruce Kusko ( in which they claimed specifically that they had not analyzed the loose particles they took from the map at the time of their PIXE research ), but it did reprint a remarkable essay written in 1989 by the original book dealer Laurence Witten.

Thomas Bertram Costain ( May 8, 1885-October 8, 1965 ) was a Canadian journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57.

Two of Rutherford's firefighters ( Edwin L. Ward in 1965 and Thomas E. Dunn in 1994 ) have died in the line of duty.

* The Reader's Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition 1965, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Library of Congress No. 65-12510

Sir Thomas Daniel " Tom " Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937 ) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ), Billy Liar ( 1963 ), and Dr. Zhivago ( 1965 ).

Historian Robert Thomas ( 1965 ) argues that the impact of the acts on the economies of the 13 American colonies was minimal ; the cost was about ₤ 4 per ₤ 1000 of income per year.

Other early examples of techno-thriller, written before the category had been well defined as a sub-genre, include Moonraker by Ian Fleming, Fail-Safe ( 1962 ) by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, The Penetrators ( 1965 ) by Hank Searls ( writing as Anthony Grey ); Tree Frog by Martin Woodhouse ( 1966 ), North Cape ( 1969 ) by Joe Poyer, and Firefox by Craig Thomas ( 1977 ), later made into a movie, and Shuttle Down, by G. Harry Stine ( writing as Lee Correy ) ( 1981 ).

* Thomas Köner ( b. 1965 ), multimedia artist

At the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ), he sat on its Board of Presidency and, alongside Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Cardinals Alfredo Ottaviani and Thomas Cooray, he was part of the association of traditionalist Council fathers named Coetus Internationalis Patrum.

After being on the faculty at Southern Illinois University ( 1964 – 1965 ), he held many positions in the private sector, including Assistant National Sales Manager and Executive Manager to the President of Lear-Seigler ( 1965 – 1966 ), Director of Legislation and Public Affairs for the Illinois State Medical Society ( 1966 – 1968 ), Whitaker and Baxter's Chicago Office Manager ( 1968 – 1969 ), and Executive and Vice President of James and Thomas Advertising and Public Relations ( 1969 – 1973 ).