* 1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.

* 1965 – Alison Lapper, British artist

British Railways ( BR ), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

* 1965 – David Harewood, British actor

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.

Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelago were administered by the colonial government on the island of Mauritius until 1965, when the United Kingdom purchased them from the self-governing government of Mauritius for £ 3 million, and declared them to be a separate British Overseas Territory.

* 1965 – Jackie Clune, British entertainer and actress

Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence Staff until 1965, making him the longest serving professional head of the British Armed Forces to date.

* 1888 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 April – The British Government published a White Paper dealing with the question of Gibraltar and the Treaty of Utrecht.

* British Home Championship ( 8, 2 shared ): 1964 ( shared ), 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 ( shared ), 1971 and 1972

In 1965, a weekly show for British TV titled Groucho was poorly received and only lasted 11 weeks.

All the governors-general until 1965 were British, except Sir Issac Isaacs ( 1931 – 36 ) and Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ).

Other British companies contributed to a boom in horror film production in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s, including Tigon-British and Amicus, the latter best known for their anthology films such as Dr. Terror's House of Horrors ( 1965 ).

As colonial rule was ending throughout the continent and as African-majority governments assumed control in neighbouring Northern Rhodesia and in Nyasaland, the white-minority Rhodesia government led by Ian Smith made a Unilateral Declaration of Independence ( UDI ) from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965, effectively repudiating the British plan that the country should become a multi-racial democracy.

* 1965, " British Archaeology Abroad-Jerusalem ", Antiquity 39 ( 1965 ), 36-37.

Philby was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) from 1946 to 1965.

Wanting to progress further, in 1965 he joined The Rockin ' Vickers who signed a deal with CBS, released three singles and toured Europe, reportedly being the first British band to visit Yugoslavia.

Maldives gained total independence from the British in 1965.

During the British era, which lasted until 1965, Maldives continued to be ruled under a succession of sultans.

* 1965 – Lembit Öpik, British politician

* 1965 – Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British reality TV personality

Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan ( 1965 ) also picked up the Special Jury Prize at Cannes and received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.

Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou ( 1965 ), he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles.

Marvin won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor for his comic role in the offbeat Western Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda.

The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1965.

The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

After his death, The Sound of Music was made into the hit 1965 film adaptation, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The primary purpose of the Academy is to further the " purity, strength, and sublimity of the Swedish language " (" Svenska Språkets renhet, styrka och höghet ") ( Walshe, 1965 ).

In 1965, she became the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

In 1965, she received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance in Marriage Italian-Style.

* Honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( 1965 )

Frederick C. " Fred " Quimby ( July 31, 1886 – September 16, 1965 ) was an American cartoon producer, best known as a producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards.

He twice won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, for West Side Story ( 1961 ) and The Sound of Music ( 1965 ).

He won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture again in 1965 with The Sound of Music.

After being seen in Bergman's Academy Award – winning films and having been first choice for the title role of Dr. No, von Sydow finally went to America after agreeing to star in the film which led to much greater recognition, in the role of Jesus in George Stevens'all-star epic The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ).

Hershey, who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1958, was also the 1958 winner of the Albert Lasker Award of the American Public Health Association, and the 1965 winner of the Kimber Genetics Award of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1965 a new Academy ( B Block ) was built alongside a new High School ( A Block ) and in 1970 the schools amalgamated.

* Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards held in 1965

The songs on Sherman's next album My Name Is Allan ( 1965 ) were thematically connected: except for a couple of original novelty songs with music by Sherman and Busch, all the songs on the album are parodies of songs that had won, or were nominated for, the Academy Award for Best Song.

* 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Werner's portrayal of the philosophical Dr. Schumann in the 1965 film Ship of Fools won him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor.

Richardson's film appearances include Things to Come ( 1936 ), The Citadel ( 1938 ), The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ; his first nomination for an Academy Award ), Richard III ( 1955 ; playing Buckingham to Olivier's Richard ), Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ; with Alec Guinness and Noël Coward ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and Oh!

In 1965, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Diana Scott in Darling.