* 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 – Tom O ' Brien, American actor and producer

* 1965 – Adrian Pasdar, American actor

* 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player

* 1965 – Mark Lemke, American baseball player

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

* 1965 – El Hefe, American guitarist ( NOFX )

* 1965 – Jon Cryer, American actor

* 1965 – Martin Lawrence, American actor

* 1965 – Brannon Braga, American screenwriter and producer

* Adrian Pasdar ( born 1965 ), American actor and film director

* 1965 – Rob Thomas, American writer

* 1862 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball player and coach ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Peter Krause, American actor

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

* 1870 – Bernard Baruch, American financier ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Kevin Dillon, American actor

* 1965 – Kyra Sedgwick, American actress

* 1965 – Jim Bullinger, American baseball player

* 1965 – Caryn Mower, American wrestler, actress, and stuntwoman

* 1965 – Cornelius Bennett, American football player

* 1965 – Mia Zapata, American singer ( The Gits ) ( d. 1993 )

* 1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to " forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship " and to evacuate U. S. Army troops.

* 1902 – E. A. Speiser, American biblical scholar ( d. 1965 )

* January 24 – E. A. Speiser, American biblical scholar ( d. 1965 )

The Passover Plot ( ISBN 1-85230-836-2 ) is the name of a controversial, best-selling 1965 book, by British Biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield who has also published a translation of the New Testament informed with a Jewish perspective.

Theofan Stilian Noli, better known as Fan Noli ( January 6, 1882 – March 13, 1965 ) was an Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who served as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924 during the June Revolution.

* Saburo Yamada ( 1869 – 1965 ), scholar of private international law, professor at University of Tokyo

Kurt Heegner (; 16 December 1893, Berlin – 2 February 1965, Berlin ) was a German private scholar from Berlin, who specialized in

* Mikheil Tsereteli ( 1878 – 1965 ), Georgian scholar, politician, and journalist

* Eduard Fraenkel ( 1888 – 1965 ), German-English classical scholar

In the 1990s Bøe formed a new committee consisting of Michael Benskin ( St. Peter ’ s 1965 ), professor at the Department of British and American Studies of Oslo University, Haakon Melander, banker ( Balliol 1966 ); and Erik Rudeng ( Norway scholar 1969 ).

He was a foundation scholar at the Royal College of Music from 1965 – 68, where he studied composition with Bernard Stevens and the Webern disciple Humphrey Searle, and piano with Edwin Benbow.

* Ralf Stabel (* 1965 ), German theatre scholar / dance scholar

* The Passover Plot ( 1965 ), a book by the Biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield

Basil Christopher Butler OSB ( 7 May 1902 – 20 September 1986 ), was a convert from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church, a Roman Catholic priest, the 7th Abbot of Downside Abbey, one-time Abbot President of the English Benedictine Congregation, a bishop, an internationally respected scripture scholar, a consistent defender of the priority of the Gospel according to Matthew, and perhaps the pre-eminent English-speaking Council Father at the Second Vatican Council ( Vatican II, 1962 – 1965 ).

It was in his capacity as Abbot President ( 1961 – 1966 ) of the English Benedictine Congregation and as an outstanding scripture scholar, that Butler was called to Rome to participate in Vatican II ( 1962 – 1965 ).

Frederick " Fritz " William Buchholz ( 1885 – 1965 ) was a teacher, principal, scholar, and politician.

* Richard Foster Jones ( 1886 – 1965 ), American classical scholar

Kumin taught English from 1958 to 1961 and 1965 to 1968 at Tufts University ; from 1961 to 1963 she was a scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study.

Nana Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah ( December 1895 – 4 February 1965 ) was a Ghanaian statesman, pan-Africanist, scholar and historian.

The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche ( Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen, b. 1965 ) is an abbot of Dzogchen Monastery, president of Nalandabodhi, the founder of Nitartha Institute, a leading Tibetan Buddhist scholar, and a meditation master.

( Peter ) Yoshiro Saeki ( 1871 – 1965 ), was a Japanese scholar of religion and law, who was consulted on the rebuilding of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast of August 6, 1945.