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1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1965th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 965th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1960s decade.

• January 30 – state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in London
• February 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
• March 7 – Bloody Sunday: Alabama State Troopers attack civil rights demonstrators as they attempt to march to the state capitol of Montgomery
• May 25 – Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship boxing rematch
• June 15 - Victoria, Australia, coldest day on record -11.7°C at Omeo^[1]
• July 16 – The Mont Blanc tunnel opens
• August 9 – Singapore proclaims its independence from the Malaysian Federation.
• September 9 – Hurricane Betsy is in Louisiana
• October 3 – Fidel Castro announces that Che Guevara resigned and left Cuba
• November 5 – Martial law is announced in Rhodesia
• December 9 – A Charlie Brown Christmas debuts on CBS.
• December 20 – World Food Programme is made a permanent agency of the United Nations
• The Left Banke forms
• Pete Best attempts suicide

• January 8 – John Catliff, Canadian footballer
• February 21 - Steve Lee, Sound effects wrangler and film historian
• February 1 – Brandon Lee, Chinese-American actor (d. 1993)
• March 1 – Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler
• March 23 - Jonathan Dow, British actor
• April 16 – Jon Cryer, American actor
• April 20 - Susan Cookson, British actress
• May 1 – Todd Spikes, American former police officer and convicted sex offender
• May 7 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999)
• June 1 – Nigel Short, English chess player
• July 31 – J. K. Rowling, writer
• August 25 – Mia Zapata, singer
• August 28 – Shania Twain, singer
• September 2 – Lennox Lewis, British boxer
• October 2 – Ferhan and Ferzan Önder, Turkish-Austrian pianists
• October 5 – Patrick Roy, Canadian retired ice hockey player
• November 20 – Ben Stiller, actor
• December 31 – Nicholas Sparks, American author

• January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American poet (b. 1888)
• January 24 – Winston Churchill, British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1874)

• February 15 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
• February 21 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
• February 23 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)

• March 18 – King Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)

• April 18 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)

• May 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)

• June 5 – Eleanor Farjeon, English author of children's literature (b. 1881)

• July 1 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
• July 7 – Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)

• August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
• August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)

• September 16 – Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (b. 1886)
• September 27 – Clara Bow, American actress and sex-symbol (b. 1905)

• November 24 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
• November 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)

• December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

• Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard P. Feynman for work in the development of quantum electrodynamics
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Robert B. Woodward, American chemist (for his synthetic work with natural products)
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by François Jacob, André Lwoff, and Jacques Monod
• Nobel Prize in Literature won by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian novelist
• Nobel Peace Prize won by UNICEF

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