1965

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.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s  1940s  1950s  – 1960s –  1970s  1980s  1990s
Years:	1962 1963 1964 – 1965 – 1966 1967 1968

Events

Funeral train for Sir Winston Churchill

• 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
• April 9 – Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover of Time
• 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
• 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 20 – World Food Programme is made a permanent agency of the United Nations
• The Left Banke forms
• Pete Best attempts suicide

Births

Bruce Lee with son Brandon Lee in 1966

• 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 5 – Patrick Roy, Canadian retired ice hockey player
• November 20 – Ben Stiller, actor
• December 31 – Nicholas Sparks, American author

Deaths

January

T. S. Eliot

Winston Churchill

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

February

Nat King Cole

Malcolm X

Stan Laurel

• 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

Farouk of Egypt

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

Moshe Sharett

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

August

Hayato Ikeda

Le Corbusier

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

September

Clara Bow

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

November

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

December

Joseph Erlanger

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

Nobel Prizes

• 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

Movies released

Natalie Wood in The Great Race

• The Agony and the Ectasy
• Alphaville, Golden Bear winner
• Cat Ballou
• Darling
• Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness
• For a Few Dollars More
• Girl Happy
• The Great Race
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Help!, starring The Beatles
• The Ipcress File
• Juliet of the Spirits
• The Knack...And How to Get It, Cannes Grand Prize
• The Legend of Blood Mountain
• Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie
• Report
• Ship of Fools
• The Shop on Main Street
• The Sons of Katie Elder
• The Sound of Music
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
• A Thousand Clowns
• Thunderball
• Zorba the Greek

New books

Malcolm X in 1964

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley & Malcolm X
• The British Museum Is Falling Down – David Lodge
• Dune – Frank Herbert
• Georgy Girl – Margaret Forster
• The Green Berets – Robin Moore
• Hotel – Arthur Hailey
• The Looking-Glass War – John le Carré
• The Magus – John Fowles
• The Man with the Golden Gun – Ian Fleming
• Markings – Dag Hammarskjöld
• Morning's at Seven – Eric Malpass
• The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
• The Source – James A. Michener
• Those Who Love – Irving Stone
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick
• Up the Down Staircase – Bel Kaufman

Hit songs

• "Nowhere to Run" – Martha Reeve and the Vandellas