Famous People Who Died In 1965
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1965. This list includes people like Winston Churchill, Malcolm X, T. S. Eliot, Nat King Cole, Le Corbusier and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, playwrights, novelists and diplomats who died in 1965. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
Winston Churchill30 November 1874, British
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Malcolm X19 May 1925, American
Minister
Stan Laurel16 June 1890, British, American
Actor
T. S. Eliot26 September 1888, American
Poet
Nat King Cole17 March 1919, American
Vocalist, Pianist
Le Corbusier06 October 1887, Swiss, French
Architect
Dorothy Dandridge09 November 1922, American
Actress
Viola Desmond06 July 1914, Canadian, American
Businesswoman
Adlai Stevenson II05 February 1900, American
Shirley Jackson14 December 1916, American
Author
Albert Schweitzer14 January 1875, French
Philosopher, Theologian
Lauri Törni28 May 1919, Vietnamese, Russian
Soldier
Henry A. Wallace07 October 1888, American
33rd Vice President of the U.S.A.
Dorothy Kilgallen03 July 1913, American
Journalist
Clara Bow29 July 1905, American
Actress
Syngman Rhee26 March 1875, South Korean
Statesman
Lee Hoi-chuen04 February 1901, Chinese
Opera Singer, Actor
William M. Branham06 April 1909, American
American Christian minister
Linda Darnell16 October 1923, American
Actress
Nannie Doss04 November 1905, American
Serial Killer
Judy Holliday21 June 1921, American
Actress
Paul Tillich20 August 1886, German, American
Martin Buber08 February 1878, Austrian, Israeli
Philosopher
Viola Liuzzo11 April 1925, American
Civil Rights Activist
Milton Avery07 March 1885, American
Painter
Hermann Staudinger23 March 1881, German
Chemist
Paul Hermann Müller12 January 1899, Swiss
Chemist
Edward Victor Appleton06 September 1892, British
Physicist
William Maugham25 January 1874, British
Novelist & Playwright
Fan S. Noli06 January 1882, Albanian
Prime Minister of Albania
Joseph Erlanger05 January 1874, American
Physiologist
Philip Showalter Hench28 February 1896, American
Physician
Max Volmer03 May 1885, German
Chemist
Edgard Varese22 December 1883, American
Composer
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt23 August 1904, American
Socialite, Actor
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Edward R. Murrow25 April 1908, American
Journalist
W. Somerset Maugham25 January 1874, French, British
Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter
Eli Cohen06 December 1924, Israeli
spy
Farouk of Egypt11 February 1920, Egyptian
Politician, Coin collecting
Lorraine Hansberry19 May 1930, American
Writer, Theatre director, Screenwriter,
Dorothea Lange26 May 1895, American
Journalist, Photographer, Artist, Photojournalist
Alan Freed15 December 1921, American
Disc jockey, Radio personality
David O. Selznick10 May 1902, American
American film producer
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson04 January 1890, American
Entrepreneur, Writer
Spike Jones1911 AD, American
Musician
Owney Madden18 December 1891, British, American
Gangster
Frances Perkins10 April 1880, American
politician, sociologist
Frederick Fleet15 October 1887, British
Sailor
Constance Bennett22 October 1904, American
Actress
Father DivineAmerican
Frederick Browning20 October 1896, British
Military personnel
Sonny Boy Williamson II05 December 1912, American
Singer
Maxime Weygand21 January 1867, French
Military personnel, Officer
Edogawa Ranpo21 October 1894, Japanese
Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Literary critic,
Geoffrey de Havilland27 July 1882, British
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Test pilot, Aviator,
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej08 November 1901, Romanian
Politician, Diplomat
Margaret Dumont20 October 1882, American
Actress
Henry Cowell11 March 1897, American
Composer, Musicologist, Music theorist, Pianist
Moshe Sharett15 October 1894, Israeli, Ukrainian
Politician, Diplomat, Translator
Bill Black17 September 1926, American
Musician
Freddie Mills26 June 1919, British
Boxer
H. V. Evatt30 April 1894, Australian
Politician, Diplomat, Writer, Lawyer, Judge
Jimmie Lee Jackson1938 AD
Civil Rights Activist
Nickolas Muray15 February 1892, American
Photographer, Fencer
Ingrid Jonker19 September 1933, South African
Poet, Writer
Hayato Ikeda03 December 1899, Japanese
Prime Minister, Politician
Arthur Holmes14 January 1890, British
Geophysicist, Geologist
Hugh Lawson White19 August 1881, American
Politician
Eduard Einstein28 July 1910, Swiss
Psychiatrist
David Smith09 March 1906, American
Sculptor
Abdul Hamid01 July 1933, Indian
Soldier
William Somerset Maugham25 January 1874, British
Kurt Heegner16 December 1893, German
Mathematician
Harry Blackstone, Sr.27 September 1885, American
Thomas Stearns Eliot26 September 1888, British, American
Bernard Mannes Baruch19 August 1870, American
Financier