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==Events==
===January===
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* [[January 1]] &ndash; Canadian ship {{SS|Catala}} is driven onto the beach in [[Ocean Shores, Washington]], stranding her.
* [[January 4]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] proclaims his "[[Great Society]]" during his [[State of the Union address]].
* [[January 9]] &ndash; The [[Mirzapur Cadet College]] formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now [[Bangladesh]]).
* [[January 14]] &ndash; The Prime Minister of [[Northern Ireland]] and the [[Taoiseach]] of the [[Republic of Ireland]] meet for the first time in 43 years.
* [[January 19]] &ndash; The unmanned ''[[Gemini 2]]'' is launched on a suborbital test of various spacecraft systems.
* [[January 20]] 
** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] is sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President.
** [[Indonesia]]n President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations.
* [[January 26]] &ndash; Anti-Hindi agitations break out in India, because of which [[Hindi]] does not get "National Language" status and remains one of the 23 official languages of India.
* [[January 30]] &ndash; The state funeral of Sir [[Winston Churchill]] takes place with the largest assembly of statesmen in the world until the 2005 funeral of [[Pope John Paul II]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4421081.stm | work=BBC News | title=Holding history's largest funeral | date=April 8, 2005 | accessdate=March 29, 2010}}</ref>

===February===
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* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Trofim Lysenko]] is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|Academy of Sciences]] in the Soviet Union and [[Lysenkoism|Lysenkoist]] theories subjected to criticism as pseudoscience.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/5/229.short|title=The descent of Lysenko|last=Cohen|first=Barry M.|journal=The Journal of Heredity|volume=56|pages=229–233|year=1965|issue=5|accessdate=2015-01-01|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6VXNmwwHu|archivedate=2015-01-12|deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Joravsky|first=David|title=The Lysenko Affair|location=Cambridge, Mass.|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1970|series=Russian Research Center studies, 61|isbn=0-674-53985-0}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] &ndash; English footballer Sir [[Stanley Matthews]] plays his final [[Football League First Division|First Division]] game, at the record age of 50 years and 5 days.
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The African and [[Malagasy Republic|Malagasy]] Common Organization (Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache; OCAM) is formed as successor to the Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation (Union Africaine et Malgache de Cooperation Economique; UAMCE), formerly the [[African and Malagasy Union]] (Union Africaine et Malgache; UAM).
* [[February 15]] &ndash; A new red and white [[maple leaf]] design is inaugurated as the [[flag of Canada]], replacing the [[Union Flag]] and the [[Canadian Red Ensign]].
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Joan Rivers]] makes her [[Tonight Show]] debut.
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[The Gambia]] becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* [[February 20]]
** ''[[Ranger 8]]'' crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the [[Apollo program]] [[astronaut]]s.
** [[Suat Hayri Ürgüplü]] forms the new (interim) government of [[Turkey]] (29th government).
* [[February 21]] &ndash; African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist [[Malcolm X]] is assassinated in New York City.
* [[February 22]] &ndash; A new, revised, color production of [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]'s ''[[Cinderella (musical)|Cinderella]]'' airs on CBS. [[Lesley Ann Warren]] makes her TV debut in the title role. The show becomes an annual tradition.
[[File:Flag of Canada.svg|thumb|180px|The newly adopted [[Flag of Canada]]]]
[[File:Flag of the Gambia.svg|thumb|180px|Flag of the newly independent [[Gambia]]]]

===March===
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* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[The Sound of Music (film)|''The Sound of Music'']] premieres at the Rivoli Theater in New York City.
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Bloody Sunday (1965)|Bloody Sunday]]: Some 200 Alabama State Troopers clash with 525 civil rights demonstrators in [[Selma, Alabama]].
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: Some 3,500 [[United States Marines]] arrive in [[South Vietnam]], becoming the first American combat troops in [[Vietnam]].
* [[March 9]] &ndash; The second attempt to march from Selma to [[Montgomery, Alabama]], under the leadership of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday, to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court [[Injunction|restraining order]]. [[White supremacist]]s beat up white [[Unitarian Universalist]] minister [[James J. Reeb]] later that day in Selma.
* [[March 10]]
** [[Goldie (eagle)|Goldie]], a [[London Zoo]] [[golden eagle]], is recaptured 12 days after her escape.
** An engagement is announced between [[Princess Margriet of the Netherlands]] and [[Pieter van Vollenhoven]], who will become the first commoner and the first Dutchman to marry into the [[Dutch Royal Family]].
* [[March 11]] &ndash; White [[Unitarian Universalist]] minister [[James J. Reeb]], beaten by [[White supremacists]] in [[Selma, Alabama]] on [[March 9]] following the second march from Selma, dies in a hospital in [[Birmingham, Alabama]].
* [[March 15]] &ndash; President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his "We Shall Overcome" speech.
* [[March 16]] &ndash; Police clash with 600 [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee|SNCC]] marchers in [[Montgomery, Alabama]].
* [[March 17]]
** In [[Montgomery, Alabama]], 1,600 civil rights marchers demonstrate at the Courthouse.
** In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It is passed by the Senate May 26, the House July 10, and signed into law by President Johnson August 6.
* [[March 18]]
** [[Cosmonaut]] [[Alexey Leonov]], leaving his spacecraft ''[[Voskhod 2]]'' for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
** A [[United States federal judge]] rules that [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference|SCLC]] has the lawful right to march to [[Montgomery, Alabama]] to petition for 'redress of grievances'.
* [[March 19]] &ndash; The wreck of the {{SS|Georgiana}}, reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built, is discovered off the [[Isle of Palms, South Carolina]], by teenage diver [[E. Lee Spence]], exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million dollar cargo, while attempting to run past the Union blockade into [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]].
* [[March 20]]
** "[[Poupée de cire, poupée de son]]", sung by [[France Gall]] (music and lyrics by [[Serge Gainsbourg]]) wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1965]] for [[Luxembourg]].
** The [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]] begins.
* [[March 21]]
** [[Ranger program]]: [[NASA]] launches ''[[Ranger 9]]'', which is the last in a series of unmanned [[Moon|lunar]] [[space probe]]s.''
** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] leads 3,200 [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)|civil rights]] activists in the third march from Selma, Alabama to the capitol in Montgomery.
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] becomes the first secretary of the [[Romanian Communist Party]].
* [[March 23]]
**''[[Gemini 3]]'': [[NASA]] launches the United States' first 2-person crew ([[Gus Grissom]], [[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]]) into [[Earth orbit]].
**The first issue of ''[[The Vigilant]]'' is published from [[Khartoum]].
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
* [[March 30]]
** Funeral services are held for Detroit homemaker [[Viola Liuzzo]], who was shot dead by 4 Klansmen as she drove marchers back to Selma at night after the civil rights march.
** The second [[ODECA]] charter, signed on 12 December 1962, becomes effective.

===April===
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* [[April 3]] &ndash; The world's first space nuclear power reactor, ''[[SNAP-10A]]'', is launched by the United States from Vandenberg AFB, California. The reactor operates for 43 days and remains in [[low Earth orbit]].
* [[April 5]] &ndash; At the [[37th Academy Awards]], ''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'' wins 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. [[Rex Harrison]] wins an Oscar for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]. ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'' takes home 5 Oscars. [[Julie Andrews]] wins an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her performance in the title role. [[Sherman Brothers]] receives 2 Oscars including [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]], "[[Chim Chim Cher-ee]]".
* [[April 6]]
** The [[Intelsat I]] ("Early Bird") [[communications satellite]] is launched. It becomes operational [[May 2]] and is placed in commercial service in [[June]].
** The British Government announces the cancellation of the [[TSR-2]] aircraft project.
* [[April 9]]
** The West German parliament extends the [[statute of limitations]] on [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[war crime]]s.
** In [[Houston]], the Harris County Domed Stadium (more commonly known as the [[Astrodome]]) opens.
** [[Charlie Brown]] and the ''[[Peanuts]]'' Gang appear on the cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''.
* [[April 11]] &ndash; The [[1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak]]: An estimated 51 tornadoes (47 confirmed) hit in 6 Midwestern states, killing between 256 to 271 people and injuring some 1,500 more.
* [[April 14]] &ndash; ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' killers [[Richard Hickock]] and [[Perry Smith (murderer)|Perry Smith]], convicted of murdering 4 members of the [[Herbert Clutter]] family of [[Holcomb, Kansas]], are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men in [[Lansing, Kansas]].
* [[April 17]] &ndash; The first [[Students for a Democratic Society]] march against the Vietnam War draws 25,000 protestors to Washington, D.C.
* [[April 18]] &ndash; Consecration of Saint [[Clement of Ohrid]] Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral in Toronto, Canada.
* [[April 21]] &ndash; The [[1964 New York World's Fair|New York World's Fair]] in [[Flushing Meadows]], New York, reopens.
* [[April 23]] &ndash; The [[Pennine Way]] officially opens.
* [[April 24]]
** The [[1965 Yerevan demonstrations]] start in Yerevan, demanding recognition of the [[Armenian Genocide]].
** The bodies of Portuguese opposition politician [[Humberto Delgado]] and his secretary Arajaryr Moreira de Campos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno, Spain (they were killed [[February 12]]).
** In the [[Dominican Republic]], officers and civilians loyal to deposed President [[Juan Bosch]] mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a [[provisional government]]. Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out, although the new government retains its hold on power.
* [[April 25]] &ndash; Teenage [[sniper]] Michael Clark kills 3 and wounds others shooting at cars from a hilltop along [[Highway 101]] just south of [[Orcutt, California]]. Sixteen year old Clark kills himself as police rush the hilltop.
* [[April 28]]
** [[American occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66)|U.S. troops occupy the Dominican Republic.]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: Prime Minister of Australia [[Robert Menzies]] announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in [[South Vietnam]], supposedly at the request of the [[Saigon]] government (it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans).
* [[April 29]] &ndash; Australia announces that it is sending an [[infantry]] battalion to support the [[South Vietnam]] government.

=== May ===
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* [[May 1]]
** [[Robert Askin|Bob Askin]] replaces [[Jack Renshaw]] as Premier of [[New South Wales]].
** The [[Battle of Dong-Yin]] occurs as a conflict between [[Taiwan]] and the People's Republic of China.
** Liverpool wins the FA Cup Final, beating Leeds Utd 2–1.
* [[May 5]] &ndash; Forty men [[Draft-card burning|burn their draft cards]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and a coffin is marched to the Berkeley [[Conscription in the United States|Draft Board]].
* [[May 6]] &ndash; A [[Early-May 1965 tornado outbreak sequence|tornado outbreak]] near the [[Minneapolis–Saint Paul|Twin Cities]] in [[Minnesota]] kills 13 and injures 683.
* [[May 7]] &ndash; The [[U.S. Steel]] freighter {{SS|Cedarville}} collides with the SS ''Topdalsfjord'' and sinks near the [[Mackinac Bridge]], killing 25. 10 are rescued from the ''Cedarville'', the 3rd largest lake ship to sink after its sister the {{SS|Carl D. Bradley}}, and the {{SS|Edmund Fitzgerald}}.
* [[May 9]] &ndash; Pianist [[Vladimir Horowitz]] returns to the stage after a 12-year absence, performing a legendary concert in [[Carnegie Hall]] in New York.
* [[May 12]]
** West Germany and [[Israel]] establish diplomatic relations.
** The Italian liner {{SS|Michelangelo}} enters service.
* [[May 13]] &ndash; A West German [[court of appeals]] condemns the behavior of ex-defense minister [[Franz Josef Strauss]] during the [[Spiegel scandal]].
* [[May 21]] &ndash; The largest antiwar [[teach-in]] to date begins at [[Berkeley, California]], attended by 30,000.
* [[May 22]] &ndash; 
** Several hundred Vietnam War protesters in Berkeley, California, march to the Draft Board again to burn 19 more cards. [[Lyndon Johnson]] is hung in [[effigy]].
** The first [[skateboarding]] championship is held.
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Ali]] knocks out [[Sonny Liston]] in the first round of their championship rematch with the "[[Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston|Phantom Punch]]" at the [[Central Maine Civic Center]] in [[Lewiston, Maine|Lewiston]].
* [[May 27]] - [[Inter Milan|Internazionale]] beats [[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]] 1-0 at the [[San Siro]], [[Milan]] and wins the [[1964-65 European Cup]] (football).
* [[May 29]] &ndash; A mining accident in [[Dhanbad]], India kills 274.
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Auto racing|Racing driver]] [[Jim Clark]] wins the [[Indianapolis 500]], and later wins the [[Formula One]] world driving championship in the same year.

=== June ===
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[[File:FIU Green Library.JPG|right|thumb|170px|Green Library at [[Florida International University]] in [[Miami, FL]]]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[Florida International University]] is founded in [[Miami]].
** A [[Coal mining|coal mine]] explosion in [[Fukuoka]], Japan kills 237.
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in [[South Vietnam]].
* [[June 3]] &ndash; ''[[Gemini 4]]'': Astronaut [[Edward Higgins White]] makes the first U.S. [[space walk]].
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Kakanj mine disaster]]: A mining accident in [[Kakanj]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], results in 128 deaths.
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dong Xoai]]: About 1,500 [[Viet Cong]] mount a mortar attack on [[Đồng Xoài]], overrunning its military headquarters and the adjoining militia compound.
* [[June 16]] &ndash; A planned [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|anti-Vietnam War protest]] at [[The Pentagon]] becomes a teach-in, with demonstrators distributing 50,000 leaflets in and around the building.
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Houari Boumediene]]'s Revolutionary Council ousts [[Ahmed Ben Bella]], in a bloodless [[coup]] in [[Algeria]].
* [[June 20]] &ndash; Police in [[Algiers]] break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President [[Ahmed Ben Bella]].
* [[June 22]] &ndash; The [[Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea]] is signed in Tokyo.
* [[June 25]] &ndash; A U.S. Air Force [[Boeing C-135 Stratolifter]] bound for Okinawa crashes just after takeoff at [[MCAS El Toro]] in [[Orange County, California]], killing all 85 on board.

=== July ===
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* July &ndash; The [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] secretariat is created.
* [[July 9]]  &ndash; [[Sonny & Cher]] release [[I Got You Babe]] which would go on to #1 in the US, UK & Canada and establish them as international icons.
* [[July 14]] &ndash; U.S. spacecraft ''[[Mariner 4]]'' flies by [[Mars]], becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet.
* [[July 15]] &ndash; Greek Prime minister [[Georgios Papandreou]] and his government are dismissed by King [[Constantine II of Greece|Constantine II]].
* [[July 16]] &ndash; The [[Mont Blanc Tunnel]] is inaugurated by presidents [[Giuseppe Saragat]] and [[Charles de Gaulle]].
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: Four [[F-4 Phantom II|F-4C Phantoms]] escorting a [[Strategic bombing|bombing raid]] at Kang Chi are targeted by [[antiaircraft missile]]s, in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other 3 sustain damage.
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Bob Dylan]] elicits controversy among folk purists by "going electric" at the [[Newport Folk Festival]].
* [[July 26]] &ndash; The [[Maldives]] receive full independence from Great Britain.
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Edward Heath]] becomes Leader of the British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].
* [[July 28]] &ndash; Vietnam War: U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in [[South Vietnam]] from 75,000 to 125,000, and to more than double the number of men drafted per month - from 17,000 to 35,000.
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[The Beatles]] second movie [[Help! (film)|Help!]] premieres.
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[War on Poverty]]: U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs the [[Social Security Act of 1965]] into law, establishing [[Medicare (United States)|Medicare]] and [[Medicaid]].

=== August ===
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* [[August 1]] &ndash; Cigarette advertising is banned on British television.
* [[August 6]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]] into law.
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Tunku Abdul Rahman]], [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]], recommends the expulsion of [[Singapore]] from the [[Federation of Malaysia]], negotiating its separation with [[Lee Kuan Yew]], Prime Minister of Singapore.
* [[August 9]]
** [[Singapore]] is expelled from the Federation of [[Malaysia]], which recognizes it as a [[Sovereignty|sovereign nation]]. [[Lee Kuan Yew]] announces Singapore's independence and assumes the position of Prime Minister of the new island nation.
** An explosion at an [[Arkansas]] missile plant kills 53.
** [[Indonesia]]n president [[Sukarno]] collapses in public.
* [[August 11]] &ndash; The [[Watts Riots]] begin in Los Angeles.
* [[August 13]] &ndash; The rock group [[Jefferson Airplane]] debuts at the Matrix in [[San Francisco]] and begins to appear there regularly.
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[The Beatles]] perform the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing before 55,600 persons at [[Shea Stadium]] in New York City.
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]] &ndash; [[Operation Starlite]]: 5,500 [[United States Marines]] destroy a [[Viet Cong]] stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in [[Quảng Ngãi Province]], in the first major American ground battle of the war. The Marines were tipped-off by a Viet Cong deserter who said that there was an attack planned against the U.S. base at [[Chu Lai]].
* [[August 19]] &ndash; At the conclusion of the [[Frankfurt Auschwitz trials]], 66 ex-[[SS]] personnel receive [[life sentence]]s, 15 others smaller ones.
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Myrick Daniels]], an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] seminarian from [[Keene, New Hampshire]], is murdered in [[Hayneville, Alabama]] while working in the [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)|African-American civil rights movement]].
* [[August 21]] &ndash; ''[[Gemini 5]]'' ([[Gordon Cooper]], [[Pete Conrad]]) is launched on the first 1-week flight, as well as the first test of [[fuel cell]]s for electrical power.
* [[August 30]]
** [[Casey Stengel]] announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball.
** [[Rock music]]ian [[Bob Dylan]] releases his influential album ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'', featuring the song "[[Like a Rolling Stone]]".
** An [[avalanche]] buries a [[dam]] construction site at [[Saas-Fee]], Switzerland, killing 90 workers.
* [[August 31]] &ndash; President Johnson signs a law penalizing the burning of draft cards with up to 5 years in prison and a $1,000 fine.

=== September ===
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* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Pakistan]]i troops enter the Indian sector of [[Kashmir]], while Indian troops try to invade [[Lahore]].
* [[September 6]] &ndash; The [[Islamic Republic of Pakistan]] observes its [[Defence Day]], on account of successful defence of [[Lahore]] and other important areas against India.
* [[September 7]]
** [[Pakistan]] celebrates Air Force Day on account of heavy retaliations to India.
** The People's Republic of China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
** [[Vietnam War]]: In a follow-up to August's [[Operation Starlite]], [[United States Marines]] and [[South Vietnam]]ese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula, {{convert|23|mi|km}} south of the Chu Lai Marine base.
* [[September 8]]
** India opens 2 additional fronts against Pakistan.
** The Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in [[Operation Dwarka]] (Pakistan celebrates [[Victory Day (Pakistan)|Victory Day]] annually).
** [[Dorothy Dandridge]] dies of a drug overdose.
* [[September 9]]
** [[Sandy Koufax]] of the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] pitches a [[perfect game]] in a [[baseball]] match against the [[Chicago Cubs]]. The opposing pitcher, [[Bob Hendley]], allows only 1 run, which is unearned. It is Koufax's fourth no-hitter in as many seasons.
** [[United Nations Secretary-General|U.N. Secretary General]] [[U Thant]] negotiates with Pakistan President [[Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan)|Ayub Khan]].
** [[U Thant]] recommends China for [[United Nations]] membership.
** [[Hurricane Betsy]] roars ashore near [[New Orleans]] with winds of {{convert|145|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}, causing 76 deaths and $1.42 billion in damage. The storm is the first hurricane to cause $1 billion in unadjusted damages, giving it the nickname "Billion Dollar Betsy". It is the last major hurricane to strike New Orleans until [[Hurricane Katrina]] 40 years later.
* [[September 13]] &ndash; The [[Congress of Arab Countries]] begins in [[Casablanca]]; [[Habib Bourguiba]] of [[Tunisia]] boycotts the meeting.
* [[September 14]] &ndash; The fourth and final period of the [[Second Vatican Council]] opens.
** The infamous "bad sitcom" [[My Mother The Car]] premieres on NBC.
* [[September 16]]
** China protests against Indian provocations in its border region.
** In [[Iraq]], Prime Minister [[Arif Abd ar-Razzaq]]'s attempted coup fails.
* [[September 17]] &ndash; King [[Constantine II of Greece]] forms a new government with Prime Minister [[Stephanos Stephanopoulos]], in an attempt to end a 2-year-old political crisis.
* [[September 18]]
** In Denmark, [[Palle Sørensen]] shoots 4 policemen in pursuit; he is apprehended the same day.
** [[Comet Ikeya–Seki]] is first sighted by Japanese astronomers.
** [[Premier of the Soviet Union|Soviet Premier]] [[Alexei Kosygin]] invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.
* [[September 20]] – [[Vietnam War]]: An [[United States Air Force|USAF]] [[F-104 Starfighter]] piloted by Captain Philip Eldon Smith is shot down by a Chinese [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19|MiG-19 Farmer]]. The pilot is held until 15 March [[1973]].
* [[September 21]] – [[Gambia]], [[Maldives]] and [[Singapore]] are admitted as [[Members of the United Nations|members]] of the [[United Nations]].
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Radio Peking]] announces that Indian troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border.
* [[September 24]]
** Fighting resumes between Indian and Pakistani troops.
** The British governor of [[Aden]] cancels the constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate, due to the bad security situation.
* [[September 25]] &ndash; The ''[[Tom and Jerry|Tom & Jerry]]'' cartoon series makes its world broadcast premiere on [[CBS Television|CBS]].
* [[September 27]] &ndash; The largest tanker ship at this time, ''Tokyo Maru'', is launched in [[Yokohama]], Japan.
* [[September 28]]
** [[Fidel Castro]] announces that anyone who wants to can emigrate to the United States.
** [[Taal Volcano]] in [[Luzon]], [[Philippines]], erupts, killing hundreds.
* [[September 30]]
** The [[Indonesia]]n army, led by General [[Suharto]], crushes an alleged communist coup attempt (see [[Transition to the New Order]] and [[30 September Movement]]).
** The classic family sci-fi show ''[[Thunderbirds (TV series)|Thunderbirds]]'' debuts on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in the U.K.

=== October ===
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* [[October 3]]
** [[Fidel Castro]] announces that [[Che Guevara]] has resigned and left the country.
** U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs an [[Immigration Act of 1965|immigration bill]] which abolishes quotas based on [[national origin]].
* [[October 4]]
** At least 150 killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of [[Durban]], [[KwaZulu-Natal]], South Africa.
** Prime minister [[Ian Smith]] of [[Rhodesia]] and [[Arthur Bottomley]] of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] begin negotiations in London.
** [[Pope Paul VI]] visits the United States. He appears for a Mass in [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] and makes a speech at the [[United Nations]].
** The [[University of California, Irvine]] opens its doors.
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Pakistan]] severs [[diplomatic relations]] with [[Malaysia]] because of their disagreement in the UN.
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Ian Brady]], a 27-year-old stock clerk from [[Hyde, Greater Manchester|Hyde]] in [[Cheshire]], is arrested for allegedly hacking to death (with a hatchet) 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans at a house on the [[Hattersley]] [[housing estate]].
* [[October 7]] &ndash; Seven Japanese fishing boats are sunk off [[Guam]] by super typhoon Carmen; 209 are killed.
* [[October 8]]
** [[Indonesian killings of 1965–66]]: The Indonesian army instigates the arrest and execution of communists which last until next March.{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}}
** The [[International Olympic Committee]] admits [[East Germany]] as a member.
** The [[Post Office Tower]] opens in London.
* [[October 9]]
** [[Yale University]] presents the ''[[Vinland map]]''.
** A brigade of South Korean soldiers arrive in [[South Vietnam]].
* [[October 10]] &ndash; The first group of [[Cuba]]n refugees travels to the U.S.
* [[October 12]]
** [[Per Borten]] forms a government in Norway.
** The U.N. General Council recommends that the United Kingdom try everything to stop a rebellion in [[Rhodesia]].
* [[October 13]] &ndash; Congo President [[Joseph Kasavubu]] fires Prime Minister [[Moise Tshombe]] and forms a provisional government, with [[Évariste Kimba]] in a leading position.
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Catholic Worker Movement]] stages an anti-war protest in Manhattan. One draft card burner is arrested, the first under the new law.
* [[October 16]]
** [[Moors murders]]: Police find a girl's body on [[Saddleworth Moor]] near [[Oldham]] in [[Lancashire]]. The body is quickly identified as that of 10-year-old [[Lesley Ann Downey]], who disappeared on [[Boxing Day]] the previous year from a fairground in the [[Ancoats]] area of [[Manchester]]. [[Ian Brady]], arrested for the murder of a 17-year-old man in nearby [[Hattersley]], is charged with murdering Lesley, as is his 23-year-old girlfriend [[Myra Hindley]].
** Anti-war protests draw 100,000 in 80 U.S. cities and around the world.
* [[October 17]] &ndash; The [[1964 New York World's Fair|New York World's Fair]] at Flushing Meadows, closes. Due to financial losses, some of the projected site park improvements fail to materialize.
* [[October 18]] &ndash; The Indonesian government outlaws the [[Communist Party of Indonesia]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}}
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Erhard]] is re-elected Chancellor of West Germany (he had first been elected in 1963).
* [[October 21]]
** [[Comet Ikeya–Seki]] approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
** The [[Organization of African Unity]] meets in [[Accra]], [[Ghana]].
* [[October 22]]
** French authors André Figueras and [[Jacques Laurent]] are fined for their comments against [[Charles de Gaulle]].
** African countries demand that the United Kingdom use force to prevent [[Rhodesia]] from declaring unilateral independence.
** Colonel [[Christophe Soglo]] stages a second coup in [[Dahomey]].
* [[October 24]]
** British Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] and Commonwealth Secretary [[Arthur Bottomley]] travel to [[Rhodesia]] for negotiations.
** British police find the decomposed body of a boy on [[Saddleworth Moor]].
* [[October 25]] &ndash; The Soviet Union declares its support of African countries in case Rhodesia unilaterally declares independence.
* [[October 26]]
** Anti-government demonstrations occur in the [[Dominican Republic]].
** Police discover the body of [[Sylvia Likens]] in [[Indianapolis]].
* [[October 27]]
** [[Brazil]]ian president [[Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco]] removes power from parliament, legal courts and opposition parties.
** [[Süleyman Demirel]] of [[Justice Party (Turkey)|AP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (30th government).
[[File:St Louis night expblend cropped.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Gateway Arch]]]]
* [[October 28]]
** [[French Foreign Minister]] [[Maurice Couve de Murville]] travels to Moscow.
** [[Pope Paul VI]] announces that the [[ecumenical council]] has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of [[Christ]].
** In [[St. Louis, Missouri]], the {{convert|630|ft|m|adj=on}}-tall inverted catenary steel [[Gateway Arch]] is completed.
** [[Mehdi Ben Barka]], a Moroccan politician, is kidnapped in Paris and never seen again.
* [[October 29]]
** [[Moors murders]]: [[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] appear in court, charged with the murders of Edward Evans (17), Lesley Ann Downey (10), and John Kilbride (12) from [[Manchester]].
** An 80-kiloton nuclear device is detonated at [[Amchitka Island]], Alaska as part of the [[Vela Uniform]] program, code-named Project Long Shot.
* [[October 30]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: Near [[Da Nang]], [[United States Marines]] repel an intense attack by [[Viet Cong]] forces, killing 56 guerrillas. A sketch of Marine positions is found on the dead body of a 13-year-old [[Vietnam]]ese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
** In Washington, D.C., a pro-Vietnam War march draws 25,000.

=== November ===
{{main|November 1965}}
* [[November 1]] &ndash; A [[trolleybus]] plunges into the [[Nile]] at [[Cairo]], killing 74 passengers.
* [[November 2]]
** Republican [[John Lindsay]] is elected [[mayor of New York City]].
** [[Quaker]] [[Norman Morrison]], 32, sets himself on fire in front of [[The Pentagon]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[President of France|French President]] [[Charles de Gaulle]] announces that he will stand for re-election.
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Martial law]] is announced in [[Rhodesia]]. The [[United Nations General Assembly]] accepts British intent to use force against Rhodesia if necessary by a vote of 82–9.
* [[November 6]] &ndash; Freedom Flights begin: [[Cuba]] and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States (by [[1971]] 250,000 Cubans take advantage of this program).
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Pillsbury Company|Pillsbury]]'s world-famous mascot, the [[Pillsbury Doughboy]], is created.
* [[November 8]]
** [[Vietnam War]] &ndash; [[Operation Hump]]: The [[173rd Airborne]] is ambushed by over 1,200 [[Viet Cong]].
** The [[British Indian Ocean Territory]] is created, consisting of [[Chagos Archipelago]], [[Aldabra]], [[Farquhar Group|Farquhar]] and [[Desroches Island|Desroches]] islands (on June 23, 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches are returned to the [[Seychelles]]).
** The [[Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965]] is given Royal Assent, suspending the [[death penalty]] for murder in the United Kingdom; renewal of the Act in 1969 makes the abolition permanent.
** The [[soap opera]] ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' debuts on [[NBC]].
* [[November 9]]
** [[Northeast blackout of 1965]]: Several U.S. states (VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY and portions of NJ) and parts of Canada are hit by a series of [[Power outage|blackouts]] lasting up to 13½ hours.
** [[Vietnam War]]: In New York City, 22-year-old [[Catholic Worker Movement]] member [[Roger Allen LaPorte]] sets himself on fire in front of the [[United Nations]] building in protest against the war.
* [[November 11]]
** In [[Rhodesia]] (modern-day [[Zimbabwe]]), the white-minority government of [[Ian Smith]] [[Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence|unilaterally declares ''de facto'' independence]] ('UDI').
** [[United Airlines Flight 227]] a [[Boeing 727-22]], crashes short of the runway and catches fire at [[Salt Lake City International Airport]] in [[Salt Lake City]]; 43 out of 91 passengers and crew perish.
* [[November 12]] &ndash; A [[United Nations Security Council resolution|UN Security Council resolution]] (voted 10–0) recommends that other countries not recognize independent Rhodesia.
* [[November 13]] &ndash; The {{SS|Yarmouth Castle}} burns and sinks {{convert|60|mi|km}} off [[Nassau, Bahamas]], with the loss of 90 lives.
* [[November 14]] &ndash; Vietnam War &ndash; [[Battle of Ia Drang]]: In the [[Ia Drang Valley]] of the [[Central Highlands (Vietnam)|Central Highlands]] in [[Vietnam]], the first major engagement of the war between regular United States and [[North Vietnam]]ese forces begins.
* [[November 15]] &ndash; U.S. racer [[Craig Breedlove]] sets a new [[land speed record]] of {{convert|600.601|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}.
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Venera program]]: The [[Soviet Union]] launches the ''[[Venera 3]]'' space probe from [[Baikonur]], [[Kazakhstan]] toward [[Venus]] (on March 1, 1966 it becomes the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another [[planet]]).
* [[November 20]] &ndash; The [[United Nations Security Council]] recommends that all states stop trading with Rhodesia.
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Mireille Mathieu]] sings on France's [[:fr:Télé Dimanche|Télé-Dimanche]] and begins her successful singing career (Dimanche is French for Sunday).
* [[November 22]]
** ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' opens in a Greenwich Village theatre in New York and eventually becomes one of the greatest musical hits of all time, winning a [[Tony Award]] for its star, [[Richard Kiley]].
** The [[United Nations Development Programme]] (UNDP) is established as a specialized agency of the [[United Nations]].
* [[November 23]] &ndash; Soviet general Mikhail Kazakov assumes command of the [[Warsaw Pact]].
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congolese]] [[lieutenant general]] [[Mobutu Sese Seko|Mobutu]] ousts [[Joseph Kasavubu]] and declares himself president.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; At the [[Hammaguir]] launch facility in the [[Sahara Desert]], France launches a [[Diamant A]] rocket with its first [[satellite]], ''[[Asterix-1]]'' on board, becoming the third country to enter [[outer space]].
* [[November 27]]
** Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters picket the [[White House]], then march on the [[Washington Monument]].
** [[Vietnam War]]: [[The Pentagon]] tells U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] that if planned major sweep operations to neutralize [[Viet Cong]] forces during the next year are to succeed, the number of American troops in [[Vietnam]] will have to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
* [[November 28]] &ndash; Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s call for "more flags" in [[Vietnam]], [[Philippines]] [[President-elect]] [[Ferdinand Marcos]] announces he will send troops to help fight in [[South Vietnam]].
* [[November 29]] &ndash; The Canadian satellite ''[[Alouette 2]]'' is launched.

=== December ===
{{main|December 1965}}
* [[December 1]] &ndash; The [[Border Security Force]] is established in India as a special force to guard the borders.
* [[December 3]]
** The first British aid flight arrives in [[Lusaka]]; [[Zambia]] had asked for British help against Rhodesia.
** Members of the [[Organization of African Unity]] decide to sever diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom, unless the [[British Government]] ends the rebellion of Rhodesia by mid-December.
** The Beatles release ''[[Rubber Soul]]''.
* [[December 5]]
** [[Charles de Gaulle]] is re-elected as French president with 10,828,421 votes.
** The "[[Glasnost Meeting]]" in Moscow becomes the first spontaneous political demonstration, and the first demonstration for civil rights in the Soviet Union.
* [[December 8]]
** Rhodesian prime minister [[Ian Smith]] warns that [[Rhodesia]] will resist a [[trade embargo]] by neighboring countries with force.
** The [[Race Relations Act 1965|Race Relations Act]] becomes the first legislation to address racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
** The [[Second Vatican Council]] closes.
* [[December 9]] &ndash; ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'', the first ''[[Peanuts]]'' television special, debuts on [[CBS]], quickly becoming an annual tradition.
* [[December 15]]
** The [[Caribbean Free Trade Association]] (CARIFTA) is formed.
** [[Tanzania]] and [[Guinea]] sever [[diplomatic relations]] with the United Kingdom.
** ''[[Gemini 6]]'' and ''[[Gemini 7]]'' perform the first controlled rendezvous in Earth orbit.
* [[December 17]] &ndash; The British government begins an oil embargo against Rhodesia; the United States joins the effort.
* [[December 20]] &ndash; The [[World Food Programme]] is made a permanent agency of the [[United Nations]].
* [[December 21]]
** The [[Soviet Union]] announces that it has shipped rockets to [[North Vietnam]].
** In West Germany, [[Konrad Adenauer]] resigns as chairman of the Christian Democratic Party.
** A new 1-hour German-American production of the ballet ''[[The Nutcracker]]'', with an international cast that includes [[Edward Villella]] in the title role, makes its U.S. television debut. It is repeated annually by CBS over the next 3 years but after that is virtually forgotten until issued on DVD in 2009 by Warner Archive.
* [[December 22]]
** [[Military coup]] occurs in [[Dahomey]].
** A {{convert|70|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}} [[speed limit]] is imposed on British roads.
** [[David Lean]]'s film of ''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]'', starring [[Omar Sharif]] and [[Julie Christie]], is released.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; The [[Yemen]]i [[Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation]] is founded in [[Ta'izz]].
* [[December 27]] &ndash; The British [[oil platform]] ''Sea Gem'' collapses in the [[North Sea]].
* [[December 28]] &ndash; Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani resigns.
* [[December 30]]
** President [[Kenneth Kaunda]] of [[Zambia]] announces that Zambia and the United Kingdom have agreed on a deadline before which the Rhodesian white government should be ousted.
** [[Ferdinand Marcos]] becomes [[President of the Philippines]].
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Bokassa]] takes power in the [[Central African Republic]].

=== Date unknown ===
* Tokyo officially becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from New York City.<ref>http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm</ref>
* The [[Council for National Academic Awards]] is established in the UK.
* [[TAT-4]] cable goes into operation.
* Aborigines are given the vote in Queensland.

=== World population ===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="7"|[[World population]]
|-
!
!1965
!colspan="2"|[[1960]]
!colspan="2"|[[1970]]
|-
![[File:Globe.svg|50px]] World
|align="right"|'''3,334,874,000'''
|align="right"|3,021,475,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 313,399,000
|align="right"|3,692,492,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 357,618,000
|-
![[File:Africa satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] Africa
|align="right"|'''313,744,000'''
|align="right"|277,398,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 36,346,000
|align="right"|357,283,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 43,539,000
|-
![[File:Two-point-equidistant-asia.jpg|50px]] Asia
|align="right"|'''1,899,424,000'''
|align="right"|1,701,336,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 198,088,000
|align="right"|2,143,118,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 243,694,000
|-
![[File:Europe satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] Europe
|align="right"|'''634,026,000'''
|align="right"|604,401,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 29,625,000
|align="right"|655,855,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 21,829,000
|-
![[File:Latin America terrain.jpg|50px]] Latin America
|align="right"|'''250,452,000'''
|align="right"|218,300,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 32,152,000
|align="right"|284,856,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 34,404,000
|-
![[File:LocationWHNorthernAmerica.png|50px]] Northern America
|align="right"|'''219,570,000'''
|align="right"|204,152,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 15,418,000
|align="right"|231,937,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 12,367,000
|-
![[File:Oceania (World-Factbook).jpg|50px]] Oceania
|align="right"|'''17,657,000'''
|align="right"|15,888,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 1,769,000
|align="right"|19,443,000
|align="right"|[[File:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 1,786,000
|}

==Births==
===January===
[[File:Julia Ormond Cannes.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Julia Ormond]]]]
[[File:James Nesbitt July 2008.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[James Nesbitt]]]]
[[File:Sophie, grevinna av Wessex.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Sophie, Countess of Wessex]]]]
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Steven A. LaChance]], American author
* [[January 4]]
** [[Beth Gibbons]], English singer, lead singer of the band [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]]
** [[Julia Ormond]], British actress
** [[Aditya Pancholi]], Indian actor
* [[January 5]]
** [[Vinnie Jones]], British footballer-turned-actor
** [[Patrik Sjöberg]], Swedish high jumper
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Konnan]], Cuban-born professional wrestler
* [[January 9]] 
** [[Haddaway]], German singer
** [[Farah Khan]], Indian choreographer, film director
** [[Joely Richardson]], British actress
* [[January 12]]
** [[Nikolai Borschevsky]], Russian professional ice hockey player (retired)
** [[Rob Zombie]], American musician
* [[January 14]]
** [[Shamil Basayev]], Chechen terrorist (d. [[2006]])
** [[Marc Delissen]], Dutch field hockey player
** [[Bob Essensa]], Canadian ice hockey player
** [[Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall]], British chef
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[James Nesbitt]], Northern Irish actor
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Marc Diffen]], Western Power Change Team Lead
* [[January 18]]
** [[Dave Attell]], American comedian
** [[Paudge Behan]], Irish actor
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Sophie, Countess of Wessex]], wife of [[Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex]]
* [[January 22]]
** [[DJ Jazzy Jeff]], African-American rapper and actor
** [[Diane Lane]], American actress
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Mike Awesome]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2007]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Esa Tikkanen]], Finnish ice hockey player
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Natalia Yurchenko]], Soviet gymnast
* [[January 27]]
** [[Alan Cumming]], Scottish actor
** [[Ignacio Noé]], Argentine artist
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Dominik Hašek]], Czech hockey player
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Bill Wilson]], The Best Brother Ever

===February===
[[File:Chris Rock WE 2012 Shankbone.JPG|120px|thumb|right|[[Chris Rock]]]]
[[File:Michael.bay.png|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Michael Bay]]]]
[[File:Dr. Dre.jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Dr. Dre]]]]
* [[February 1]]
** [[Brandon Lee]], Chinese-American actor (d. [[1993]])
** [[Sherilyn Fenn]], American actress
** [[Princess Stéphanie of Monaco]]
* [[February 3]]  
** [[Mattanya Cohen]], Israeli diplomat
** [[Maura Tierney]], American actress
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Jerome Brown]], American football player (d. [[1992]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Gheorghe Hagi]], Romanian footballer
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Chris Rock]], African-American actor and comedian
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Dicky Cheung]], Hong Kong actor
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Stephen Gregory (actor)|Stephen Gregory]], American actor
* [[February 17]]&ndash; [[Michael Bay]], American film director
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Dr. Dre]], African-American rapper and music producer
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Dean Karr]], American director and photographer
* [[February 23]]
** [[Kristin Davis]], American actress
** [[Michael Dell]], American computer manufacturer
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Sylvie Guillem]], French ballerina
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Joakim Sundström]], Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Park Gok-ji]], South Korean film editor

===March===
[[File:Sarah Jessica Parker 2 Shankbone 2009 Tribeca.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Sarah Jessica Parker]]]]
[[File:Aamir Khan 2013.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Aamir Khan]]]]
* [[March 1]]
** [[Stewart Elliott]], Canadian jockey
** [[Booker Huffman]], American professional wrestler, 5-time WCW World Champion
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Dragan Stojković]], Serbian footballer and coach
* [[March 4]]
** [[Paul W. S. Anderson]], British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
** [[Ron Gant]], American baseball player
** [[Jonathan Shearer]], Scottish castaway
** [[WestBam]], German rave techno DJ
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Jesper Parnevik]], Swedish golfer
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Kenny Smith]], American basketball player
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Benito Santiago]], American baseball player
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Mike Pollock]], American voice actor
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Rod Woodson]], American football player
* [[March 11]]
** [[Jesse Jackson, Jr.]], African-American politician
** [[Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen]], British designer and television presenter
* [[March 12]]
** [[Steve Finley]], American baseball player
** [[Liza Umarova]], Chechen singer and actress
* [[March 14]]
** [[Kevin Brown (right-handed pitcher)|Kevin Brown]], American baseball player
** [[Aamir Khan]], Indian Bollywood actor, film director, producer, film editor and script writer
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Joseph D. Kucan]], American video game developer
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Taeko Kawata]], Japanese voice actress
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Wakana Yamazaki]], Japanese voice actress
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[The Undertaker]], American professional wrestler ("The Undertaker")
* [[March 25]]
** [[Avery Johnson]], American basketball player and coach
** [[Stefka Kostadinova]], Bulgarian high jumper and president of the [[Bulgarian Olympic Committee]]
** [[Sarah Jessica Parker]], American actress
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Francisco Ribeiro]], Portuguese musician and composer ([[Madredeus]]) (d. [[2010]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Voula Patoulidou]], Greek athlete

===April===
[[File:Robert Downey, Jr. 2012.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Robert Downey Jr.]]]]
* [[April 1]]
** [[Bekir Bozdağ]], Turkish theologian, lawyer, and politician
** [[Mark Jackson (basketball)|Mark Jackson]], American basketball coach
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Rodney King]], African-American victim of police brutality (d. [[2012]])
* [[April 3]]
** [[Julie Anne Haddock]], American actress
** [[Nazia Hassan]], Pakistani pop singer (d. [[2000]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Robert Downey Jr.]], American actor
* [[April 6]]
** [[Frank Black]], American musician
** [[Rica Reinisch]], German swimmer
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Bill Bellamy]], American actor and comedian
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Paulina Porizkova]], Swedish-American  model and actress
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Eelco van Asperen]], Dutch computer scientist
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Tom O'Brien (actor)|Tom O'Brien]], American actor-producer
* [[April 13]]
** [[Patricio Pouchulu]], Argentine architect
** [[The Real Darren Stevens]], Canadian radio personality
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Linda Perry]], American musician
* [[April 16]]
** [[Jon Cryer]], American actor                                                                                                                                
** [[Martin Lawrence]], African-American actor, comedian, and producer
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Suge Knight]], African-American record producer
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Kevin James]], American comedian and actor

===May===
[[File:John C. Reilly by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|120px|[[John C. Reilly]]]]
[[File:Brooke Shields 2011 (Cropped).jpg|thumb|120px||[[Brooke Shields]]]]
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Gary Mitchell]], Irish playwright
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Aykut Kocaman]], Turkish footballer
* [[May 7]]
** [[Owen Hart]], Canadian professional wrestler (d. [[1999]])
** [[Norman Whiteside]], Northern Irish football player
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Steve Yzerman]], Canadian hockey player
* [[May 10]] 
** [[Linda Evangelista]], Canadian supermodel
** [[Kiyoyuki Yanada]], Japanese voice actor
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Monsour del Rosario]], Filipino Olympic athlete and actor
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Renée Simonsen]], Danish model and writer
* [[May 13]]
** [[Tim Chapman]], American bounty hunter
** [[José Antonio Delgado]], Venezuelan mountain climber (d. [[2006]])
** [[Hikari Ōta]], Japanese comedian
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Eoin Colfer]], Irish novelist
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Krist Novoselic]], American rock bassist ([[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Trent Reznor]], American rock musician ([[Nine Inch Nails]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Philippe Dhondt]], French singer known as Boris
* [[May 23]]
** [[Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo]], Spanish footballer
** [[Kappei Yamaguchi]], Japanese voice actor
* [[May 24]]
** [[Carlos Franco]], Paraguayan golfer
** [[John C. Reilly]], American actor
** [[Shinichirō Watanabe]], Japanese anime director
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Yahya Jammeh]], [[President of the Gambia]]
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Todd Bridges]], African-American actor
* [[May 31]]
** [[Brooke Shields]], American actress and supermodel
** [[Yoko Soumi]], Japanese voice actress

===June===
* [[June 1]]
** [[Larisa Lazutina]], Russian cross-country skier
** [[Nigel Short]], English chess player
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Steve Waugh|Steve]] and [[Mark Waugh]], Australian cricketers
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Mick Doohan]], Australian motorcycle racer
* [[June 6]]
** [[Cam Neely]], Canadian ice hockey player
** [[Megumi Ogata]], Japanese voice actress and singer
* [[June 7]]
** [[Mick Foley]], American professional wrestler
** [[Jean-Pierre François]], French footballer and singer
** [[Damien Hirst]], British artist
** [[Christine Roque]], French singer
* [[June 8]]
** [[Chris Chavis]] ("Tatanka"), American professional wrestler 
** [[Kevin Ritz]], American former MLB pitcher
* [[June 10]]
** [[Veronica Ferres]], German actress
** [[Scott Graham]], American sportscaster
** [[Elizabeth Hurley]], English model and actress
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Manuel Uribe]], morbidly obese Mexican (d. [[2014]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Bernard Hopkins]], American boxer
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Dara O'Kearney]], Irish ultra runner and professional poker player
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Paul Arthurs]], British rock guitarist ([[Oasis (band)|Oasis]])
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Mike Breen]], American sports announcer
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Ashley Richardson]], American model
* [[June 28]]
** [[Belayneh Dinsamo]], Ethiopian long-distance runner
** [[Sonny Strait]], American voice actor
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Matthew Weiner]], American writer, director, and producer of television drama

===July===
[[File:Slash live in Rome by Paride.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Slash (musician)|Slash]]]]
[[File:JeremyPivenFeb09.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Jeremy Piven]]]]
[[File:J. K. Rowling 2010.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[J. K. Rowling]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Harald Zwart]], Norwegian film director
* [[July 3]]
** [[Shinya Hashimoto]], Japanese professional wrestler (d. [[2005]])
** [[Connie Nielsen]], Danish actress
* [[July 4]]
** [[Horace Grant]], American basketball player
** [[Jo Whiley]], British radio DJ
* [[July 5]] 
** [[Kathryn Erbe]], American actress
** [[Eyran Katsenelenbogen]], Israeli jazz pianist
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Ernesto Hoost]], Dutch kickboxer
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Craig Morgan]], American singer
* [[July 19]]
** Dame [[Evelyn Glennie]], Scottish virtuoso percussionist
** [[Stuart Scott]], American sports reporter and [[ESPN]] anchor (d. ([[2015]]))
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Guðni Bergsson]], Icelandic footballer
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Shawn Michaels]], American professional wrestler
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Slash (musician)|Slash]] (Saul Hudson), American rock musician ([[Guns N' Roses]])
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Brian Blades]], American National Football League wide receiver
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Steven Weil]], [[Orthodox Union]] Executive Vice-President
* [[July 26]] 
** [[Vladimir Cruz]], Cuban actor
** [[Jeremy Piven]], American actor
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[José Luis Chilavert]], Paraguayan footballer
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[J. K. Rowling]], English author

===August===
[[File:Sam Mendes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2013.jpg|149px|thumb|right|[[Sam Mendes]]]]
[[File:MarleeMatlinMay09.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Marlee Matlin]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** [[Sam Mendes]], English film director
* [[August 2]]
** [[Sandra Ng]], Hong Kong actress
** [[Hisanobu Watanabe]], Japanese baseball player and coach
* [[August 4]]
** [[Dennis Lehane]], American crime writer
** [[Fredrik Reinfeldt]], Swedish Prime Minister
* [[August 6]]
** [[David Robinson (basketball)|David Robinson]], American basketball player
** [[Mark Speight]], British television presenter (d. [[2008]])
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Chin Ka-lok]], Hong Kong actor
* [[August 10]]
** [[Claudia Christian]], American actress, writer, singer, musician, and director
** [[Mike E. Smith]], American jockey
** [[John Starks (basketball)|John Starks]], American basketball player
* [[August 11]]
** [[Viola Davis]], African-American actress
** [[Duane Martin]], American actor
* [[August 14]]
** [[Emmanuelle Béart]], French actress
** [[Terry Richardson]], American fashion photographer
* [[August 15]]
** [[Vincent Kok|Vincent Kuk]], Hong Kong director and actor
** [[Mark Labbett]], British mathematician
* [[August 18]]
** [[Kōji Kikkawa]], Japanese singer
** [[Ikue Ōtani]], Japanese voice actress
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Kyra Sedgwick]], American actress
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Roger Avary]], American film writer/director/producer
* [[August 24]]
** [[Marlee Matlin]], American actress
** [[Reggie Miller]], American basketball player
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Mia Zapata]], American singer (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Satoshi Tajiri]], Japanese video game designer and ''[[Pokémon]]'' creator
** [[Amanda Tapping]], Canadian actress
** [[Shania Twain]], Canadian country singer and songwriter
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Peter Grant (footballer)|Peter Grant]], Scottish footballer and football manager

===September===
[[File:Charlie Sheen 2012.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Charlie Sheen]]]]
[[File:Bashar al-Assad (cropped).jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Bashar al-Assad]]]]
[[File:Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with CNN (2013-01-27).jpeg|120px|thumb|right|[[Dmitry Medvedev]]]]
[[File:Petro Porochenko au Conseil de l’Europe Strasbourg 26 juin 2014 04.jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Petro Poroshenko]]]]
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Craig McLachlan]], Australian actor and singer
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Lennox Lewis]], British boxer
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Charlie Sheen]], American actor
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Bowie Lam]], Hong Kong actor and singer
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Sebastian Sixx]], American rock musician and guitarist
* [[September 9]]
** [[Dan Majerle]], American basketball player
** [[Constance Marie]], American actress
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Marco Pastors]], Dutch politician
* [[September 11]]
** [[Bashar al-Assad]], [[President of Syria]]
** [[Paul Heyman]], American wrestling promoter, ECW
** [[Moby]], American musician
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Einstein Kristiansen]], Norwegian cartoonist, designer and TV host
* [[September 14]]
** [[Dmitry Medvedev]], [[President of Russia]]
** [[Ron Pearson]], American actor, comedian and juggler
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Katy Kurtzman]], American actress, director, and producer
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Kyle Chandler]], American actor
* [[September 19]]
** [[Sabine Paturel]], French singer
** [[Tshering Tobgay]], [[Prime Minister of Bhutan]]
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Robert Rusler]], American actor
* [[September 21]]
** [[Cheryl Hines]], American actress
** [[Johanna Vuoksenmaa]], Finnish film director
** [[David Wenham]], Australian actor
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Scottie Pippen]], American basketball player
* [[September 26]] 
**[[Alexandra Lencastre]], Portuguese actress
**[[Petro Poroshenko]], [[President of Ukraine]]
* [[September 27]]
** [[Steve Kerr]], American basketball player
** [[Peter MacKay]], Canadian politician
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Kathleen Madigan]], American comedienne

===October===
[[File:Steve Coogan 2013.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Steve Coogan]]]]
* [[October 1]]
** [[Andreas Keller]], German field hockey player
** [[Cliff Ronning]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Jan-Ove Waldner]], Swedish table tennis player
* [[October 4]]
** [[John Melendez]], American television announcer
** [[Michiko Neya]], Japanese voice actress
** [[Rykers Solomon]], Nauruan politician
** [[Micky Ward]], American boxer
* [[October 5]]
** [[Mario Lemieux]], Canadian ice hockey player
** [[Patrick Roy]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Kumiko Watanabe]], Japanese voice actress
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Dionicio Cerón]], Mexican long-distance runner
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Chris Penn]], American actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Ronit Roy]], Indian film and television actor
* [[October 14]]
** [[Steve Coogan]], British comedian and actor
** [[Constantine Koukias]], Australian composer
* [[October 16]]
** [[Kang Kyung-ok]], South Korean artist
** [[Steve Lamacq]], British radio DJ
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Aravinda de Silva]], Sri Lankan cricketer
* [[October 18]]
** [[Zakir Naik]], Indian Islamic speaker and doctor
** [[Curtis Stigers]], American jazz vocalist and saxophonist
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Ty Pennington]], American television presenter
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Shtalenkov]], Russian ice hockey player
* [[October 26]]
** [[Aaron Kwok]], Hong Kong singer and actor
** [[Sakari Oramo]], Finland Conductor and violinist
** [[Kelly Rowan]], Canadian actress
** [[Ken Rutherford (cricketer)|Kenneth Rutherford]], New Zealand cricketer
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Christy Clark]], Canadian politician

===November===
[[File:Ben Stiller 2010 (Cropped).jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Ben Stiller]]]]
[[File:SRK and Yash Chopra Interview.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Shahrukh Khan]]]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Mia Korf]], American actress
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Shahrukh Khan]], Indian actor, film/television producer and television presenter
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Ann Scott]], French novelist
* [[November 4]]
** [[Wayne Static]], American singer ([[Static-X]]) (d. [[2014]])
** [[Kiersten Warren]], American actress
* [[November 5]] 
** [[Famke Janssen]], Dutch actress
** [[Agnese Nano]], Italian actress
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Greg Graffin]], American rock singer ([[Bad Religion]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Eddie Irvine]], Northern Irish racecar driver
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Bryn Terfel]], Welsh baritone
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Sigrun Wodars]], German athlete
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Rick Roberts (actor)|Rick Roberts]], Canadian actor
* [[November 19]]
** [[Paulo S. L. M. Barreto|Paulo Barreto]], Brazilian cryptographer
** [[Laurent Blanc]], French football player and manager
* [[November 20]]
** [[Mike D|Michael Diamond]], American rapper ([[Beastie Boys]])
** [[Yoshiki Hayashi]], Japanese rock composer, piano and drummer ([[X Japan]])
** [[Takeshi Kusao]], Japanese voice actor
* [[November 21]]
** [[Björk]], Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician
** [[Alexander Siddig]], Sudanese-born English actor
** [[Yuriko Yamaguchi (voice actress)|Yuriko Yamaguchi]], Japanese voice actress
* [[November 23]]
** [[Don Frye]], American [[professional wrestler]] and mixed martial arts fighter
** [[Radion Gataullin]], Uzbek-born, Russian pole-vaulter
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Cris Carter]], American football player
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Peter Beagrie]], English footballer
* [[November 30]]
** [[Ben Stiller]], American actor
** [[Tashi Tenzing]], Indian mountaineer

===December===
[[File:Andy Dick 2012 Shankbone.JPG|120px|thumb|right|[[Andy Dick]]]]
* [[December 3]]
** [[Steve Harris (actor)|Steve Harris]], American actor
** [[Katarina Witt]], German figure skater
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Anthony DeSando]], American actor
* [[December 5]] 
**[[Carlton Palmer]], English footballer
**[[Johnny Rzeznik]], American rock singer and guitarist ([[Goo Goo Dolls]])
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Teruyuki Kagawa]], Japanese actor
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Carina Lau Kar-ling]], Chinese actress
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Greg Giraldo]], American comedian (d. [[2010]])
* [[December 15]]
** [[Luis Fabián Artime]], Argentine footballer
** [[Ted Slampyak]], American comic strip cartoonist ([[Little Orphan Annie]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[John Moshoeu]], South African footballer
* [[December 19]]  &ndash; [[Jessica Steen]], Canadian actress
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Andy Dick]], American actor
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Lee R. Berger|Lee Berger]] American-born explorer and paleoanthropologist
[[File:Salman Khan at People's Choice Awards 2012.jpg|120px|thumb|right|[[Salman Khan]]]]
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Salman Khan]], Indian actor, television presenter
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Allar Levandi]], Estonian Nordic combined skier
* [[December 30]]
** [[Heidi Fleiss]], American madam
** [[Zoe Kelli Simon]], American actress
* [[December 31]]
** [[Nicholas Sparks]], American author
** [[Gong Li]], Chinese actress

===Date unknown===
* [[Niko Barun]], Croatian artist
* [[Lauren Child]], American author
* [[Jeffrey Colwell]], American lawyer
* [[Antonio Helguera]], Mexican cartoonist
* [[Bradley Joseph]], American composer, pianist and keyboardist
* [[Paul Seawright]], Irish photographer

==Deaths==
===January===
[[File:Winston Churchill cph.3b12010.jpg|150px|thumb|[[Winston Churchill]]]]

* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[T. S. Eliot]], American-born writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Frederick Fleet]], English sailor and lookout aboard the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Lorraine Hansberry]], American writer (b. [[1930]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Jeanette MacDonald]], American actress and singer (b. [[1903]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Alan Freed]], American disc jockey (b. [[1922]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Winston Churchill]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Abraham Walkowitz]], American painter (b. [[1878]])
* [[January 28]]
** [[Tich Freeman]], English cricketer (b. [[1888]])
** [[Maxime Weygand]], French soldier (b. [[1867]])

===February===
[[File:Malcolm X NYWTS 4.jpg|150px|thumb|[[Malcolm X]]]]
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Irving Bacon]], American actor (b. [[1893]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Nance O'Neil]], stage & film actress, friend of [[Lizzie Borden]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah]], great Educationist, Philosopher, Philanthropist, Social Reformer, Sufi Thinker, Scientist and Spiritual Person, friend of [[A. K. Fazlul Huq]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Arthur C. Davis]], American admiral (b. [[1893]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Loyal Blaine Aldrich]], American astronomer (b. [[1884]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt]], Swiss-born socialite (b. [[1906]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Nat King Cole]], American singer and musician (b. [[1919]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Forrest Taylor]], American stage, film and television actor (b. [[1883]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Malcolm X]], American activist (assassinated) (b. [[1925]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Felix Frankfurter]], [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court Justice]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Stan Laurel]], British actor (b. [[1890]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[George Adamski]], Polish-born alleged UFO traveler (b. [[1891]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Adolf Schärf]], former [[President of Austria]] (b. [[1890]])

===March===
[[File:Princess Royal Mary.jpg|150px|thumb|[[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood|Princess Mary]]]]
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Margaret Dumont]], American actress (b. [[1889]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Louise Mountbatten]], Queen of Sweden and second wife of [[Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden|King Gustaf VI Adolf]] (b. [[1889]])
* [[March 13]]
** [[Corrado Gini]], Italian statistician (b. [[1884]])
** [[Fan S. Noli]], Albanian bishop, poet, and [[Politician|political figure]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[March 17]]
** [[Nancy Cunard]], English writer, heiress and political activist (b. [[1896]])
** [[Amos Alonzo Stagg]], American baseball, basketball, and football player and coach (b. [[1862]])
* [[March 18]]
** King [[Farouk of Egypt]] (b. [[1920]])
** [[Jack Quinlan]], American Chicago Cubs radio broadcaster (b. [[1927]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Mae Murray]], stage & silent screen star (b. [[1889]])
* [[March 28]]
** [[Richard Beesly]], British [[Gold medal|Olympic gold medal]]-winning rower (b. [[1907]])
** [[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood]] (b. [[1897]])
** [[Jack Hoxie]], American actor, rodeo performer (b. [[1885]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Philip Showalter Hench]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1896]])

===April===
* [[April 3]]
** [[Ray Enright]], American film director (b. [[1896]])
** [[Ernst Kirchweger]], Austrian communist and resistance fighter (b. [[1897]] or [[1898]])
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Lars Hanson]], Swedish actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Linda Darnell]], American actress (b. [[1923]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Perry Smith (murderer)|Perry Smith]] (b. [[1928]]) and [[Dick Hickock]] (b. [[1931]]), American murderers of the [[In Cold Blood|Clutters]] in [[1959]] (executed)
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Sydney Chaplin]], American actor (b. [[1885]])
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Guillermo González Camarena]], Mexican inventor (b. [[1917]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Edward Victor Appleton]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 24]]
** [[Louise Dresser]], American actress (b. [[1878]])
** [[Owney Madden]], English-born gangster (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Edward R. Murrow]], American journalist (b. [[1908]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Helen Chandler]], American actress (b. [[1906]])

===May===
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Spike Jones]], American musician and bandleader (b. [[1911]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Charles Sheeler]], American photographer (b. [[1883]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Leopold Figl]], former [[Chancellor of Austria]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Hubertus van Mook]], Acting [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]] from [[1942]] to [[1948]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Frances Perkins]], First woman appointed as a United States Presidential cabinet member (Labor) (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Eli Cohen]], Israeli spy (b. [[1924]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Christopher Stone (broadcaster)|Christopher Stone]], first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. [[1882]])
* [[May 23]]
** [[David Smith (sculptor)|David Smith]], American sculptor (b. [[1906]])
** [[Earl Webb]], American baseball player (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Sonny Boy Williamson II|Sonny Boy Williamson]], American [[blues]] musician (b. [[1899]])

===June===
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Curly Lambeau]], American football coach ([[Green Bay Packers]]) and a member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Judy Holliday]], American actress (b. [[1921]])
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Martin Buber]], Austrian-Israeli philosopher (b. [[1878]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[H. V. Kaltenborn]], American radio commentator (b. [[1878]])
* [[June 15]]
** [[Steve Cochran]], American actor (b. [[1917]])
** [[William Jennings Gardner|Bill Gardner]], American law enforcement agent and one of [[Eliot Ness]]'s [[Untouchables (law enforcement)|Untouchables]] (b. [[1884]])
** [[E. A. Speiser]], American [[Biblical theology|Bible scholar]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Bernard Baruch]], financier and presidential adviser (b. [[1870]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[David O. Selznick]], American film producer (b. [[1902]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Mary Boland]], veteran stage & screen actress (b. [[1880]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Macdonald Beaumont]], English legal pioneer (b. [[1884]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Burr Shafer]], American cartoonist (b. 1899)
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Reginald Beckwith]], English actor (b. [[1908]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Red Nichols]], American jazz cornettist (b. [[1905]])
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Bessie Barriscale]], American actress (b. [[1884]])

===July===
[[File:Rhee Syng-Man in 1956.jpg|150px|thumb|[[Syngman Rhee]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Wally Hammond]], English cricketer (b. [[1903]])
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Moshe Sharett]], second [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 14]]
** [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]], American politician (b. [[1900]])
** [[Max Woosnam]], English sportsman (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 19]]
** [[Clyde Beatty]], American animal trainer (b. [[1903]])
** [[Syngman Rhee]], First President of South Korea (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Constance Bennett]], American actress (b. [[1904]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Freddie Mills]], British boxing champion (b. [[1919]]).
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Rampo Edogawa]], Japanese author and critic (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Jun'ichirō Tanizaki]], Japanese writer (b. [[1886]])

===August===
[[File:Le Corbusier 1933.JPG|150px|thumb|[[Le Corbusier]]]]
* [[August 6]]
** [[Nancy Carroll]], American actress (b. [[1903]])
** [[Everett Sloane]], American actor (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Shirley Jackson]], American author (b. [[1916]])
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Creighton Hale]], American actor (b. [[1882]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Hayato Ikeda]], former [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Moonlight Graham]], American baseball player (b. [[1879]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Le Corbusier]], Swiss architect (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Giulio Racah]], Israeli physicist (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Paul Waner]], American baseball player ([[Pittsburgh Pirates]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1903]])

===September===
* [[September 4]]
** [[Alfred Bossom]], English architect and politician (b. [[1881]])
** [[Albert Schweitzer]], [[Alsace|Alsatian]] physician and missionary, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1875]])
* [[September 8]]
** [[Dorothy Dandridge]], American actress (b. [[1922]])
** [[Hermann Staudinger]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Bobby Jordan]], American actor (b. [[1923]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[J. W. Hearne]], English cricketer (b. [[1891]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Steve Brown (bass player)|Steve Brown]], American musician (b. [[1890]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Fred Quimby]], American animated film producer (b. [[1886]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Henry Hugh Tudor]], British general (b. [[1871]])
* [[September 27]]
** [[Clara Bow]], American silent film actress (b. [[1905]])
** Sir [[William Stanier]], English steam locomotive engineer ([[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]]) (b. [[1876]])

===October===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Gareth Hughes]], Welsh actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Zachary Scott]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Moors murders|Edward Evans]], Murder victim (b. [[1948]])
* [[October 11]]
** [[Dorothea Lange]], American photographer (b. [[1895]])
** [[Walther Stampfli]], [[member of the Swiss Federal Council]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Paul Hermann Müller]], Swiss chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Randall Jarrell]], American poet (b. [[1914]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Abraham Fraenkel]], Israeli mathematician and recipient of the [[Israel Prize]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Bart King|John Barton King]], American [[cricket]]er (b. [[1873]])
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Henry Travers]], English actor (b. [[1874]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Marie McDonald]], American actress (b. [[1923]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Sylvia Likens]], American murder victim (b. [[1949]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Miller Anderson (diver)|Miller Anderson]], American Olympic diver (b. [[1922]])
** [[Bill McKechnie]], American baseball manager ([[Cincinnati Reds]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1886]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.]], American historian (b. [[1888]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Rita Johnson]], American actress (b. [[1913]])

===November===
* [[November 2]] -- [[Shah Rukh Khan]], a Bollywood actor
* [[November 6]]
** [[Edgard Varèse]], French-born composer (b. [[1883]])
** [[Clarence Williams (musician)|Clarence Williams]], American musician (b. [[1893]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad]], 2nd [[Caliph]] of [[Ahmadiyya Muslim Community]] in [[Islam]] (b. [[1889]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Dorothy Kilgallen]], American newspaper columnist (b. [[1913]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Syedna Taher Saifuddin]], Indian Bohra spiritual leader (b. [[1888]])
* [[November 16]]
** [[Harry Blackstone, Sr.]], American magician (b. [[1885]])
** [[W. T. Cosgrave]], Irish politician (b. [[1880]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Henry A. Wallace]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah]], Emir of Kuwait (b. [[1895]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; Dame [[Myra Hess]], English pianist (b. [[1890]])

===December===
[[File:Maugham retouched.jpg|150px|thumb|[[W. Somerset Maugham|Somerset Maugham]]]]
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Joseph Erlanger]], [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1874]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Dutch Sterrett|Charles Hurlbut "Dutch" Sterrett]], American professional baseball player (b. [[1889]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[W. Somerset Maugham]], English writer (b. [[1874]])
* [[December 22]]
** [[Richard Dimbleby]], English broadcaster (b. [[1913]])
** [[Ritz Brothers|Al Ritz]], American actor (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 24]] 
** [[John Black (businessman)|John Black]], English chairman of [[Standard Motor Company|Standard-Triumph]] (b. [[1895]])
** [[William M. Branham]], American minister (b. [[1909]])
* [[December 29]]
** [[Frank S. Nugent]], American journalist (b. [[1908]])
** [[Kosaku Yamada]], Japanese composer and conductor (b. [[1886]])

== Nobel Prizes ==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] &ndash; [[Sin-Itiro Tomonaga]], [[Julian Schwinger]], [[Richard Feynman|Richard P. Feynman]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] &ndash; [[Robert Burns Woodward]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] &ndash; [[François Jacob]], [[André Michel Lwoff]], [[Jacques Monod]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] &ndash; [[Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] &ndash; [[UNICEF|United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF)]]

== References ==
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