1965 suicides

Soviet film director, screenwriter (1902-1965)

British sailor, survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic (1887-1965)

poet, critic, novelist, essayist (1914–1965)

Bilingual South African poet and political dissident (1933–1965)

American actor (1909–1965)

Hungarian automobile designer (1891-1965)

American neo-Nazi (1937–1965)

American actress and singer (1923-1965)

American-based German activist

American basketball player

American Vietnam War self-immolator (1933-1965)

German politician and economist (1917-1965)

Head of CIA department (1909–1965)

actor, film director (1910-1965)

Thakkathu Amayankottu Rajalakshmi (June 2, 1930 – January 18, 1965), better identified as Rajalakshmi, was an Indian novelist, short story writer and poet of Malayalam literature. She was the author of three novels, two poetry anthologies and a short story anthologies. Kerala Sahitya Akademi awarded her their annual award for novel in 1960, making her the third recipient of the award. Her novel, Oru Vazhiyum Kure Nizhalukalum, has been adapted into a tele-series as well as into a play by the All India Radio.

British boxer (1919–1965)

American actress and network television news reporter/anchor (1930-65)

Guyanese writer

British Buddhist monk and author (1920–1965)

Japanese martial artist (1885-1965)

Argentinian painter (1931-1965)

French anthropologist

Polish writer, literary critic (1916–1965)