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.
Contents
Events
January–February
January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
January 20
Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States.
Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations.
January 29 – Hakametsä, the first ice rink of Finland, is inaugurated in Tampere.
January 30 – The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II.
February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience.
February 12 – The African and 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 – The maple leaf is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the Canadian Red Ensign flag.
February 18 – 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 astronauts.
March–April
March 2 – Vietnam War: Operation Rolling Thunder – The United States Air Force 2nd Air Division, United States Navy and South Vietnamese air force begin a 31⁄2-year aerial bombardment campaign against North Vietnam.
March 7
Mass in the Catholic Church worldwide is said in local languages (rather than Latin) for the first time.
"Bloody Sunday": Some 200 Alabama State Troopers attack 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, as they attempt to march to the state capitol of Montgomery.
March 8 – Vietnam War: Some 3,500 United States Marines arrive in Da Nang, South Vietnam, becoming the first American ground combat troops in Vietnam.
March 9 – The "Turnaround Tuesday" march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., stops at the site of "Bloody Sunday", to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order. On the same day, White supremacists attack three white ministers, leaving Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb in a coma.
March 10 – 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 18 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaves his Voskhod 2 spacecraft for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.
March 20
"Poupée de cire, poupée de son", sung by France Gall (music and lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 (staged in Naples) for Luxembourg.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins.
May–June
May 1
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.
May 9 – 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.
May 25 – Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship rematch with the "Phantom Punch" at the Central Maine Civic Center in Lewiston.
May 27 – Internazionale beats Benfica 1–0 at the San Siro, Milan and wins the 1964–65 European Cup in Association football.
May 28 – A mining accident in Dhanbad, India, kills 268.
May 31 – Scottish racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, later this year winning the Formula One world driving championship.
June 1 – A coal mine explosion in Fukuoka, Japan, kills 237.
June 2 – Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
June 3 – Launch of Gemini 4, a 4 day mission during which Ed White performs the first space walk by an American astronaut.
June 7 – Kakanj mine disaster: A mining accident in Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, results in 128 deaths.
July–August
July – The Commonwealth secretariat is created.
July 14 – U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet.
July 15 – Greek Prime minister Georgios Papandreou and his government are dismissed by King Constantine II.
July 16 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel, a highway tunnel between France and Italy, is inaugurated by presidents Charles de Gaulle and Giuseppe Saragat.
July 24 – Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are targeted by antiaircraft missiles, in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other 3 sustain damage.
July 26 – The Maldives obtains full independence from Great Britain.
July 27 – Edward Heath becomes Leader of the British Conservative Party.
July 28 – 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 30 – War on Poverty: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
August 6 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that have been responsible for widespread disfranchisement of African Americans.
August 7 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia, recommends the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia following a deterioration of PAP–UMNO relations, negotiating its separation with Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore.
September–October
September 2
Pakistani troops enter the Indian sector of Kashmir, while Indian troops counter at Lahore.
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 Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula, 23 miles (37 km) south of the Chu Lai Marine base.
September 8 – Indo-Pakistani war:
India opens two additional fronts against Pakistan.
The Pakistan Navy destroys the Indian port of Dwarka. Operation Dwarka (Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually).
September 9
U.N. Secretary General U Thant negotiates with Pakistan President Ayub Khan.
U Thant recommends China for United Nations membership.
September 14 – The fourth and final period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
September 16 – In Iraq, Prime Minister Arif Abd ar-Razzaq's attempted coup fails.
September 17 – 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.
November–December
November 1 – A trolleybus plunges into the Nile at Cairo, Egypt, killing 74 passengers.
November 3 – French President Charles de Gaulle announces (just short of his 75th birthday) that he will stand for re-election.
November 5 – 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 – 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 8 – Vietnam War – Operation Hump: The United States Army 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong.
November 11
In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares de facto independence ('UDI').
United Airlines Flight 227 crashes short of the runway and catches fire at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43 out of 91 passengers and crew.
November 12 – A UN Security Council resolution (voted 10–0) recommends that other countries not recognize independent Rhodesia.
November 13
The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles (97 km) off Nassau, Bahamas, with the loss of 90 lives.
British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan says "fuck" during a discussion on BBC satirical programme BBC-3 for what many believed was the first time on British television. The corporation later issues a public apology.
Date unknown
Hainzl Industriesysteme GmbH company is founded in Austria.
Tokyo officially becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from New York City.
Births
January
January 4
Julia Ormond, British actress
Yvan Attal, Israeli-born French actor and director
January 5
Vinnie Jones, British footballer-turned-actor
Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper
January 9
Haddaway, German singer
Farah Khan, Indian choreographer, film director
Joely Richardson, British actress
January 10 – Butch Hartman, American animator and voice actor
January 12
Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player
Maybrit Illner, German television journalist and presenter
Rob Zombie, American musician
January 14
Shamil Basayev, Chechen terrorist (d. 2006)
Marc Delissen, Dutch field hockey player
Bob Essensa, Canadian ice hockey player
January 15
Adam Jones, American musician, guitarist of metal band Tool
James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
February
February 1
Dave Callaghan, South African cricketer
Brandon Lee, Chinese-American actor (d. 1993)
Sherilyn Fenn, American actress
Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
February 3 – Maura Tierney, American actress
February 5 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer, manager and club owner
February 7 – Chris Rock, African-American actor, comedian, and film director
February 8 – Dicky Cheung, Hong Kong actor
February 9 – Omar Yaghi, Palestinian-Jordanian-American chemist
February 11 – Roberto Moya, Cuban athlete (d. 2020)
February 12 – Brett Kavanaugh, American attorney and Supreme Court Justice
February 15 – Héctor Beltrán Leyva, Mexican drug lord (d. 2018)
February 16 – Adama Barrow, Gambian politician, 3rd President of Gambia
February 17 – Michael Bay, American film director
February 18 – Dr. Dre, African-American rapper and music producer
February 23
Kristin Davis, American actress
March
March 1
Mike Dean, Record producer
Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
Jack Tu, Taiwanese-Canadian cardiologist (d. 2018)
March 2 – Ami Bera, American politician
March 3
Tedros Adhanom, Director of the World Health Organization
March 4
Greg Alexander, Australian rugby league player
Paul W. S. Anderson, British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
March 5 – Harry Bevers, Dutch politician
March 8
Mac Jack, South African educator and politician (d. 2020)
Caio Júnior, Brazilian football forward and manager (d. 2016)
March 9 – Antonio Saca, 43rd President of El Salvador
March 11
Catherine Fulop, Venezuelan actress, model, beauty pageant contestant, and television presenter
Jesse Jackson Jr., African-American politician
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British designer and television presenter
March 14 – Aamir Khan, Indian film director, producer, film and scriptwriter and actor
April
April 1
Brian Marshall, Canadian retired track and field athlete
Bekir Bozdağ, Turkish theologian, lawyer, and politician
April 3 – Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist (d. 2000)
April 4 – Robert Downey Jr., American actor, producer, and singer
April 6
Black Francis, American musician
Rica Reinisch, German swimmer
April 9 – Paulina Porizkova, Swedish-American model and actress
April 10
Anna-Leena Härkönen, Finnish author
Jure Robič, Slovenian cyclist (d. 2010)
April 11 – Eelco van Asperen, Dutch computer scientist
April 12 – Kim Bodnia, Danish actor and director
April 15 – Linda Perry, American musician
April 16 – Martin Lawrence, American actor, comedian, and producer
April 18 – Camille Coduri, English actress
April 19 – Suge Knight, American record producer and convicted felon
April 20 – Jovy Marcelo, Filipino racing driver (d. 1992)
May
May 2 – Myriam Hernández, Chilean singer
May 3
Gary Mitchell, Irish playwright
Rob Brydon, Welsh actor, comedian, impressionist and presenter
May 7
Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish football player
May 9 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian hockey player
May 10 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
May 11 – Monsour del Rosario, Filipino Olympic athlete and actor
May 12 – Renée Simonsen, Danish model and writer
May 13 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
May 14 – Eoin Colfer, Irish novelist
May 16
Rodica Dunca, Romanian artistic gymnast
Krist Novoselic, American musician and activist (Nirvana)
May 17 – Trent Reznor, American rock musician (Nine Inch Nails)
May 19 – Philippe Dhondt, French singer
May 23
Melissa McBride, American actress (The Walking Dead)
June
June 1
Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
Nigel Short, English chess player
June 2 – Steve and Mark Waugh, Australian cricketers
June 4
Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
June 6
Cam Neely, Canadian ice hockey player
Megumi Ogata, Japanese voice actress and singer
June 7
Mick Foley, American professional wrestler
Damien Hirst, British artist
Christine Roque, French singer
June 8
Frank Grillo, American actor
Rob Pilatus, German model, dancer and singer (d. 1998)
June 10
Veronica Ferres, German actress
Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress
June 11 – Manuel Uribe, morbidly obese Mexican (d. 2014)
June 12 – Carlos Luis Morales, Ecuadorian journalist (d. 2020)
July
July 1
Teddy McCarthy, hurler and Gaelic footballer
Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer
Mohammed Abdul Hussein, Iraqi former footballer
Ramdas Ambatkar, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLC (d. 2025)
July 2 – Fredrik Sejersted, Norwegian jurist
July 3
Komsan Pohkong, Thai lawyer
Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2005)
Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
Tommy Flanagan, Scottish actor
July 4 – Tracy Letts, American actor, playwright and screenwriter
July 5
Kathryn Erbe, American actress
Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist
July 7
Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
Jeremy Kyle, English radio and television presenter
July 10
Danny Boffin, Belgian footballer
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
Alec Mapa, American comedian
August
August 1 – Sam Mendes, English film director
August 2
Sandra Ng, Hong Kong actress
Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
August 4
Terri Lyne Carrington, American jazz drummer
Dennis Lehane, American crime writer
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish Prime Minister
August 5 – Monica Ward, Italian actress and voice actress
August 6 – David Robinson, American basketball player
August 10
Claudia Christian, American actress, writer, singer, musician, and director
Mike E. Smith, American jockey
John Starks, American basketball player
August 11 – Viola Davis, African-American actress
August 15 – Vincent Kok, Hong Kong director and actor
August 16 – Michael O'Gorman, American coxswain (d. 2018)
August 19
Kevin Dillon, American actor
Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress
Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
September
September 1 – Craig McLachlan, Australian actor and singer
September 2 – Lennox Lewis, British boxer
September 3
Costas Mandylor, Greek-Australian actor
Charlie Sheen, American actor and producer
September 5 – Derby Makinka, Zambian footballer (d. 1993)
September 6 – Gleisi Hoffmann, Brazilian lawyer and politician
September 7 – Jörg Pilawa, German television presenter
September 8
Tutilo Burger, German Benedictine monk and abbot
Darlene Zschech, Australian singer and worship leader
September 10 – Marco Pastors, Dutch politician
September 11
Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
Moby, American musician
September 12
Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian cartoonist, designer, and television host
September 14 – Dmitry Medvedev, former President of Russia
September 15 – Fernanda Torres, Brazilian actress
September 16 – Katy Kurtzman, American actress, director and producer
October
October 1 – Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
October 2
Gerardo Reyero, Mexican voice actor
Ferhan and Ferzan Önder, Turkish-Austrian pianists
October 3
Adriana Calcanhotto, Brazilian singer and composer
Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
October 5
Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
October 6 – Steve Scalise, House Majority Whip and U.S. Representative of Louisiana's 1st district
October 8
Matt Biondi, American swimmer
C. J. Ramone, American musician
October 9 – Dionicio Cerón, Mexican long-distance runner
October 10 – Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
October 11
Julianne McNamara, American artistic gymnast
Lennie James, English actor, screenwriter, and playwright
October 13 – Kalpana, Indian film actress (d. 2016)
October 14
November
November 1
Patrik Ringborg, Swedish conductor
November 2
Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician and lawyer (d. 2019)
Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor, film/television producer and television presenter
November 4 – Wayne Static, American singer and musician (Static-X) (d. 2014)
November 7 – Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
November 8 – Patricia Poleo, Venezuelan journalist
November 9 – Sir Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
November 10 – Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racing driver
November 11 – Max Mutchnick, American television producer
November 13 – Rick Roberts, Canadian actor
November 17 – Pam Bondi, American attorney and politician, 87th U.S. Attorney General
November 19
Paulo Barreto, Brazilian cryptographer
Laurent Blanc, French football player and manager
November 20 – Yoshiki, Japanese rock composer, pianist, and drummer
November 21
Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician
December
December 3
Steve Harris, American actor
Katarina Witt, German figure skater
Andrew Stanton, American animator, storyboard artist, film director, and screenwriter
December 5 – Johnny Rzeznik, American rock singer and guitarist
December 7
Teruyuki Kagawa, Japanese actor
Jeffrey Wright, African-American actor
December 8 – David Harewood, English actor
December 9 – Brad Savage, American actor
December 10 – Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
December 15 – Luis Fabián Artime, Argentine footballer
December 16 – J. B. Smoove, African-American actor and comedian
December 18 – John Moshoeu, South African footballer (d. 2015)
December 19 – Jessica Steen, Canadian actress
December 21
Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
Anke Engelke, German comedian, actress and voice-over actress
December 23 – Andreas Kappes, German cyclist (d. 2018)
Date unknown
Yklymberdi Paromov, Turkmen politician
Jill Stuart, American fashion designer
Deaths
January
January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American-British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
January 10
Antonín Bečvář, Czechoslovak astronomer (b. 1901)
Frederick Fleet, British sailor and lookout aboard the RMS Titanic (b. 1887)
January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright and writer (b. 1930)
January 14 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
January 15 – Pierre Ngendandumwe, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Burundi (assassinated) (b. 1930)
January 20 – Alan Freed, American disc jockey (b. 1921)
January 24 – Sir Winston Churchill, British politician and statesman, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, World War II leader, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)
January 27 – Hassan Ali Mansur, Iranian politician, 69th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923)
January 28
Taimur bin Feisal, Sultan of Oman (b. 1886)
Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
Maxime Weygand, French general (b. 1867)
January 31 – Konstantin Muraviev, 31st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1893)
February
February 5 – Irving Bacon, American actor (b. 1893)
February 6 – Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern (b. 1891)
February 7 – Nance O'Neil, American stage and film actress (b. 1874)
February 9 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Indian educationist, philosopher, philanthropist, social reformer and spiritualist (b. 1874)
February 13
Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and opposition politician (b. 1906)
William Heard Kilpatrick, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1871)
February 14 – Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, French composer (b. 1880)
February 15 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
February 19
Forrest Taylor, American actor (b. 1883)
Tom Wilson, American actor (b. 1880)
February 21 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
February 22 – Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1882)
February 23 – Stan Laurel, British actor (b. 1890)
February 24 – Takeo Itō, Japanese general (b. 1889)
February 28 – Adolf Schärf, Austrian politician, 6th President of Austria (b. 1890)
March
March 2 – Masakazu Kawabe, Japanese general (b. 1886)
March 5 – Salvador Castaneda Castro, 31st President of El Salvador (b. 1888)
March 6
Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
Herbert Morrison, British politician (b. 1888)
March 7 – Louise Mountbatten, queen consort of Sweden as second wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf (b. 1889)
March 13
Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
Vittorio Jano, Italian automobile designer (b. 1891)
Fan Noli, Albanian bishop, poet and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
March 14 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis champion (b. 1879)
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 – Farouk of Egypt, deposed king (b. 1920)
March 19 – Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romanian communist leader, 47th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1901)
March 22 – Fidel Dávila, Spanish general and minister (b. 1878)
April
April 3 – Ray Enright, American film director (b. 1896)
April 9 – Sherman Minton, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1890)
April 10
Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan (b. 1868)
April 14
Leonard Mudie, English actor (b. 1883)
Perry Smith (b. 1928) and Richard Hickock (b. 1931), American convicted murderers
April 16 – Sydney Chaplin, English actor (b. 1885)
April 18 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
April 21
Sir Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate of Puerto Rican independence (b. 1891)
April 23 – George Adamski, Polish-American UFO writer (b. 1891)
April 24 – Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
April 27 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
April 30 – Helen Chandler, American actress (b. 1906)
May
May 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
May 6 – Oren E. Long, American politician, 10th Governor of Hawai'i (b. 1889)
May 7
Charles Sheeler, American photographer (b. 1883)
Alf Bjørnskau Bastiansen, Norwegian priest and politician (b. 1883)
May 9 – Leopold Figl, 14th Chancellor of Austria and acting President of Austria (b. 1902)
May 10 – Hubertus van Mook, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
May 14 – Frances Perkins, first woman appointed as a United States presidential cabinet member (Labor) (b. 1880)
May 15 – Yisrael Bar-Yehuda, Zionist activist and Israel politician (b. 1895)
May 18 – Eli Cohen, Israeli spy (b. 1924)
May 19 – Maria Dąbrowska, Polish writer (b. 1889)
May 21 – Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, British aviation pioneer and aircraft company founder (b. 1882)
May 23
Rosina Anselmi, Italian actress (b. 1880)
David Smith, American sculptor (b. 1906)
May 24 – Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician (b. 1899)
June
June 1 – Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach (b. 1898)
June 5
Eleanor Farjeon, British author of children's literature (b. 1881)
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland (b. 1884)
June 7 – Judy Holliday, American actress, comedian, and singer (b. 1921)
June 11 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese navy officer, 94th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
June 13 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
June 15 – Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
June 19 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist (b. 1892)
June 20 – Bernard Baruch, American financier and presidential adviser (b. 1870)
June 22 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
June 23 – Mary Boland, American actress (b. 1882)
June 28
Anne-Marcelle Kahn, née Schrameck, first French woman engineer to graduate from l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne (b. 1896)
Red Nichols, American jazz cornettist (b. 1905)
June 30 – Bessie Barriscale, American actress (b. 1884)
July
July 1 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
July 5 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat, race-car driver and polo player (b. 1909)
July 7 – Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
July 8 – T. S. Stribling, American novelist (b. 1881)
July 11 – Ray Collins, American actor (b. 1889)
July 13 – Laureano Gómez, 43rd President of Colombia (b. 1889)
July 14
Adlai Stevenson II, American politician (b. 1900)
Max Woosnam, English sportsman (b. 1892)
July 19
Clyde Beatty, American animal trainer (b. 1903)
Ingrid Jonker, South African Afrikaans poet (b. 1933)
Syngman Rhee, Korean statesman, 1st President of South Korea (b. 1875)
July 24 – Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
July 28 – Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
July 30
Pier Ruggero Piccio, Italian World War I fighter ace, air force general (b. 1880)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
August
August 1 – John Miller, American Olympic rower - Men's eights (b. 1903)
August 6
Nancy Carroll, American actress (b. 1903)
Everett Sloane, American actor (b. 1909)
August 8 – Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
August 9 – Creighton Hale, American actor (b. 1882)
August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 38th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
August 25 – Johnny Hayes, American Olympic athlete (b. 1886)
August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
August 28
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Iraqi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1892)
Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
August 29 – Paul Waner, American baseball player (b. 1903)
September
September 4
Tommy Hampson, British Olympic athlete (b. 1907)
Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
September 6 – Yunus Hussain, Pakistani fighter pilot (b. 1935)
September 8
Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
September 12 – Lucian Truscott, American general (b. 1895)
September 16
Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906)
Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (b. 1886)
September 17 – Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)
September 22 – Othmar Ammann, Swiss-born American engineer (b. 1879)
September 27 – Clara Bow, American silent film actress (b. 1905)
October
October 1 – Anton Boisen, American founder of the clinical pastoral education movement (b. 1876)
October 3 – Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
October 8 – Thomas B. Costain, Canadian author and journalist (b. 1885)
October 11
Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
October 12 – Samir Al-Rifai, 6-time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1901)
October 13 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
October 14 – Randall Jarrell, American poet (b. 1914)
October 15 – Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician and recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1891)
October 17 – Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
October 18
Oscar Beregi, Hungarian actor (b. 1876)
Henry Travers, English actor (b. 1874)
October 21
Bill Black, American musician and bandleader (b. 1926)
Marie McDonald, American actress (b. 1923)
October 22 – Paul Tillich, German American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian (b. 1886)
November
November 2
Félix Paiva, 28th President of Paraguay (b. 1877)
H.V. Evatt, Australian politician, judge (b. 1894)
November 6
Edgard Varèse, French-born American composer (b. 1883)
Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1893)
November 8
Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist and television personality (b. 1913)
Emma Gramatica, Italian actress (b. 1874)
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, second caliph (b. 1889)
November 12 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian Bohra spiritual leader (b. 1888)
November 16
Harry Blackstone Sr., American magician and illusionist (b. 1885)
W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician, president of the Provisional Government and the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (b. 1880)
November 18
Khalid al-Azm, 5-time Prime Minister of Syria and acting President of Syria (b. 1903)
Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
November 24 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
December
December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
December 9 – Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1881)
December 10 – Henry Cowell, American composer (b. 1897)
December 11 – George Constantinescu, Romanian scientist (b. 1881)
December 15 – Joseph Bamina, 8th Prime Minister of Burundi (executed) (b. 1927)
December 16
W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (b. 1874)
Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (b. 1889)
Queen Sālote Tupou III of Tonga, (b. 1900)
December 24 – William M. Branham, American minister (b. 1909)
December 27 – Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)
December 29 – Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (b. 1886)
Nobel Prizes
Physics – Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
Chemistry – Robert Burns Woodward
Physiology or Medicine – François Jacob, André Michel Lwoff, Jacques Monod
Literature – Mikhail Sholokhov
Peace – United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)