Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1965

Faruq de Egipto fue rey de Egipto. Sucedió a su padre Fu'ad I en 1936. Su título completo era «Su Majestad, Faruq, por la gracia de Dios, rey de Egipto y de Sudán, soberano de Nubia, Kordofán y Darfur».

Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, also known as Albert Thảo, was a communist sleeper agent of the Viet Minh who infiltrated the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and also became a major provincial leader in South Vietnam. In 1962, he was made overseer of Ngô Đình Nhu's Strategic Hamlet Program in South Vietnam and deliberately forced it forward at an unsustainable speed, causing the production of poorly equipped and poorly defended villages and the growth of rural resentment toward the regime of President Ngô Đình Diệm, Nhu's elder brother. In light of the failed "land reform" efforts in North Vietnam, the Hanoi government welcomed Thao's efforts to undermine Diem.

Herbert James Maryon, OBE, FSA, FIIC was an English sculptor, conservator, goldsmith, archaeologist and authority on ancient metalwork. Maryon practiced and taught sculpture until retiring in 1939, then worked as a conservator with the British Museum from 1944 to 1961. He is best known for his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, which led to his appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Dorothea Lange fue una influyente fotoperiodista documental estadounidense, más conocida por su obra la "Gran Depresión" para la oficina de Administración de Seguridad Agraria. Las fotografías humanistas de Lange sobre las terribles consecuencias de la Gran Depresión la convirtieron en una de las periodistas más destacadas del fotoperiodismo mundial.

Wesley Branch Rickey was an American baseball player and sports executive. Rickey was instrumental in breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing black player Jackie Robinson. He also created the framework for the modern minor league farm system, encouraged the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and introduced the batting helmet. He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.

Lauri Allan Törni más tarde conocido como Larry Thorne fue un soldado finlandés que luchó bajo tres banderas: la finlandesa, la alemana cuando luchó contra los soviéticos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y la estadounidense cuando sirvió en las Fuerzas Especiales del Ejército de los Estados Unidos en la Guerra de Vietnam.

Constance Campbell Bennett fue una actriz estadounidense conocida tanto por su estilo como por su carrera artística. Fue una de las más luminosas estrellas de Hollywood y dejó consistentes interpretaciones que desmienten su reputación ornamental.

Maxwell "Max" Woosnam was an English sportsman who is sometimes referred to as the 'Greatest British sportsman' in recognition of his achievements.

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols fue un cornetista y trompetista norteamericano de jazz tradicional y swing, representante destacado del llamado "estilo Nueva York" o "High Brow".

Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham was an American professional baseball player and medical doctor who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, respectively, as older and younger incarnations of Graham.