Famous People Who Died in 1965

1965 Calendar

Deaths 1 - 200 of 307

Jan 5 Nell Craig, American actress (Dr. Kildare (films); The Queen of Sheba), dies at 73
Jan 5 Paul Arntzenius, Dutch painter, graphic artist and etcher, dies at 81
Jan 8 Albert Asher, New Zealand dual-code rugby union and rugby league winger (RU 11 caps; RL Australasia 2 Tests, NZ 1), dies at 85
Jan 8 Aloÿs-Henri-Gérard Fornerod, Swiss composer, dies at 74
Jan 11 Wally Pipp, American baseball first baseman (World Series 1923; AL HR leader 1916, 17; NY Yankees), dies from a heart attack at 71
Jan 12 Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (A Raisin in the Sun), and writer (To Be Young Gifted And Black), dies in NYC, dies of pancreatic cancer at 34
Jan 12 Porcupine, in the National Zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent (Washington, DC)
Jan 14 Jeanette MacDonald, American soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63
Jan 15 Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
Jan 17 Hans Marchwitza, German writer and communist, dies at 75
Jan 19 Frank Reicher, German-American actor (King Kong, Son of Kong), dies at 89
Jan 20 (Albert) "Alan" Freed, American disc jockey and concert promoter who popularized the term "rock-n-roll", and payola scandal figure, dies of from uremia and cirrhosis at 43
Jan 21 Harvey Zorbaugh, doctor/TV host (Play the Game), dies at 68

Jan 25 (Gustaaf) "Staf" Nees, Flemish-Belgian carillonist, organist, composer (Maria-oratorio), and educator, dies at 63
Jan 26 Hassan Ali Mansur, Prime Minister of Iran (1964-65), assassinated by a Shia fundamentalist at 41
Jan 27 Theo Uden Masman, Dutch big band orchestra leader (The Ramblers), dies at 63
Jan 28 Jef van Durme, Belgian composer, dies at 57
Jan 28 Maxime Weygand, French general (head of French armed forces during German Invasion of France WWII), dies at 98
Jan 28 Tich Freeman, English cricket leg-spin bowler (12 Tests, 66 wickets; Kent CCC), dies at 76
Jan 29 Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader and impresario (Crazy Passage Show), dies at 72
Jan 29 John Larkin, American actor (Saints & Sinners, The Satan Bug, 12 O'Clock High), dies of a heart attack at 52
Jan 29 Michał Spisak, Polish composer (Hymne Olympique), dies at 50
Jan 30 Vic Jackson, Australian cricketer (NS, Leicestershire off-spinner), dies in a car crash at 48
Feb 2 Richard P. Blackmur, American critic, poet and publisher (Good European), dies at 61
Feb 2 Richard Würz, German composer, and music critic, dies at 79
Feb 4 Greyhound 'The Great Grey Ghost', American horse, most outstanding champion trotter of its day, dies at 33
Feb 5 Irving Bacon, American actor (Branded Men, Fort Ti), dies at 71
Feb 6 Jack Wagner, American actor (The Razor's Edge, Under Two Flags, Jive Junction), dies from a heart attack at 68
Feb 7 Nance O'Neil, American actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90
Feb 7 Viola Desmond, Canadian businesswoman and civil rights activist (first woman on a Canadian banknote), dies at 50 [1]
Feb 8 Ray Brown, American Baseball HOF pitcher (NgL World Series 1943, 44; Triple Crown 1938; Homestead Grays), dies at 56
Feb 12 Henry Kulky [Kulakowich], American actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Love Nest), dies from a heart attack at 53
Feb 13 Jerry Burke, American easy-listening pianist and organ player (Lawrence Welk Orchestra, 1934-65), dies of cancer at 53
Feb 13 William Heard Kilpatrick, American mathematician and philosopher, dies at 93
Feb 14 Désiré Inghelbrecht, French composer, conductor and writer, dies at 84

Feb 15 American jazz pianist and pop vocalist ("Unforgettable", "Mona Lisa"), dies of cancer at 49

Feb 19 Forrest Taylor, American actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81
Feb 19 Gheorge Gheorghiu-Dej, Romanian communist politician (President of the State Council 1961-65), dies at 63
Feb 20 Fred Immler, German actor (Zapata's Gang, Madame DuBarry), dies at 85

Feb 21 African American human rights activist and Muslim minister, assassinated in New York City at 39

Feb 22 Felix Frankfurter, American jurist and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939-62), dies of congestive heart failure at 82

Feb 23 English comedian (Laurel & Hardy films), dies of a heart attack at 74

Feb 26 American civil rights protester and church deacon, shot and killed at 26 by an Alabama State Trooper

Feb 26 Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator, created stop-motion animation ("The Cameraman’s Revenge"), dies at 82
Feb 28 Adolf Schärf, Austrian politician (President of Austria, 1957-65; Vice-Chancellor, 1945-57), dies at 74
Mar 1 Boleslav Vomácka, Czech composer (Vodntk - The Water Sprite), critic, and musicologist (Josef Suk), dies at 77
Mar 3 Carlo Gatti, Italian musicologist (Verdi), dies at 88
Mar 5 Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
Mar 5 John "Pepper" Martin, American baseball utility (MLB All-Star 1933–35, 37; World Series 1931, 34; NL stolen base leader 1933, 34, 36; St. Louis Cardinals), dies of a heart attack at 61
Mar 6 Jules Goux, French auto racer (first European to win Indianapolis 500 1913), dies at 79
Mar 6 Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker], actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75
Mar 6 Ruvim Pergament, composer, dies at 58
Mar 8 Esther Howard, actress (Detour), dies of a heart attack at 72
Mar 8 Tadd Dameron, American jazz pianist, composer ("If You Could See Me Now"; "Lady Bird"), arranger (Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine) and bandleader, dies of cancer at 48
Mar 9 Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist and composer, dies at 65
Mar 9 Kazys Boruta, Lithuanian writer, dies at 60
Mar 11 James Reeb, American minister and civil rights activist, dies from head injuries after being beaten in Selma, Alabama at 38
Mar 13 Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
Mar 13 Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
Mar 13 George Călinescu [Gheorghe Vișan], Romanian poet, novelist (Lauda lucrurilor (In Praise of Things); Enigma Otiliei (Otilia's Riddle)), and literary critic and historian, dies of cirhossis at 65
Mar 13 Vittorio Jano, Italian automobile designer, dies at 73
Mar 14 Marion Jones, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1899, 1902), dies at 85
Mar 17 Almos Alonzo Stagg, American football coach (University of Chicago), dies in California at 102
Mar 17 Nancy Cunard, British writer and activist, dies at 69
Mar 17 Quentin Reynolds, American newscaster (Its News to Me) and author (FBI), dies at 62
Mar 18 Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45
Mar 19 Lavere "Buster" Harding, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (Count Basie; Dizzy Gillespie; Billie Holiday), dies at 53
Mar 23 Mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75
Mar 25 Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Italian composer, dies at 72
Mar 25 Viola Liuzzo (née Gregg), American civil rights activist, murdered by Ku Klux Klan members in Selma, Alabama at 39
Mar 28 Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
Mar 28 Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (The White Outlaw), dies at 80
Mar 28 Mary [Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary], Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood and daughter of George V, dies at 67
Mar 30 Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, (Nobel Prize 1950 for cortisone), dies at 69

Apr 1 Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 92
Apr 2 Renzo Bossi, Italian composer, and educator (Milan Conservatory), dies at 81
Apr 3 Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (born 1897 or 1898)
Apr 8 Erik A. Blomberg, Swedish art historian, poet and author, dies at 70
Apr 8 Jack Durston, English cricket fast bowler (1 Test, 5 wickets; Middlesex CCC) and soccer goalkeeper (Queens Park Rangers, Brentford), dies at 71
Apr 8 Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil), dies after illness at 78
Apr 10 Linda Darnell, American actress (Unfaithfully Yours, A Letter to Three Wives), dies from burns received in a house fire at 41
Apr 10 Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (Casner Motor Racing Division team), dies at 36
Apr 14 Leonard Mudie, British actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence), dies of heart ailment at 82
Apr 14 Perry Edward Smith, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged at 36
Apr 14 Robert Hickok, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged at 33
Apr 15 Sydney Chaplin, English actor, half brother of Charlie Chaplin and his business manager, dies at 80
Apr 18 Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor, dies at 48
Apr 19 George Davis, Flemish actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75
Apr 20 Dick Wessel, American actor (Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie), dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday
Apr 21 Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
Apr 23 Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at 67
Apr 24 Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86
Apr 26 Aaron Avshalomov, Russian-Jewish-American composer (Kuan Yin; The Great Wall), conductor (Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, 1943-46), and librarian, dies at 70
Apr 27 Alan Bunce, American radio and television actor (Homicidal, Ethel & Albert), dies at 64

Apr 27 American broadcast journalist, war correspondent, and television host ("See it Now"; "Person to Person"), dies of lung cancer at 57

Apr 28 Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer and writer (Character), dies at 80
Apr 30 Helen Chandler, American actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 59
May 1 Leo Spies, Russian-born German composer, dies at 65
May 1 Spike Jones [Lindley Armstrong Jones], American bandleader (Der Fueher's Face, Cocktails For Two), dies from emphysema at 53
May 3 Howard Spring, Welsh writer and critic (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
May 3 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat and genealogist, dies at 75
May 4 Norman Brokenshire, Canadian-American radio announcer and TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies of a stroke at 66
May 7 Charles Sheeler, American Modernist-Precisionist artist, commercial photographer, and the avant-garde film maker (Manhatta), dies at 81
May 8 Wally Hardinge, English cricketer (scored 25 & 5 in only Test for England), dies at 79
May 9 Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (13th Chancellor of Austria), dies at 62
May 10 Hubertus van Mook, Dutch colonial administrator (Acting Governor General of the Dutch East Indies 1942-48), dies at 70
May 11 Lode Baekelmans, Belgian writer (Tille), dies at 84
May 12 Roger Vailland, French author (Drôle de jeu, La loi) and screenwriter, dies at 57
May 14 Frances Perkins, American politician and 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor 1933-45), dies at 83
May 15 Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies
May 18 Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis, Dutch historian of science (biography of Archimedes), dies at 72
May 19 Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Nights and Days), dies at 75
May 21 Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer, dies at 82
May 22 Bobby Watson, American comedian (Hitler Gang, Boys Town), dies at 77
May 22 Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
May 22 Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies
May 23 David Smith, sculptor, dies
May 23 Earl Webb, American baseball outfielder (MLB Record: 67 doubles, single season 1931; Boston Red Sox), dies at 67
May 25 Sonny Boy Williamson II [Aleck Miller], American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, dies at 65

Jun 1 American Pro Football Hall of Fame halfback, coach (founder, first coach Green Bay Packers), dies of a heart attack at 67

Jun 2 Albert Michotte van den Berck, Belgian experimental psychologist, dies at 83
Jun 4 Bernard Verhoeven, Dutch poet (Pleidooi near een non), dies at 68
Jun 5 Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin), dies at 84
Jun 5 Lester Matthews, English actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies at 64
Jun 5 Thornton W. Burgess, American conservationist and author (The Bedtime Story-Books; Now I Remember: Autobiography of an Amateur Naturalist), dies at 91

Jun 7 American comedienne and actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), dies of cancer at 43

Jun 7 Richard Billinger, Austria poet and writer (Bauernpassion), dies at 71
Jun 8 Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
Jun 8 Erik Chisholm, Scottish conductor, composer (Hindustani Piano Concerto), and educator (South African College of Music, 1949-65), dies of a heart attack at 61
Jun 8 Julius Bissier, German painter, dies at 71
Jun 11 José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal, helped create and end Portuguese First Republic, dies at 81
Jun 11 Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist, dies at 73
Jun 13 David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
Jun 13 Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli dialogue philosopher and theologist (Ich und Du), dies at 87
Jun 14 Guido Guerrini, Italian composer, dies at 74
Jun 15 E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902
Jun 15 Steve Cochran [Robert Alexander Cochran], American actor (Mozambique, Gay Senotiys, Dallas), dies from acute infectious edema at 48
Jun 17 Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National & Black Front, dies at 60
Jun 18 George Melachrino, English composer, dies at 56
Jun 19 James Collip, Canadian biochemist and physiologist (insulin), dies at 72
Jun 20 Bernard Baruch, American financier and presidential adviser (Cold War), dies at 94
Jun 20 Ira Louvin [Loudermilk], American country singer and mandolin player (Louvin Brothers - "The Only Way Out (Is to Walk Over Me)"), dies in a car crash at 41
Jun 21 Bernard Baruch, American presidential advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94
Jun 21 Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen), dies at 72
Jun 22 Adriaan Franciscus Dussenbroek, Dutch doctor and co-founder (Union National Arubano), dies at 72
Jun 22 David O Selznick, American Academy Award-winning producer (Gone With The Wind; Rebecca), dies of a heart attack at 63
Jun 23 Mary Boland, actress (Boy Trouble, New Moon), dies at 83
Jun 26 Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system), dies at 69
Jun 26 Johan Conrad Kikkert, Dutch painter and critic who promoted modern art in the Netherlands through Modern Art Circle, dies at 82
Jun 26 Reginald Beckwith, actor/writer (39 Steps, Dr in Love), dies at 56
Jun 27 Anthony Veiller, American writer (Night of Iguana, Moulin Rouge), dies at 62
Jun 28 (Ernest) "Red" Nichols, American jazz cornetist, composer and jazz bandleader (His Five Pennies - "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider"; "Bugler's Lament"), dies of a heart attack at 60 [1]
Jun 28 [Theodora E] Betsy Ranucci-Beckman, actress (Dood Water), dies at 88
Jun 29 Joseph Ryelandt, Belgian composer (Christus Rex - Christ the King), dies at 95
Jun 29 Sidney Marion, American actor (Outlaws is Coming, Quicksand), dies at 64
Jun 30 Bessie Barriscale, American actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies at 81
Jul 1 Claude Thornhill, American pianist, arranger (Andre Kostelanetz; Tony Bennett), composer ("Snowfall"), and bandleader ("A Sunday Kind of Love"), dies of a heart attack at 56
Jul 1 Wally Hammond, England cricket batsman (7,249 Test runs @ 58.45), dies of a heart attack at 62
Jul 2 Theodora E "Betsy" Ranucci-Beckmann, actress (Klatergoud), dies at 88
Jul 3 Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
Jul 4 Valdemar Eiberg, Danish jazz pioneer, saxophonist, and bandleader ("I've Got a Cross-Eyed Papa"), dies at 72
Jul 5 Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat, race car driver, and international playboy, dies when he crashes his Ferrari into a tree at 56
Jul 7 Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies
Jul 7 Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (1954-55), dies at 70
Jul 10 Jacques Audiberti, French poet and playwright (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66
Jul 11 Ray Collins, American stage, radio, and screen character actor (Homecoming; Citizen Kane; Rose Marie; Perry Mason), dies at 75
Jul 13 Photis Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer, dies at 69

Jul 14 American politician (US Ambassador to UN, 1961-65; Governor of Illinois, 1949-53; Democratic presidential candidate, 1952 & 1956), dies at 65

Jul 15 Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
Jul 17 Luiz Cosme, Brazilian composer, dies at 57
Jul 18 Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, Russian composer, teacher, and conductor (Georgian State Orchestra, 1952-65), dies at 64
Jul 19 Clyde Beatty, American animal trainer and actor (Africa Screams, The Big Cage), dies from cancer at 62

Jul 19 1st President of South Korea (1948-60), dies at 90

Jul 24 Constance Bennett, American actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59
Jul 24 Irene Browne, English actress (Peg O' My Heart), dies of cancer at 69
Jul 27 Henri Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
Jul 28 Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (boy detectives club books), dies at 70
Jul 28 Maurice Yvain, French composer, dies at 74
Jul 28 Minor Watson, American actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75
Jul 30 Alan Washbond, American 2-man bobsledder (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 65
Jul 30 Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79
Jul 31 James Rennie, Canadian actor (Lash, Little Damozel), dies at 75
Aug 1 Kiyoshi Nobutoki, Japanese cellist and composer, dies at 77
Aug 2 Milton B. Babbitt, American composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49
Aug 2 N. Howell Furman, American Chemist whose work on separating uranium contributed to the development of the atomic bomb, dies at 73
Aug 6 Aksel Sandemose, writer, dies
Aug 6 Everett Sloane, American actor (Patsy, Citizen Kane, Enforcer), dies of apparent suicide with barbiturates at 55
Aug 6 Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60
Aug 6 Peter Ronnefeld, German pianist, composer and conductor (Die Nachtausgabe), dies at 30
Aug 8 Olga Fastrová, Czech writer and editor (National Policy), dies at 89

Aug 8 American author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45

Aug 9 Creighton Hale, Irish actor (Gorilla Man, Way Down East), dies at 76
Aug 10 Ray Robinson, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test; NSW, South Australia, Otago), dies at 51
Aug 11 Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer (35 Tests for Australia), dies at 67

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