1965
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'''1965''' '''(MCMLXV)''' was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar).
Events
January-February
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January 4 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
January 12 - Bodies of two 15 year olds - Christine Sharrock and Marrine Schmidt - found at Wanda Beach, Sydney (Wanda Beach Murders)
January 14 - Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years
January 24 - Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90.
January 26 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.
January 30 - Winston Churchill's funeral is held in London.
February 6 - Sir Stanley Matthews plays his final Football League First Division|First Division game, at the record age of 50 years and 5 days
February 7 - US begins regular bombing of North Vietnamese towns and villages
February 9 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam
February 15 - A new red and white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada replacing the Union Flag and the Canadian Red Ensign.
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.
February 21 - Malcolm X is assassinated on the first day of National Brotherhood Week at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by Black Muslims
March
March 7 - Bloody Sunday (1965)|Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
March 8 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam
March 8 - First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam
March 9 - Second march from Selma to Montgomery under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday (1965)|Bloody Sunday to hold a prayer service and return to Selma in obedience to a court restraining order. White supremacists beat up white Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb later that day in Selma, Alabama.
March 10 - Goldie the Eagle|Goldie, a London Zoo golden eagle is recaptured after 13 days of freedom
March 11 - 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 18 - astronaut|Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to Extra-vehicular activity|walk in space
March 21 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned Moon|lunar space probes
March 21 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. begin march from Selma, Alabama|Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery
March 23 - NASA launches Gemini III with the United States' first two-person crew into earth orbit (Gus Grissom and John_W._Young|John Young).
March 24- Mark "The Undertaker" Callaway, Professional Wrestler
March 25 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully end march from Selma, Alabama|Selma, arriving at the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery
April
April 6 - Launch of Early Bird communications satellite. It becomes operational May 2 and is placed in commercial service in June.
April 9 - The West Germany|West German parliament extends the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes. Also, in Houston, Texas, the Harris County Domed Stadium (or commonly known as Astrodome) was opened.
April 11 - The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak: An estimated fifty-one tornadoes (forty-seven confirmed) hit in six Midwestern states killing anywhere from 256 to 271 people and injuring some 1,500 more.
April 14 - ''In Cold Blood'' killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted of murdering four members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary For Men in Lansing, Kansas.
April 21 - NY World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, NY, reopens.
April 23 - The Pennine Way officially opened.
April 24 - Bodies of Portugal|Portuguese opposition politician Humberto Delgado and his secretary Arajaris Campos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno, Spain. They were killed February 12.
April 24 - Fighting breaks out in the Dominican Republic as officers loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch lead a mutiny against the right wing junta running the country. US troops are later sent by President Lyndon B. Johnson "for the stated purpose of protecting US citizens and preventing an alleged Communist takeover of the country", thus thwarting the possibilty of "another Cuba".
April 28 - Vietnam War: Australian Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in South Vietnam, supposedly at the request of the Saigon government, although it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans.
April 29 - Australia announces that it is sending an infantry battalion to support the South Vietnam government.
May-June
May 1 - Robert Askin | Bob (later Sir Robert) Askin replaces Jack Renshaw as Premier of New South Wales.
May 2 - US president Johnson sends troops to the Dominican Republic.
May 13 - West Germany|West German court of appeals condemns behavior of ex-defense minister Franz Joseph Strauss during the Spiegel scandal.
May 19 - Tui Malila, the oldest tortoise or living animal ever, dies of natural causes.
May 29 - A mining accident in Dhambas, India kills 274.
May 31 - Racing driver Jim Clark (racing driver)|Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.
June 2 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
June 3 - US astronaut Edward Higgins White|Edward White makes first US space walk during Gemini IV.
June 7 - A mining accident in Kakanji, Bosnia results in 128 deaths.
June 10 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins - About 1,500 Vietcong mount a mortar attack on Dong Xoai and then overrun its military headquarters and adjoining militia compound.
June 19 - Houari Boumedienne's Revolutionary Council ousts Ahmed Ben Bella in a bloodless coup in Algeria.
June 20 - Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President Ben Bella.
June 22 - Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea.
June 24 - Freddie Mills, former British boxing champion, is found shot in his car in Soho.
July
July 14 - US spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars (planet)|Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the red planet
July 16 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel is used for the first time
July 22 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home suddenly resigns as a head of the British Conservative Party
July 24 - Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage
July 27 - Edward Heath becomes Leader of the British Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party
July 28 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000
July 29 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay
July 30 - War on Poverty: US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare (United States)|Medicare and Medicaid
August
August 1 - Cigarette advertising banned in British television
August 6 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law
August 7 - Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.
August 9 - Singapore proclaims its independence from Malaysia
August 9 - An explosion at a missile plant in Arkansas kills 53
August 9 – Indonesian president Sukarno collapses in public
August 11 - Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles, California
August 13 - Jefferson Airplane debut at the Matrix in San Francisco, California and begin to appear there regularly.
August 18 - Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins as 5,500 United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai 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 US base at Chu Lai
August 19 - At the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, 66 ex-SS personnel receive life sentences, 15 others smaller ones
September
September 2 - Pakistani troops enter the Indian sector of Kashmir
September 6 - Indian troops march on Lahore
September 7 - People's Republic of China|China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border
September 7 - 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 south of the Chu Lai Marine base
September 8 - India opens two additional fronts against Pakistan
September 9 - UN secretary general U Thant negotiates with Pakistani president Ayub Khan
September 9 - U Thant recommends China for United Nations|UN membership
September 13 - Congress of Arab countries begins in Casablanca - Habib Bourgiba boycotts the meeting
September 14 - Opening of fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council
September 16 - China protests against Indian provocations in its border region
September 16 - In Iraq, Prime Minister Razzak's attempted coup fails
September 17 - Stefan Stafanopoulos forms a new government in Greece and ends a two-year old political crisis
September 18 - China claims that US troops have used poison gas in South Vietnam
September 18 - In Denmark, Palle Sörensen shoots four policemen in pursuit - apprehended the same day
September 19 - Soviet prime minister Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in Soviet Union to negotiate
September 20 - End of term for Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail as the 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 21 - Commander of US troops in Vietnam, general William Westmoreland, pleads Washington to cancel the ban to use mustard gas
September 21 - Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, Sultan of Terengganu becomes the 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 22 - Radio Peking announces that Indian troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border
September 24 - Fighting between Indian and Pakistani troops erupts again
September 24 - British governor of Aden cancels the Aden constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate because of the bad security situation
September 27 - Largest tanker ship at the time, ''Tokyo Maru'', launched in Yokohama
September 28 - Fidel Castro announces that everybody who wants can immigrate to USA
September 28 - Taal Volcano in Luzon, Philippines, erupts - hundreds dead
September 30 – Attempted communist coup in Indonesia. Indonesian army crushes it with the lead of general Suharto
October
October 3 - Fidel Castro announces that Che Guevara has resigned and left the country
October 4 - Prime minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia and Arthur Bottomley of British Commonwealth begin negotiations in London - they end on October 8 without results
October 5 - Pakistan sever diplomatic relations with Malaysia because of the disagreement in UN
October 5 - The Beatles are set to release their song 'Love Me Do' on Parlophone
October 6 - Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors Murderers, arrested.
October 8 - Indonesian army arrests and executes communists
October 8 - Olympic Committee admits East Germany as a member
October 8 - The Post Office Tower opens in London
October 9 - Yale University presents the "Vinland map"
October 9 - Brigade of South Korean soldiers arrive in South Vietnam
October 10 - First group of Cuban refugees travels to USA
October 12 - Per Borten forms a government in Norway
October 12 - UN general council recommends that United Kingdom try everything to stop a rebellion in Rhodesia
October 13 - President of Congo, Joseph Kasavubu, fires Prime Minister Moise Tsombe and forms a provisional government with Evariste Kimba in a lead
October 15 - Vietnam War: The anti-war student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a conscription|draft card in the United States
October 16 - Suharto takes power in Indonesia
October 17 - NY World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, NY, closes. Due to financial losses, some of the projected improvements on the park on the site fail to materialize.
October 18 - Indonesian government declares communist party illegal
October 20 - Ludwig Erhard elected as Chancellor in West Germany
October 21 - Ikeja-Seki comet
October 21 - Organization of African Unity|OAU meeting begins in Accra
October 22 - French authors André Figueras and Jacques Laurent are fined for their comments against Charles De Gaulle
October 22 - African countries demand that the United Kingdom use force to prevent Rhodesia from declaring unilateral independence
October 24 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Arthur Bottomley travel to Rhodesia for negotiations
October 25 - Soviet Union declares its support of African countries in case Rhodesia unilaterally declares independence
October 26
Anti-government demonstrations in the Dominican Republic
The body of Sylvia Likens discovered by authorities in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
October 27 - Brazil|Brazilian president Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco|Branco removes power of parliament, legal courts and opposition parties
October 28 - French foreign minister Couve de Murville travels to Moscow
October 28 - Pope Paul VI announces that ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ
October 28 - In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch is completed
October 29 - Kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka
October 30 - Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
October 31 - Indonesian army announces that it is fighting with communist guerillas in Java (island)|Java
November
November 2 - Republican John V. Lindsay elected mayor of New York City
November 3 - Charles De Gaulle announces that he will stand in next presidential election
November 5 - Martial law announced in Rhodesia. UN General Assembly accepts British intent to use force against Rhodesia if necessary with 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 - The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar Group|Farquhar and Des Roches islands (on June 23, 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches were returned to Seychelles).
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 blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
November 9 - 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 of the war in Vietnam (this was the second such incident in a week; on November 2 32-year-old Quaker member Norman Morrison did the same thing in front of The Pentagon)
November 11 - In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white minority regime of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence
November 12 - UN Security Council resolution (voted 10-0) recommends that other countries would not recognize independent Rhodesia
November 13 - The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
November 14 - Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - In the Ia Drang Valley of the Tay Nguyen|Central Highlands in Vietnam, the first major engagement of the war between regular United States|American and North Vietnamese forces begins
November 15 - US racer Craig Breedlove sets a new land speed record of 600.601 mph
November 16 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe from Baikonur, Kazakhstan toward Venus (planet)|Venus (on March 1, 1966 it became the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet)
November 16 - Disney launches Epcot Center
November 20 - UN Security Council recommends that all states stop trading with Rhodesia
November 23 - Soviet general Mikhail Kazakov becomes commander of Warsaw Pact
November 24 - Queen Elizabeth of Belgium dies
November 24 - Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congolese lieutenant general Mobutu Sese Seko|Mobutu ousts Joseph Kasavubu and declares himself president
November 26 - At the Hammaguira 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|space.
November 27 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells US President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations needed to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year were to succeed, the number of United States|American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000
November 28 - Vietnam War: In response to US 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 - Canadian satellite Alouette 2 is launched.
December
December 1 - The Border Security Force is established in India as a special force to guard the borders.
December 3 - First British aid flight arrive in Lusaka - Zambia has asked for British help against Rhodesia
December 3 - Members of Organization of African Unity|OAU decide to sever diplomatic relations with United Kingdom unless the British government ends rebellion of Rhodesia by mid-December
December 5 – Charles De Gaulle re-elected as French president with 10,828,421 votes
December 8 - Rhodesian prime minister warns that Rhodesia would resist trade embargo by neighboring countries with force
December 8 - Closing of Second Vatican Council
December 12 - In baseball, Roy Hofheinz fires manager Lum Harris (record of 65-97). Grady Hatton takes over the Astros.
December 15 - Tanzania and Guinea sever diplomatic relations with United Kingdom
December 15 - Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 perform the first controlled rendezvous in Earth orbit
December 17 - British government begins oil embargo against Rhodesia - USA joins the effort
December 21 - Soviet Unions announces that it has shipped rockets to North Vietnam
December 21 - Soviet scientists condemn Trofim Lysenko
December 21 - Konrad Adenauer resigns from the post of chairman of the Christian Democratic party
December 22 - Military coup on Dahomey
December 22 - 70 mph speed limit imposed on British roads
December 27 - British oil platform ''Sea Gem'' collapses in the North Sea
December 28 - Italian foreign minister Mintore Fanfani resigns
December 30 - President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia announces that Zambia and United Kingdom have agreed to a deadline before which the Rhodesian white government should be ousted
December 30 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines
Unknown dates
The Council for National Academic Awards is established in the United Kingdom|UK
TAT-4 cable goes into operation.
Mont Blanc tunnel between France and Italy completed.
Desteldonk becomes a part of Ghent (East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium)
California City, California incorporated.
Births
January-February
January 9 - Joely Richardson, British actress
January 11 - Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy and nephew of U.S president John F Kennedy and Edward M Kennedy
January 14 - Marc Delissen, Dutch field hockey player
January 15 - Adam Jones, American musician (Tool (band)|Tool)
January 18 - Dave Attell, American comedian
January 20 - Sophie, Countess of Wessex
January 20 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer
January 22 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
January 22 - Diane Lane, American actress
January 27 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
January 29 - Dominik Hasek, Czech hockey player
February 1 - Sherilyn Fenn, American actress
February 1 - Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)
February 1 - Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
February 11 - Stephen Gregory (actor)|Stephen Gregory, American actor
February 18 - Dr. Dre, American rapper and music producer
February 22 - Scott Lowell, American actor
February 23 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
March-April
March 1 - Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
March 4 - Gary Helms, American kick-boxer
March 7 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
March 9 - Benito Santiago, baseball player
March 10 - Rod Woodson, American football player
March 11 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
March 12 - Steve Finley, baseball player
March 14 - Kevin Brown, baseball player
March 24 - Mark Calaway, American professional wrestler
March 25 - Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
March 25 - Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper and president of the Bulgarian olympic committee
April 1 - Robert Steadman, English composer
April 4 - Robert Downey Jr., American actor
April 7 - Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
April 15 - Linda Perry, American musician
April 16 - Martin Lawrence, American actor, comedian, and producer
April 21 - Ed Belfour, Canadian hockey player
April 26 - Kevin James, American comedian and actor
April 28 - Steven Blum, American voice actor
May-June
May 7 - Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
May 9 - Steve Yzerman, Canadian hockey player
May 14 - Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
May 16 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana (band)|Nirvana)
May 17 - Trent Reznor, American musician (Nine Inch Nails)
May 28 - Chris Ballew, American musician
May 31 - Brooke Shields, American actress
June 1 - Nigel Short, English chess player
June 4 - Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
June 7 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and author
June 10 - Elizabeth Hurley, English actress
June 15 - Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
June 16 - Charika Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner
July-August
July 1 - Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director
July 11 - Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
July 17 - Craig Morgan, American singer
July 18 - Michael Sharrett, American actor
July 19 - Stuart Scott, American sports reporter
July 20 - Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver nephew of John F Kennedy and son of Sargent Shriver and Eunice Mary Kennedy
July 21 - Guðni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
July 22 - Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler
July 23 - Slash, American musician, guitar ledgend, Guns N' Roses
July 26 - Sandra Bullock, American actress
July 28 - Lori Loughlin, American actress
July 31 - J. K. Rowling, English author
August 10 - Mike Smith (jockey)|Mike Smith, American jockey
August 10 - John Starks, American basketball player
August 14 - Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
August 18 - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
August 24 - Reggie Miller, American basketball player
August 28 - Shania Twain, American singer and songwriter
September-December
September 2 - Lennox Lewis, British boxer
September 11 - Moby, American musician
September 21 - Cheryl Hines, American actress
September 20 - Robert Rusler, American actor
September 25 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
October 1 - Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
October 5 - Mario Lemieux, Canadian hockey player
October 5 - Patrick Roy, Canadian hockey player
October 8 - C-Jay Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones)
October 26 - Kenneth Rutherford, New Zealand cricket captains
October 14 - Constantine Koukias, Australian Composer
October 30 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician
November 2 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
November 6 - Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
November 7 - Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
November 9 - Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
November 10 - Eddie Irvine, F1 Racing Formula One Driver
November 21 - Björk, Icelandic singer, songwriter, and musician
November 21 - Alexander Siddig, Sudanese-born actor
November 25 - Cris Carter, American football player
November 25 - Bernie Kosar, American football player
November 30 - Ben Stiller, American actor
December 3 - Steve Harris (actor)|Steve Harris, American actor
December 3 - Katarina Witt, German figure skater
December 21 - Andy Dick, American actor
December 27 - Salman Khan, Indian actor
December 29 - Dexter Holland, American singer (The Offspring)
December 30 - Zoe Kelli Simon, American actress
Deaths
January-March
January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1930)
January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
January 20 - Alan Freed, American disc jockey (b. 1922)
January 24 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)
January 28 - Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
January 28 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
February 13 - Gloria Laura Mercedes Morgan-Vanderbilt|Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, Swiss-born socialite (b. 1906)
February 15 - Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
February 21 - Malcolm X, American black activist (assassinated) (b. 1925)
February 22 - Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1882)
February 23 - Stan Laurel, British actor (b. 1890)
February 26 - George Adamski, Polish-born UFO traveler (b. 1891)
March 6 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
March 13 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
March 13 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and political figure (b. 1882)
March 17 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, baseball, basketball, and American football player and coach (b. 1862)
March 18 - King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)
March 28 - Mary, Princess Royal (b. 1897)
March 30 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
April-December
April 3 - - Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter
April 21 - Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
May 23 - Earl Webb, baseball player (b. 1897)
May 25 - Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician (b. 1899)
June 15 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902)
June 28 - Red Nichols, American jazz cornettist (b. 1905)
July 1 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
July 7 - Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel
July 30 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
August 27 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect
August 28 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
September 2 - Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
September 4 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
September 8 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
September 14 - Jack Hearne (John William Hearne)|J.W. Hearne English cricketer (b. 1891)
September 15 - Steve Brown (bass player)|Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
October 12 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
November 6 - Edgar Varèse French-born composer (b. 1883)
November 6 - Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1893)
November 16 - W.T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council of Ireland (b. 1880)
November 25 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)
December 5 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
December 16 - W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (b. 1874)
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman| Richard P. Feynman
Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry - Robert Burns Woodward
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine - Francois Jacob|François Jacob, Andre Lwoff|André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Nobel Peace Prize|Peace - UNICEF|United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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