List of Famous people who died at 65

Bernard Tchoullouyan was a French judoka. He won a world title in 1981 and an Olympic bronze medal in 1980. He died on 7 January 2019, at the age of 65.

Lithang Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche or Tenzing Deleg was a Tibetan Buddhist leader from Garze, Sichuan. He is also known for working to develop social, medical, educational and religious institutions for Tibetan nomads in eastern Tibet, as an advocate for environmental conservation in the face of indiscriminate logging and mining projects, and as a mediator between Tibetans and Chinese.

Günther Lohre was a German athlete. He competed in the men's pole vault at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Masaru Nashimoto was a Japanese reporter who specialized in covering show-business gossip and scandals. He was born in Nakano, Tokyo.

Jit Sukha Samaroo was a Trinidadian composer and steelpan musician.

Olga Vyalikova was a Russian film and theater actress. She graduated from the Boris Schukin Theatre Institute in 1975.

Jesús Samper Vidal was a Spanish businessman and lawyer with holdings in many cities, as well as being the owner of the football team Real Murcia. He was born in Madrid and died there.

David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street".

Alexander Vikentyevich Skvortsov was a Russian ice hockey player, who competed for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the Olympic Games. Skvortsov scored 2 goals during the 1980 games en route to a silver medal, and scored 4 goals in the 1984 games as the Soviets won the gold. He was also a three-time world champion with the Soviet national team.

Paul Burkhard was a Swiss composer. He primarily wrote oratorios, musicals and operettas. The contemporaneous and similarly named Swiss composer Willy Burkhard was no relation to him.