List of Famous people who died at 65

Erwin Wilhelm Müller was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He and his student, Kanwar Bahadur, were the first people to experimentally observe atoms.

Svetlana Nikolaevna "Lanna" Saunders was an American actress, best known for her role as Marie Horton on the television soap opera Days of Our Lives, on which she appeared from 1979-85. She also played the character Betty Andrews on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. was an American politician and attorney from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in 1973 at the age of 35 as the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and of any major city in the South. He served three terms, making him the second longest-serving mayor of Atlanta, after six-term mayor William B. Hartsfield.

Henry Seymour Kaplan was an American radiologist who pioneered in radiation therapy and radiobiology.

Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist. Pass worked often with pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald.