List of Famous people who died at 65

Bilge Karasu, was a Turkish short story writer and novelist.

Nikolai Petrovich Morozov was a Russian football coach, who led the USSR national football team to a fourth-place finish in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.

Carl Lee Perkins was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954. Amongst his best-known songs are "Blue Suede Shoes", "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby".

Ernst Haas was an Austrian-American photojournalist and color photographer. During his 40-year career, Haas bridged the gap between photojournalism and the use of photography as a medium for expression and creativity. In addition to his coverage of events around the globe after World War II, Haas was an early innovator in color photography. His images were disseminated by magazines like Life and Vogue and, in 1962, were the subject of the first single-artist exhibition of color photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He served as president of the cooperative Magnum Photos, and his book The Creation (1971) was one of the most successful photography books ever, selling 350,000 copies.

John Parmenter Robarts, was a Canadian lawyer and statesman who served as the 17th premier of Ontario for nearly a decade, from November 8, 1961, to March 1, 1971.

África Lorente Castillo was a Moroccan-born Spanish politician and activist. She was born in Tangier, Morocco, then Spanish protectorate. She was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Noboru Kikuta (菊田昇) was a Japanese gynecologist. He is best known for circumventing Japanese adoption law in the 1970's by falsifying birth certificates so that children could be adopted anonymously.