List of Famous people who died in 1965

Creighton Hale was an Irish-American theatre, film, and television actor whose career extended more than a half-century, from the early 1900s to the end of the 1950s.

Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier and statesman.

Yekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova, née Volzhina was a Soviet human rights activist and humanitarian, first wife of Maxim Gorky.

Leo Spies was a Russian-born German composer and conductor active in the musical and theatrical life of Germany, and especially in Berlin.

Sherman "Shay" Minton was a United States Senator from Indiana and later an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Gerard Mackworth Young CIE (1884–1965) was director of the British School at Athens from 1936 to 1946.

Maurice Yvain was a French composer, noted for his operettas of the 1920s and 1930s, some of which were written for Mistinguett, at one time the best-paid female entertainer in the world. In the 1930s and 1940s he became a major success in the United States and several of his pieces appeared in the famous Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. He also composed music for several films of notable directors such as Anatole Litvak, Julien Duvivier and Henri-Georges Clouzot and his music blended with the then "spirit of Paris".

Maxim Zetkin was a German politician and surgeon.