List of Famous people who died in 1965

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej was a Romanian communist politician and electrician. He was the first Communist leader of Romania from 1947 to 1965, serving as first secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1944 to 1954 and from 1955 to 1965, and as the first Communist Prime Minister of Romania from 1952 to 1955.

Charles Bouillaud (1904–1965) was a French actor.

Charles Picard was a prominent Classical archaeologist and historian of ancient Greek art. He is best known for his multi-volume, monumental survey, Manuel d'archéologie grecque: La sculpture. Volume I, was published in 1935. He completed the second fascicule of Volume IV in 1963. Picard was elected member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1932.

Claude-Edmonde Magny, real name Edmonde Vinel (1913–1966) was a French woman of letters.

Leo Funtek was a Slovenian violinist, conductor and arranger. He is best known for work as a music professor and for his 1922 arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.

Kansuke Naka was a Japanese novelist and essayist.

Agustina del Carmen Otero Iglesias, better known as Carolina Otero or La Belle Otero, was a Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan. She had a reputation for great beauty and was famous for her numerous lovers.