List of Famous people who died in 1965
Ethel Thomson Larcombe
Ethel Larcombe was a British female tennis player and badminton player. She won the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships as well as 11 badminton titles at the All England Badminton Championships.
Princess Pauline, Princess of Wied
Princess Pauline of Württemberg was the elder daughter of William II of Württemberg and wife of William Frederick, Prince of Wied. She was for many years the regional director of the German Red Cross, in western Germany.
Louise Dresser
Louise Dresser was an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the many films in which she played the wife of Will Rogers, including State Fair and David Harum.
Mae Murray
Mae Murray was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen".
Aimée Antoinette Camus
Aimée Antoinette Camus was a French botanist. She was best known for her study of orchids and oaks. Camus also has the legacy of authoring the second highest number of land plant species among female scientists, in total naming 677 species.
Helen Chandler
Helen Chandler was an American film and theater actress, best known for playing Mina Seward in the 1931 horror film Dracula.
Beatrice Harrison
Beatrice Harrison was a British cellist active in the first half of the 20th century. She gave first performances of several important English works, especially those of Frederick Delius, and made the first or standard recordings of others.
Dixie Bibb Graves
Dixie Bibb Graves was a First Lady from the state of Alabama and the first woman to serve as a United States Senator from Alabama. She was appointed to the Senate by her husband, Governor Bibb Graves, when Senator Hugo Black resigned his to take his place on the U.S. Supreme Court in August 1937.
Nicole Védrès
Nicole Védrès, born Nicole Henriette Désirée Charlotte Cahen dit Nathan dit Rais, was a French film director and journalist.
C. Gardner Sullivan
C. Gardner Sullivan was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was a prolific writer with more than 350 films among his credits. In 1924, the magazine Story World selected him on a list of the ten individuals who had contributed the most to the advancement of the motion picture industry from its inception forward. Four of Sullivan's films, The Italian (1915), Civilization (1916), Hell's Hinges (1916), and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), have been listed in the National Film Registry.