List of Famous people who died in 1965

Mary Carson Breckinridge was an American nurse midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), which provided comprehensive family medical care to the mountain people of rural Kentucky. FNS served remote and impoverished areas off the road and rail system but accessible by horseback. She modeled her services on European practices and sought to professionalize American nurse-midwives to practice autonomously in homes and decentralized clinics. Although Breckinridge's work demonstrated efficacy by dramatically reducing infant and maternal mortality in Appalachia, at a comparatively low cost, her model of nurse-midwifery never took root in the United States.

Odoardo Eugenio Giano Spadaro was an Italian singer-songwriter and actor.

Paolo Vietti-Violi was an Italian architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Mary Boland was an American stage and film actress.

Roberto Cinquini was an Italian film editor.

Claës Ture Wersäll was a Swedish gymnast who won a bronze medal in the tug of war event at the 1906 Summer Olympics. The team consisted of five gymnasts, two weightlifters and a javelin thrower.

Lieutenant Colonel George de Grey, 8th Baron Walsingham was a British soldier and peer.

Grigori Akinfovich Belov was a Russian actor. He appeared in more than ten films from 1940 to 1966.

Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby was a British civil servant and diplomat.