List of Famous people who died in 1965
Jack Spicer
Jack Spicer was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry.
Edmondo Rossoni
Edmondo Rossoni was a revolutionary syndicalist leader and an Italian fascist politician who became involved in the Fascist syndicate movement during Benito Mussolini's regime.
Nikoloz Berdzenishvili
Nikoloz Berdzenishvili (1895–1965) was a Georgian historian who served as a Vice President of the Georgian Academy of Sciences from 1951 to 1957 and chaired the Department of History at Tbilisi State University from 1946 to 1956.
Francis Cherry
Francis Adams Cherry, Sr., was an American jurist and the 35th governor of Arkansas, elected as a Democrat for a single two-year term from 1953 to 1955.
Fan S. Noli
Theofan Stilian Noli, known as Fan Noli, was an Albanian writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator and founder of the Orthodox Church of Albania, who served as Prime Minister and regent of Albania in 1924 during the June Revolution.
Sumner Sewall
Sumner Sewall was a U.S. Republican politician and airline executive who served as the 58th Governor of Maine from 1941 to 1945. He began his aviation career during World War I as a fighter ace.
Philip La Follette
Philip Fox La Follette was an American politician. He was the 27th Governor of Wisconsin and 29th Governor of Wisconsin, as well as one of the founders of the Wisconsin Progressive Party.
Samuel King Allison
Samuel King Allison was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war, he returned to the University of Chicago to direct the Institute for Nuclear Studies and was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons.
Ethel Browning
Ethel Browning was an American actress and screenwriter.
Karl Burman
Karl Burman sen. was an Estonian architect and painter.