Events from the year 1965 in the United States .
vacant (until January 20)
Hubert Humphrey (D -Minnesota ) (starting January 20)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama : George Wallace (Democratic )
Governor of Alaska : William A. Egan (Democratic )
Governor of Arizona : Paul Fannin (Republican ) (until January 4), Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. (Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Arkansas : Orval Faubus (Democratic )
Governor of California : Pat Brown (Democratic )
Governor of Colorado : John Arthur Love (Republican )
Governor of Connecticut : John N. Dempsey (Democratic )
Governor of Delaware : Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic ) (until January 19), Charles L. Terry Jr. (Democratic ) (starting January 19)
Governor of Florida : C. Farris Bryant (Democratic ) (until January 5), W. Haydon Burns (Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Georgia : Carl E. Sanders (Democratic )
Governor of Hawaii : John A. Burns (Democratic )
Governor of Idaho : Robert E. Smylie (Republican )
Governor of Illinois : Otto Kerner Jr. (Democratic )
Governor of Indiana : Matthew E. Welsh (Democratic ) (until January 11), Roger D. Branigin (Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Iowa : Harold E. Hughes (Democratic )
Governor of Kansas : John Anderson Jr. (Republican ) (until January 11), William H. Avery (Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Kentucky : Edward T. Breathitt (Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana : John J. McKeithen (Democratic )
Governor of Maine : John H. Reed (Republican )
Governor of Maryland : J. Millard Tawes (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : Endicott Peabody (Democratic ) (until January 7), John A. Volpe (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Michigan : George W. Romney (Republican )
Governor of Minnesota : Karl F. Rolvaag (Democratic )
Governor of Mississippi : Paul B. Johnson Jr. (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : John M. Dalton (Democratic ) (until January 11), Warren E. Hearnes (Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Montana : Tim M. Babcock (Republican )
Governor of Nebraska : Frank B. Morrison (Democratic )
Governor of Nevada : Grant Sawyer (Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire : John W. King (Democratic )
Governor of New Jersey : Richard J. Hughes (Democratic )
Governor of New Mexico : Jack M. Campbell (Democratic )
Governor of New York : Nelson Rockefeller (Republican )
Governor of North Carolina : Terry Sanford (Democratic ) (until January 8), Dan K. Moore (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of North Dakota : William L. Guy (Democratic )
Governor of Ohio : Jim Rhodes (Republican )
Governor of Oklahoma : Henry Bellmon (Republican )
Governor of Oregon : Mark Hatfield (Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania : William Scranton (Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island : John Chafee (Republican )
Governor of South Carolina : Donald S. Russell (Democratic ) (until April 22), Robert Evander McNair (Democratic ) (starting April 22)
Governor of South Dakota : Archie M. Gubbrud (Republican ) (until January 5), Nils Boe (Republican ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Tennessee : Frank G. Clement (Democratic )
Governor of Texas : John Connally (Democratic )
Governor of Utah : George Dewey Clyde (Republican ) (until January 4), Cal Rampton (Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Vermont : Philip H. Hoff (Democratic )
Governor of Virginia : Albertis S. Harrison Jr. (Democratic )
Governor of Washington : Albert D. Rosellini (Democratic ) (until January 11), Daniel J. Evans (Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of West Virginia : William Wallace Barron (Democratic ) (until January 18), Hulett C. Smith (Democratic ) (starting January 18)
Governor of Wisconsin : John W. Reynolds Jr. (Democratic ) (until January 4), Warren P. Knowles (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Wyoming : Clifford P. Hansen (Republican )
Lieutenant governors
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Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : James B. Allen (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Alaska : Hugh Wade (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : Nathan Green Gordon (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of California : Glenn Malcolm Anderson (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Robert Lee Knous (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Samuel J. Tedesco (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Eugene Lammot (Democratic ) (until January 19), Sherman W. Tribbitt (Democratic ) (starting January 19)
Lieutenant Governor of Georgia : Peter Zack Geer (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii : William S. Richardson (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : W. E. Drevlow (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Samuel H. Shapiro (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Richard O. Ristine (Republican ) (until January 11), Robert L. Rock (Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : W. L. Mooty (Democratic ) (until January 17), Robert D. Fulton (Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Harold H. Chase (Republican ) (until January 11), John Crutcher (Republican ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Harry Lee Waterfield (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : C. C. Aycock (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Francis X. Bellotti (Democratic ) (until January 7), Elliot Richardson (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : T. John Lesinski (Democratic ) (until January 1), William G. Milliken (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Alexander M. Keith (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Carroll Gartin (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Hilary A. Bush (Democratic ) (until January 11), Thomas Eagleton (Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana : David F. James (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Ted James (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Dwight W. Burney (Republican ) (until January 7), Philip C. Sorensen (Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Paul Laxalt (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : Mack Easley (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of New York : Malcolm Wilson (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : vacant (until January 8), Robert W. Scott (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Frank A. Wenstrom (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Charles Tighe (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : John William Brown (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : Leo Winters (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Raymond P. Shafer (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Edward P. Gallogly (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Giovanni Folcarelli (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Robert Evander McNair (Democratic ) (until April 22), vacant (starting April 22)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Nils Boe (Republican ) (until January 5), Lem Overpeck (Republican ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : James L. Bomar Jr. (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Jared Maddux (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Preston Smith (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Ralph A. Foote (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), John J. Daley (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Mills E. Godwin Jr. (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : John Cherberg (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Jack B. Olson (Republican ) (until January 4), Patrick J. Lucey (Democratic ) (starting January 4)
January 20: Lyndon B. Johnson , the 36th president of the United States , begins his full term
Hubert Humphrey becomes the 38th U.S. vice president
March 2 – The Sound of Music premieres at the Rivoli Theater in New York City.
March 7 – Bloody Sunday : Some 200 Alabama State Troopers clash with 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama . No one was killed in the clash.
March 8 – Vietnam War : Some 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam , becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam .
March 9 – The second attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama , under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. , stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday, to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order . White supremacists beat up white Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb later that day in Selma.
March 11 – White Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb , beaten by White supremacists in Selma, Alabama on March 9 following the second march from Selma, dies in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama .
March 15 – President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his "We Shall Overcome" speech.
March 16 – Police clash with 600 marchers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Montgomery, Alabama .
March 17
In Montgomery, Alabama , 1,600 civil rights marchers demonstrate at the Courthouse.
In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 . It is passed by the Senate on May 26, the House on July 10, and signed into law by President Johnson on August 6.
March 18 – A United States federal judge rules that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) has the lawful right to march to Montgomery, Alabama to petition for 'redress of grievances'.
March 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana , reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built and owned by the real Rhett Butler , is discovered off the Isle of Palms , South Carolina , by teenage diver E. Lee Spence , exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million-dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston .
March 21
March 23 – Gemini 3 : NASA launches the United States' first 2-person crew (Gus Grissom , John Young ) into Earth orbit .
March 25 – Martin Luther King Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the four-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
March 30 – Funeral services are held for Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo , who was shot dead by four Klansmen as she drove marchers back to Selma at night after the civil rights march.
March
April 3 – The world's first space nuclear power reactor, SNAP-10A , is launched by the United States from Vandenberg AFB , California. The reactor operated for 43 days and remains in high Earth orbit .
April 5 – At the 37th Academy Awards , George Cukor 's My Fair Lady wins 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Cukor. Rex Harrison wins an Oscar for Best Actor . Robert Stevenson 's Mary Poppins takes home 5 Oscars out of 13 nominations. Julie Andrews wins an Academy Award for Best Actress , for her portrayal in the lead role. Sherman Brothers receives 2 Oscars including Best Song , "Chim Chim Cher-ee ". The ceremony is hosted by Bob Hope at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium .
April 9
April 11 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965 : An estimated 51 tornadoes (47 confirmed) hit in 6 Midwestern states, killing between 256 and 271 people and injuring some 1,500 more.
April 14 – In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith , convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas , are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men in Lansing, Kansas .
April 17 – The first SDS march against the Vietnam War draws 25,000 protestors to Washington, DC.
April 21 – The New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows reopens.
April 25 – Sixteen-year-old sniper Michael Clark kills 3 and wounds others, shooting at cars from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Orcutt, California . Clark kills himself as police rush the hilltop.
April 28 – U.S. troops are sent to the Dominican Republic by President Lyndon B. Johnson , "for the stated purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and preventing an alleged Communist takeover of the country", thus thwarting the possibility of "another Cuba ".
April 29 – The 6.7 Puget Sound earthquake affected western Washington with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), causing seven deaths and $12.5–28 million in financial losses in the Puget Sound region .
May 5 – Forty men burn their draft cards at the University of California, Berkeley , and a coffin is marched to the Berkeley Draft Board .
May 6 – A tornado outbreak near the Twin Cities in Minnesota kills 13 and injures 683.
May 7 – The U.S. Steel freighter SS Cedarville collides with the SS Topdalsfjord and sinks near the Mackinac Bridge , killing 25 of those on board. Ten are rescued from the Cedarville , the 3rd largest lake ship to sink after its sister the SS Carl D. Bradley , and the SS Edmund Fitzgerald .
May 21 – The largest teach-in to date begins at Berkeley, California , attended by 30,000.
May 22 – The first skateboard championship is held. In addition, several hundred Vietnam War protesters in Berkeley, CA, march to the Draft Board again to burn 19 more cards. Lyndon Johnson is hanged in effigy .
May 31 – Scottish racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500 , and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.
June 1 – Florida International University is founded in Miami .
June 3 – Gemini 4 : Astronaut Ed White makes the first U.S. space walk .
June 16 – A planned anti-war protest at The Pentagon becomes a teach-in, with demonstrators distributing 50,000 leaflets in and around the building.
June 25 – A U.S. Air Force Boeing C135-A bound for Okinawa crashes just after takeoff at MCAS El Toro in Orange County, California , killing all 85 on board.
June 28 – The DeFeo family moves from Brooklyn, New York, to 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island, New York. The murder of all but one of the DeFeos nine years later, on November 13, 1974 , by the oldest son, Ronald/Ronnie "Butch" DeFeo Jr. , and the subsequent claims of a haunting at 112 Ocean Avenue by the Lutz family, would lead to The Amityville Horror franchise of books and movies.
August 6 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that have been responsible for widespread disfranchisement of African Americans .
August 9 – An explosion at an Arkansas missile plant kills 53.
August 11 – The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles , California.
August 13 – The rock group Jefferson Airplane debuts at the Matrix in San Francisco, California and begins to appear there regularly.
August 15 – The Beatles perform the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing at Shea Stadium in New York City .
August 18 – Vietnam War – Operation Starlite : 5,500 United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province , in the first major American ground battle of the war. The Marines were tipped off by a Viet Cong deserter who said that there was an attack planned against the U.S. base at Chu Lai .
August 20 – Jonathan Myrick Daniels , an Episcopal seminarian from Keene, New Hampshire , is murdered in Hayneville , Alabama while working in the American civil rights movement .
August 21 – Gemini 5 (Gordon Cooper , Pete Conrad ) is launched on the first 1-week flight, as well as the first test of fuel cells for electrical power.
August 26 – President Johnson announces an end to the draft deferment for newly married men. Effective at midnight, all men who are not married will remain eligible for the draft regardless of their marital status.
August 28 – The first Subway opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut .
August 30
October 28: The Gateway Arch is completed
October 3 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs an immigration bill which abolishes quotas based on national origin .
October 4
October 7 – Seven Japanese fishing boats are sunk off Guam by Super Typhoon Carmen ; 209 are killed.
October 9 – Yale University presents the Vinland map .
October 10 – The first group of Cuban refugees travels to the U.S.
October 14 – The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Minnesota Twins , 4 games to 3, to win their 4th World Series Title.
October 15 – Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War : The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war protest in Manhattan. One protestor who carries out a draft-card burning , David J. Miller, is arrested, the first under the new amendment to the Military Selective Service Act .
October 16 – Anti-war protests draw 100,000 in 80 U.S. cities and around the world.
October 17 – The New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, New York, closes. Due to financial losses, some of the projected site park improvements fail to materialize.
October 26 – Police discover the body of Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis , Indiana .
October 28 – In St. Louis, Missouri , the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch is completed.
October 29 – An 80-kiloton nuclear device is detonated at Amchitka Island , Alaska as part of the Vela Uniform program, code-named Project Long Shot.
October 30
December 9 – A Charlie Brown Christmas , the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS . It becomes a Christmas tradition.
December 15 – Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 perform the first controlled rendezvous in Earth orbit.
December 17 – The British government begins an oil embargo against Rhodesia; the United States joins the effort.
December 21 – A new, 1-hour German-American production of The Nutcracker , with an international cast that includes Edward Villella in the title role, makes its U.S. TV debut. It is repeated annually by CBS over the next 3 years, but after that, it is virtually forgotten.
Jenny and Sylvia Likens are left in the care of Indianapolis housewife Gertrude Baniszewski. Sylvia is found dead and mutilated 3 months later.
Tokyo officially becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from New York City .[ 4]
January 1
January 2
January 3 – Sharrie Williams , blues and gospel singer-songwriter
January 4 – Rick Hearst , actor
January 5 – Ricky Paull Goldin , actor
January 6 – Cynthia Dill , lawyer, Member of the Maine Senate from the 7th District
January 7
January 8 – Maria Pitillo , actress
January 9 – Jamie Callender , politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives
January 10 – Butch Hartman , animator, writer, producer, director, voice actor, and YouTuber
January 11 – Mark Halperin , journalist
January 13
January 17 – Jim Holt (Arkansas politician) , American politician, Arkansas House of Representatives
January 19 – J. B. Pritzker , businessman, philanthropist, politician, and the 43rd governor of Illinois
January 21 – Michele Ruiz , entrepreneur
January 22 – Diane Lane , actress
January 24
January 26 – Kevin McCarthy , 55th Speaker of the House
January 27 – Tim Chambers , college baseball coach (died 2019 )
January 28 – Robert von Dassanowsky , academic, writer, poet, film and cultural historian and producer
January 30 – Julie McCullough , actress
January 31
February 2 – Cady Huffman , actress
February 3
February 4
February 5 – Ken LaCorte , executive at Fox News Channel
February 6
February 7 – Chris Rock , African-American comedian and actor
February 9
February 10 – David Aldridge , writer
February 12 – Mia Frye , dance choreographer
February 13 – Andy Buckley , actor
February 14 – Donald DeGrood , Roman Catholic bishop
February 15 – Jon Moritsugu , filmmaker[ 10]
February 19
February 20
February 21 – Shawn Slocum , American football coach[ 11]
February 22
February 23
February 24 – Jane Swift , executive, former governor of Massachusetts
February 26 – Tim Armstead , Republican politician and jurist from West Virginia
March 1 – Booker T , pro wrestler
March 2 – Ron Gant , news anchor
March 3 – Tom Brower , politician
March 4 – Stacy Edwards , actress
March 5 – Kathleen Delaney , actress
March 6 – Lora Leigh , novelist
March 7 – E. E. Knight , science fiction writer
March 8 – Kenny Smith , basketball player
March 9 – Benito Santiago , baseball player
March 10
March 11
March 12 – Steve Finley , baseball player
March 13 – Gigi Rice , actress
March 14 – Kevin Brown , baseball player
March 15 – Carl J. Artman , politician
March 16 – Angela Taylor , athlete and collegiate coach
March 17 – George Hinkle , American football player
March 18 – Shannon Grove , politician
March 19
March 22 – Rick Harrison , businessman
March 24 – The Undertaker , professional wrestler and actor
March 25
March 30 – Juliet Landau , actress and producer
March 31
April 1 – Mark Jackson , basketball coach
April 2 – Rodney King , convicted criminal and police brutality victim (died 2012 )
April 4 – Robert Downey Jr. , actor and producer
April 7 – Bill Bellamy , actor and comedian
April 8 – Erika Cosby , painter
April 12
April 14 – Kirk Windstein , musician
April 16
April 17 – William Mapother , actor
April 23 – Tommy DeCarlo , singer and songwriter
April 25 – Eric Avery , musician
April 28 – Karl Logan , musician
May 3 – Mary L. Trump , psychologist and author
May 9 – Lisa Colagrossi , journalist (died 2015 )
May 13
May 16 – Krist Novoselic , rock bassist (Nirvana )
May 19 – Maile Flanagan , actress
May 20 – Ted Allen , author and television personality
May 27 – Todd Bridges , actor and comedian
May 31 – DJ Casper , musician (died 2023 )
June 2 – Jim Knipfel , journalist and author
June 3
June 7 – Mick Foley , pro wrestler
June 8
June 10 – Scott Graham , sportscaster
June 11 – Pamela Gidley , actress and model (died 2018 )
June 16 – Andrea M. Ghez , astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020[ 15]
June 21 – Michael Dolan , theatre and film actor, director and educator
June 22
June 23 – Sylvia Mathews Burwell , government
June 24 – Chris Barnes , child actor
June 26 – Randy Hembrey , Road Racing director
June 28 – Sonny Strait , voice actor and director
June 30
July 1 – Tom Hodges , actor and film producer
July 4
July 5
July 7
July 8
July 10 – Alec Mapa , actor, comedian and writer
July 15
July 16
July 18
July 19
July 20 – Anthony Shriver , activist
July 21 – Tom Gulager , actor
July 22 – Shawn Michaels , professional wrestler and actor
July 24
July 25 – Illeana Douglas , actress and producer[ 16]
July 26 – Jimmy Dore , comedian
August 5 – Tammy Murphy , politician
August 11
August 13 – Deborah Falconer , actress
August 14 – Terry Richardson , fashion photographer
August 15 – Rob Thomas , author, producer, director and screenwriter
August 17 – David McCormick , politician and businessman
August 18 – Bob Harper , personal trainer and author[ 17]
August 19
August 22 – Thaddeus McCotter , politician and radio host
August 24
August 26 – Bobby Duncum Jr. , American professional wrestler (died 2000 )
August 27
September 9
September 11 – Paul Heyman , wrestling promoter, ECW<ref">Golianopoulos, Thomas (November 16, 2017). "The Biggeslvtfdgbgyhbdgimo m/2017/11/16/16666828/paul-heyman-wwe-brock-lesnar-life-career". The Ringer . </ref>
September 13 – Jeff Ross , stand-up comedian, writer, and actor[ 20]
September 17 – Kim Davis , anti-LGBT activist
September 18 – Tim Scott , U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 2013
September 28 – Scott Fellows , animator
September 30
October 1 – J. Paul Oetken , judge
October 4
October 6 – Steve Scalise , House majority whip and U.S. Representative of Louisiana's 1st district[ 21]
October 10 – Chris Penn , actor (died 2006 )
October 11
October 13 – Bill Odenkirk , comedy writer
October 18 – Curtis Stigers , jazz vocalist and saxophonist[ 22]
October 27 – Chad Larson American-Canadian rock guitarist
November 5 – Atul Gawande , surgeon and writer
November 6 – Greg Graffin , rock singer (Bad Religion )
November 12 – Lex Lang , voice actor and director
November 13 – Kurt Marshall , model and actor (died 1988 )
November 20 – Mike D , rapper (Beastie Boys )[ 23]
November 21 – Bill Oberst Jr. , actor
November 22 – Wendy Moten , singer
November 23 – Don Frye , professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
November 25
November 30 – Ben Stiller , actor, screenwriter, film director and producer, son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara , brother of Amy Stiller and spouse of Christine Taylor
December 2 – Dan Gauthier , actor
December 4 – Veronica Taylor , voice actress
December 10 – J Mascis , rock singer, guitarist and drummer
December 12 – Russell Batiste Jr. , funk and R&B drummer (died 2023 )
December 14
December 15 –Ted Slampyak , comic strip cartoonist
December 22 – Lee Rogers Berger American-born explorer and paleoanthropologist
December 23 – Martin Kratt , zoologist and educational nature show host
December 30
December 31
January 4 – T. S. Eliot , poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor (born 1888 )
January 7 – Sarah Edwards , Welsh-born American actress (born 1881 )
January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry , African American playwright and writer (born 1930 )
January 14 – Jeanette MacDonald , actress and singer (born 1903 )
January 20 – Alan Freed , disc jockey (born 1922 )
February 5 – Irving Bacon , actor (born 1893 )
February 7 – Nance O'Neil , actress (born 1874 )
February 10 – Arthur C. Davis , admiral (born 1893 )
February 11 – Loyal Blaine Aldrich , astronomer (born 1884 )
February 13 – Jerry Burke , musician (born 1911 )
February 15 – Nat King Cole , singer and musician (born 1919 )
February 19
February 21 – Malcolm X , African American Muslim minister and human rights activist (born 1925 )
February 23 – Stan Laurel , English actor (born 1890 )
March 6 – Margaret Dumont , actress (born 1882 )
March 14 – Marion Jones Farquhar , tennis player (born 1879 )[ 26]
March 17 – Quentin Reynolds , journalist (born 1902 )
March 23 – Mae Murray , actress, film producer, dancer, and screenwriter (born 1885 )
March 25 – Wolfgang Klemperer , Austrian American scientist and engineer (born 1893 in Germany )
March 30 – Philip Showalter Hench , physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 (born 1896 )
April 1 – Helena Rubinstein , Polish and American businesswoman and art collector (born 1872 )
April 10 – Linda Darnell , actress (born 1923 )
April 24 – Louise Dresser , actress (born 1878 )
April 27 – Edward R. Murrow , broadcast journalist and war correspondent (born 1908 )
May 1 – Spike Jones , musician, bandleader, and conductor (born 1911 )
May 23 – Earl Webb , baseball player (born 1897 )
May 24 – Sonny Boy Williamson II , blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter (born 1912 )
June 1 – Curly Lambeau , American football player and coach (born 1898 )
June 2 – Nannie Doss , serial killer (born 1905 )
June 7 – Judy Holliday , actress and singer (born 1921 )
June 22 – David O. Selznick , film producer, screenwriter, and film studio executive (born 1902 )
June 25 – Burr Shafer , cartoonist (born 1899 )
July 14 – Adlai Stevenson II , politician (born 1900 )
July 19 – Clyde Beatty , animal trainer, actor, zoo owner, and circus mogul (born 1903 )
July 24 – Constance Bennett , actress and producer (born 1904 )
August – Robert P. Braddicks , New York City businessman (born 1882 )[ 27]
August 6 – Nancy Carroll , actress (born 1903 )
August 8 – Shirley Jackson , writer (born 1916 )
August 25 – Johnny Hayes , athlete (born 1886 )
August 31 – E. E. "Doc" Smith , science-fiction writer (born 1890 )
September 8 – Dorothy Dandridge , actress and singer (born 1922 )
September 16 – Fred Quimby , animation producer and journalist (born 1886 )
September 27 – Clara Bow , actress (born 1905 )
October 1 – Anton Boisen , founder of the clinical pastoral education movement (born 1876 )[ 28]
October 2 – Nicky Arnstein , professional gambler and con artist, married to Fanny Brice (born 1879 )
October 3 – Zachary Scott , actor (born 1914 )
October 11 – Dorothea Lange , documentary photographer and photojournalist (born 1895 )
October 18 – Henry Travers , English actor (born 1874 )
October 21 – Marie McDonald , actress and singer (born 1923 )
October 26 – Sylvia Likens , murder victim (born 1949 )
November 6 – Clarence Williams , jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
November 8 – Dorothy Kilgallen , columnist, journalist, and game show panelist (born 1913 )
November 14
November 16 – Harry Blackstone Sr. , magician and illusionist (born 1885 )
November 18
December 5
December 8 – Dutch Sterrett , baseball player (born 1889 )
December 9 – Branch Rickey , baseball player, manager, and executive (born 1881 )
December 12 – Johnny Lee , singer, dancer, and actor (born 1898 )
December 20 – Allen Easter Ericson Weatherford , university professor of physical education (born 1907 )
December 28 – Lynn Thorndike , historian of medieval science and alchemy (born 1882 )[ 29]
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