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• Marcel Antonius Peperkamp, Arnhem († 1965)
• Frederik Hulter, Ane († 2016)

• Cornelia Maria van Mastwijk (88), Vinkeveen en Waverveen, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Eleonore Veronica Irma Louise Henckel van Donnersmarck (63), Mandeville, Californië
• Cornelis Brummel (89), Epe-Emst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Nagel (93), Harderwijk
• Derk Bessem (94), Zutphen
• Aartje IJlia Veldkamp (84), Rheden (Gelderland)
• Alfred August Tonn (50), Austin, Travis, Texas
• Antonius Johannes Huurdeman (80), Sittard
• Agnes Maria Thans (88), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland
• Arnoldus Theodorus Berkenhagen (78), Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1964 » Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Justice
• 1964 » Mark Field, German-English lawyer and politician
• 1964 » Miltos Manetas, Greek painter
• 1964 » Ricky Berry, American basketball player († 1989)
• 1964 » Tom Jager, American swimmer and coach
• 1965 » Jürgen Kohler, German footballer and manager
• 1965 » John McWhorter, American academic and linguist
• 1965 » Peg O'Connor, American philosopher and academic
• 1965 » Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1965 » Steve Scalise, American lawyer and politician

• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)
• 1973 » Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1973 » Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1973 » François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1973 » Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
• February 18 » The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• March 19 » The wreck of the SSGeorgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
• March 23 » NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
• March 30 » Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
• April 11 » The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
• November 2 » Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

The temperature on October 6, 1965 was between 9.4 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.