About the day » Saturday December 25, 1965Calender converter

• Robertus M.E. Ballemans, Gilze en Rijen († 2007)
• Mark Wayne MCCOY, Tracy, Lyon County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Arris Ludwig Gaby Noël Schinning, Arnhem († 2011)
• Johnny Auf der Springe († 1965)
• Wim Vanhonsebrouck, Knokke († 2018)
• Andrea Henrica de Beurs, Den Helder
• Linda Susan Schaefges, Arlington Heights, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2008)

• Alberdina Bosman (66)
• Ana Duarte Rubio (86), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil
• * Maria Elisabeth Hoebergen (72), Asten
• Albertha TEMMINK (80), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Pieter Meijwaard (84), Geertruidenberg
• Anna May CORY (95), Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Cecil George Cawley (64), Merton, Surrey. England
• Alida Wilhelmina Elisabeth Elich (65), Eindhoven
• Burleigh M. Miller (62), Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Barendje Aaltje van Ham (67), Delanco, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten

• 1962 » Francis Dunnery, English musician
• 1964 » Bob Stanley, English keyboard player, songwriter, producer, and journalist
• 1964 » Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1964 » Ian Bostridge, English tenor
• 1964 » Kevin Simms, English rugby player
• 1965 » David Rath, Czech physician and politician
• 1965 » Ed Davey, English politician, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
• 1966 » Toshi Arai, Japanese race car driver
• 1967 » Jason Thirsk, American bass player († 1996)
• 1968 » Helena Christensen, Danish model and actress

• 1956 » Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Charles Pathé, French record producer, founded Pathé Records (b. 1863)
• 1961 » Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (b. 1880)
• 1975 » Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (b. 1881)
• 1975 » Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (b. 1913)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Cornelis
6. Ronald
7. Hendrik
8. Willem
9. John
10. Richard
11. Paul
12. Hans
13. Michael
14. Pieter
15. Eric
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Elisabeth
5. Ingrid
6. Anna
7. Cornelia
8. Yvonne
9. Jolanda
10. Petra
11. Catharina
12. Linda
13. Anita
14. Karin
15. Jacqueline
16. Wilhelmina

• 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.
• April 9 » Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
• August 1 » Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
• August 15 » The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
• August 18 » Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
• August 29 » The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
• September 11 » Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.

The temperature on December 25, 1965 was between -0.5 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.