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• Frances Penelope CHAMBERLAYNE-MACDONALD († 1985)
• Cornelis Petrus Maria Bruijs, Bergen op Zoom († 2023)
• mathijs petrus gerardus (mat) voorter, blerick (boekend)
• Johan Laanstra
• Niesje (Netty) Koster, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2011)
• Rudie Bernardus Gerhardus Kroezen, Geesteren († 2000)
• Franciscus Wilhelmus Servatius Maria Verheggen († 2007)
• Paul Girard Reznack, St. Louis County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1965)
• Liesbeth Maria Molenkamp, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Philip Vandenbulcke, Kortrijk,8500,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1994)

• Auguste Clément DELAUNAY (90), Vouillé, Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
• Berendje Dekker (71)
• Arendina Rhee (77), Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Pelt (70), Rotterdam
• Catharina Margaretha Lohuis (61), Meppen, NIE, Duitsland
• Alphons Marie Lambert Omloo (66), Horn
• Catharina Margaretha - Katharina Lohuis (61), Meppen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Albert Speelman (60), Gasselterboerveenschemond, Gasselte
• Akke Lieuwes Kingma (90), heerenveen
• Catharina Margaretha ( Katharina ) Lohuis (61)

• 1961 » Camryn Manheim, American actress
• 1961 » Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and journalist
• 1962 » Leon Robinson, American actor and producer
• 1964 » Kate Betts, American journalist and author
• 1965 » Kenny Smith, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1966 » Greg Barker, Baron Barker of Battle, English politician
• 1966 » Jaime Levy, American computer scientist and academic
• 1967 » Joel Johnston, American baseball player
• 1968 » Michael Bartels, German race car driver
• 1968 » Shawn Mullins, American singer-songwriter

• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (b. 1879)
• 1971 » Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1973 » Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1975 » George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)

• 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.
• January 26 » Hindi becomes the official language of India.
• March 30 » Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
• April 24 » Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
• June 19 » Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
• August 6 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
• 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.

The temperature on March 8, 1965 was between -1.9 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.