About the day » Wednesday June 2, 1965Calender converter

• Cornelis Marinus (Kees) van Geerestein, Barneveld († 1984)
• Timothy Allen Donnelly, Santa Clara, California († 2003)
• Debora Rae Slapa
• Kees van Geerestein († 1984)
• Mariana Mercelina
• Andy Jehoel, Vlijmen († 2021)

• Bartholomeus Scholte (67), Schiedam
• Arie Cornelis van der Linden (67), Gouda
• Bartholomeus Scholte (67), Schiedam
• Anne van Goinga (61), Haulerwijk, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Johanna Josephina van Keulen (82), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Jacobus Schattenkerk (37), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Alphonsus Hubertus Gregoire (74), Ermelo
• Alice Maude Masters (87), Marrickville, NSW, Australia
• Carmen Coppée (85), Ochamps
• Barteld Ebbinge (90), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1963 » Anand Abhyankar, Indian actor († 2012)
• 1964 » Caroline Link, German director and screenwriter
• 1965 » Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer and journalist
• 1965 » Russ Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 » Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
• 1966 » Candace Gingrich, American activist
• 1966 » Dayana Cadeau, Haitian born Canadian-American professional bodybuilder
• 1966 » Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1966 » Petra van Staveren, Dutch swimmer
• 1967 » Remigija Nazarovienė, Lithuanian heptathlete and coach

• 1959 » Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (b. 1884)
• 1961 » George S. Kaufman, American director, producer, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1962 » Vita Sackville-West, English author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1967 » Benno Ohnesorg, German student and activist (b. 1940)
• 1968 » André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 1969 » Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1970 » Albert Lamorisse, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1970 » Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (b. 1937)
• 1970 » Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian soldier, journalist, and academic (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Orhan Kemal, Turkish author (b. 1914)

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.
• 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.
• April 21 » The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
• June 3 » The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
• July 16 » South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
• 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.
• December 4 » Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.

The temperature on June 2, 1965 was between 6.5 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 14.9 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.