About the day » Monday August 23, 1965Calender converter

• Gregory John Bush, Yass, Nsw, Australia († 1965)
• Ashley Byrd Carrell, Nashville, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Gloria Jean Meeks († 1965)
• theodorus hendrikus maria (theo) hesen, helden-beringe
• Pieter Bakker († 1970)
• Margriet Verberne, Eindhoven, Nederland († 1995)
• Brenda Felicia Mathilda, Curaçao
• Pieter Bakker, Urk († 1970)
• Kenneth Allen Brady, Chelsea Naval Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts († 1996)
• Maria Martha de Witte, Delft

• Akkelien Dijk van, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Antonetta Janssen (82), Breda
• Cornelis Marinus van der Graaf (86), Voorburg
• carolyn sue Kramer (14)
• Adrianus Theodorus Pender de (20), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland
• Adam Johannes Westerwal (88), Amsterdam
• Barendina Johanna Mijnsbergen (93), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Bastiaan Johannes Manschot (64), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aloisius Wilhelmus Verbist (70), Breda, Nederland
• Aalbertus van Garderen (61), Leusden

• 1962 » Martin Cauchon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 46th Canadian Minister of Justice
• 1963 » Glória Pires, Brazilian actress
• 1963 » Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
• 1963 » Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Richard Illingworth, English cricketer and umpire
• 1964 » Kong Hee, Founder & former senior pastor of City Harvest Church
• 1965 » Roger Avary, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 » Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player
• 1967 » Jim Murphy, Scottish lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Europe
• 1967 » Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer

• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1964 » Edmond Hogan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (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.
• February 20 » Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
• April 21 » The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
• June 9 » The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
• 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 29 » The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
• December 22 » In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.

The temperature on August 23, 1965 was between 9.3 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 24.5 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.