In the year 1965, Canada gets a new flag - the Maple Leaf Flag (Feb 15), Malcolm X is assassinated (Feb 21), Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama is followed by similar treatment of civil rights demonstrators (Mar 7), first American ground combat troops arrive in Vietnam (Mar 8), cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space (Mar 18), first photos of Mars are taken (Jul 15), the first stadium concert takes place as The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium in New York City (Aug 15), Fidel Castro announces that anyone who wants to can emigrate to the United States (Sep 28), Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC (Nov 8) - and all these fine people were born:

1965-0106 Tuija Brax* politician - Helsinki, Finland 1965-0107 Irrfan Khan* actor - Jaipur, Tonk Rajasthan, India (2020/53) 1965-0112 Linda and Terry Jamison* _“The Psychic Twin_s” - West Chester, PA USA 1965-0113 Bill Peters* hockey player/coach -  Three Hills, AB Canada 1965-0115 Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes* Paralympic athlete (discus)/OG - Brazil 1965-0118 1965-0120 Sophie, Countess of Wessex* (b Sophie Rhys-Jones)/m to Prince Edward - Oxford, England 1965-0122 Diane Lane* actress - New York, NY USA 1965-0125 Mark Jordon* actor (Heartbeat) - Oldham, Lancashire, England 1965-0125 Esa Tikkanen* hockey player/OB/SC - Helsinki, Finland 1965-0126 Kevin McCarthy* politician - Bakersfield, CA USA 1965-0127 Alan Cumming* actor - Aberfeldy, Pertshire, Scotland 1965-0129 Dominic Hašek* hockey goalie (NHL 100)/OG - Pardubice, Czechoslovakia 1965-0131 1965-0201 Brandon Lee* actor - Oakland, CA USA (1993/28) 1965-0203 Esa Keskinen* hockey player/OS - Ylöjärvi, Finland 1965-0203 Kathleen Kinmont* actress/director of photography/daughter of Abby Dalton - Los Angeles, CA USA 1965-0203 Maura Tierney* actress - Boston, MA USA 1965-0205 Gheorghe Hagi* football player/manager - Săcele, Romania 1965-0207 Chris Rock* stand-up comedian/actor/director - Andrews, SC USA 1965-0210 Hanna Markkula-Kivisilta* (b Markkula) politician - Helsinki, Finland 1965-0212 Brett Kavanaugh* attorney/judge - Washington, D.C. USA 1965-0217 Michael Bay* film director - Los Angeles, CA USA 1965-0220 1965-0222 Pat LaFontaine* hockey player (NHL 100)/philanthropist - St. Louis, MO USA 1965-0223 Kristin Davis* actress - Boulder, CO USA 1965-0225 Susanna Rahkamo* ice dancer/EG/sports leader/m to Petri Kokko - Finland 1965-0226 Alejandra Melfo* Venezuelan astrophysicist - Montevideo, Uruguay 1965-0227 Noah Emmerich* actor - New York, NY USA 1965-0301 1965-0303 Tedros Adhanom* academic/ politician/Director-General of WHO - Asmara, Eritrea, Ethiopian Empire 1965-0303 Tuomo Ylipulli* ski jumper/OG - Rovaniemi, Finland (2021/56) 1965-0316 Mark Carney* economist/ politician/PM - Fort Smith, NT Canada 1965-0318 David Cubitt* Canadian actor/to Canada as an infant - England 1965-0319 Anneli Auer* - Kaarina, Finland 1965-0320 1965-0323 Aneta Beata Kręglicka* Miss World 1989 - Szczecin, Poland 1965-0324 Peter Jacobson* actor - Chicago, IL USA 1965-0325 Sarah Jessica Parker* actress/producer/designer - Nelsonville, OH USA 1965-0328 Marcia Trimble* schoolgirl/ homicide victim - Nashville, TN USA (1975/9) 1965-0330 Piers Morgan* journalist/ television personality - Newick, East Sussex England 1965-0331 Tom Barrasso* hockey goalie/OS/coach - Boston, MA USA 1965-0331 Steve Bing* businessman/film producer/ philanthropist - USA (2020/55) 1965-0401 1965-0402 1965-0404 Robert Downey Jr.* actor - New York, NY USA 1965-0410 Anna-Leena Härkönen* writer/actress - Liminka, Finland 1965-0410 Theo Jubitana* administrator/ politician/Captain of the indigenous village Hollandse Kamp  - Nickerie District, Suriname (2021/56) 1965-0412 Kim Bodnia* actor/writer/director - Copenhagen, Denmark 1965-0414 Alberto Molinari* actor/ producer/director - Rome, Italy 1965-0417 Aleksander Barkov Sr.* hockey player/coach - Novsibirsk, Russia, Soviet Union 1965-0420 Måns Herngren* actor/director - Stockholm, Sweden 1965-0421 Ed Belfour* hockey goalie/OG - Carman, MB Canada 1965-0421 Arja Koriseva* singer - Toivakka, Finland 1965-0426 Kevin James* stand-up comedian/actor/producer - Stony Brook, NY USA 1965-0430 Adrian Pasdar* actor/voice artist - Pittsfield, MA USA 1965-0507 Huang Zhihong* athlete (shot put)/OS - Lanxi, Zhejiang, China 1965-0509 Steve Yzerman* hockey player (NHL 100) /GM - Cranbrook, BC Canada 1965-0519 Maile Flanagan* voice actress - Honolulu, HI USA 1965-0520 Bruce Cassidy* hockey player/coach - Ottawa, ON Canada 1965-0523 Melissa McBride* actress - Lexington, KY USA 1965-0524 Janne Porkka* stand-up comedian/imitator/television host - Turku, Finland 1965-0524 John C. Reilly* actor/ comedian - Chicago, IL USA 1965-0527 Pat Cash* tennis player - Melbourne, Australia 1965-0529 Jarmo Myllys* hockey goalie/WC/OS - Savonlinna, Finland 1965-0531 Brooke Shields* actress - New York, NY USA 1965-0601 1965-0603 1965-0605 Bob Probert* hockey player - Windsor, ON Canada (2010/45) 1965-0606 Cam Neely* hockey player/executive - Comox, BC Canada 1965-0607 1965-0608 Karin Alvtegen* author of crime fiction/ grandniece of Astrid Lindgren - Huskvarna, Sweden 1965-0608 Frank Grillo* actor - New York, NY USA. 1965-0610 Elizabeth Hurley* actress - Basingstoke, Hampshire England 1965-0611 Pamela Gidley* model/ actress - Methuen, MA USA (2018/52) 1965-0612 Jari Sarasvuo* entrepreneur/ motivational speaker - Turku, Finland 1965-0612 Gwen Torrence* athlete/ sprinter/OG - Decatur, GA USA 1965-0613 Nikita Bergenström* (b Juha Valjakkala) convicted killer - Pori, Finland 1965-0613 Lisa Vidal* actress/of Puerto Rican heritage - Queens, NY USA 1965-0615 1965-0616 Chris Watts* inventor/ filmmaker/visual effects supervisor - Palm Springs, CA USA 1965-0617 David Longdon* singer/ multi-instrumentalist (Big Big Train) - Nottingham, England (2021/56) 1965-0618 Kim Dickens* actress - Huntsville, AL USA 1965-0622 Mark Vicente* author/film maker/speaker - Johannesburg, South Africa 1965-0625 Tricia Cooke* editor/ screenwriter/producer/m to Ethan Coen - USA 1965-0630 1965-07xx Jukka Lindholm* convicted serial killer - Oulu, Finland 1965-0703 Tommy Flanagan* actor - Glasgow, Scotland 1965-0704 Tracy Letts* actor/playwright/screenwriter - Tulsa, OK USA 1965-0705 Kathryn Erbe* actress - Newton, MA USA 1965-0710 1965-0722 Lilli Paasikivi* opera singer/ opera manager - Imatra, Finland 1965-0725 Henning Valin Jakobsen* actor/ voice actor - Denmark 1965-0731 J K Rowling* author - Yate, Glouchestershire, England 1965-0801 Sam Mendes* film director/producer/ screenwriter - Reading, Berkshire, England 1965-0804 James Tupper* actor - Dartmouth, NS Canada 1965-0806 Thomas Schönlebe* runner - Frauenstein, East Germany 1965-0811 Viola Davis* actress - St. Matthews, SC USA 1965-0812 Peter Krause* actor - Alexandria, MN USA 1965-0815 Dominick Pezzulo* Italian-American police officer - Giano Vettusto, Italy (2001/36) 1965-0816 Leea Klemola* actress/ director/playwright - Veteli, Finland 1965-0816 Jari Sillanpää* Finnish/Swedish singer - Ludvika, Sweden 1965-0817 1965-0822 Delaney Gibson* singer-songwriter/of Irish-Cherokee descent - Panama City, FL USA 1965-0822 Bryan Monroe* American journalist/educator - Munich, West Germany  (2021/55) 1965-0822 Brian Henry Reimer* twin brother of David Reimer - Winnipeg, MB Canada (2002/36) 1965-0822 David Reimer* (b Bruce Reimer) raised as a girl after a botched circumcision/gender identity experiment gone wrong - Winnipeg, MB Canada (2004/38) 1965-0824 Marlee Matlin* actress - Morton Grove, IL USA 1965-0828 Olav Akselsen* politician - Stord, Norway (2021/55) 1965-0828 Satoshi Tajiri* 田尻 智 creator of Pokémon - Machida, Tokyo, Japan 1965-0828 Amanda Tapping* British-Canadian actress (Stargate SG-1)/director - Rochford, Essex, England 1965-0901 1965-0903 Charlie Sheen* actor - New York, NY USA 1965-0904 Fredrik Gunnarsson* actor (Wallander) - Oxelösund, Sweden 1965-0908 Marcia Gudereit* (b Schiml) curler/WGt - Moose Jaw, SK Canada 1965-0910 1965-0911 Bashar al-Assad* physician/ politician/P - Damascus, Syria 1965-0917 Kyle Chandler* actor - Buffalo, NY USA 1965-0917 Bryan Singer* film director - New York, NY USA 1965-0918 1965-0919 Nick Pope* MoD officer/journalist/ufologist - England 1965-0919 Alexandra Vandernoot* actress - Brussels, Belgium 1965-0920 1965-0921 Teivo Teivainen* political scientist/professor - Helsinki, Finland 1965-0921 Johanna Vuoksenmaa* photographer/ screenwriter/director - Hämeenlinna, Finland 1965-0921 David Wenham* actor - Marrickville, NSW Australia 1965-0926 Petro Poroshenko* politician/P - Bolhrad, Ukraine, Soviet Union 1965-0927 Juha Metso* photographer/ television director - Kymi, Finland 1965-0928 1965-0929 Rune Temte* football player/actor/producer - Solbergelva, Norway 1965-1002 Darren Cahill* tennis player/coach - Adelaide, Australia 1965-1003 1965-1004 Robin Zasio* psychologist (OCD and hoarding disorder) - Orange County, CA USA 1965-1005 Mario Lemieux* hockey player (NHL 100)/owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins/philanthropist - Montreal, QC Canada 1965-1005 Patrick Roy* hockey goalie (NHL 100)/coach/executive - Quebec City, QC Canada 1965-1010 Chris Penn* actor/ brother of Sean Penn - Los Angeles, CA USA (2006/40) 1965-1011 Lennie James* actor - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England 1965-1011 Luke Perry* actor - Mansfield, OH USA (2019/52) 1965-1014 Steve Coogan* actor/voice artist/producer - Middleton, Lancashire, England 1965-1025 Mathieu Amalric* actor/filmmaker - Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1965-1025 Þorsteinn Bachmann* actor - Reykjavik, Iceland 1965-1026 Sakari Oramo* violinist/conductor - Helsinki, Finland 1966-1028 Kimberly Leach* school girl/homicide victim - Lake City, FL USA (1978/12) 1965-1101 Jukka Haapalainen* ballroom dancer/ judge - Lapua, Finland 1965-1102 Pawel Adamowicz* lawyer/politician/Mayor of Gdansk  - Gdansk, People’s Republic of Poland (2019/53) 1965-1102 Shah Rukh Khan* actor/producer/television personality - New Delhi, India 1965-1109 Ryan Murphy* television writer/filmmaker - Indianapolis, IN USA 1965-1115 Teppo Kröger* professor in sociology - Uskela, Finland 1965-1120 1965-1121 Björk* Guðmundsdóttir* singer - Reykjavik, Iceland 1965-1122 Mads Michelsen* actor - Österbro, Copenhagen, Denmark 1965-1122 Peter Safran* film producer/manager - London, England 1965-1123 Mitch Horowitz* author/ speaker/TV host specializing in occult and esoteric themes - Queens, NY USA 1965-1125 1965-1127 Mark York* actor (Office) - Arcanum, OH USA(2021/55) 1965-1130 Ben Stiller* actor - New York, NY USA 1965-1203 Katarina Witt* figure skater/OG - Staaken, East Germany 1965-1206 Eric Boehlert* journalist/ writer/media critic - Utica, NY USA (2022/56) 1965-1207 Jeffrey Wright* actor - Washington, D.C. USA 1965-1208 Ned Dennehy* actor - Ireland 1965-1208 David Harewood* actor - Birmingham, England 1965-1209 Vecepia Towery* office manager/Survivor S4 Contestant - Portland, OR USA 1965-1210 1965-1215 Marjo-Ritta “Marjorie” Nieminen* singer - Valkeakoski, Finland (2024/58) 1965-1217 Craig Berube* hockey player/coach - Calahoo, AB Canada 1965-1229 Sandra Perron* first female infantry officer in the Canadian Army - Portage la Prairie, MB Canada 1965-1231 Nicholas Sparks* novelist/ screenwriter/philanthropist - Omaha, NE USA 1965-0 1965-0 1965-0 Updated 2025-0416 Helsinki Search for another year here