page_title: 1965
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1965 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 赖传珠上将1955年授勋照
context_page_description: 1965 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1965th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 965th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1960s decade.
context_section_description: December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
  December 9
  Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1881)
  Charles Hurlbut "Dutch" Sterrett, American professional baseball player (b. 1889)
  December 10 – Henry Cowell, American composer (b. 1897)
  December 11 – George Constantinescu, Romanian scientist (b. 1881)
  December 15 – Joseph Bamina, 8th Prime Minister of Burundi (executed) (b. 1925)
  December 16 – W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (b. 1874)
  December 22
  Richard Dimbleby, English broadcaster (b. 1913)
  Al Ritz, American actor (b. 1901)
  December 24
  John Black, English businessman and chairman of Standard-Triumph (b. 1895)
  William M. Branham, American minister (b. 1909)
  Lai Chuanzhu, Chinese general (b. 1910)
  December 28 – Lynn Thorndike, American historian of medieval science and alchemy (b. 1882)
  December 29
  Frank S. Nugent, American journalist (b. 1908)
  Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (b. 1886)
caption: Lai Chuanzhu
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