Wikilivres:1965 deaths, therefore now in the Public Domain

See also: Category:1965 deaths

The works of authors who died in 1965 became public domain in Canada (& other countries with a PMA-50 rule) on 2016-01-01. This is a partial list, derived from Wikipedia/EN, of "newly-liberated" authors, works, & resources for finding more.

NOTE: That this applies for published works of individual authorship, or joint-works where the last surviving author died in 1965.

Among other coverage of this, see:

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2016/

It is worth noting that if the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is ratified by the Canadian Parliament & enters into law, NO FURTHER MATERIAL will enter the public domain by this process in Canada for 20 YEARS. Under that treaty, Canada will be required to extend copyright for an additional 20 years; from PMA-50 to PMA-70, in order to "harmonize" our copyright laws with those of the U.S.A.

This page is modelled after similar pages for 1963 and 1964 and ported from the English Wikipedia. It serves as a starting guide for those who want to curate new and significant content that entered the Canadian public domain on January 1, 2016.

Highlights include:

• T. S. Eliot
• Winston Churchill
• Nat King Cole
• Malcolm X
• Albert Schweitzer
• W. Somerset Maugham
• E. E. Smith

January

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Winston Churchill

• January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• January 10 – Frederick Fleet, English sailor and lookout aboard the RMS Titanic (b. 1887)
• January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1930)
• January 14 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
• January 20 – Alan Freed, American disc jockey (b. 1922)
• January 24 – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)
• January 27 – Abraham Walkowitz, American painter (b. 1878)
• January 28
  • Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
  • Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)

February

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Malcolm X

• February 5 – Irving Bacon, American actor (b. 1893)
• February 7 – Nance O'Neil, stage & film actress, friend of Lizzie Borden (b. 1874)
• February 9 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, great Educationist, Philosopher, Philanthropist, Social Reformer, Sufi Thinker, Scientist and Spiritual Person, friend of A. K. Fazlul Huq (b. 1874)
• February 10 – Arthur C. Davis, American admiral (b. 1893)
• February 11 – Loyal Blaine Aldrich, American astronomer (b. 1884)
• February 13 – Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Swiss-born socialite (b. 1906)
• February 15 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
• February 19 – Forrest Taylor, American stage, film and television actor (b. 1883)
• February 21 – Malcolm X, American activist (assassinated) (b. 1925)
• February 22 – Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1882)
• February 23 – Stan Laurel, British actor (b. 1890)
• February 26 – George Adamski, Polish-born alleged UFO traveler (b. 1891)
• February 28 – Adolf Schärf, former President of Austria (b. 1890)

March

Princess Mary

• March 6 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
• March 7 – Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden and second wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf (b. 1889)
• March 13
  • Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
  • Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and political figure (b. 1882)
• March 17
  • Nancy Cunard, English writer, heiress and political activist (b. 1896)
  • Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball, basketball, and football player and coach (b. 1862)
• March 18
  • King Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
  • Jack Quinlan, American Chicago Cubs radio broadcaster (b. 1927)
• March 23 – Mae Murray, stage & silent screen star (b. 1889)
• March 28
  • Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (b. 1907)
  • Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (b. 1897)
  • Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (b. 1885)
• March 30 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)

April

• April 3
  • Ray Enright, American film director (b. 1896)
  • Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (b. 1897 or 1898)
• April 8 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• April 10 – Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
• April 14 – Perry Smith (b. 1928) and Dick Hickock (b. 1931), American murderers of the Clutters in 1959 (executed)
• April 16 – Sydney Chaplin, American actor (b. 1885)
• April 18 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
• April 21 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• April 24
  • Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
  • Owney Madden, English-born gangster (b. 1891)
• April 27 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
• April 30 – Helen Chandler, American actress (b. 1906)

May

• May 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
• May 7 – Charles Sheeler, American photographer (b. 1883)
• May 9 – Leopold Figl, former Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)
• May 10 – Hubertus van Mook, Acting Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1948 (b. 1894)
• May 14 – Frances Perkins, First woman appointed as a United States Presidential cabinet member (Labor) (b. 1880)
• May 18 – Eli Cohen, Israeli spy (b. 1924)
• May 22 – Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
• May 23
  • David Smith, American sculptor (b. 1906)
  • Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)
• May 25 – Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician (b. 1899)

June

• June 1 – Curly Lambeau, American football coach (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1898)
• June 7 – Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
• June 13 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
• June 14 – H. V. Kaltenborn, American radio commentator (b. 1878)
• June 15
  • Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
  • Bill Gardner, American law enforcement agent and one of Eliot Ness's Untouchables (b. 1884)
  • E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902)
• June 20 – Bernard Baruch, financier and presidential adviser (b. 1870)
• June 22 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
• June 23 – Mary Boland, veteran stage & screen actress (b. 1880)
• June 24 – Kenneth Macdonald Beaumont, English legal pioneer (b. 1884)
• June 25 – Burr Shafer, American cartoonist (b. 1899)
• June 26 – Reginald Beckwith, English actor (b. 1908)
• June 28 – Red Nichols, American jazz cornettist (b. 1905)
• June 30 – Bessie Barriscale, American actress (b. 1884)

July

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Syngman Rhee

• July 1 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
• July 7 – Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
• July 14
  • Adlai Stevenson, American politician (b. 1900)
  • Max Woosnam, English sportsman (b. 1892)
• July 19
  • Clyde Beatty, American animal trainer (b. 1903)
  • Syngman Rhee, First President of South Korea (b. 1875)
• July 24 – Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
• July 25 – Freddie Mills, British boxing champion (b. 1919).
• July 28 – Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
• July 30 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886)

August

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Le Corbusier

• August 6
  • Nancy Carroll, American actress (b. 1903)
  • Everett Sloane, American actor (b. 1909)
• August 8 – Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
• August 9 – Creighton Hale, American actor (b. 1882)
• August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
• August 25 – Moonlight Graham, American baseball player (b. 1879)
• August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
• August 28 – Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
• August 29 – Paul Waner, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
• August 31 – E. E. Smith

September

• September 4
  • Alfred Bossom, English architect and politician (b. 1881)
  • Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
• September 8
  • Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
  • Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• September 10 – Bobby Jordan, American actor (b. 1923)
• September 14 – J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891)
• September 15 – Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
• September 16 – Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (b. 1886)
• September 25 – Henry Hugh Tudor, British general (b. 1871)
• September 27
  • Clara Bow, American silent film actress (b. 1905)
  • Sir William Stanier, English steam locomotive engineer (London, Midland and Scottish Railway) (b. 1876)

October

• October 1 – Gareth Hughes, Welsh actor (b. 1894)
• October 3 – Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• October 6 – Edward Evans, Murder victim (b. 1948)
• October 11
  • Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
  • Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
• October 12 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
• October 14 – Randall Jarrell, American poet (b. 1914)
• October 15 – Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician and recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1891)
• October 17 – John Barton King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
• October 18 – Henry Travers, English actor (b. 1874)
• October 21 – Marie McDonald, American actress (b. 1923)
• October 26 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (b. 1949)
• October 29
  • Miller Anderson, American Olympic diver (b. 1922)
  • Bill McKechnie, American baseball manager (Cincinnati Reds) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
• October 30 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (b. 1888)
• October 31 – Rita Johnson, American actress (b. 1913)

November

• November 2 -- Shah Rukh Khan, a Bollywood actor
• November 3 -- William Leo Hansberry, African American Scholar and Uncle of Playwright Lorraine Hansberry (b. 1894)
• November 6
  • Edgard Varèse, French-born composer (b. 1883)
  • Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1893)
• November 7 – Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam (b. 1889)
• November 8 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
• November 12 – Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian Bohra spiritual leader (b. 1888)
• November 16
  • Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (b. 1885)
  • W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (b. 1880)
• November 18 – Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
• November 24 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
• November 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)

December

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Somerset Maugham

• December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• December 9 – Charles Hurlbut "Dutch" Sterrett, American professional baseball player (b. 1889)
• 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 chairman of Standard-Triumph (b. 1895)
  • William M. Branham, American minister (b. 1909)
• December 29
  • Frank S. Nugent, American journalist (b. 1908)
  • Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (b. 1886)