1965 in The United Kingdom

Deaths

4 January – T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
24 January – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1874)
28 January – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (born 1888)
23 February – Stan Laurel, British actor (born 1890)
28 March
- Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, 6th Princess Royal (born 1897)
- Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower. (born 1907)
21 April – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
3 May – Howard Spring, novelist (born 1889)
21 May – Geoffrey de Havilland, aircraft designer (born 1882)
8 June – Cecil L'Estrange Malone, British politician and Britain's first communist Member of Parliament (born 1890)
1 July – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (born 1903)
25 July – Freddie Mills, English boxer (born 1919)
2 September – Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (born 1905)
14 September – J.W. Hearne English cricketer (born 1891)
25 September – Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor, British soldier (born 1871)
22 October – William Williams, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1890)
4 November – Ifor Williams, academic (born 1881)
8 November – George Henry Hall, politician (born 1881)
25 November – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (born 1890)
16 December – W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (born 1874)
22 December – Richard Dimbleby, journalist and broadcaster (born 1913)
26 December – Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1878)
28 December – Jeremy Wolfenden, journalist and spy (born 1934)