Editing 1965 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 13]] – [[Leo Funtek]], violinist, conductor and arranger, 79
*[[January 14]] – [[Jeanette MacDonald]], singer and actress, 61
*[[January 20]] – [[Alan Freed]], DJ who first used the phrase [[Rock and Roll]], 43
*[[January 21]] – [[Reino Helismaa]], singer-songwriter
*[[February 2]] – [[Charles W. Harrison]], ballad singer, 86
*[[February 7]] – [[Viggo Brodersen]], pianist and composer, 85
*[[February 14]] – [[Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht]], conductor and composer, 84
*[[February 15]] – [[Nat King Cole]], singer and pianist, 45
*[[February 25]] – [[Leo Sirota]], pianist
*[[March 2]] – [[Ján Valašťan Dolinský]], composer
*[[March 4]] – [[Asadata Dafora]], drummer
*[[March 8]] – [[Tadd Dameron]], jazz pianist and composer, 48
*[[March 22]] – [[Harry Tierney]], musical theatre composer
*[[March 29]] – [[Zlatko Baloković]], violinist, 70
*[[April 7]] – [[Göran Svenning and David Hellström|David Hellström]], songwriter, 81
*[[April 12]] – [[La Belle Otero]], dancer and courtesan
*[[April 26]] –  [[Michael Bohnen]], operatic bass-baritone and actor, 77
*[[May 1]] – [[Spike Jones]], comedy musician, 53
*[[May 14]] – [[Joe Sanders]], jazz pianist, singer and bandleader, 68
*[[June 18]] – [[George Melachrino]], English conductor, singer and composer
*[[July 8]] – [[Willie Dennis]], jazz trombonist, 39
*[[July 14]] – [[Spencer Williams]], pianist, singer and composer
*[[July 17]] – [[Frank Ryan (tenor)|Frank Ryan]], tenor, 65
*[[September 4]] – [[Albert Schweitzer]], missionary, musician, and author on Bach
*[[September 8]] – [[Dorothy Dandridge]], actress and singer, 42
*[[September 9]] – [[Julián Carrillo]], Mexican composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist, 90
*[[September 10]] – [[Bobby Jordan]], actor and musician, 42
*[[September 15]] – [[Steve Brown (bass player)|Steve Brown]], jazz musician
*[[September 25]] – [[Nikolai Sokoloff]], violinist and conductor, 79
*[[October 21]] – [[Bill Black]], US musician, 39
*[[October 25]] – [[Hans Knappertsbusch]], German conductor, 77
*[[October 27]] – [[Peter La Farge]], folk singer-songwriter, 34
*[[November 6]]
**[[Edgard Varèse]], French composer, 81
**[[Clarence Williams (musician)|Clarence Williams]], jazz musician and composer, 67
*[[November 18]] – [[Lou Black]], banjo player, 64
*[[November 19]] – [[Joe Falcon]], Cajun accordionist, 65
*[[November 21]]
**[[Cecil Brower]], jazz violinist, 50 (perforated ulcer)
**[[Naoum Blinder]], violinist and teacher born in Ukraine, 76 (if born July 19, 1889, per some sources)
*[[November 25]] – Dame [[Myra Hess]], pianist, 75
*[[December 3]] – [[Hank D'Amico]], jazz and swing musician
*[[December 10]] – [[Henry Cowell]], composer
*[[December 11]] – [[Rafael Hernández Marín]], composer, 73
*[[December 16]] – [[Tito Schipa]], tenor, 76
*[[December 20]] – [[Charlie Burse]], blues musician, 64
*''date unknown'' – [[Craig Campbell (tenor)|Craig Campbell]], operatic tenor, 77