diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.65.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.65.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 6238a88424ff..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.65.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-{ callPackage, fetchurl, ... } @ args:
-
-callPackage ./generic.nix (args // rec {
-  version = "1.65.1";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_${builtins.replaceStrings ["."] ["_"] version}.tar.bz2";
-    # SHA256 from http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_65_1.html
-    sha256 = "9807a5d16566c57fd74fb522764e0b134a8bbe6b6e8967b83afefd30dcd3be81";
-  };
-
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/default.nix
index b9b2c8ff7e6b..b759e5b123eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ let
       }
     );
 in {
-  boost165 = makeBoost ./1.65.nix;
   boost166 = makeBoost ./1.66.nix;
   boost167 = makeBoost ./1.67.nix;
   boost168 = makeBoost ./1.68.nix;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 17d65f3e7438..80e80b2ed9a0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -19584,7 +19584,6 @@ with pkgs;
   boolstuff = callPackage ../development/libraries/boolstuff { };
 
   inherit (callPackage ../development/libraries/boost { inherit (buildPackages) boost-build; })
-    boost165
     boost166
     boost168
     boost169