{{yearbox| cp=19th century| c=20th century | cf=21st century | yp1=1961 | yp2=1962 | yp3=1963 | year=1964 | ya1=1965 | ya2=1966 | ya3=1967 | dp3=1930s | dp2=1940s | dp1=1950s | d=1960s | dn1=1970s | dn2=1980s | dn3=1990s | }} {{C20YearInTopic}} :''For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964_(Emulator).'' '''1964''' '''(MCMLXIV)''' was a Leap_year_starting_on_Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ==Events== ===January=== * January_1 - Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January_3 - Senator Barry_Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President. * January_5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the 15th_century, Pope Paul_VI and Patriarch Athenagoras_I meet in Jerusalem. * January_7 - A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United_States blockade of Cuba. * January_8 - In his first State-of-the-Union address, President Lyndon_Johnson declares a "War_on_Poverty" in the United States. * January_9 - Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian mobs in the Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis and result in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January_11 - United_States_Surgeon_General Luther_Leonidas_Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health. First such statement from the U.S. government. * January_12 - The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels. A U.S. destroyer evacuates 61 U.S. citizens. * January_12 - Terry C. Soto, Founder of PPI Enterprises of Houston, Texas, is born. * January_13 - ''I_Want_to_Hold_Your_Hand'' by The_Beatles released in the United States. It will become their first North American hit and the beginning of Beatlemania. * January_16 - ''Hello Dolly!'' opens in New_York_City's St. James Theatre. * January_16 - John_Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, resigns from the space program and announces the next day that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio. * January_18 - Esther Armstrong Scottish Landscape Artist born in Dingwall,Scotland. Plans to build the World_Trade_Center announced. * January_20 - ''Meet_the_Beatles'', the first Beatles album in the United States, is released. * January_22 - Kenneth_Kaunda inaugurated as the first President of Northern_Rhodesia. * January_23 - Thirteen years after its proposal and nearly two years after the measure had been passed by the United_States_Senate 77-16, the 24th Amendment to the United_States_Constitution, prohibiting the use of Poll_taxes in national elections, is ratified. * January_23 - Arthur_Miller's ''After_the_Fall'' opens on Broadway. A semi-autobiographical work, it will arouse controversy over his portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe. * January_27 - France and the People's_Republic_of_China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations. * January_27 - Senator Margaret_Chase_Smith (R-Me.), 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican nomination for President. * January_28 - A U.S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East_Germany is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt. All three crew men are killed. * January_29 - 1964_Winter_Olympics open in Innsbruckand concludes on February_9. The Soviet_Union launches two scientific Satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single Rocket. * January_30 - The junta ruling South_Vietnam since the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem is itself toppled from power in a bloodless coup led by Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh. * January_30 - Ranger_6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is to carry Television cameras and to crash-land on the Moon. ===February=== * February_3 - In protests against alleged de-facto school Racial_segregation, black and Puerto Rican groups in New_York_City boycott Public_school. * February_6 - Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States naval base at Guantanamo_Bay in reprisal for U.S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4 Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida. * February_7 - A jury trying Bryon De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar_Evers in June 1963 reports in Jackson,_Mississippi that it was unable to agree on a verdict, resulting in a mistrial; The_Beatles land in New_York_City. * February_9 - The_Beatles make their first appearance on The_Ed_Sullivan_Show. The _1964_Winter_Olympics concludes. * February_11 - Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus. * February_11 - The Republic_of_China (Taiwan) drops diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of the People's_Republic_of_China. * February_17 - In ''Wesberry_v._Sanders'' 376 US 1 1964, the Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population. * February_26 - John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his Columbus,_Ohio apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and prompting him (later that week) to withdraw from the race for the Senate nomination. * February_27 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa from toppling over. * February_29 - President Johnson announces that the United States had developed a jet airplane (the A-11), capable of sustained flight at more than 2,000 MPH and of altitudes of more than 70,000 feet. ===March=== * March_4 - Jimmy_Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury in 1962. * March_4 – Malta gains independence. * March_6 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece. * March_8 - Malcolm_X, suspended from the Nation_of_Islam, says in New York City that he is forming a black nationalist party. * March_9 - In ''New_York_Times_Co._v_Sullivan'' 376 US 254 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that under the First Amendment, speech criticizing political figures cannot be censored. * March_9 - The first Ford_Mustang rolls off the Assembly_line at Ford_Motor_Company. * March_10 - Soviet_Union military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East_Germany; the three U.S. flyers parachute to safety. * March_10 - The New_Hampshire primary is won by Henry Cabot Lodge, Ambassador to South_Vietnam. * March_12 - Malcolm_X withdraws from the Nation_of_Islam * March_13 - 38 residents of a neighborhood in Queens, New York City fail to respond to the cries of Kitty_Genovese, 28, as she is being stabbed to death. The incident will become notorious. * March_14 - A jury in Dallas,_Texas finds Jack_Ruby guilty of killing John_F._Kennedy assassin Lee_Harvey_Oswald. * March_20 - The precursor of the European_Space_Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June_14, 1962. * March_26 - Defense Secretary Robert_McNamara delivers an address that reiterated the United States determination to give South Vietnam increased military and economic aid in its war against Communist insurgency. * March_27 - The Good_Friday_Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2, strikes South_Central_Alaska killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. * March_29 - The first Pirate_radio station, Radio_Caroline, is established. * March_31 - The military overthrows Brazilian President João_Goulart, starting 21 years of dictatorship in Brazil. ===April=== * April_2 - Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 72, mother of Governor Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts, is released on $450 bond after spending two days in jail in St. Augustine, Florida, because of her participation in an anti-segregation demonstration there. * April_4 - The_Beatles hold the top five positions in the Billboard Top 40 singles in America, an unprecedented accomplishment. Owing mostly to the explosive growth, fragmentation, and marketing of popular music since, this is certain to never happen again. The top songs in America as listed on April 4, in order, were: "Can't Buy Me Love," "Twist and Shout," "She Loves You," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and "Please Please Me." * April_5 - Jigme Dorfi, Premier of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is shot dead by an unidentified assassin in Puncholing, near the Indian border. * April_7 - IBM announces the System/360. * April_8 - Four of five Railroad operating unions strike against the Illinois Central Railroad without warning to bring to a head the five-year dispute over railroad work rules. * April_9 - The United_Nations Security_Council adopts by a 9-0 vote a resolution deploring a British air attack on a fort in Yemen 12 days earlier in which 25 persons were reported killed. * April_11 - The Brazilian Congress elects General Humberto_Castelo_Branco as President of Brazil. * April_14 - A Delta_rocket's third stage motor ignites prematurely in an assembly room at Cape_Canaveral, killing 3. * April_16 - Geraldine Mock is the first woman to fly solo around the world. * April_17 - In the United_States, the Ford_Mustang is officially unveiled to the public. * April_19 - The coalition government of Laos, headed by Prince Souvanna_Phouma, is deposed by a right-wing military group led by Brig. Gen. Kouprasith_Abhay. * April_20 - President Lyndon Johnson in New York and Soviet Premier Nikita_Khrushchev in Moscow announce simultaneously plans to cut back production of materials for making Nuclear_weapons. * April_20 - Nelson_Mandela makes his "I Am Prepared to Die" speech at the opening of the Rivonia_Trial, a classic of the anti-apartheid movement. * April_20 - BBC2 starts broadcasting in the UK. * April_22 - British businessman Greville Wynn, who had been imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 accused of Spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale. * April_22 - NY_World's_Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the command of the Duke of York (later King James II) and being renamed New York in 1664. It will run until Oct. 18, 1964 and will reopen April 21, 1965, finally closing Oct. 17 of that year. Because there can only be one official world's fair in any one country within ten years and the previous officially sanctioned World's Fair was held in Seattle in 1962, this fair was never officially recognized and many countries declined to be represented. * April_25 - Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen (Henrik Bruun confesses in 1997). * April_26 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. ===May=== * May_2 - Senator Barry_Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary. * May_7 - A Pacific Air Lines Fairchild F-27 crashes near San_Ramon,_California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger. * May_7 - At a show of post rockets from Gerhard_Zucker on the mountain Hasselkopf near Braunlage (Lower Saxonia, Germany) three persons were killed by an explosion of a rocket. * May_9 - South_Korean President Chung_Hee_Park reshuffles his Cabinet after a series of student demonstrations against his efforts to restore diplomatic and trade relations with Japan. * May_11 - Terence_Conran opened the first Habitat store on London's Fulham_Road. * May_19 - The United_States_State_Department says that more than 40 hidden microphones have been found embedded in the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. * May_19 - Jovan Petronic was born in Beograd, Serbia. He is now an International Chess Master & FIDE Senior Trainer. Jovan maintains his personal website at: http://www.jovanpetronic.com * May_23 - Mrs. Madeline Dassault, 63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her Paris home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 miles from Paris. * May_23 - Pablo Picasso painted his fourth Head of a Bearded Man. * May_24-25 - The crowd at a football match in Lima, Peru riot over a referee's decision in Peru-Argentina game - 319 dead, 500 injured in a riot. * May_27 - Prime Minister Nehru of India dies; he is succeeded by Lal_Shastri. ===June=== * June_2 - Senator Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination. * June_2 - Five million shares of stock in the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) are offered for sale at $20 a share, and the issue is quickly sold out. * June_3 - South_Korean President Park_Chung_Hee declares Martial_law in Seoul after 10,000 student demonstrators overpower police. * June_6 - With a temporary order the rocket launches at Cuxhaven are terminated. * June_9 - In Federal Court in Kansas_City,_Kansas, army deserter George John Gessner, 28, is convicted of passing United States secrets to the Soviet Union. * June_11 - Greece rejects direct talks with Turkey over Cyprus. * June_11 - In Cologne, Germany, Walter_Seifert attacks students and teachers in elementary school with a Flamethrower - kills 10 and injures 21 * June_12 Pennsylvania Governor William_Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a 'stop-Goldwater' movement. * June_12 - Nelson_Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South_Africa and sent to the Robben_Island prison. * June_19 - Senator Edward_Kennedy, 32, is seriously injured in a private plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts; the pilot is killed. * June_21 - Three civil rights workers, Michael_Schwerner, Andrew_Goodman, and James_Chaney, are murdered near Philadelphia,_Mississippi, by local segregationist law enforcement officials. * June_21 - Spain beat the Soviet Union 2-1 to win the 1964 European Championship. * June_25 - The Vatican condemns the female Contraceptive_pill. * June_26 – Moise_Tshombe returns to Congo from his exile from Spain. ===July=== * July_2 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 into law. * July_6 - Malawi declares its independence from the United_Kingdom. * July_8 - U.S. military personnel announces that U.S. casualties in Vietnam have risen to 1,387, including 399 dead and 17 MIA. * July_19 - Vietnam_War: At a rally in Saigon, South_Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen_Khanh calls for expanding the war into North_Vietnam. * July_20 - Vietnam War - Viet_Cong forces attack a provincial capital, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children). * July_22 – Second meeting of Organization_of_African_Unity. * July_27 - Vietnam War: 5,000 more U.S. military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000. * July_31 - Ranger_program: Ranger_7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from Earth-bound Telescopes). ===August=== * August_4 - American_civil_rights_movement: Civil_rights workers Michael_Schwerner, Andrew_Goodman and James_Chaney found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June_21. * August_4 - Vietnam_War: United States destroyers USS ''Maddox'' and USS ''C. Turner Joy'' are attacked in the Gulf_of_Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS ''Ticonderoga'' sinks two, possibly three North Vietnamese gunboats. * August_5 - Vietnam War: Operation_Pierce_Arrow - aircraft from carriers USS ''Ticonderoga'' and USS ''Constellation'' bomb North_Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against US destroyers in the Gulf_of_Tonkin. * August_5 – Simba rebel army in Congo capture Stanleyville and takes 1000 western hostages. * August_7 - Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces. * August_8 - A Rolling Stones Gig in Scheveningen gets out of control. Riot police end the gig after about 15 minutes, upon which spectators start to fight the riot police. * August_13 - Murderers Gwynne_Owen_Evans and Peter_Anthony_Allen are executed. They are the last people to be executed in the United_Kingdom. * August_16 - Vietnam War: In a Coup, General Nguyen_Khanh replaces Duong_Van_Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state and establishes a new Constitution, which the U.S. Embassy helped draft. ===September=== * September_4 - Forth_Road_Bridge opens over the Firth_of_Forth. * September_10 - Germany receives its 1,000,000th foreign worker. * September_14 - Opening of third period of Second_Vatican_Council. * September_14 - the ''Daily_Herald'' ceases publication, replaced by ''The_Sun''. * September_16 - ''Shindig!'' premieres live on the ''American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)'' featuring top musical acts of the sixties. * September_21 - the island of Malta obtains independance from the United_Kingdom. * September_24 - The Warren_Commission Report, the first official investigation of the assassination of United_States President John_F._Kennedy, is published. ===October=== * October - In Photoplay magazine, Hedda_Hopper announces that Sophia_Loren and Paul_Newman will star in the film version of Arthur_Miller's play, ''After the Fall'', with Loren in the role that was written about Marilyn_Monroe. However, the film was never made. * October_5 - Twenty-three men and 31 women escape to West_Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin_Wall. * October_5 - Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip begin an 8-day visit to Canada. * October_10 - 1964_Summer_Olympics open in Tokyo. * October_12 - The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod_1 into Earth Orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without Space_suits. * October_14 - American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin_Luther_King,_Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize, which was awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States. * October_14 - 15 - Nikita_Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid_Brezhnev and Alexei_Kosygin assume power. * October_15 - United_Kingdom's Labour Party wins the parliamentary elections in the United_Kingdom, ending 13 years of Conservative Party rule. * October_15 - Norman Breedlove's jet-powered car ''Spirit of America'' goes out of control in Bonnevile Salt Flats in Utah and makes skid marks 9.6 km long * October_16 - Harold_Wilson becomes British Prime Minister. * October_16 - People's_Republic_of_China explodes an Atomic_bomb in Sinkiang. * October_18 - NY_World's_Fair closes for the year. It will reopen April 21, 1965. * October_22 - Canada: A Federal Mult-Party Parliamentary Committee selects a design to become the new official Flag_of_Canada. * October_24 - Northern Rhodesia, a former British protectorate, becomes the independent Republic of Zambia, ending 73 years of British rule. * October_24 - 1964_Summer_Olympics close in Tokyo. * October_27 - In Congo, rebel leader Christopher Gbenye takes 60 Americans and 800 Belgians as Hostages. * October_29 - A collection of irreplaceable Gemstones, including the 565 Carat (113 g) Star_of_India, is stolen from the American_Museum_of_Natural_History in New_York_City. * October_31 - Campaigning at Madison_Square_Garden, New York, President Lyndon Johnson pledges the creation of the Great_Society. ===November=== * November_1 - Mortar fire from North Vietnamese forces rains on the USAF base at Bein Hoa, South Vietnam, killing 4 U.S. servicemen and wounding 72, and destroying five B-57 jet bombers and other planes. * November_3 - The Bolivian government of President Victor_Paz_Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by General Alfredo_Ovando_Candía, commander-in-chief of the armed forces. * November_3 - U.S._presidential_election,_1964: Incumbent U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry_Goldwater with over 60 percent of the Popular_vote. * November_5 - Mariner_program: Mariner_3, a U.S. space probe, intended for Mars is launched from Cape_Kennedy, but fails. *November_9 - British_House_of_Commons votes to abolish the death penalty for murder in Britain. * November_10 - Australia partially reintroduces Compulsory_military_service due to Indonesian_Confrontation. * November_19 - The U.S. Defense Department announced the closing of 95 military bases and facilities, including the Brooklyn_Navy_Yard, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and Fort_Jay, New York. * November_21 - Second_Vatican_Council: The third period of the Catholic_Church's Ecumenical_council closes. * November_21 - The Verrazano_Narrows_Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it was the world's longest Suspension_bridge). * November_24 - Belgian paratroopers and mercenaries capture Stanleyville but a number of Hostages die in the fighting. * November_28 - Mariner_program: NASA launches the Mariner_4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that Planet in July 1965. * November_28 - Vietnam War: National Security Council members, including Robert_McNamara, Dean_Rusk, and Maxwell_Taylor agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam. ===December=== * December_1 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam (after some debate, they agreed to enact a two-phase bombing plan). * December_3 - Berkeley_Free_Speech_Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University_of_California,_Berkeley, following their takeover and massive sit-in at the administration building protesting the UC Regents' decision to forbid Vietnam War protests on U.C. property. * December_14 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules, in ''Heart_of_Atlanta_Motel_v._United_States'' 379 US 241 1964, that, in accordance with the Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964, establishments providing public accommodations must refrain from racial discrimination. * December_15 - The ''Washington_Post'' publishes an article about James_Hampton, who had built a glittering religious throne out of recycled materials * December_18 - In the wake of deadly riots in January over control of the Panama_Canal, the US offers to negotiate a new canal treaty ===Date unknown=== * 7000 residents of New_Hanover, Australia, refuse to pay taxes and found a Fund to purchase Lyndon_B._Johnson. * Jerome_Horowitz synthesizes Zidovudine, an antiviral drug used in treating HIV. * The Vishwa_Hindu_Parishad is founded. * John_George_Kemeny and Thomas_Eugene_Kurtz create BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level Programming_language that has been included on many Computers and even some games consoles. * First Moog_synthesizer designed by Robert_Moog. ==Births== ===January-March=== * January_2 - Pernell_Whitaker, American boxer * January_6 - Henry_Maske, German boxer *January 6 - Rafael_Vidal, Venezuelan swimmer and sports commentator (d. 2005) * January_7 - Nicolas_Cage, American actor * January_12 - Jeff_Bezos, American president of amazon.com * January_13 - Penelope_Ann_Miller, American actress * January_23 - Mariska_Hargitay, American actress * January_27 - Bridget_Fonda, American actress * January_29 - Andre_Reed, American football player * February_4 - Noodles, American guitarist (The_Offspring) * February_5 - Laura_Linney, American actress *February 5 - Duff_McKagan, American musician (Guns_N'Roses) * February_15 - Chris_Farley, American actor and comedian (d. 1997) * February_16 - Christopher_Eccleston, British actor * February_17 - Mark_Kennedy_Shriver, nephew of John_F_Kennedy, son of Eunice_Mary_Kennedy. * February_18 - Matt_Dillon, American actor * March_7 - Bret_Easton_Ellis, American author * March_9 - Juliette_Binoche, French actress * March_10 - Edward,_Earl_of_Wessex * March_11 - Shane_Richie, British actor * March_17 - Rob_Lowe, American actor * March_18 - Bonnie_Blair, American speed skater *March 18 - Irene_Cara, American actress and singer *March 18 - Rozalla, Zambian singer * March_20 - Natacha_Atlas, Belgian singer * March_25 - Lisa_Gay_Hamilton, American actress * March_29 - Elle_Macpherson, Australian model * March_30 - Tracy_Chapman, American singer ===April-June=== * April_1 - Erik_Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager * April_3 - Bjarne_Riis, Danish cyclist * April_4 - David_Cross, American actor and comedian * April_7 - Russell_Crowe, New Zealand-born actor * April_13 - Caroline_Rhea, Canadian actress * April_24 - Cedric_the_Entertainer, American comic and actor * April_21 - Ludmila_Engquist, Russian-born Swedish athlete * April_25 - Hank_Azaria, American actor * April 25 - Andy Bell, English singer and songwriter (Erasure) * April_29 - Federico_Castelluccio, Italian-born actor * May_6 - Dana_Hill, American actress (d. 1996) * May_8 - Melissa_Gilbert, American actress and president of the Screen Actors Guild *May 8 - Bobby_Labonte, American race car driver * May_12 - Brett_Gurewitz, American guitarist (Bad_Religion) * May_24 - Adrian_Moorhouse, British swimmer * May_26 - Lenny_Kravitz, American guitarist and singer * May_28 - Jeff_Fenech, Australian boxer *May 28 - Christa_Miller, American actress *May 28 - Phil_Vassar, American musician * May_30 - Wynonna_Judd, American singer * June_10 - Jimmy_Chamberlin, American musician * June_12 - Paula_Marshall, American actress * June_13 - Kathy_Burke, English actress and comedienne *June 13 - Iain_Donaldson, British politician * June_15 - Courteney_Cox, American actress * June_21 - Doug_Savant, American actor * June_22 - Dan_Brown, American author * June_28 - Mark_Grace, baseball player * June_29 - Stedman_Pearson, British singer ===July-December=== * July_3 - Joanne_Harris, English author *July 3 - Yeardley_Smith, American voice actress * July_16 - Miguel_Induráin, Spanish cyclist * July_22 - Bonnie_Langford, British actress * July_24 - Barry_Bonds, baseball player * July_26 - Sandra_Bullock, American actress * July_28 - Lori_Loughlin, American actress * July_30 - Vivica_A._Fox, American actress * July_31 - Jim_Corr, Irish singer and musician (The_Corrs) * August_16 - Jimmy_Arias, American tennis player * August_19 - Dermott_Brereton, Australian_rules footballer * August_24 - Salizhan_Sharipov, cosmonaut * August_25 - Maxim_Kontsevich, Russian mathematician * September_2 - Keanu_Reeves, Lebanese-born actor * September_7 - Eazy-E, American musician and record producer (d. 1995) * September_8 - Michael_Johns, American health care executive and Presidential speechwriter * September_11 - Ellis_Burks, baseball player *September 11 - Roxann_Dawson, American actress * September_22 - Bonnie_Hunt, American actress * September_23 - Koshi_Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z) * September_28 - Janeane_Garofalo, American actress and comedienne * September_29 - Les_Claypool, American bassist (Primus) * October_2 - Dirk_Brinkmann, German field hockey player * October_15 - Quinton_Flynn, American voice actor * October_22 - Drazen_Petrovic, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993) * October_26 - Marc_Lépine, Canadian serial killer (d. 1989) * October_29 - Yasmin_Le_Bon, British model * October_31 - Marco_van_Basten, Dutch football player and manager * November_9 - Robert_Duncan_McNeill, American actor * November_10 - Kenny Rogers, baseball player * November_11 - Calista_Flockhart, American actress * November_14 - Bill_Hemmer, American broadcast journalist * December_5 - Karin_Snelson, author and editor * December_8 - Teri_Hatcher, American actress * December_13 - Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician * December_16 - Heike_Drechsler, German track and field athlete * December_18 - Steve Austin, American professional wrestler *December 18 - Don_Beebe, American football player * December_19 - Arvydas_Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player * December_23 - Eddie_Vedder, American singer (Pearl_Jam) ==Unknown Date== * John_Campbell, New_Zealand Broadcaster ==Deaths== * January_1 - Bechara_El_Khoury, President_of_Lebanon (b. 1890) * January_15 - Jack_Teagarden, American jazz trombonist (b. 1905) * January_17 - T.H._White, British author (b. 1906) * January_29 - Alan_Ladd, American actor (b. 1913) * February_5 - Matilde_Moisant, American pilot (b. 1878) * February_8 - Ernst_Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b. 1888) * February_10 - Eugen_Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905) * February_25 - Grace_Metalious, American writer (b. 1924) * February_26 - F._F._E._Yeo-Thomas, English World War II hero (b. 1901) * February_27 - Orry-Kelly, Australian-born costume designer (b. 1897) * March_9 - Paul_Erich_von_Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870) * March_18 - Sigfrid_Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870) *March 18 - Norbert_Wiener, American mathematician (b. 1894) * March_23 - Peter_Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904) * April_5 - Douglas_MacArthur, U.S. Army general (b. 1880) * April_14 - Rachel_Carson, American biologist and environmental writer (b. 1907) *April_24 - Gerhard_Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (declined) (b. 1895) * May_2 - Nancy_Astor,_Viscountess_Astor, American-born politician (b. 1879) *May 21 - James_Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882) * May_27 - Jawaharlal_Nehru, Prime_Minister_of_India (b. 1889) *June_3 - Frans_Eemil_Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) * June_25 - Gerrit_Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888) * July_1 - Pierre_Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875) * July_2 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929) * July_7 - Lillian_Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904) * July_31 - Jim_Reeves, American singer (b. 1923) * August_27 - Gracie_Allen, American actress and comedienne * September_3 - Stewart_Holbrook, American author (b. 1893) * September_18 - Clive_Bell, English art critic (b. 1881) *September 18 - Sean_O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880) * September_28 - Harpo_Marx, American comedian (b. 1888) * October_15 - Cole_Porter, American composer (b. 1891) * October_20 - Herbert_Hoover, 31st President_of_the_United_States (b. 1874) * November_6 - Hans_von_Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) * December_1 - J._B._S._Haldane, British geneticist (b. 1892) * December_4 - Marisa_Tomei, American actress (b. 1964) * December_6 - Consuelo_Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1877) * December_11 - Sam_Cooke, American singer (b. 1931) *December 11 - Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Austrian wife of Gustav_Mahler, Walter_Gropius, and Franz_Werfel (b. 1879) * December_14 - Francisco_Canaro, Uruguayan-born composer (b. 1888) * December_17 - Victor_Franz_Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) ==Nobel Prizes== * Physics - Charles_Hard_Townes, Nicolay_Gennadiyevich_Basov, Aleksandr_Prokhorov * Chemistry - Dorothy_Crowfoot_Hodgkin * Physiology or Medicine - Konrad_Bloch, Feodor_Lynen * Literature - Jean-Paul_Sartre * Peace - Martin_Luther_King_Jr Category:1964 Af:1964 Ar:1964 Ast:1964 Bg:1964 Be:1964 Bs:1964 Ca:1964 Cs:1964 Cy:1964 Da:1964 De:1964 Et:1964 El:1964 Es:1964 Eo:1964 Eu:1964 Fo:1964 Fr:1964 Fy:1964 Gl:1964 Ko:1964년 Hr:1964 Io:1964 Id:1964 Ia:1964 Ie:1964 Is:1964 It:1964 He:1964 Kn:೧೯೬೪ Ka:1964 Csb:1964 Kw:1964 La:1964 Lt:1964 Lb:1964 Hu:1964 Mk:1964 Nl:1964 Ja:1964年 No:1964 Nn:1964 Os:1964 Pl:1964 Pt:1964 Ro:1964 Ru:1964 Sq:1964 Scn:1964 Simple:1964 Sk:1964 Sl:1964 Sr:1964 Fi:1964 Sv:1964 Tl:1964 Tt:1964 Th:พ.ศ._2507 Tr:1964 Uk:1964 Wa:1964 Zh:1964年