1964

1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year beginning on Wednesday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• 1 January: the union between Rodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.

• January 3: In the United States, Senator Barry Goldwater announced that he will run for president by the Republican Party.
• 4 January: Pope Paul VI visits Jerusalem, where he meets Athenagoras I (patriarch of Constantinople and head of the Greek Orthodox Church).
• January 5: In Jerusalem, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I hold the first meeting between leaders of the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church since the centuryXV.
• January 7: British company Leyland Motor Corp. announces the sale of 450 buses to the Republic of Cuba, challenging the economic blockade of the United States.
• January 8: In the United States, President Lyndon Johnson declared in his first speech the "war on poverty".
• January 9: A serious international crisis arises in Panama (Mártir Day), when American troops open fire on Panamanian civilians in the Canal area. Twenty-one Panamanians and four American soldiers die.
• January 10: Panama breaks diplomatic relations with the United States.
• January 11: In the United States, Health Minister Luther Leonidas Terry makes the first government public statement against tobacco.
• 12 January:
  • In Zanzibar, the predominantly Arab government is overthrown by African nationalist rebels. An American destroyer must evacuate 61 citizens of that nationality.
  • In China, routine naval patrols begin in the South China Sea.
• 13 January:
  • Cuban leader Fidel Castro lands in Moscow on a surprise visit.
  • The first conference of kings and presidents of 13 Arab countries is held in Cairo, Egypt.
• 16 January:
  • At St. James of New York is the work Hello, Dolly!.
  • In the United States, John Glenn (42), the first American who orbited the Earth, resigns from the space program and announces his candidacy for Democratic Senator Ohio.
• 17 January: Roald Dahl publishes in the United States Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(the British edition was published on November 23rd).
• 18 January: plans to build the Twin Towers (the World Trade Centre) are announced in the United States.
  • in Taiwan, an earthquake of 6.3 leaves a balance of 106 dead and 11,000 destroyed buildings.
• 20 January: in the United States it is launched Meet the BeatlesThe Beatles rock group's first album.
• January 22: In North Rodesia, Kenneth Kaunda is named the first president of the nation.
• 23 January:
  • In the United States, thirteen years after being proposed, the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, which prohibits the imposition of the right to vote in federal elections by taxation.
  • On Broadway (New York) it is After the Fall (After the fall)Arthur Miller. This partly autobiographical work generated controversy because of the description of her late former wife Marilyn Monroe.
• 27 January:
  • France and China announce their decision to establish trade relations.
  • U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith (66) of the Republican Party announces her candidacy as president.
• January 28: Near Erfurt (Eastern Germany), Soviet fighter planes dropped an American spy plane. The three crew members die.
• 29 January:
  • In Innsbruck, Austria, the Winter Olympics are opened.
  • The Soviet Union launches two scientific satellites with a single rocket: Elektron I and II.
  • U.S. NASA launches Ranger 6, satellite that would end up crashing into the moon.
• January 30: In South Vietnam, General Nguyen Khanh carried out a coup and replaced Duong Van Minh as Prime Minister.

February

• February 1st: In the United States, the British rock group The Beatles for the first time reached the first place on the record lists, with the song "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
• 2 February:
  • The American Ranger 6 probe reaches the Moon, but it cannot relay images because of a breakdown in the camera.
  • Detaining seven activists from the Basque Nationalist Party.
• February 3: In New York, United States, in protest against de facto racial discrimination in schools, black and Puerto Rican groups boycott public schools.
• February 6: The Cuban socialist government cuts the normal supply of water to the U.S. naval base of Guantánamo (considered as an invasive element of the sovereignty of the island) as a reprisal to the kidnapping of four Cuban fishing boats on the coast of Florida (February 2).
• 7 February:
  • In Jackson, United States, a jury does not agree on the verdict against Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers (in June 1963).
  • American immunologist Thomas Marchioro reports that the anti-inflammatory serum obtained from horses mitigates the rejection reaction of kidney transplants.
  • A fire burns a large part of the Australian islands of Tasmania and causes 52 deaths.
  • The Beatles first arrived in New York.
  • The diocese of Leon yields to the INI the convent of San Marcos.
• 9 February:
  • In the United States, The Beatles and Richard Terrance McDermott (American Olympic Corner) first appear in the United States The Ed Sullivan Show.
  • In Innsbruck (Austria) the Winter Olympics are concluded.
• 11 February:
  • In Cyprus, Greek and Turkish troops fight in Limassol.
  • The Taiwan government cuts diplomatic relations with France, because the French recognized the People's Republic of China.
• 13 February: Spain and Mauritania sign a fishing and commercial agreement.
• 14 February: In Valencia, Spain, the Third Fair of Toy is inaugurated.
• 15 February: in Barcelona, great success of the theatrical work Maria Rosa, by Angel Guimerà, interpreted in his Catalan version by the company of Núria Espert.
• 17 February: in the United States, Wesberry v. Sanders (376 US 1 1964), the Supreme Court states that congressional districts must have approximately the same population.
• February 18: The U.S. government asks to explain to the Spanish government about its relations with Cuba.
• 19 February:
  • Paul Simon writes The Sounds of Silence.
  • In Greece, Georgios Papandreu swears the office of president before King Paul I.
  • The Rubens painting is recovered Black headswhich had been stolen from the Brussels museum.
• February 20: Jerome Horowitz, Jonathan Chua and Michael Noel reveal the synthesis of zidovudine, an antiviral drug that will later be used to combat HIV.
• February 21st: in the Teatro Reina Victoria (of Madrid) he estrena They sell us the floor.Alfonso Paso.
• February 26: In the United States, former Astronaut John Glenn (42) slips with a bath carpet in his apartment in Columbus (Ohio) and hits his head against the bathtub, hurting his left inner ear. At the end of that week he announced his withdrawal of the candidature for national senator.
• February 27: The Italian government asks for help to avoid the fall of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• 28 February: In Istanbul, Turkey, Turgut Erenerol is appointed second patriarch of the Turkish Orthodox Church, with the name of Eftim II.
• 29 February:
  • U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announced that a plane (A-11) has been developed, capable of flying more than 3200 km/h to more than 20 km.
  • At the door of his parents' house in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Raúl Alterman (32), a member of the Communist Party, is shot dead in an anti-Semitic attack in reprisal for the capture of the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1960.
• In February:
• In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) launched its "first plan of struggle", demanding the immediate freedom of all detainees, the restitution of union persons, the active participation of workers in the administration and management of companies, urgent solution to the problem of wages, pensions and pensions, the cancellation of oil contracts, agrarian reform, and the full establishment of the right to self-determination.
• On the island of New Hanover the so-called "hidden Johnson" begins when the Lavongai voted massively for U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in the first elections of Papua and New Guinea. The fact was a political manifesto against the Australian authorities administering the territory.

March

• March 3: In Bilbao the Third Technical Fair of the Tool Machine is inaugurated.
• March 4: An American federal jury jails Jimmy Hoffa, president of the transport union (Teamsters Union), for having manipulated another federal jury in 1962.
• 6 March:
  • Constantine II is crowned king of Greece.
  • American boxer Cassius Clay changes his name to Muhammad Ali.
• March 8: In New York, Malcolm X, after being suspended from the Nation of Islam, states that he is forming a black nationalist party.
• 9 March:
  • in the United States, in the trial «New York Times against Sullivan" (376 US 254 1964), the Supreme Court declares that under the First Amendment, a speech that criticizes any political figure cannot be censored.
  • the London Fisheries Convention, which grants signatories the right to full access to the coves within 12 nautical miles of the coast of Western Europe, is signed.
• 10 March:
  • In East Germany, Soviet fighter aircraft dropped an American “recognition aircraft”. The three crew members are saved by parachuting.
  • Henry Cabot Lodge (South Vietnam ambassador) wins the primary elections in New Hampshire (United States).
• March 11: Raúl Leoni takes office as president of Venezuela.
• 13 March: In New York (United States) a serial killer stabbed Kitty Genovese (28). People who attended her murder did nothing to help her or call the police. It is considered a case of spectating effect (which will be called “Genovese syndrome” from that year).
• March 14: A Dallas jury (United States) declares Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, who in turn believed that in 1963 he had murdered President Kennedy.
• 16 March:
  • The president of the Peruvian republic Fernando Belaunde Terry, creates law No. 14965, thus creating the District of Independence, which today is the economic center of Lima North
  • French President Charles de Gaulle visits Mexico being received by President Adolfo López Mateos.
• 17 March: In the village of La Esperanza, near the Tenerfeño airport of Los Rodeos, a DC-3 plane is in an air accident when attempting a night landing, causing the death of four crew members and a score of wounded, including the then Minister of Labour, Jesús Romeo Gorría, and other senior officials and journalists. (Accidente de La Esperanza).
• 20 March: ESRO (European Space Research Organization), a precursor to the European Space Agency, is inaugurated.
• 21 March: In Italy, the singer Gigliola Cinquetti wins the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song Non ho l’età (I am not old to love you): music by Nicola Salerno, and lyrics by Mario Panzeri.
• March 26: U.S. Defense Minister Robert McNamara reiterates his government's determination to increase economic and military aid to South Vietnam in its war against the communist insurgency.
• March 27: In Alaska there is an earthquake of 9.2, the most powerful in the history of the United States, killing 131 people and destroying the city of Anchorage (Alaska).
• March 29: The first British pirate radio is inaugurated: Radio Caroline. It emits from a ship anchored at the boundary of British territorial waters.
• March 30: The entertainment and games show opens in the United States Jeopardy! Merv Griffin, in the NBC chain. His first presenter is Art Fleming.
• March 31: in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Marshal Humberto de Castelo Branco defeats President João Goulart.
• In March, in Argentina, with large mobilizations, acts in squares and public places and taking of factories (in many cases with hostages of the bosses) the plan of struggle of the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) is developed.

April

• 2 April:
  • After being overthrown by the oligarchy and the Army, former president of Brazil João Goulart finds political asylum in Uruguay.
  • The U.S. government releases Mrs. Malcolm Peabody (72)—mother of Endicott Peabody, governor of Massachusetts—after paying a $450 bail, after spending two days in prison in St. Augustine (Florida), due to his participation in a racial segregation demonstration in the United States.
• 4 April:
  • The British group The Beatles, in a single case, holds the first five positions on the American list of simple Billboard top 40 with "Can't Buy Me Love", "Twist and Shout", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", and "Please, Please Me".
  • Three high school friends in Hoboken, New Jersey, open the first BLIMPIE on Washington St.
• April 5: in Puncholing (near the border with India), Jigme Dorfi, Prime Minister of the Healayan kingdom of Bhutan, is shot dead by an unidentified killer.
• 6 April: in the lake of Maracaibo (Venezuela), the supertanquero Esso Maracaibo suffered a fault that caused him to lose his course, thus praying with batteries 31 and 32 of the Puente General Rafael Urdaneta causing the collapse of 249 meters of his structure.
• 7 April:
  • In the United States, the IBM company presents its first 360 series computer model.
  • In Spain the caves of Canalobre, tourist attraction of Alicante are opened.
• 8 April:
  • The United States launches Gemini 1 (unmanned flight).
  • In the United States, four of the five railway unions declare a strike without notice, to resolve five years of disputes over labour laws.
  • In the United States the film is released From Russia With Love.
• 9 April: the United Nations Security Council adopts (by 9 votes to 0) a resolution deploring the British attack on a fort in Yemen 12 days ago, in which 25 people died.
• April 11: In Brazil, Congress elects General Humberto Castelo Branco as de facto president.
• April 12: Malcolm X pronounces the speech called "The Vows or the Bullet."
• 14 April:
  • In Cabo Cañaveral (Florida), the third stage of a Delta rocket is prematurely lit in a assembly room, killing three technicians.
  • In a well 204 meters underground, in the U9bc area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:40 (local time) United States detonates its 3 kt Hook atomic bomb. It's the bomb number 364 of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
  • In Havana, Cuba, the commander Ernesto Che Guevara took part in Algeria to participate in an international conference.
• April 16: The British government sentenced to 307 years in prison 12 men who made the "assault to the Glasgow-London postal train" (they had stolen £2.6 million in tickets used on the Glasgow to London train in August 1963).
• 17 April:
  • In a well at 119 meters underground, in the U9au area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:29 (local time) United States detonates its Bogey atomic bomb, of less than 20 kt. It is the bomb number 366 of the 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
  • Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to turn the world through the air.
  • In New York, the US company Ford Motor Company is the first Ford Mustang at Expo Car.
  • In Flushing (New York State) the Shea Stadium is opened.
• April 18: in the Salta town of Orán (Argentina), Gendarmerie forces surprise and derail the EGP (Guerrillero del Pueblo Army).
• April 19: In Laos, a military group led by Brigadier General Kouprasith Abhay deposes the coalition government led by Prince Souvanna Phouma.
• 20 April:
  • Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Jruschov (from Moscow) and U.S. President Lyndon Johnson (from New York) simultaneously announce plans to reduce the production of materials to build nuclear weapons.
  • In South Africa, Nelson Mandela gave his speech “I am ready to die” at the opening of the Rivonia Process, a key moment of the antiapartheid movement.
  • In the UK, the BBC2 broadcast begins.
• April 21: In the Salta town of Orán (Argentina), Gendarmerie forces make guerrilla Jorge Ricardo Masetti disappear.
• 22 April:
  • The Soviet Union delivers the British businessman Greville Wynne (incarcerated in 1963 by spy) in exchange for the Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale.
  • The New York Fair was opened to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the taking of the Dutch city of New Amsterdam by British forces in command of the Duke of York, who would later be King James II. The city was renamed New York in 1664. This fair was opened until 18 October 1964 and was inaugurated on 21 April of the following year; it was finally closed on 17 October 1965. Since world fairs are held only 10 a.m. in each country, and as the previous one was held in Seattle, the United States, two years ago, it was not recognized by the international exhibition office, which requested its member countries not to attend. Notwithstanding the absence of Canada, Australia, the Soviet Union and several European countries such as West Germany, France or the United Kingdom, 71 countries took the same.
• April 25: in Copenhagen (Denmark) members of the situationist movement decapitated the statue of La Sirenita, as part of a campaign against the consumer society. Although the attack was attributed to Jørgen Nash, the Danish media considered the painter Henrik Bruun guilty, who never confessed to the authorship of the crime.
• April 26: Tanganika and Zanzibar join and form Tanzania.

May

• 1st of May: at 4:00 p.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first program written in the BASIC programming language (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code: symbolic instruction code of every purpose for beginners), a high-level programming language that is easy to learn that they have created. The BASIC will eventually be included in many computers and game consoles.
• 2 May:
  • In Argentina the broadcasts of the TV LV 82 Canal 8 signal of the province of San Juan are opened and started
  • In Meadville (Misisipi), two black boys who hitchhike are kidnapped and killed by the Ku Klux Klan. His broken bodies were found in July, during the search for three other black activists.
  • In the Republican presidential election of Texas (United States), Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes.
  • In Saigon, South Vietnam in the context of the Vietnam War two commands of the National Liberation Front of Vietnam (known by Americans as Viet Cong) sank the escort carrier USNS Card.
• 4 May: in Spain the film is very successful The verbine of the dove, by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, starring Concha Velasco and Vicente Parra.
• May 5: Israel makes its first attempt to divert the waters of the Jordan River into the Negev Desert.
• 7 May:
  • A Fairchild F-27 aircraft from the Pacific Air Lines company crashes near San Ramon (California), dying 44 people on board. An FBI report will declare that a recording tape shows that a suicide passenger had killed the pilot and copilot.
  • In a demonstration of the system Rocket mail, delivery of mail packets through directed rockets, carried out by Gerhard Zucker on Hasselkopf Mountain, near Braunlage (Baja Saxony, Germany), three people die from the explosion of a rocket.
• May 9: In South Korea, President Chung Hee Park changes his cabinet after a series of student demonstrations against his efforts to restore diplomatic and commercial relations with Japan.
• 10 May:
  • All European lands are nationalized in Tunisia.
  • In Honduras, the National Professional Football League was founded.
• 14 May:
  • In Egypt the prey of Aswan was inaugurated.
  • In Italy they first arrested Luciano Liggio, a mafia Sicilian named the Rossa Prímula. He will be acquitted in 1969 for insufficient evidence.
• 17 May: in France, Claude Lévi-Strauss publishes his book: Raw and cooked.
• May 19: The U.S. State Department announces that they found more than 40 microphones hidden on the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
• 23 May:
  • In Paris, Mrs. Madeline Dassault (63), wife of a politician and aircraft builder, is kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her house. The next day she is released on a farm 40 km from Paris.
  • Artist Pablo Picasso finishes his fourth Head of a Bubble.
• May 24: In Lima there is the most deadly riot in a sporting event, when 328 people died and more than 500 were injured, in an international football match between the team of Peru and the selection of Argentina. The game was part of the ranking for the 1964 Olympic Games. The tumult began with the cancellation by the arbitrator Angel Pazos of a goal for the local selected. This triggered protests and, finally, a fight in the tribunes between the fans of both selections. The police, then, began to shoot tear gas at the stairs, which caused a stampede to the exits; most of the deaths occurred when people were trampled or trapped against closed doors.
• 27 May:
  • In Palestine, 422 congressional representatives of refugee camps, trade union and business organizations, cultural personalities and youth and women ' s groups create the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization).
  • In Colombia, the communist peasant and guerrilla Manuel Marulanda Vélez, known as Tirofijo (1930-2008), founded the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
  • In India, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru died. Lal Shastri happens.

June

• 2 June:
  • Senator Barry Goldwater wins the Republican Party's primary elections in California.
  • Five million shares of the Comsat (Communications Satellite Corporation) are sold at $20 each, and are sold immediately.
• June 3: South Korea President Park Chung Hee declares martial law in Seoul, after 10,000 students outnumber the police.
• June 6: In the area of Cuxhaven, a provisional order stops rocket experiments.
• 7 June: The Beatles group travels through the canals of Amsterdam.
• June 9: In the federal court of Kansas City, he condemns deserter George John Gessner (28), for passing US secrets to the Soviet Union.
• 11 June:
  • Greece refuses to negotiate Cyprus with the Turks.
  • In Cologne (Germany) the military Walter Seifert attacks with a flamethrower to students and teachers of a primary school: kills 10 and wounds 21.
• 12 June:
  • In South Africa, the racist government condemns Nelson Mandela—the leader of the African National Congress—and seven others—in Robben Island Prison.
  • The governor of Pennsylvania, William Scranton, announced his candidacy for the nomination of the Republican Party as part of a movement to stop Goldwater.
• June 16: In the UK, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady kidnap Keith Bennett (12 years old).
  • In Japan, an earthquake of 7.6 destroys the city of Niigata, killing 36 people and causing the liquefaction of much of the city.
• June 18: in San Agustín (Florida State), after Martin Luther King was thrown out of the Monson Motor Lodge restaurant due to racial segregation in the United States, a group of white and black supporters enter the hotel pool (which was only for whites). The hotel manager threw two bottles of muriatic acid in the water to get them out.
• June 19: In a private aviation accident in Southampton (Massachusetts), Senator Edward Kennedy (32) was seriously injured. The pilot dies.
• 21 June:
  • Near the village Philadelphia (Misisipi), three workers of the Congress of Racial Equality, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, are kidnapped and killed by local members of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan with local police officers involved in the conspiracy. Their bodies are not until August 4.
  • Spain wins the European Football Championship by defeating the Soviet Union for 2 to 1.
• 23-25 June: the first democratic elections are held in Swaziland.
• June 25: Pope Paul VI condemns the birth control pill.
• 26 June:
  • From his exile in Spain, Moise Tshombe returns to Congo.
  • In Caracas, Venezuela, the government breaks diplomatic and commercial relations with Cuba, accusing Fidel Castro of exporting the violent revolution. Rural guerrillas fight throughout Venezuela.

July

• 2 July: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, formally abolishing racial segregation in the United States.
• 5 July:
  • In England is born the psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd.
  • In Mexico, the presidential elections are held, in which Gustavo Díaz Ordaz wins.
• July 6: Malaui is independent of the British Empire.
• July 6: In the state of Guerrero there is an earthquake of 7.2 leaving 40 dead.
• July 8: The U.S. Army announces that the casualties in Vietnam amount to 1387, including 399 dead and 17 missing in combat.
• July 10: British band The Beatles launches his third album A Hard Day's Night
• July 15: death of Luis Batlle Berres politician and Uruguayan journalist.
• July 16: In the Republican National Convention, in San Francisco, presidential candidate Barry Goldwater declared that "in the defense of freedom, extremism is not a vice," and that "in the search for justice, moderation is not a virtue."
• July 18: Battles are waged in Harlem due to racism.
• July 19: In a rally in Saigon (South Vietnam), Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh exhorts to expand the war towards North Vietnam.
• 21 July: racial disturbances begin in Singapore between Chinese and Malay ethnic communities.
• 22 July: the second meeting of the Organization of African Unity is held.
• July 24: at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (Argentina) the opera is premiered Don Rodrigoby composer Alberto Ginastera.
• 27 July: another 5000 U.S. military advisers arrive to South Vietnam, increasing the number of U.S. soldiers to 21 000.
• July 31st: Ranger 7 sends the first near photographs of the Moon (the images are a thousand times clearer than anyone taken with a terrestrial telescope).
• In July, in Colombia, the army puts an end to the end of a year of fighting against the independent republic founded by the guerrilla nicknamed Tirofijo, of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).
• In July, throughout Argentina, in compliance with the "first plan of struggle" of the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) against the Government of Arturo Umberto Illia, in only four months more than ten thousand occupations of factories with workers' mobilization have been recorded.

August

• 1 August:
  • In Venezuela, the television channel Cadena Venezolana de Televisión was inaugurated, through the frequency of 8 VHF band, which later became Venezuelan Television, after its acquisition by the Venezuelan State.
  • It is issued Senorella and the Glass HuaracheThe last cartoon of the Looney Tunes. Jack Warner closes the Warner Bros cartoon division.
  • It is founded in Pascuales, Guayaquil the Leninist Marxist Communist Party of Ecuador.
• 4 August:
  • In Mississippi there are the bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, who had been killed by white police on 21 June.
  • In the Gulf of Tonkín (between North Vietnam and China), North Vietnamese torpedoes attack destroyers Maddox and C. Turner Joyparked in North Vietnamese waters. Air support from aircraft carrier Ticonderoga Take two or three ships.
• 5 August:
  • In Operation Pierce Arrow, aircraft carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation They bomb civilian populations in North Vietnam, in revenge for North Vietnamese defense against American destroyers in North Vietnamese waters.
  • In the Congo Belga, the rebel army Simba captures Stanleyville, and takes a thousand Western hostages.
  • In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Revolutionary Peronist Movement (MRP) is founded.
• 6 August: in the mountains of Nevada (United States), an agronomist engineer named Donald Currey (1934-2004) cuts “for research purposes” the long-evo Prometheus pine, which, with just over 5000 years of age, was the oldest living organism on Earth. (See Matusalén tree).
• August 7: The United States Congress approves a law (the Tonkin Gulf Resolution... giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers to decide on the attacks on U.S. forces in Vietnam.
• August 8: In Scheveningen (The Hague Court) in the Dutch riot police attacks the spectators of a recital of the Rolling Stones.
• August 13: The British government executes the assassins Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen. Last case of capital punishment of the islands.
• August 16: Helped by the United States, General Nguyen Khanh defeats Vietnamese head of state Duong Van Minh and establishes a new constitution and a pro-American puppet government.
• August 19: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:00 a.m. (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb Alva4.4 kt. It's the 380 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 22 August:
  • In the area of atomic testing in Nevada, at 14:17 a.m. (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb Canvasback18 kt (to 448 m underground).
  • In the United States—in the framework of racial segregation in the United States that would end in 1965—civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, vice president of the Freedom of Mississippi Democratic Party, challenges the Mississippi white delegation.
  • The first Notting Hill festival is held in London, UK.
• August 23: in Tlalnepantla, Mexico State, Corpus Christi Cathedral is consecrated.
• 24-27 August: In Atlantic City, the National Democratic Convention nominates President Lyndon B. Johnson as a candidate for another full period.
• August 27: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:30 (local time), the United States detonates its 20 kt Player atomic bomb to 91 m underground. It's the 382 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 28 August:
  • In the United States, U.S. singer Bob Dylan makes the members of the British rock group The Beatles test marijuana for the first time.
  • In the U.S. city of Philadelphia, riots were unleashed between African American residents and the police, causing 341 wounded and 774 arrests.
  • In the Nevada atomic testing area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:06 (local time), the United States detonates to 364 m underground its 20 kt Haddock atomic bomb. It's the bomb number 383 of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• August 29: The Hindu World Council is founded in the nationalist Hindu orientation party.
• August 30: Snake Eater mission in Tselinoyark, Soviet Union (now Tajikistan) is the second mission assigned to Naked Snake.

September

• 2 September: the Snake Eater mission is completed, and Naked Snake unsubscribes the Shagohod.
• September 10: Germany receives one million foreign workers.
• September 11: in the U9bd Area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:00 (local time), the United States detonates at 180 m underground its atomic bomb n.o 385, Spoon, 0.2 kt.
• 13 September: in the Caribbean Sea, 120 km northeast of the island of Cuba, anti-Castro groups armed by the U.S. CIA and supported by the U.S. Coast Guard attack the Spanish freighter Sierra Aránzazu And they kill three crew members, including the captain. The CIA will pay compensation of $1 million (which, due to inflation, in 2015 would amount to $7.5 million).
• 14 September:
  • The third period of the Second Vatican Council is opened in Vatican City.
  • The journal closes Daily Herald. It replaces The Sun.
• September 16: ABC presents Shindig!With musicals from the 1960s.
• 17 September:
  • The National Museum of Anthropology and History is inaugurated in the Forest of Chapultepec (Mexico).
  • The opera is opened at the Hamburg Opera Theatre (Germany). Der Zerrissene Gottfried von Einem.
• September 19: in Madrid, Spain, a thousand people are concentrated in front of the US embassy, chanting “Assasinos!” and “Cuba yes, Yankee no!”, due to the CIA’s attack on the Spanish freighter Sierra Aránzazu (who confused with the Cuban freighter Sierra Maestra).
• 21 September: Malta is independent of the United Kingdom (now achieved on 4 March). He will achieve final freedom on 13 September 1974.
• September 24: The report of the Warren Commission is published, the first official investigation of the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
• September 25: In Mozambique, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique begins the War of Independence.
• September 29: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the comic strip is first published Mafaldacreated by Quino.

October

• October 1st: in Japan the Shinkansen, a high-speed train system between Tokyo and Ósaka is inaugurated.
• 2 October: 452 meters underground, in the U7b area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 12:03 (local time), the United States detonates its atomic bomb n.o 387: Auk, 12 kt.
• October 3: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the visit of General Charles de Gaulle (“Degól”) unleashes riots against the Government of Arturo Umberto Illia: “Degol, Perón, one heart” and “Degól, Perón, third position”.
• 5 October:
  • 23 men and 31 women escape West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
  • They arrive in Canada for an eight-day visit, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip.
• 6 October: in Turkey, an earthquake destroys the city of Karacabey leaving a balance of 73 dead and 239 wounded.
• October 9: 404 meters underground, in the U2p area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:00 (local time) United States detonates its 38 kt Par atomic bomb. It's the bomb number 388 of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 10 October: In Tokyo, Japan, the Summer Olympics of 1964 are opened.
• 12 October:
  • The Soviet Union orbits Voskhod 1. It is the first ship with a crew of several people (3 cosmonauts) and without space suits.
  • In Moscow, Nikita Jrushchov resigns, the first secretary and president of the Soviet Union.
• October 14: the leader of the American civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 14-15 October: Nikita Jruschov is overthrown as a leader of the Soviet Union. It is replaced by Leonid Brézhnev and Alekséi Kosiguin.
• 15 October:
  • In the UK, the Labor Party wins the parliamentary elections, ending with 13 years of Conservative Party government.
  • In Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah) the jet car Spirit of the United States loses control and leaves a mark on the salt of 9.6 km in length.
• 16 October:
  • In Sinkiang, China explodes an atomic bomb.
  • Harold Wilson becomes the British prime minister.
  • Leonid Brézhnev and Aleksey Kosygin are appointed first secretary of the PCUS and premier respectively.
• October 17: in Plaza Once de Buenos Aires (Argentina), ten thousand people listen to a tape recorded by Juan Domingo Perón (exiliated in Madrid), in which he announces his imminent return to the country. President Arturo Umberto Illia, who by decree 4161 forbade the name of the "progressor" (Perón), sends the Army to suppress the peaceful assembly. They murder the worker Mario Lopez. At the University of Buenos Aires, ten thousand students will be prosecuted under Decree 4161.
• October 18: New York Fair is closed. It will open on April 21, 1965.
• 19 October: air accident in Belgrade. The plane with the Soviet expedition heading to the city to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of its liberation by the Red Army, crashes on Mount Avala, fading Marshal Serguéi Biriuzov and General Vladimir Zhdánov, who participated in it.
• October 22: In Canada, a multi-party federal committee selects a design for Canada's new flag.
• 24 October:
  • The British protectorate of Northern Rodesia (Zambia) is independent of the British Empire.
  • In Tokyo the Summer Olympics are finished.
• October 27: In Congo, the rebel leader Christphe Gbenye takes 60 Americans and 800 Belgians hostage.
• 29 October:
  • Tanganika and Zanzibar join in a new republic, which will be called Tanzania.
  • The American Museum of Natural History (in New York) steals an irreplaceable gem collection (including the Star of India, 113 g).
• 29-31 October: in Bolivia the workers perform a general strike decreed by the COB (Central Obrera Boliviana) under the direction of the miner and former vice president Juan Lechín Oquendo. After a bloody repression, the Army imposes order. General René Barrientos defeats President Victor Paz Estenssoro.
• October 31: at Madison Square Garden (New York) President Lyndon Johnson requested the creation of the Great Society.
• In October:
  • In Cairo, Egypt, Sekou Touré, President of Guinea, called for the independence of the Canary Islands at the Conference of Non-Aligned Countries. The canary independence leader, Antonio Cubillo, transforms the MAC into MPAIAC.
  • American engineer Robert Moog (1934-2005) presents the first musical synthesizer.

November

• November 1: North Vietnamese forces carry out a mortar attack on the U.S. base of Bien Hoa in South Vietnam, killing 4 soldiers, wounding 72, and destroying 5 B-57 bombers and other planes.
• 3 November:
  • The commander-in-chief of the Bolivian armed forces, Alfredo Ovando Candía, defeats President Víctor Paz Estenssoro.
  • In Chile, Eduardo Frei assumes as president.
  • In Puerto Rico Roberto Sánchez Vilella is elected governor.
  • Presidential elections are held in the United States. Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican candidate Barry Goldwater with a comfortable advantage of 486 electoral votes compared to 52 Republicans.
• 4 November: Ruhollah Jomeini is banished from Iran to Turkey, where he will later exile Nayaf (in Iraq).
• November 5: From Cape Kennedy, NASA launches the probe Mariner 3But this fault.
• 9 November: In the UK, the House of Commons pays the death penalty.
• 10 November: Australia partially reintroduces compulsory military service, due to the conflict with Indonesia.
• 13 November: the basketball player Bob Pettit (of the St. Louis Hawks) becomes the first NBA player to score 20 000 so many.
• 20 November:
  • In Japan, Eisaku Sato assumes as prime minister.
  • In Barcelona (Spain) the Workers' Commissions are founded to the church of Sant Medir.
• November 21: Between Staten Island and Brooklyn (New York) the Verrazano Bridge opens to traffic. At this time it is the longest hanging bridge in the world.
• November 24: Belgian paramilitary mercenaries capture Stanleyville, but many hostages die in the attack, including the missionary covenant, Dr. Paul Carlson.
• November 28: NASA launches Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy to Mars to take photographs of the planet in July 1965.
• 30 November:
  • In Frankfurt del Meno (Germany) the comic opera is inaugurated Das Ende einer Welt by Hans Werner Henze.
  • The Soviet Union launches the probe Zond 2 Mars, but he'll fail halfway.

December

• December 1: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz takes office as president of Mexico as the 56th president for the presidential term 1964-1970. The Mexican ex-mandatarios Emilio Portes Gil, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Miguel Alemán and General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río and Abelardo L. Rodríguez came to their inauguration.
• December 3: at the University of California (Berkeley), the police arrest more than 800 students for protesting the Vietnam War.
• December 5: in the same tunnel, in the U2ai area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 13:15 (local time), the United States simultaneously detonates its Drill 1 atomic bombs (with less than 3.4 kt, 219 meters deep) and Drill 2 (with less than 20 kt, on the surface). It is the bombs No. 395 and 396 of the 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992. At 2.66 km south, at 404 m deep, it detonates exactly at the same time its pump n.o 397: Crepe, 20 kt.
• December 10: In Oslo, (Norway) Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• December 11: Che Guevara presents himself to the UN General Assembly, where, at the end of his historic speech, he proclaims the slogan of the Cuban Revolution: “Patria or Death.”
• December 12: Kenya becomes a republic.
• 14 December: in the United States — in the context of the trial “Motel “Heart of Atlanta” vs. The United States"—the Supreme Court orders that hotels cannot deny accommodation to Black people.
• December 18: Due to the murder of several Panamanian citizens (January 9, Martyrs' Day), the U.S. government offers to negotiate a new Panama Canal treaty.
• December 23: From a boat anchored in front of the southern coast of England, outside the British territory, its broadcasts begin the Wonderful Radio London.

Births

January

• January 2: Pernell Whitaker, American boxer.
• 3 January:
  • Bruce LaBruce, writer, filmmaker and Canadian photographer.
  • Roberto Cravero, Italian footballer.
• 5 January:
  • Miguel Angel Jiménez, Spanish golfer.
  • Grant Young, American drummer, from the Soul Asylum band.

Yuri.

• 6 January:
  • Jacqueline Moore, American fighter.
  • Rafael Vidal, swimmer and Venezuelan sports commentator (f. 2005).
  • Yuri, Mexican singer.
• January 6: Davide Ballardini, footballer and Italian coach.
• 7 January:
  • Carlos Álvarez, Peruvian actor and comic.
  • Nicolas Cage, American film actor.
  • Mar Carrera, Spanish actress.
• January 8: José Luis Carranza, Peruvian footballer.
• January 11: Patricia Pillar, Brazilian actress.
• January 12: Jeff Bezos, American internet entrepreneur.
• 13 January:
  • Bill Bailey, comedian, musician and British actor.
  • Penelope Ann Miller, American actress.
• 14 January:
  • Mark Addy, British actor.
  • Omar Bello, Argentine publicist and journalist (f. 2015).
• January 15: Saul Hernández, Mexican singer-songwriter of the Caifanes band.
• 17 January:
  • Michelle Obama, attorney and first American lady.
  • Coco Sily, Argentine actor and comedian.
• 18 January:
  • Carmen Aristegui, Mexican journalist.
  • Jane Horrocks, British actress.
• January 19: Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer.
• 20 January:
  • Oswaldo Guillén, baseball player, coach and Venezuelan sports commentator.
  • Ron Harper, American basketball ex-player.
• 23 January:
  • Mariska Hargitay, American actress.
  • Bharrat Jagdeo, former Guyanese president.
• January 27: Bridget Fonda, American actress.
• January 31: Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist, Slayer band co-founder.
• January 31: Arturo Vázquez, Mexican singer and actor.

February

Laura Linney

• February 1st: Jani Lane American musician, of the Warrant band.
• February 3: Alberto Gamero, ex-futbolist and Colombian coach.
• February 4: Noodles, American rock musician, The Offspring band.
• 5 February:
  • Laura Linney, American actress.
  • Carolina Morace, a football player and an Italian coach.
  • Duff McKagan, American musician, Guns N' Roses band.
  • José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer.
  • Ha Seung-moo, Korean poet, pastor, theologian.

Ha Seung-moo

• February 9: Ernesto Valverde, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 10 February:
  • Francesca Neri, Italian actress.
  • John Campbell, New Zealand journalist.
• 11 February:
  • Sarah Palin, American politics.
  • Ken Shamrock, American fighter.
• February 11: Adrian Hasler, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein.
• February 13: Mark Patton, American actor.
• February 14: Ramón Vázquez García, Spanish footballer.
• 15 February:
  • Chris Farley, American actor (f. 1997).
  • Mark Price, American basketball player.
  • Javier Fesser, Spanish film director and screenwriter
• 16 February:
  • Drink, Brazilian footballer.
  • Christopher Eccleston, British actor.
• February 17: Carmenza Cossio, Colombian actress.
• February 18: Matt Dillon, American actor.
• February 19: Juan Lozano, lawyer, journalist and Colombian politician.
• 20 February:
  • Roberto Gañán Ojea, Spanish singer and guitarist, from the Ska-P band.
  • Willie Garson, American actor of character.
  • Milagro Sala, an Argentine indigenous activist.
  • February 22: Gigi Fernández, Puerto Rican tennis player.
• February 23: John Norum, Norwegian guitarist (Europe).
• 24 February:
  • Todd Field, American actor and filmmaker.
  • Ute Geweniger, German swimmer.
• February 25: Lee Evans, British actor and comedian.
• February 26: David Summers, Spanish singer, from the band Men G.
• 28 February:
  • Dzhamolidin Abduzhaparov, Uzbek cyclist.
  • Pierre Hantaï, director of French orchestra and carver.

March

Juliette Binoche

• 1 March:
  • Achilles Báez, guitarist, arranger and Venezuelan composer.
  • Paul Le Guen, football player and French coach.
  • Luis Medina Cantalejo, Spanish football referee.
  • Pedro Saborido, Argentine producer and screenwriter.
• March 5: Donato De Santis, Italian cook.
• March 4: Paul Bostaph, American drummer.
• 7 March:
  • Bret Easton Ellis, American writer.
  • Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedian.
• 8 March:
  • Silvia Marsó, Spanish actress.
  • Bob Bergen, an American voice actor.
• March 9: Juliette Binoche, French actress.
• 10 March:
  • Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer.
  • Eduardo de Wessex, British nobleman.
  • Nelson Bustamante, Venezuelan TV presenter.
• 11 March:
  • Shane Richie, British actor.
  • Fernando Méndez, a Spanish journalist and writer.
• March 16: Pascal Richard, Swiss cyclist.
• March 17: Rob Lowe, American actor (Wayne's World and Tommy Boy).
• March 18: Bonnie Blair, American skate corridor.
• 19 March:
  • Yōko Kanno, Japanese composer.
  • Cristina La Veneno, Spanish singer and actress. (f. 2016)
  • Juan Carlos Arango, Colombian actor.
• March 20: Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer and music.
• 23 March:
  • Carlos Javier Echarri Mexican demographer Cánovas.
  • Domenico Di Carlo, footballer and Italian coach.
• 25 March:
  • Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress.
  • Raffaella Baracchi, Italian actress and model.
• March 26: Ed Wasser, American actor.
• March 27: Carolin van Bergen, a television and a German voice actress (f. 1990)
• 29 March:
  • Elle Macpherson, Australian model.
  • Annabella Sciorra, Italian actress.
• 30 March:
  • Tracy Chapman, American singer.
  • Ian Ziering, American actor.
• 31 March:
  • Fabiana Rios, Argentine policy.
  • Leonardo López Luján, Mexican archaeologist.

April

• April 1: Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist.
• April 3: Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist.
• April 4th: Branco, Brazilian footballer.
• April 6: David Woodard, writer, orchestra director.
• 7 April:
  • Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor.
  • Alex Kouri, Peruvian politician.
• April 8: Biz Markie, American rapper.
• April 9: Enric Folch, Spanish filmmaker.
• April 11: Wojciech Płocharski, journalist, author, composer, Polish traveler.
• April 13: Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress and comedian.
• April 14: William Serantes Pinto, Venezuelan military.
• April 15: Maria Fernanda Di Giacobbe, Venezuelan chocolate.
• 16 April:
  • Esbjörn Svensson, Swiss jazz pianist (f. 2008).
  • José Cubeactriz televisiva yiyo, a voice of German nationality, a Spanish bullfighter (f. 1985).
• April 17: Maynard James Keenan, American vocalist of the Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer bands.

Yuri.

• 20 April:
  • Crispin Glover, American actor.
  • Andy Serkis, British actor, represented Gollum and King Kong.
• 23 April:
  • Acosta Star, Cuban singer.
  • Rie Ishizuka, Japanese voice actress.
• April 24: Djimon Hounsou, a Beninese actor.
• 25 April:
  • Hank Azaria, American actor.
  • Andy Bell, British singer, Erasure band.
• April 27: Miss Rosi, songwriter, guitarist, music teacher and Peruvian child cheerleader.
• 28 April:
  • Barry Larkin, American baseball player.
  • L'Wren Scott, American fashion designer.
• April 29: Federico Castelluccio, Italian actor.
• April 30: Eddy Herrera, Dominican singer.

May

• 1 May: Yvonne van Gennip, Dutch skater.
• 4 May: Rocco Siffredi, Italian pornographic actor.
• 5 May:
  • Heike Henkel, German athlete.
  • Minami Takayama, Japanese actress and singer.
• May 6: Dana Hill, American actress (f. 1996).
• 7 May:
  • Denis Mandarino, Brazilian composer, artist and writer.
  • Giuseppe Iachini, footballer and Italian coach.
• 8 May:
  • Melissa Gilbert, American actress, president of the American Actors Union.
  • Bobby Labonte, American racer.
• 9 May:
  • Miguel Tapia, Chilean musician.
  • Mastretta, musician, composer and Spanish record producer.
  • Moses Angulo, Colombian actor and singer.
• May 12: Brett Gurewitz, an American rock musician from the Bad Religion band.
• May 13: Stephen Colbert, American satirical comedian.
• 14 May:
  • Eric Peterson, American rock musician from the Testament band.
  • Luly Bossa, Colombian actress.
• May 16: John Salley, American TV presenter and basketball player.
• May 21: Luis Fernando Hoyos, Colombian actor.
• May 22: Rita Guerrero, Mexican actress and singer.
• May 23: Ruth Metzler-Arnold, a Swiss politician, a member of the Federal Council.
• 24 May:
  • Adrian Moorhouse, British swimmer.
  • Álvaro Rudolphy, Chilean actor.
• May 26: Lenny Kravitz, American guitarist and singer.
• May 27: Adam Carolla, American radio and television comic.
• 28 May:
  • Christa Miller, American actress.
  • Phil Vassar, American musician.
  • Zsa Zsa Padilla, Filipino singer and actress.
  • Armen Gilliam, American basketball player (f. 2011).
  • Christian Herberth, German taekwondista.
  • Shuji Murakami, Japanese yudoca.
• 29 May:
  • Christina Rosenvinge, Spanish singer.
  • Javier Ojeda, Spanish singer.
• 30 May:
  • Wynonna Judd, American singer.
  • Tom Morello, American musician, of the Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave bands.

June

• 1 June:
  • Tribhuvan, Indian poet and journalist.
  • Eduardo Rinesi, philosopher, polytologist and Argentine educator, exrector of the National University of General Sarmiento.
• 3 June:
  • Kerry King, American guitarist, Slayer band co-founder.
  • James Purefoy, British actor.
• June 5: Rick Riordan, American writer.
• 7 June:
  • Gia Carides, Greek Australian actress.
  • José Antonio Segebre, lawyer, businessman and Colombian politician.
• June 9: Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress.
• June 10: Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician, The Smashing Pumpkins.
• 11 June:
  • Jean Alesi, French Formula 1 pilot.
  • Carlos Barragán: journalist, humorist and Argentine writer.
• June 12: Paula Marshall, American actress.
• June 13: Kathy Burke, British actress and comedian.
• 15 June:
  • Courteney Cox, American actress.
  • Michael Laudrup, a former player and a Danish coach.
• 19 June:
  • Laura Ingraham, American political commentator.
  • Boris Johnson, British politician, former Mayor of London and UK Prime Minister
• June 20: Remedios Cervantes, Spanish actress.
• 21 June:
  • Sammi Davis, British actress.
  • Doug Savant, American actor.
• 22 June:
  • Amy Brenneman, American actress.
  • Dan Brown, American writer (The Da Vinci Code).
• June 23: Astrid Carolina Herrera, actress, model and Venezuelan speaker.
• June 24: Felix de Bedout, journalist and Colombian news anchor.
• 25 June:
  • Johnny Herbert, British Formula 1 pilot.
  • Emma Suárez, Spanish actress.
• June 26: Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish rally driver.
• June 27: Alejandro Ceballos Casillas, Spanish football coach.
• June 30: Marco Del Freo, Italian singer.

July

• 1 July:
  • Cristina Cifuentes, Spanish politics.
  • Bernard Laporte, rugby player and French coach.
• 2 July: Ana María Kamper, Colombian actress.
• 3 July:
  • Mario Pergolini, presenter and Argentine producer of radio and television.
  • Toshiharu Sakurai, Japanese voice actor.
  • Yeardley Smith, American bent actress, The Simpsons.
  • Joanne Harris, British writer.
• July 4th: Daniel Marín, Argentine actor and musician (f. 2016).
• 5 July:
  • Uxue Barkos, journalist and Spanish politics.
  • Piotr Nowak, footballer and Polish coach.
  • Filip de Wilde, Belgian footballer.
• 6 July:
  • Bernardo Bonezzi, Spanish composer (f. 2012).
  • Javier Velasco Yeregui, a Spanish priest and theologian (f. 2009).
• July 7: Karina Gálvez, Ecuadorian poet.
• 9 July:
  • Courtney Love, American actress and music.
  • Gianluca Vialli, a football player and an Italian trainer (f. 2023).
• July 10: Dalton Vigh, Brazilian actor.
• July 11: Craig Charles, British actor.
• July 12: Agustín Pantoja, Spanish singer.

Miguel Induráin.

• July 16: Miguel Induráin, Spanish cyclist.
• 17 July:
  • Heather Langenkamp, American actress.
  • Martha Liliana Ruiz, Colombian actress and presenter.
• 20 July:
  • Chris Cornell, American band musician Soundgarden and Audioslave.
  • Terri Irwin, Australian entrepreneur and biologist of American origin.
• July 21: Ross Kemp, British actor.
• 22 July:
  • John Leguizamo, colombo-American actor.
  • David Spade, actor, comedian and American presenter.
  • Bonnie Langford, British actress
• 24 July:
  • Barry Bonds, American baseball player.
  • Pedro Passos Coelho, Portuguese Prime Minister.
  • Vicentico, singer, musician and Argentine composer.
  • Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese novelist.
• 26 July:
  • Sandra Bullock, American actress.
  • Anne Provoost, Belgian writer.
• July 28: Lori Loughlin, American actress.
• 30 July:
  • Vivica A. Fox, American actress.
  • Jürgen Klinsmann, former footballer and German coach.
  • Claudia Ramírez, Mexican actress.
• July 31: Jim Corr, Irish musician and singer, The Corrs band.

August

Melinda Gates

• August 1: Carlos "Café" Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player (f. 2006).
• 2 August:
  • Mary-Louise Parker, American actress.
  • Alejandro Andrade, Venezuelan military.
• 3 August:
  • Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician.
  • Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai politician.
• 5 August:
  • Adam Yauch, American musician (f. 2012).
  • Claudio Reyes Rubio, Mexican film and television director.
• August 7: Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, Portuguese diplomat.
• August 8: María Fernanda Cabal, Colombian politics.
• August 11: Héctor Soberón, Mexican actor.
• 15 August:
  • Melinda Gates, American politics, Bill Gates' wife.
  • Farid Ortiz, Colombian singer and composer of vallenata music.
• August 16: Jimmy Arias, American tennis player.
• August 18: Craig Bierko, American actor.
• August 20: Markus Flanagan, American actor.
• 22 August:
  • Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player.
  • Diane Setterfield, British writer.
• August 24: Carlos Hermosillo, Mexican ex-futbolist.
• 25 August:
  • Eduard Fernández, a Spanish actor.
  • Blair Underwood, American actor and director of television, cinema and theatre.
  • Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician.

September

Keanu Reeves

• 2 September:
  • Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor.
  • Maggie Cheung, a Dutch actress.
• September 3: Elena Martín Calvo, humorist and Spanish actress.
• September 6: Todd Palin, American oil man, Sarah Palin's husband.
• 7 September:
  • Eazy-E, American rapper, NWA band (f. 1995).
  • Andy Hug, Swiss karateka (f. 2000).
• 8 September:
  • Michael Johns, American health care businessman and presidential speech writer.
  • Scott Levy, American fighter.
  • Erkki Valla, Finnish footballer.
• September 11: Victor Wooten, American bassist.
• 15 September:
  • Gabriela Rivero, Mexican actress and singer.
  • María Galindo, activist, activist of radical feminism, Bolivian writer and communicator.
• 16 September:
  • Dave Sabo, American guitarist and composer Skid Row.
  • Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress.
• September 18: Marco Masini, Italian singer.
• September 19: Trisha Yearwood, American singer.
• September 21: Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan musician.
• September 23: Kōshi Inaba, Japanese singer of the B'z band.
• 24 September:
  • Leonardo Acosta, Colombian actor.
  • Ainhoa Arteta, Spanish lyric singer.
• September 25: Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and actress (seiyū).
• 28 September:
  • Sergio Dalma, Spanish singer.
  • Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian.
• 29 September:
  • Miguel Moly, composer, producer and Venezuelan singer.
  • Miles Aldridge, British photographer and artist.
• 30 September:
  • Trey Anastasio, American musician.
  • Monica Bellucci, Italian actress.

October

Kevin Michael Richardson

• October 2: José Luis Estellés, clarinetist and director of Spanish orchestra.
• 3 October:
  • Clive Owen, British actor.
  • Jostein Flo, Norwegian footballer.
• 4 October:
  • Yvonne Murray, British athlete.
  • Matt Cetlinski, American swimmer.
• October 5: Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese actor of bent (f. 2020).
• October 6: Dixie Carter, American free fighter promoter.
• October 9: Guillermo del Toro, director and producer of Mexican cinema.
• October 12: Francisco Gattorno, Cuban actor.
• October 13: Wendy de los Cobos, Mexican actress.
• 14 October:
  • Joe Girardi, American baseball player.
  • Julio Sánchez Cóccaro, Colombian actor.
• 18 October:
  • Stephan Winkelmann, current CEO of the Lamborghini Automobile Company.
  • Luis Fernando Velasco, Colombian lawyer and politician.
• 19 October:
  • Ty Pennington, American carpenter and model.
  • Katie Viqueira, Argentine tango singer.
• October 20: Kamala Harris, U.S. Policy, Vice President of the United States since 2021.
• October 21: Glòria Serra, a Spanish journalist.
• 22 October:
  • Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (f. 1993).
  • Toby McKeehan, American musician.
• October 23: Robert Trujillo, American rock musician, of the Suicidal bands Tendencies and Metallica.
• October 24: Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer.
• October 25: Kevin Michael Richardson, American actor and douber.
• October 28: Juan Darthés, an Argentine actor of Brazilian origin.
• 31 October:
  • Marco van Basten, Dutch trainer and former footballer.
  • Marty Wright, WWE's professional fighter.

November

Patrick Warburton

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Petr Nečas

• November 1: Daran Norris, an American voice actor.
• 3 November:
  • Paprika Steen, Danish actress.
  • Milly D'Abbraccio, Italian pornographic actress.
• 5 November: Famke Janssen, Danish actress.
• 6 November:
  • Kerry Conran, American filmmaker.
  • Greg Graffin, American singer, of the Bad Religion band.
• 7 November: Dana Plato, American actress (f. 1999).
• 9 November: Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor.
• November 10: Magnus Scheving, Icelandic producer.
• 11 November:
  • Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress.
  • Claudette Maillé, Mexican actress.
  • Calista Flockhart, American actress.
  • Philip McKeon, American actor (f. 2019).
• November 12: David Ellefson, American bassist of the Megadeth band.
• 14 November:
  • Rev Run, American rapper, Run-DMC band.
  • Patrick Warburton, American actor and voice actor.
  • Raúl Araiza, Mexican actor and television driver.
• 16 November:
  • Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Italian actress and filmmaker.
  • Diana Krall, pianist and Canadian jazz singer.
• 19 November:
  • Petr Nečas, Czech prime minister.
  • Alfredo Zaiat, an Argentine economist and journalist.
• November 20: Luis A. Mendoza, actor, director of hem and Mexican locutor (f. 2020).
• November 21: Shane Douglas, American fighter.
• November 24: Garret Dillahunt, American actor.
• November 25: Mark Lanegan, American singer of the Screaming Trees band.
• 26 November:
  • Andrés Echevarría, Uruguayan writer.
  • Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier.
• 27 November:
  • Robin Givens, American actress.
  • Roberto Mancini, footballer and Italian coach.
  • David Rakoff, writer, journalist and Canadian actor (f. 2012).
• November 29: Don Cheadle American actor.
• November 30: Eduardo Rivera, Mexican actor.

December

Edith González

Stone Cold Steve Austin

• December 1st: Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer.
• December 4: Marisa Tomei, American actress.
• December 4: Jonathan Goldstein, American actor.
• December 6: Jorge González Rios, Chilean musician.
• December 7: Fernando Pardo, Spanish musician, of the bands Sex Museum and Los Coronas.
• December 8: Teri Hatcher, American actress.
• December 9: Felicity Huffman, American actress.
• December 9: Paul Landers, German musician, of the Rammstein band.
• December 10: Edith González, Mexican actress (f. 2019).
• December 10: José Antonio Pujante, Spanish politician (f. 2019).
• December 11th: Miguel Varoni, a collombo-Argentine actor.
• December 12: Sabu, American fighter.
• December 13: Hideto Hide Matsumoto, Japanese musician.
• December 14: Rebecca Gibney, New Zealand actress.
• December 14: Liuba María Hevia, guitarist and Cuban singer.
• December 16: Heike Drechsler, German athlete.
• December 18: Stone Cold Steve Austin, American fighter.
• December 19: Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball.
• December 22: Juan M. Velázquez, Spanish writer.
• December 23: Eddie Vedder, American singer, of the Pearl Jam band.
• December 26: Elizabeth Kostova, American writer.
• December 27: Richard Blanco, Venezuelan politician.
• December 28: Ismael Barrios, actor and Colombian singer.
• December 30: George Newbern, American actor.
• December 30: Karim Bavi, Iranian footballer (f. 2022).
• December 31: Fernando Giner, footballer and Spanish coach.

Unknown date

• Marisa Dippe, actress, theatre director and Argentine puppeteer (f. 2001).
• Martha Osorio, Colombian actress.
• María Ripoll, director of Spanish cinema.

Deaths

January

• 1 January: Bechara El Khoury, a politician and a Lebanese president (n. 1890).
• January 8: Julius Raab, Austrian chancellor (n. 1891).
• January 15: Jack Teagarden (58), American jazz thrombonist (n. 1905).
• 17 January: T. H. White (58 years old), British writer (n. 1906).
• January 21: Luis Martín-Santos, a Spanish writer (n. 1924).
• January 21: Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian actor (n. 1896).
• January 22: Marc Blitzstein (58), American composer (n. 1905).
• January 27: Norman Z. McLeod (65), American filmmaker (n. 1898).
• January 29: Alan Ladd (51), American actor (n. 1913).
• January 29: Adolfo Díaz (88), a Costa Rican politician, president of Nicaragua (n. 1875).

February

• February 6: Emilio Aguinaldo, first Filipino president (n. 1869).
• February 8: Boshirō Hosogaya, Japanese Admiral of World War II (n. 1888).
• 8 February: Ernst Kretschmer (76), German psychiatrist (n. 1888).
• February 13: Paulino Alcántara, Spanish footballer.
• February 18: Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor (n. 1907).
• February 25: Alexander Archipenko, Russian sculptor and graphic artist.

March

• 6 March: Enrique Molina Garmendia (92), Chilean educator and philosopher (n. 1871).
• 6 March: Paul I (62), Greek king.
• 6 March: Edward Van Sloan (81), American actor (n. 1882).
• 9 March: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (94), German general (n. 1870).
• March 9: José Capuz, Spanish sculptor.
• March 13: Aurelio Escobar Castellanos, Mexican photographer.
• March 16: Lino Enea Spilimbergo (67), Argentine plastic artist.
• March 18: Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports officer (n. 1870).
• March 18: Norbert Wiener (70), American mathematician (n. 1894).
• March 20: Brendan Behan, Irish poet and writer (n. 1923).
• 23 March: Peter Lorre (60), Hungarian actor (n. 1904).

April

• April 5: Douglas MacArthur (84), American Army General (n. 1880).
• 13 April: Veit Harlan (64), German filmmaker (n. 1899).
• April 14: Gerhard Domagk (68), German bacteriologist, nobel medical prize in 1939.
• April 14: Rachel Carson (59), American biologist and environmental writer (n. 1907).
• April 18: Ben Hecht (70), American screenwriter (n. 1894).
• April 24: Gerhard Domagk (69), German bacteriologist, Nobel Prize winner of Medicine, who rejected (n. 1895).
• April 28: Alexandre Koyré, a French philosopher of Russian origin.
• April 29: Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, writer, journalist and Spanish humorist.

May

• May 21: James Franck (82), German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925 (n. 1882).
• 27 May: Jawaharlal Nehru (75), Indian politician, first president between 1947 and 1964 (n. 1889).
• May 30: Eddie Sachs, American racing driver (n. 1927).

June

• June 3: Frans Eemil Sillanpää (76), Finnish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939 (n. 1888).
• June 6: Robert Warwick, American actor (n. 1878).
• June 7: Meade Lux Lewis, pianist and American blues composer.
• June 9: Max Aitken (85), a Canadian politician and publicist (n. 1879).
• June 21: Michael Schwerner, a black civil rights activist, killed in Mississippi (n. 1939).
• 25 June: Gerrit Rietveld (76), Dutch architect (n. 1888).

July

• 1 July: Pierre Monteux (89), director of French orchestra and musician (n. 1875).
• July 6: Gregorio Delgado Fernandez, journalist and Cuban historian (n. 1903).
• July 15: Luis Batlle Berres (66), politician and Uruguayan president (n. 1897).
• July 31: Jim Reeves, American country music singer (n. 1923).

August

• August 3: Flannery O'Connor, American writer (n. 1925).
• 6 August: Sir Cedric Hardwicke (71), British actor (n. 1893).
• 12 August: Ian Fleming (56), British writer (n. 1908).
• 21 August: Palmiro Togliatti (71), Italian communist leader (n. 1893).
• August 27: Gracie Allen (69), American actress and comedian (n. 1895).

September

• September 2: Francisco Craveiro Lopes (70), Portuguese president (n. 1894).
• 18 September: Clive Bell (83), British art critic (n. 1881).
• September 18: Sean O'Casey (84), Irish writer (n. 1880).
• September 28: Harpo Marx (76), American comedian (n. 1888).

October

• October 10: Eddie Cantor, actor, comedian and American dancer (n. 1892).
• October 15: Cole Porter (73), American composer (n. 1891).
• October 20: Herbert Hoover (90), American President (n. 1874).
• October 22: Whip Wilson, American actor (n. 1911).

November

• 6 November: Hans von Euler-Chelpin (91), German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 (n. 1873).
• 11 November: Juan de Dios Filiberto, Argentine musician (n. 1885).

December

• 1 December: J. B. S. Haldane (72), British geneticist (n. 1892).
• 1 December: Clementina Anuarite (25), Congolese religious (n. 1939).

Pina Pellicer

• December 4: Pina Pellicer (30), Mexican actress (n. 1934)
• 4 December: Humberto Zarrilli, Uruguayan poet and pedagogue (n. 1898).
• December 6: Consuelo Vanderbilt, British aristocrat (n. 1877).
• December 9: Edith Sitwell, British poet (n. 1887).
• 11 December: Sam Cooke (33), American singer (n. 1931).
• December 11: Percy Kilbride (76), American actor (n. 1888).
• 11 December: Alma Schindler (85), wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel (n. 1879).
• 14 December: William Bendix (58), American actor (n. 1906).
• 14 December: Francisco Canaro (76), Uruguayan composer of tangos (n. 1888).
• 17 December: Victor Franz Hess (81), Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 (n. 1883).
• December 21: Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (n. 1880).
• December 25: Joaquim Claret, Spanish sculptor (n. 1879).
• 31 December: Ólafur Thors (72), politician and Prime Minister of Iceland (n. 1892).

Art and literature

• January 6: Alfredo Martínez Garrido gets the Nadal Award for his novel Fear and hope.
• 17 May: Claude Lévi-Strauss publica Raw and cooked.
• Ernest Hemingway: Paris was a party.
• Saul Bellow: Herzog.
• Jorge Semprún gets the Formentor Award for the work The long journey.
• Philip K. Dick: The penultimate truth (The Penultimate Truth), Time of Mars (Martian Time-Slip), The drills (The Simulacra), The clans of the alphana moon (Clans of the Alphane Moon)
• Jean Paul Sartre gets the Nobel Prize in Literature but rejects him briefly explaining in a letter sent to the Swedish Academy why
• Simone de Beauvoir: A very sweet death.
• Agatha Christie: Mystery in the Caribbean.
• Ian Fleming: You only live twice., Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
• Clarice Lispector: The passion according to G. H..
• Kenzaburō: A personal issue.
• Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
• Arthur Miller: After the fall.
• John F. Kennedy: A Nation of Immigrants.

Science and technology

• January 25: NASA orbits the second balloon satellite, Echo 2.
• April 2: launch of the Soviet space probe Zond 1 for Venus.

Sports

• 21 June: Spain's soccer team wins the Euro Cup by beating the Soviet Union in Santiago Bernabéu by 2:1.
• For the first time the Judo is included as part of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
• John Surtees is the world champion of Formula 1.
• First Chilean division: Universidad de Chile is a champion for the fourth time in Ballet Azul.
• European Cup: Inter Milan wins at the end to Real Madrid for 3-1 with great performance by Luis Suárez.
• Professional Colombian Football: Millionaires (9th time).
• Central Chilean rugby Championship: Catholic Champion University.
• Ecuadorian Football Championship: Deportivo Quito is a champion for the first time in its history and for the first time for a Pichincha club.

Cinema

• Michelangelo Antonioni: The Red Desert.
• Ingmar Bergman: Those women! (För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor)
• Alfred Hitchcock: Marnie, the thief.
• Jacques Demy: The umbrellas of Cherbourg.
• Luis Buñuel: Journal of a waitress (Le journal d'une femme de chambre).
• Walt Disney: Mary Poppins.
• Philippe Garrel: Les enfants désaccordés
• Jean-Luc Godard:
  • A married woman (Une femme mariée: Suite of fragments d'un film tourné in 1964),
  • The most famous scams in the world (Les plus belles escroqueries du monde, segment Le grand escroc),
  • Banking apart (Bande à part),
  • Reportage sur Orly.
• Sergio Leone: For a handful of dollars.
• The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night.
• Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove.

Music

• It is founded The Who.
• Lynyrd Skynyrd is founded.
• The Kinks is founded.
• The Byrds is founded.
• The Moody Blues is founded.
• Alice Cooper is founded.
• Found The Velvet Underground
• The Saicos is founded.
• Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin', Another Side of Bob Dylan.
• Cecilia Bracamonte: Cecilia Bracamonte
• The Great Combo of Puerto Rico: Acángana, Chinese Eyes-Jala Jala.
• Leo Dan: How I miss you my love and The phenomenon
• Lucille Starr: The French Song.
• Herman's Hermits debut with their classic I’m into something good.
• Marisol: "I settle" and "The mask", songs of the movie "The new Cinderella".
• Palito Ortega: Palito Ortega.
• Roberto Carlos: I'm sorry., Sing to the youth.
• Rocío Dúrcal: I'm 17 years old., Villancicos de Rocío
• Roy Orbison: Oh, pretty woman, simple recorded in Monument Records studios.
• The Animals: The house of the rising sun.
• The Beatles: A hard day’s night (10 July)
• The Beatles: Beatles for sale (4 December)
• The Beach Boys: they edit their first single number one, "I Get Around", and publish again three studio albums Shut Down Volume 2, All Summer Long and The Beach Boys' Christmas Albumalso comes out for sale Beach Boys Concert, first live album that reaches n.o. 1 in history.
• The Zombies: She’s not there.
• Frank Sinatra: "Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners". «Album published in March by the Reprise Records record label». "America, I Hear You Singing." "A tribute to President John F. Kennedy published in April by the Reprise Records record label." "It Might as Well Be Swing." «Album published in August by the Reprise Records record label». "12 Songs of Christmas". «Album published in August by the Reprise Records record label». "Softly, as I Leave You." «Album published in November by the Reprise Records record label».

Festivals

• The 9th edition of the Eurovision Song Festival in Copenhagen DenmarkDenmark.
  • Winner: The singer Gigliola Cinquetti with the song «Non ho l'età» representing Italy .

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Charles Hard Townes, Nikolái Guenádiyevich Básov and Alexandr Mikhailovich Projorov.
• Chemistry: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.
• Medicine: Konrad Bloch and Fiódor Lynen.
• Literature: Jean-Paul Sartre.
• Peace: Martin Luther King.