A political history of the civil war in Angola, 1964 – 1990.

* 1964 – Phil Gayle, English news anchor

* 1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist ( d. 1964 )

* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )

* 1964 – Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter ( Indigo Girls )

* 1964 – Tony Fernandes, Malaysian entrepreneur

* 1964 – Ian Healy, Australian cricketer

* 1964 – Kent James, American singer-songwriter, actor, and actvist

* 1964 – Barrington Levy, Jamaican singer and musician

* 1964 – Paul Bernardo, Canadian serial killer and rapist

* 1964 – Robert Bogue, American actor

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

* 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor ( d. 1964 )

* 1964 – Moosie Drier, American actor and director

* 1964 – Gary Valenciano, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

* 1964 – Brett Hull, Canadian-American ice hockey player

* 1964 – Hoda Kotb, American journalist

* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

* 1964 – Jay Buhner, American baseball player

* 1964 – Hank Cheyne, American actor

* 1964 – Debi Mazar, American actress

The tempo of the play changed over the next four series in the 1960s, held in 1962 – 63, 1964, 1965 – 66 and 1968.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

The existence of a subglacial lake in the Vostok region was first suggested by Russian geographer Andrey Kapitsa based on seismic soundings made during the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions in 1959 and 1964 to measure the thickness of the ice sheet.

Russian geographer Andrey Kapitsa used seismic soundings in the region of Vostok Station made during the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1959 and 1964 to measure the thickness of the ice sheet.

* 1964 – Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician

* 1964 – Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer

* 2008 – Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer ( Grazhdanskaya Oborona ) ( b. 1964 )

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

* 1881 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter ( d. 1964 )

* 1964 – Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player

* 1884 – Anna Vyrubova, Russian writer ( d. 1964 )

* Pyotr Kuznetsov ( 1964 ), a Russian religious leader

* 1876 – Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian / Dutch mathematician ( d. 1964 )

* 1887 – Samuil Marshak, Russian writer and children's poet ( d. 1964 )

* 1964 – Igor Jijikine, Russian actor

On 6 October 1964, Milligan appeared in Frank Dunlop's production of the play Oblomov at the Lyric Theatre in London, based on the novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov.

* August 22 – Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer ( d. 1964 )

Since 1964, the watches of the First Moscow Factory have been marked by the trademark “ Полёт ”, transliterated as “ POLJOT ”, which means “ flight ” in Russian and is a tribute to the many space trips its watches have accomplished.

For example, the 1961 Russian adaptation Ukroshchenie stroptivoy directed by Sergei Kolosov ; the 1964 French adaptation La mégère apprivoisée, directed by Pierre Badel, which aired on RTF ; the 1971 Polish adaptation Poskromienie złośnicy, directed by Zygmunt Hübner, which aired on TVP1 ; the 1974 German adaptation Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, directed by Otto Schenk, which aired on Das Erste ; the 1975 Dutch adaptation De getemde feeks, directed by Robert Lussac and Senne Rouffaer, which aired on KRO ; another Dutch production, from 1990, under the same name, directed by Berend Boudewijn and Dirk Tanghe, which also aired on KRO ; and the 1990 Polish adaptation Poskromienie złośnicy, directed by Michał Kwieciński, which aired on TVP1.

Boyer's only child, Michael Charles Boyer ( December 10, 1944 – December 10, 1964 ), committed suicide, aged 20, playing Russian roulette after separating from his girlfriend.

Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (; born 25 August 1964 ) is a Russian mathematician.

Zond ( Зонд ; Russian for " probe ") was the name given to two distinct series of Soviet unmanned space program undertaken from 1964 to 1970.

Russian cardiac surgeon, Dr. Vasilii Kolesov, performed arguably the first successful internal mammary artery – coronary artery anastomosis in 1964.

Jack Frost, a Russian film from 1964, has the Russian title Morozko — the Russian equivalent of Jack Frost.