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 term " kin selection " may first have been coined by John Maynard Smith in 1964:

* Ralph Maynard Smith, ( 1904 – 1964 ) architect

* Maynard James Keenan ( born 1964 ), singer for the bands Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer ( born James Herbert Keenan )

Haldane ( 1892 — 1964 ) and his esteemed pupil John Maynard Smith, ( 1920 — 2004 ) were both communists, and both worked for the British governments during the first and second world wars respectively.

Maynard James Keenan ( born James Herbert Keenan ; April 17, 1964 ) is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor.

In the summer of 1965 Maynard Solomon hired Samuel Charters to edit the tapes of the 1964 Newport Folk Festival.

* Maynard James Keenan ( born 1964 ), American rock singer

* James Beveridge, 1964 – 1978

* 1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

* 1964 – James Blundell, Australian country singer

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Ronald Colman in A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

* 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

* 1964 – James Purefoy, English actor

* 1943 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist ( d. 1964 )

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

* Coulson, Noel James ( 1964 ).

* The fourth, was a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, commissioned in 1964 and struck in 1993.

** The 1964 New York World's Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the Duke of York ( later King James II ) and being renamed New York in 1664.

* May 30 – James Chaney, American civil rights worker ( d. 1964 )

* September 25 – James A. Hawken, schoolteacher ( d. 1964 )

* August 26 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1964 )

Lee dropped out of college in the spring of 1964 and moved to Oakland to live with James Yimm Lee ( 嚴鏡海 ).

The only other multiple winners in this category include Henry Mancini ( in 1962 and 1964 ), James Horner ( 1988 and 1999 ) and U2 ( 2001 and 2006 ), winning two times each.

The DC SQUID was invented in 1964 by Robert Jaklevic, John J. Lambe, James Mercereau, and Arnold Silver of Ford Research Labs after Brian David Josephson postulated the Josephson effect in 1962, and the first Josephson junction was made by John Rowell and Philip Anderson at Bell Labs in 1963.

* Lieutenant James Callaghan, MP ( 26 July 1945 – 21 October 1964 )

* Lieutenant The Right Honourable James Callaghan, MP ( 21 October 1964 –?

* Paul M. Fitts and James R. Peterson ( 1964 ).

* 1964 Val Fitch and James Cronin observe CP violation by the weak force in the decay of K mesons

University of Mississippi Medical Center surgeons, led by Dr. James Hardy, performed the world's first human lung transplant, in 1963, and the world's first animal-to-human heart transplant, in 1964.