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.

* Brooks Otis, Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry, Oxford, 1964

In June 1964 Burke toured with James Brown, Otis Redding, Joe Tex, and Garnett Mimms on the Summer Shower of Stars Tour, and performed on June 20 at the Donnelly Theater in Boston, Massachusetts.

* The Blues of Otis Spann ( 1964 )

* Muddy Waters & His Blues Band with Otis Spann-Live The Life ( Live ) ( recorded 1964, released 1997 )

Between January 1962 and December 1964, Stax and Volt released several chart hits each by Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, and Booker T. and the M. G .' s.

In April-May 1964, at the height of a surge of popular interest in the blues, she toured Europe as part of the Blues and Gospel Caravan, alongside Muddy Waters and Otis Spann, Ranson Knowling and Little Willie Smith, Reverend Gary Davis, Cousin Joe and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

Otis and Josephine divorced in 1964, and Williams went on to date Florence Ballard of The Supremes, and was for a time engaged to R & B singer Patti LaBelle.

Otis Fitzgerald Smith ( born January 30, 1964 ) is a retired American professional basketball player and former general manager of the NBA's Orlando Magic.

The Prairie View A & M Football team won Black college national championship titles in 1953, 1954, 1958, 1963, and 1964 and Southwestern Athletic Conference Championships SWAC in 1933, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1964. and recently in 2009. Notable football players that have achieved success in the National Football League ( NFL ) are National Football Hall of Fame Inductee Kenny Houston and Otis Taylor, who won a World Championship with the Kansas City Chiefs in 1969.

* 1964 – Yeardley Smith, French-American actress

* Joseph Fielding Smith ( presiding patriarch ) ( 1899 – 1964 ), Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1942 to 1946

For that reason, they contend Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman presidential candidate ; she was nominated at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

Yeardley Smith (; born Martha Maria Yeardley Smith ; July 3, 1964 ) is a French-born American actress, voice actress, writer and painter.

Smith was born Martha Maria Yeardley Smith on July 3, 1964 in Paris, France.

** Jamestown: The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: " Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." Smith, Proceedings ( Barbour 1964 )

* June 27 – Jamestown: The colony bears extreme toil in strengthening the fort John Smith, Proceedings ( Barbour 1964: 210 ).

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

* The Carpetbaggers, 1961 ( adapted into both the 1964 film of the same title and the 1966 film Nevada Smith )

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

The novel was adapted into three movies: The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price in 1964, The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston in 1971, and I am Legend ( film ) starring Will Smith in 2007.

They had three chart hits, " Baby, Please Don't Go " ( 1964 ), " Here Comes the Night " ( 1965 ), and " Mystic Eyes " ( 1965 ), though it was the b-side of " Baby, Please Don't Go ", the garage band classic, " Gloria ", that went on to become a rock standard covered by Patti Smith, The Doors, Shadows of Knight, Jimi Hendrix and many others.

* Paul Smith ( footballer born 1964 ), English football player with Sheffield United and Port Vale

* Paul Smith ( cricketer ) ( born 1964 ), former allrounder for Warwickshire

The establishment of pro-communist governments in Tanzania ( 1961 – 64 ) and Zambia ( 1964 ) and explicitly Marxist-Leninist governments in Angola ( 1975 ), Mozambique ( 1975 ), and eventually Rhodesia itself ( in 1980 ) are cited by Smith as evidence of " the insidious encroachment of Soviet imperialism down the continent.

In addition to the Millicent Martin studio recording of " In the Summer of His Years " issued in the US by ABC-Paramount, other versions were recorded and released by Connie Francis ( MGM ), Mahalia Jackson ( Columbia ), Kate Smith ( RCA Victor ), Sarah Vaughan ( Vernon ) and The Chad Mitchell Trio ( Mercury ); the Francis recording became a Top 40 hit on the Cash Box pop singles chart in January 1964.

* A History of Deaf Smith County, featuring Pioneer Families, published 1964 by Bessie Smith, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

* Willie Smith ( cricketer ) ( 1885 – 1964 ), English cricketer

JOSS II, was developed by Charles L. Baker, Joseph W. Smith, Irwin D. Greenwald, and G. Edward Bryan for the PDP-6 computer between 1964 and February 1966.

In 1964, he helped organize the band The Wailing Wailers, with Junior Braithwaite, a falsetto singer, and backup singers Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith.

* Bud Feltman: 1964 Olympian, former VP of Scott and Smith USA