About the day » Wednesday August 12, 1964Calender converter

• Birgit Brückner († 2011)
• Fenna van den Heuvel, Voorthuizen († 2015)
• Andrea Esch († 1994)
• Kemper Boyd Sudom, UNKNOWN († 1985)
• Jan Robert Mulder, Barneveld († 2009)
• N.N. Dekker, Delft
• Johanna Lippold, Klazienaveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1964)
• Antonio Cornelis van Hemert, Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Lloyd Dale Erisman, Dayton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Wilco Pelkmans, Stiphout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1999)

• Agatha Perdok (88), Delft
• Catharina Thelen (74), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Elisabeth Hamelink (67), Middelburg, Nederland
• Cornelis Janz. Spaans (82), Broek op Langedijk
• Bregtje Lieuwes Stroosma (83)
• Cornelia Jannetje Hoogerhuis (69), Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cornelis Verboom (85), Ameide
• Alfons Jan Maria Gers (67), Wortel, België
• Anna Maria Philomena Strijthagen (70), Eys-Trintelen, LI, Netherlands
• António José Manuel de Bragança (69), Lisboa

• 1961 » Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer
• 1961 » Roy Hay, English guitarist, keyboard player, and composer
• 1963 » Campbell Newman, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Queensland
• 1963 » Kōji Kitao, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 60th Yokozuna
• 1963 » Sir Mix-a-Lot, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1964 » Michael Hagan, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1964 » Txiki Begiristain, Spanish footballer
• 1965 » Peter Krause, American actor
• 1966 » Tobias Ellwood, American-English captain and politician
• 1967 » Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor

• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Ronald
6. John
7. Cornelis
8. Hendrik
9. Paul
10. Pieter
11. Marcel
12. Mark
13. Richard
14. Gerrit
15. Johan
16. Willem

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Monique
6. Yvonne
7. Cornelia
8. Jolanda
9. Anita
10. Ingrid
11. Karin
12. Jacqueline
13. Wilhelmina
14. Catharina
15. Petra
16. Caroline

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
• April 8 » The Gemini 1 test flight is conducted.
• May 2 » First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
• June 19 » The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• July 31 » Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
• October 16 » Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
• October 29 » A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

The temperature on August 12, 1964 was between 13.4 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain during 15.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.