About the day » Wednesday January 29, 1964Calender converter

• Sylvia Stassen († 2012)
• Naamloos van Hunnik, Veenendaal, Nederland († 1964)
• Helena Verhoeff, Giessendam († 1998)

• Carolina Gertraud Marie Galavazi (77), Apeldoorn
• Charlotte Margarethe van Batenburg (77), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Tillema (89), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Constantinus Coenen (74), Minderhout, België
• Dingena Maria van Beek (82), Bridgeport, Verenigde Staten
• Adoniram Judson Boardman I (81), Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri, United States of America
• Cornelis Boerkoel (84), Utrecht
• Brian Gerrard O'Connor (10), Victoria Australia
• Anna Boontje (85), 's-Gravenhage
• Bertus Toxopeus (71), Farmsum

• 1960 » Gia Carangi, American supermodel († 1986)
• 1960 » Greg Louganis, American diver and author
• 1961 » Petra Thümer, German swimmer and photographer
• 1962 » Nicholas Turturro, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 » John Anthony Gallagher, English-New Zealand rugby player
• 1965 » Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
• 1965 » Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis player and coach
• 1966 » Romário, Brazilian footballer, manager, and politician
• 1967 » Stacey King, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1968 » Edward Burns, American actor, director, and producer

• 1950 » Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1880)
• 1956 » H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Winifred Brunton, South African painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1964 » Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1969 » Allen Welsh Dulles, American banker, lawyer, and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1893)
• 1970 » B. H. Liddell Hart, French-English soldier, historian, and journalist (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (b. 1954)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Monique
6. Yvonne
7. Cornelia
8. Jolanda
9. Anita
10. Ingrid
11. Karin
12. Catharina
13. Wilhelmina
14. Jacqueline
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.
• January 9 » Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
• January 28 » An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
• February 10 » Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMASVoyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
• August 12 » South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
• October 1 » The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
• October 22 » An all-party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which will become the new official flag of Canada.

The temperature on January 29, 1964 was between 0.7 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.