About the day » Saturday October 17, 1964Calender converter

• Maarten Dirk Vooijs, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Michel van der Steen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1970)
• Phillip Allen Jolly († 1964)
• Jenny FRANKEN, Bergen op Zoom (NL/NB) († 1999)
• Maria Hendrina El Spuijbroek, 's-Gravenhage († 1965)
• Maarten Dirk Vooijs, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Wilhelmina Adriana Johanna Maria van Zon, Tilburg
• Komberly Dawn White, Belleville, St Clair County, Illinois († 2025)
• Margreeth Luimes

• Albertus Hendrikus (Bertus) Fleer (70)
• Alexander Barron (85), Waterbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States
• Annewies de Vries (21), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Berm (38)
• Alma Wichendahl (64)
• Alberdina Smit (75), Harculo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana van der Burg (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Laenen (87), Geel, Antwerpen, België
• Antonia Van Haaren (59), Heerlen
• Arie van der Hulst (89), Baarn (Utrecht)

• 1962 » Glenn Braggs, American baseball player
• 1962 » Jay Humphries, American basketball player
• 1962 » Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
• 1963 » Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
• 1963 » Toby Young, English journalist and academic
• 1964 » Gregg Wallace, English television presenter
• 1964 » Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician
• 1965 » Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1965 » Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor
• 1966 » Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach

• 1958 » Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
• 1962 » Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
• 1965 » Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
• 1967 » Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
• 1970 » Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
• 1970 » Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)

• 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 8 » President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
• February 9 » The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
• April 21 » A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
• May 2 » Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USNS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Two Viet Cong combat swimmers had placed explosives on the ship's hull. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
• June 21 » Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
• August 12 » South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.

The temperature on October 17, 1964 was between 6.4 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.