About the day » Tuesday March 17, 1964Calender converter

• Jeannicq Beauprez, Roeselare West-Vlaanderen België († 2004)
• Robert Douglas GREEN, Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America († 1964)
• Samantha Saxby († 2002)
• Rudolf Willem de Weert, Colmschate († 1964)
• José Sturkenboom, Schalkwijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 2012)
• Patrick Paul Edwards, Bad Axe, Huron, Michigan, United States († 1964)
• Wietse Johannes Regtop, Hengelo († 1984)
• Petrus Gerardus Smit, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands

• Alberta Arlietta Huijgen (80), Slagharen, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antoine Thomassen
• Alida Romberg (69), Delft, Nederland
• Aart Daamsz Westerhoud (65), Oegstgeest, zh.nld
• Aaltje van Harlingen (51), Hoorn
• Alberta ArliÙtta Huijgen (80), Slagharen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje van Harlingen (51), Hoorn
• Anna Maria Rutgers (81), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Blanche Mae NYE (84), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Bieuwke van der Lei (96), Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten

• 1962 » Ank Bijleveld, Dutch politician
• 1962 » Carsten Almqvist, Swedish business executive
• 1962 » Clare Grogan, Scottish singer and actress
• 1962 » Janet Gardner, American singer and guitarist
• 1963 » Roger Harper, Guyanese cricketer and coach
• 1964 » Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer and coach
• 1964 » Lee Dixon, English footballer and journalist
• 1964 » Rob Lowe, American actor and producer
• 1964 » Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer († 2013)
• 1965 » Andrew Hudson, South African cricketer

• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)
• 1961 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician (b. 1860)
• 1965 » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862)
• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)

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. Karin
11. Ingrid
12. Catharina
13. Jacqueline
14. Wilhelmina
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.
• March 1 » Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
• May 9 » Ngô Đình Cẩn, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngô Đình Diệm before the family's toppling, is executed.
• June 12 » Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
• June 19 » The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• August 16 » Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Dương Văn Minh with General Nguyễn Khánh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
• August 27 » South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.

The temperature on March 17, 1964 was between -5.6 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.