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• Charles Edward Maurice 9th Earl Spencer, Greater London, Middlesex, England († 1991)
• Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, Marylebone, London, England († 1970)
• Joost Jan Jochems, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Linda Van Hove, Berchem, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Baby Boy Konyn († 1964)
• Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl, Marylebone, London, England († 1970)
• Peter Gerard Unknown, Mt Alvernia Hosp, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia († 2002)
• Leonardus Bernardus Stockmann, Enschede, Ov, Nederland († 1964)
• Gatze Bak, Tjerkwerd, gem. Wonseradeel († 1996)
• Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, Sandringham, Norfolk, England († 1991)

• Aafje Dekker (62), Beverwijk, Gemeente Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje {Elsie} {Drenth} Miller (84), Ridgewood, Bergen, New Jersey, United States of America
• Arie de Jongste (46), Maassluis, Nederland
• Baby Boy Konyn (0)
• Adriana Luijken (76), Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Ootjers (74), Oudkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adolphine Maria Aloysia van der Does de Willebois (63), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ariena Bouwina Melcherdina de Boer (49), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arie Ootjers (74), Oudkarspel, Nederland
• Bastiaan Verstraaten (70), Den Haag

• 1961 » Clive Allen, English international footballer and manager
• 1961 » Nick Heyward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 » David Wells, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1964 » Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, English journalist and author
• 1964 » Edin Osmanović, Slovenian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1964 » Kōichirō Genba, Japanese politician, 80th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1965 » Stu Grimson, Canadian ice hockey player, sportscaster, and lawyer
• 1965 » Ted Allen, American television host and author
• 1966 » Dan Abrams, American journalist and author
• 1967 » Graham Brady, English politician

• 1956 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer and trainer (b. 1881)
• 1961 » Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1964 » Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
• 1971 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
• 1973 » Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1973 » Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)

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.
• January 13 » In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).
• 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.
• January 30 » In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
• March 6 » Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
• March 19 » Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of João Goulart and against communism.
• July 19 » Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.

The temperature on May 20, 1964 was between 8.6 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.