About the day » Sunday August 2, 1964Calender converter

• Marjan Visser, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Hanna de Haan, Hengelo († 2024)
• Monique Guillaume Indemans, Rotem, Provincie Limburg, België († 2014)
• Rohaan, enter
• gertruda johanna alberta maria (gertie) verdellen, helden-panningen († 1965)
• Randoll Sjoerdsma, Muskegon (Muskegon County) (Michigan) († 1993)
• John Fitzgerald Jude de Lima, Toronto Ontario Canada († 1967)
• Twan Ras, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Suzan Ummels, Heerlen,6400,Limburg,Nederland
• Karin Weesie, Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)

• Christina Maria Vogtschmidt (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Anna KRÜSSEL (77)
• Alida van Bruggen (81), Utrecht
• Alexander "Samuel" KLEIN (79)
• Adriana Johanna Vleut (74), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Ernest Naish (92), Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales, UK
• Christiaan Hubert (Huub) Schoots (48), Amsterdam
• César Eugène MASCART (61), Bruay sur L'Escaut,59860,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Alexander Clunes Sherriff Innes Jr. (67), Leeds, Yorkshire, England
• Anna Maria Kamp (78), Heerenveen

• 1962 » Lee Mavers, English singer, songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 » Laura Bennett, American architect and fashion designer
• 1963 » Uğur Tütüneker, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1964 » Frank Biela, German race car driver
• 1964 » Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
• 1965 » Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1965 » Joe Hockey, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Treasurer of Australia
• 1966 » Grainne Leahy, Irish cricketer
• 1966 » Takashi Iizuka, Japanese wrestler
• 1966 » Tim Wakefield, American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1955 » Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1967 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Brian Cole, American bass player (b. 1942)
• 1972 » Helen Hoyt, American poet and author (b. 1887)
• 1972 » Paul Goodman, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1911)
• 1973 » Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1974 » Douglas Hawkes, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1893)

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 » Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
• January 25 » Blue Ribbon Sports, which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes.
• May 5 » The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
• August 1 » The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• October 14 » Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
• November 21 » The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it is the world's longest bridge span.

The temperature on August 2, 1964 was between 11.5 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.