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• Roger Johannes Mechelina Maria van Rooij, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andrie Jan (Andr) Meulmeester, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland († 2011)
• Antonie Ellert Duisterwinkel, Meppel
• Steven Harry CRAM († 2016)
• Jerry Erwin Evans († 1984)
• Trudy JANSEN († 1973)
• Leo Fokke Dam († 1973)

• Cornelis van den Berg (92), Utrecht
• Edward Pinkey Picklesimer (91), Macon County, North Carolina
• Anna Maria Mathilde Theresia Somers (19), Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia de HEER (78), Roy Ut. ( USA )
• Christoffel van der Lugt (62), Arnhem (Arnhem), Gelderland, Nederland
• Bastiaan van der Poel (77), Rotterdam
• Cora Mae Duncan (70)
• Catharina Bard (Barth) (80)
• * Teunis Duizer (59), Dalem
• Adrianus Lambertus Brabers (5), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1961 » Dean DeLeo, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1962 » Martin Cauchon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 46th Canadian Minister of Justice
• 1962 » Shaun Ryder, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1963 » Glória Pires, Brazilian actress
• 1963 » Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
• 1963 » Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Richard Illingworth, English cricketer and umpire
• 1964 » Kong Hee, Founder & former senior pastor of City Harvest Church
• 1965 » Roger Avary, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 » Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player

• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1964 » Edmond Hogan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913)

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.
• 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.
• May 29 » The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• July 31 » Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
• August 28 » The Philadelphia race riot begins.
• October 14 » Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
• November 3 » Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to a full term as U.S. president, winning 61% of the vote and 44 states, while Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time, casting the majority of their votes for Lyndon Johnson.

The temperature on August 23, 1964 was between 5.1 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.