List of Famous people who died in 1964

Bertram Francis Gurdon, 2nd Baron Cranworth KG, MC was a British peer and soldier.

Clarence Alfred Bottolfsen was an American publisher and politician from Idaho, a member of the Idaho Republican Party. He served as the 17th and 19th Governor of Idaho, from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1943 to 1945.

Terence Hanbury "Tim" White was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King. One of his most memorable is the first of the series, The Sword in the Stone, published as a stand-alone book in 1938.

Grace Metalious was an American author known for her controversial novel Peyton Place, one of the best-selling works in publishing history.

James Paul Mitchell was an American politician and businessman from New Jersey. Nicknamed "the social conscience of the Republican Party," he served as United States Secretary of Labor from 1953 to 1961 during the Eisenhower Administration. Mitchell was a potential running mate for the 1960 Republican presidential candidate, Vice President Richard M. Nixon. However, Nixon chose Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. After an unsuccessful run for Governor of New Jersey in 1961, he retired from politics.

Ebbe Schwartz was a Danish football administrator.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Flynn was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a visible proponent of women's rights, birth control, and women's suffrage. She joined the Communist Party USA in 1936 and late in life, in 1961, became its chairwoman. She died during a visit to the Soviet Union, where she was accorded a state funeral with processions in the Red Square attended by over 25,000 people.

Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva was a Russian/Dutch mathematician and physicist who made contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. On 21 December 1904, she married Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933). They had two daughters and two sons; one daughter, Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, also became a mathematician.

Andries Johannes (André) de Kruijff was a Dutch footballer. He played in one match for the Netherlands national football team in 1921.

Carl Buchheister was a German constructivist artist noted for his multiple series of "model paintings" at Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris. which he began in 1925.