1964 in Romania

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Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1964 History of Romania Timeline of Romanian history Years in Romania

Events from the year 1964 in Romania. The year saw increasing separation from Soviet influence.

Incumbents

• President of the State Council and General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Ion Gheorghe Maurer. ^[2]

Events

• 3 March – Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej travels to Beijing for seven days negotiation with the Chinese government. ^[3]
• 22 April – The Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party declares independence from the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. This was the first post-war declaration of Romanian economic, political and social sovereignty from the Soviet Union. ^[4]
• 5 May – Romania establishes diplomatic relations at an embassy level with Tanganyika, opening an embassy in Dar es Salaam. ^[5]
• 4 August – Alexandru Todea has his life sentence remitted and is released from prison. He goes on to become Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia. ^[6]
• 7 September – Construction commences on the Iron Gate Hydroelectric Power Station. ^[5]

Births

• 20 January – Vasile Tomoiagă, rower, silver medal winner at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. ^[7]
• 28 January –Rozalia Husti, fencer, silver medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics. ^[8]
• 12 February – Dumitrița Turner, artistic gymnast, silver medal winner at the 1980 Summer Olympics. ^[9]
• 4 March – Emilia Eberle, gymnast, silver medal winner at the 1980 Olympics. ^[10]
• 12 March – Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, political scientist, academic, journalist and writer.
• 22 March – Ioana Badea, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984 Olympics. ^[11]
• 10 April – Elena Georgescu, coxswain, gold medal winner at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. ^[12]
• 13 July – Princess Maria, youngest daughter of King Michael I and Queen Anne. ^[13]
• 26 July – Dana Dragomir, pan flute player and composer. ^[14]
• 8 August – Elisabeta Tufan, fencer, silver medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics. ^[15]
• 2 September – Ruxandra Donose, mezzo-soprano. ^[16]
• 26 October – Elisabeta Lipă, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, as well as two silver and one bronze. ^[17]
• 4 December – Sevil Shhaideh, economist and politician. ^[18]

Deaths

• 2 March – Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen, engineer and physicist (born 1870). ^[19]
• 17 March – Păstorel Teodoreanu, humorist, poet, and gastronome (born 1894).
• 11 April – Alexandru Ghika, mathematician, founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis (born 1902). ^[20]
• 2 June – Dumitru Caracostea, folklorist, literary historian, and critic (born 1879).
• 6 June – Vasile Atanasiu, general in World War II (born 1886).
• 6 July – Ion Vinea, poet and journalist (born 1895). ^[21]
• 25 July – Cornel Medrea, sculptor (born 1888).
• 10 August – Visarion Puiu, metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church (born 1879). ^[22]
• 1 September – George Georgescu, composer (born 1887). ^[23]
• 13 November – Maria Antonescu, socialite and philanthropist (born 1892). ^[24]

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