1964 in Romania explained

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).
• 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).^[19]
• 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).^[20]
• 25 July – Cornel Medrea, sculptor (born 1888).
• 10 August – Visarion Puiu, metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church (born 1879).^[21]
• 1 September – George Georgescu, composer (born 1887).^[22]
• 13 November – Maria Antonescu, socialite and philanthropist (born 1892).^[23]

Notes and References

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2. Book: Tucker, Spencer . The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection . Santa Barbara . ABC-CLIO . 2020 . 978-1-44086-076-8 . 669.
3. Mihai . Croitor . Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and the Beginning of the Sino-Romanian Rapprochement (1963-1964) . Transylvanian Review . 21 . 3 . 2012 . 135–154.
4. Book: Sven G. . Holtsmark . Iver B. . Neumann . Odd Arne . Westad . The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945–89 . London . Palgrave Macmillan . 2016 . 100. 978-1-34923-234-5.
5. Book: Constantin C. . Giurescu . Horia C. . Matei . Marcel . Popa . Ion . Alexandrescu . Ioan . Chiper . Chronological History of Romania . Bucharest . Enciclopedică Română . 1974 . 400 . 251025169 .
6. Book: Bozgan, Ovidiu . Cronica unui eşec previzibil: România şi Sfântul Scaun în epoca pontificatului lui Paul al VI-lea:1963–1978 . Chronicle of a Predictable Failure: Romania and the Holy See in the Age of the Pontificate of Paul VI: 1963–1978 . Bucharest . Curtea Veche . 2004 . 42 . 978-9-73669-080-8 . RO.
7. Vasile Tomoiagă. https://web.archive.org/web/20150929040216/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/to/vasile-tomoiaga-1.html . dead . 29 September 2015 .
8. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Rozalia Oros . https://web.archive.org/web/20150925160628/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/or/rozalia-oros-1.html . dead . 25 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
9. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Dumitrița Turner . https://web.archive.org/web/20151002055947/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tu/dumitrita-turner-1.html . dead . 2 October 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
10. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Emilia Eberle . https://web.archive.org/web/20151002131049/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/eb/emilia-eberle-1.html . dead . 2 October 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
11. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Ioana Badea . https://web.archive.org/web/20150930195921/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/ioana-badea-1.html . dead . 30 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
12. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Elena Georgescu . https://web.archive.org/web/20150925034849/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ge/elena-georgescu-1.html . dead . 25 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
13. Book: Reynolds, Roger . Who's who in the Royal Family . London . Proteus Books . 1982 . 100 . 978-0-86276-019-9.
14. Web site: Andrei . Partoş . Invitaţi: Dana Dragomir şi Mihai Bisericanu . Guests: Dana Dragomir and Mihai Bisericanu . Radio Romania Actualitati . https://web.archive.org/web/20220515213213/http://www.romania-actualitati.ro/invitati-dana-dragomir-si-mihai-bisericanu-85895 . 15 May 2022 . RO.
15. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Elisabeta Guzganu-Tufan . https://web.archive.org/web/20150925045616/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/elisabeta-guzganu-tufan-1.html . dead . 25 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
16. Book: Cummings, David . International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory . Cambridge . International Biographical Centre . 2000 . 165 . 978-0-94887-553-3 .
17. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Elisabeta Oleniuc-Lipă . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905153024/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ol/elisabeta-oleniuc-lipa-1.html . dead . 5 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
18. News: Lavinia . Siclitaru . Eliberată din funcţie de Orban, Sevil Shhaideh s-ar putea întoarce chiar şi în Consiliul Judeţean Constanţa . Released from office by Orban, Sevil Shhaideh could even return to Constanţa County Council . Ziua de Constanta . 22 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200930214041/https://www.ziuaconstanta.ro/stiri/politic/eliberata-din-functie-de-orban-sevil-shhaideh-s-ar-putea-intoarce-chiar-si-in-consiliul-judetean-constanta-unde-are-postul-suspendat-707200.html . 30 September 2020 . RO.
19. Book: Nedelea, Marin . Istoria României în date, 1940–1995 . A History of Romania in Data 1940–1995 . Niculescu . 1997 . 147 . 978-9-73568-141-8 . RO.
20. Book: Ioana, Nicolae . Țara poeților: antologie lirică închinată Partidului Comunist Român la cea de-a 50-a aniversare . The Land of Poets: Lyrical Anthology Dedicated to the Romanian Communist Party on its 50th anniversary . Bucharest . Editura Albatros . 1971 . 377 . 310717537 . RO.
21. Web site: Visarion Puiu, mitropolitul condamnat la moarte de comuniști, despre Iosif Stalin: "Numele lui va fi blestemat din veac în veac". ro. Adevărul. Dan. Sofronia. June 16, 2020. August 25, 2022.
22. Book: Robert H. . Cowden . Lim M. . Lai . Concert and Opera Conductors: A Bibliography of Biographical Materials . New York . Greenwood Press . 1987 . 105 . 978-0-31325-620-2.
23. Book: Wojciech . Roszkowski . Jan . Kofman . Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century . New York . Routledge . 2015 . 978-1-31747-593-4.