World leaders in 1964

Everyone who held a state’s top posts at some point in 1964, in the order they held them. Names are from Wikipedia’s list of state leaders and appear only where the person’s Wikidata record agrees on the post and the years. What happened in 1964 →

Major powers in 1964

United StatesUnited States history

President: Lyndon B. Johnson

United KingdomUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Alec Douglas-Home, then Harold Wilson

Soviet UnionRussia history

General Secretary: Nikita Khrushchev
First Secretary: Leonid Brezhnev
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet: Leonid Brezhnev, then Anastas Mikoyan
Chairman of the Council of Ministers: Nikita Khrushchev, then Alexei Kosygin

People's Republic of ChinaChina history

Chairman; Paramount Leader: Mao Zedong
President: Liu Shaoqi
Premier: Zhou Enlai

FranceFrance history

President: Charles de Gaulle
Prime minister: Georges Pompidou

East GermanyGermany history

Chairmen of the State Council: Walter Ulbricht
Chairman: Otto Grotewohl, then Willi Stoph

West GermanyGermany history

President: Heinrich Lübke
Chancellor: Ludwig Erhard

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime minister: Eisaku Satō

Republic of IndiaIndia history

President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Prime minister: Jawaharlal Nehru, then Lal Bahadur Shastri
Acting Prime minister: Gulzarilal Nanda

Africa

Arab Republic of EgyptEgypt history

President: Gamal Abdel Nasser
Prime minister: Ali Sabri

Central African Republic

President: David Dacko

Ethiopian EmpireEthiopia history

I, Emperor: Haile Selassie

Federal Republic of Nigeria: Fourth RepublicNigeria history

President of the First Republic: Nnamdi Azikiwe

French Upper Volta/ Republic of Upper VoltaBurkina Faso history

President: Maurice Yaméogo

GabonGabon history

President: Léon M'ba

Islamic Republic of MauritaniaMauritania history

Acting Head of State; President: Moktar Ould Daddah

KenyaKenya history

Queen: Elizabeth II
President: Jomo Kenyatta
Prime minister: Jomo Kenyatta

Kingdom of BurundiBurundi history

Prime minister: Pierre Ngendandumwe, then Albin Nyamoya

Kingdom of LibyaLibya history

King: Idris
Prime minister: Mohieddin Fikini

LiberiaLiberia history

President: William Tubman

Malagasy RepublicMadagascar history

President: Philibert Tsiranana

Malawi (Commonwealth realm)Malawi history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Hastings Banda

People's Democratic Republic of AlgeriaAlgeria history

President: Ahmed Ben Bella

Republic of CameroonCameroon history

President: Ahmadou Ahidjo
Prime minister: Charles Assalé, then John Ngu Foncha

Republic of ChadChad history

President: François Tombalbaye

Republic of DahomeyBenin history

Head of the Provisional Government: Christophe Soglo
President: Sourou-Migan Apithy
Prime minister: Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin

Republic of GhanaGhana history

President of the First Republic: Kwame Nkrumah

Republic of GuineaGuinea history

President: Ahmed Sékou Touré

Republic of Ivory CoastIvory Coast history

President: Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Republic of MaliMali history

Head of State: Modibo Keïta
Prime minister: Modibo Keïta

Republic of RwandaRwanda history

President: Grégoire Kayibanda

Republic of SenegalSenegal history

President: Léopold Sédar Senghor

Republic of South AfricaSouth Africa history

State President: Charles Robberts Swart
Prime minister: Hendrik Verwoerd

Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)

President: Alphonse Massamba-Débat
Prime minister: Pascal Lissouba

Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)

President: Joseph Kasa-Vubu
Prime minister: Cyrille Adoula, then Moise Tshombe

Republic of the NigerNiger history

President of the Republic: Hamani Diori

Republic of the Sudan (1956–1969)Sudan history

President: Ibrahim Abboud
Prime minister: Ibrahim Abboud

Republic of TunisiaTunisia history

President: Habib Bourguiba

Republic of Uganda

President: Mutesa II
Prime minister: Milton Obote

Republic of ZambiaZambia history

President: Kenneth Kaunda

Rhodesia, unrecognised state

Prime minister: Ian Smith

Sierra Leone (Commonwealth realm)Sierra Leone history

Queen: Elizabeth II

Somali RepublicSomalia history

President: Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
Prime minister: Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, then Abdirizak Haji Hussein

Sultanate of ZanzibarTanzania history

Sultan: Jamshid

Sultanate/ Kingdom of MoroccoMorocco history

King: Hassan II
Prime minister: Ahmed Bahnini

Tanganyika (1961–1964)Tanzania history

President: Julius Nyerere

Togolese RepublicTogo history

President: Nicolas Grunitzky

Americas

ArgentinaArgentina history

President: Arturo Umberto Illia

BoliviaBolivia history

President: Víctor Paz Estenssoro
Chairman of the Military Junta: René Barrientos

Brazilian Military regimeBrazil history

President: Ranieri Mazzilli, then Humberto Castello Branco

CanadaCanada history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Lester B. Pearson

ColombiaColombia history

President: Guillermo León Valencia

Dominion of Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Eric Williams

Duvalier dynasty, HaitiHaiti history

President; President for Life: François Duvalier

El Stronato: ParaguayParaguay history

President: Alfredo Stroessner

GuatemalaGuatemala history

President: Enrique Peralta Azurdia

HondurasHonduras history

President: Oswaldo López Arellano

JamaicaJamaica history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Alexander Bustamante

MexicoMexico history

President: Adolfo López Mateos, then Gustavo Díaz Ordaz

NicaraguaNicaragua history

President: René Schick

Presidential Republic (1925–1973) of ChileChile history

President: Jorge Alessandri, then Eduardo Frei Montalva

Republic of Costa RicaCosta Rica history

President: Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich

Republic of CubaCuba history

President: Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
Prime minister: Fidel Castro

Republic of PeruPeru history

Constitutional President: Fernando Belaúnde Terry
Prime Minister: Fernando Schwalb López Aldana

Republic of VenezuelaVenezuela history

President: Rómulo Betancourt, then Raúl Leoni

Second Brazilian RepublicBrazil history

President: João Goulart

Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)Suriname history

Prime minister: Johan Adolf Pengel

United StatesUnited States history

President: Lyndon B. Johnson

UruguayUruguay history

President (National Council of Government): Daniel Fernández Crespo, then Luis Giannattasio

Asia

BhutanBhutan history

Druk Gyalpo: Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
Prime minister: Jigme Palden Dorji

Democratic KampucheaCambodia history

General Secretary: Pol Pot

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (1945–1976)Vietnam history

President: Ho Chi Minh
Prime minister: Phạm Văn Đồng

Dominion of CeylonSri Lanka history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Emirate of Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates history

ruler: Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan

Emirate of AjmanUnited Arab Emirates history

ruler: Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi III

Emirate of DubaiUnited Arab Emirates history

ruler: Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum

Emirate of FujairahUnited Arab Emirates history

ruler: Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi

Emirate of Ras Al KhaimahUnited Arab Emirates history

ruler: Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi

Emirate of SharjahUnited Arab Emirates history

ruler: Saqr bin Sultan Al Qasimi

Hakims of Bahrain/ State of BahrainBahrain history

Hakim: Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa

Imperial State of IranIran history

Shah: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)Iraq history

President: Abdul Salam Arif
Prime minister: Tahir Yahya

Islamic Republic of PakistanPakistan history

President: Ayub Khan

IsraelIsrael history

President: Zalman Shazar
Prime minister: Levi Eshkol

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime minister: Eisaku Satō

Kingdom of AfghanistanAfghanistan history

King: Mohammad Zahir Shah
Prime minister: Mohammad Yusuf

Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970)Cambodia history

Prime minister: Norodom Kantol

Kingdom of JordanJordan history

King: Hussein
Prime minister: Hussein ibn Nasser

Kingdom of LaosLaos history

King: Sisavang Vatthana
Prime minister: Souvanna Phouma

Kingdom of NepalNepal history

King: Mahendra
Prime minister: Tulsi Giri

Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia history

King: Saud, then Faisal

Lao People's Democratic RepublicLaos history

General Secretary: Kaysone Phomvihane

LebanonLebanon history

President: Fuad Chehab, then Charles Helou
Prime minister: Rashid Karami

Liberal democracy period in IndonesiaIndonesia history

President: Sukarno

MalaysiaMalaysia history

Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Putra of Perlis
Prime minister: Tunku Abdul Rahman

Mongolian People's Republic

Prime minister: Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal

North KoreaNorth Korea history

Chairman: Kim Il Sung
Premier: Kim Il Sung

North Yemen: Yemen Arab RepublicYemen history

President: Abdullah al-Sallal

People's Republic of ChinaChina history

Chairman; Paramount Leader: Mao Zedong
President: Liu Shaoqi
Premier: Zhou Enlai

PhilippinesPhilippines history

President: Diosdado Macapagal

Protectorate of Brunei / Nation of BruneiBrunei history

Sultan: Omar Ali Saifuddien III

QatarQatar history

Emir: Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani

Republic of China: TaiwanTaiwan history

President: Chiang Kai-shek
Premier: Yen Chia-kan

Republic of CyprusCyprus history

President: Makarios III

Republic of IndiaIndia history

President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Prime minister: Jawaharlal Nehru, then Lal Bahadur Shastri
Acting Prime minister: Gulzarilal Nanda

Republic of South MalukuIndonesia history

President: Chris Soumokil

Republic of TurkeyTurkey history

President: Cemal Gürsel
Prime minister: İsmet İnönü

SingaporeSingapore history

Prime minister: Lee Kuan Yew

Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma

Chairman: Ne Win

Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976–present)Vietnam history

General Secretary: Lê Duẩn

South KoreaSouth Korea history

President: Park Chung Hee
Prime minister: Chung Il-kwon

State of KuwaitKuwait history

Emir: Abdullah III
Prime minister: Sabah Al-Salim

Sultanate of Muscat and OmanOman history

Sultan: Said III

Sultanate of the Maldive Islands: Huraa Dynasty

Sultan: Muhammad Fareed Didi

Syrian Arab RepublicSyria history

President: Amin al-Hafiz
Prime minister: Amin al-Hafiz

ThailandThailand history

King: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Prime minister: Thanom Kittikachorn

Umm Al QuwainUnited Arab Emirates history

ruler: Ahmad bin Rashid Al Mualla

Europe

Andorra

Episcopal Co-Prince: Ramon Iglesias i Navarri
French Co-Prince: Charles de Gaulle

AustriaAustria history

President: Adolf Schärf
Chancellor: Alfons Gorbach, then Josef Klaus

BelgiumBelgium history

King: Baudouin
Prime minister: Théo Lefèvre

Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

General Secretary: Antonín Novotný
President: Antonín Novotný
Prime minister: Jozef Lenárt

DenmarkDenmark history

King: Frederik IX
Prime minister: Jens Otto Krag

East GermanyGermany history

Chairmen of the State Council: Walter Ulbricht
Chairman: Otto Grotewohl, then Willi Stoph

FinlandFinland history

President: Urho Kekkonen
Prime minister: Reino Ragnar Lehto, then Johannes Virolainen

France: Fifth RepublicFrance history

President: Charles de Gaulle
Prime minister: Georges Pompidou

Francoist SpainSpain history

Caudillo: Francisco Franco
Prime minister: Francisco Franco

Hungarian People's RepublicHungary history

Chairman: István Dobi
Prime minister: János Kádár

IcelandIceland history

President: Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
Prime minister: Bjarni Benediktsson

ItalyItaly history

President: Antonio Segni, then Giuseppe Saragat
Prime minister: Aldo Moro

Kingdom of Greece: 4th of August RegimeGreece history

King: Paul, then Constantine II
caretaker Prime minister: Ioannis Paraskevopoulos
Prime minister: Georgios Papandreou

Kingdom of the NetherlandsNetherlands history

Queen: Juliana
Prime minister: Victor Marijnen

Liechtenstein

Prince: Franz Josef II
Prime minister: Gerard Batliner

LuxembourgLuxembourg history

Grand Duchess: Charlotte
Grand Duke: Jean
Prime minister: Pierre Werner

Monaco

Prince: Rainier III
Minister of state: Jean Reymond

NorwayNorway history

King: Olav V
Prime minister: Einar Gerhardsen

People's Republic of BulgariaBulgaria history

Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly: Dimitar Ganev, then Georgi Traykov
Prime minister: Todor Zhivkov

People's Socialist Republic of AlbaniaAlbania history

First Secretary: Enver Hoxha
Chairman: Haxhi Lleshi
Prime minister: Mehmet Shehu

Polish People's RepublicPoland history

Chairman: Aleksander Zawadzki, then Edward Ochab
Prime minister: Józef Cyrankiewicz

Republic of IrelandIreland history

President: Éamon de Valera
Taoiseach: Seán Lemass

Second Portuguese RepublicPortugal history

President: Américo Thomaz

Socialist Republic of RomaniaRomania history

General Secretary: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Prime minister: Ion Gheorghe Maurer

Soviet UnionRussia history

General Secretary: Nikita Khrushchev
First Secretary: Leonid Brezhnev
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet: Leonid Brezhnev, then Anastas Mikoyan
Chairman of the Council of Ministers: Nikita Khrushchev, then Alexei Kosygin

State of MaltaMalta history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Giorgio Borġ Olivier

SwedenSweden history

King: Gustaf VI Adolf
Prime minister: Tage Erlander

SwitzerlandSwitzerland history

President of the Confederation: Ludwig von Moos

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Alec Douglas-Home, then Harold Wilson

Vatican City

Sovereign: Paul VI

West GermanyGermany history

President: Heinrich Lübke
Chancellor: Ludwig Erhard

Yugoslavia: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

General Secretary; President of the Presidium: Josip Broz Tito
President: Josip Broz Tito

Oceania

AustraliaAustralia history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Sir Robert Menzies

Kingdom of Tonga (1900–70)Tonga history

King: Sālote Tupou III
Prime minister: Tupoutoʻa-Tungi

New ZealandNew Zealand history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Keith Holyoake

Trust Territory of the Pacific IslandsUnited States history

High Commissioner: Maurice W. Goding

Wallis and Futuna

King: Tomasi Kulimoetoke II

Western Samoa/ Independent State of Samoa

O le Ao o le Malo: Malietoa Tanumafili II
Prime Minister: Fiamē Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II