# 1964 in Mexico

Events in the year 1964 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Adolfo López Mateos (until November 30), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (starting December 1)
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/José Gorostiza/Antonio Carrillo Flores
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan/José Antonio Padilla Segura
* Education Secretary (SEP): Jaime Torres Bodet/Agustín Yáñez
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Agustín Olachea/Marcelino García Barragan
* Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico/Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
* Secretary of Welfare: Javier Barros Sierra/Gilberto Valenzuela

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Enrique Olivares Santana
* Baja California
** Eligio Esquivel Méndez (died in office, December 17.
** Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo (Substitute)
* Campeche: José Ortiz Avila
* Chiapas: Práxedes Ginér Durán
* Chihuahua: Braulio Fernández Aguirre
* Coahuila: Braulio Fernández Aguirre
* Colima: Francisco Velasco Curiel
* Durango: Enrique Dupré Ceniceros
* Guanajuato: Juan José Torres Landa
* Guerrero: Raymundo Abarca Alarcón
* Hidalgo: Carlos Ramírez Guerrero
* Jalisco: Juan Gil Preciado/José de Jesús Muñoz Limón
* State of Mexico: Juan Fernández Albarrán
* Michoacán: Agustín Arriaga
* Morelos: Emilio Riva Palacio
* Nayarit: Julián Gazcón Mercado
* Nuevo León: Eduardo Livas Villarreal
* Oaxaca: Rodolfo Brena Torres
* Puebla: Arturo Fernández Aguirre
* Querétaro: Manuel González Cosío
* San Luis Potosí: Manuel López Dávila
* Sinaloa: Leopoldo Sánchez Celis
* Sonora: Luis Encinas Johnson
* Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo Becerra
* Tamaulipas: Praxedis Balboa
* Tlaxcala: Anselmo Cervantes
* Veracruz: Fernando López Arias
* Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar/Luis Torres Mesías
* Zacatecas: José Rodríguez Elías
* Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

## Events

* La Preparatoria Benemérito de las Américas is founded by Albert Kenyon Wagner and his wife, Leona Farnsworth Romney
* Amusement park La Feria Chapultepec Mágico opens its doors.
* Museo Nacional de Antropología, Museo de Arte Moderno and the Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum are established.
* 1964 Mexican general election

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Adrián Aguirre Benavides

## Births

* February 4 — Luis Alegre Salazar, businessman and politician (d. 2022)
* June 13 — Edith González, actress and dancer (d. 2019)
* August 5
** Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, Governor of Hidalgo 2005–2011 and Secretary of the Interior 2012–2018.
** Claudio Reyes Rubio, TV director (Televisa); auto accident; (d. 2017).
* August 11 — Héctor Soberón, actor
* October 9 — Guillermo del Toro, filmmaker (three Academy Awards), author, and actor.
* November 14 — Raúl Araiza, actor and TV presenter
* November 30 - Emmanuel Lubezki, Cinematographer (three Academy Awards)
* November 23 — Erika Buenfil, television actress (Tres Mujeres, Amores Verdaderos)
* Date unknown
** Martín Barrón Félix, physicist and meteorologist (d. 2017)

## Deaths

* August 12 — Isidro Fabela, judge, writer, publisher, Governor of the State of Mexico (PRI, 1942–1945), diplomat (b. 1882)

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1964

## Sport

* 1963–64 Mexican Primera División season
* Football Club Petroleros de Ciudad Madero is founded
* 1964 Mexican Grand Prix
* Mexico at the 1964 Summer Olympics