Events from the year 1964 in China.
- January 25 – France and China establish diplomatic relations.[1]
- February 5 — Gan Siqi, general (b. 1904)
- March 30 — Deng Xihou, prominent warlord of Sichuan (b. 1889)
- April 22 — Zhou Baozhong, military commander (b. 1902)
- May 1 — Tang Yongtong, educator, philosopher and scholar (b. 1893)
- May 14 — Jiao Yulu, politician (b. 1922)
- July 6 — Zeng Junchen, businessman and opium kingpin from Sichuan (b. 1888)
- July 19 — Si Xingjian, paleobotanist and stratigrapher (b. 1901)
- September 22 — Yu Xuezhong, Nationalist general and pro-Communist politician (b. 1890)
- November 10 — Yu Youren, educator, scholar, calligrapher and politician (b. 1879)