1964 in Mexico

Events in the year 1964 in Mexico.

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