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Events on Friday 21 August 1964 1
1893 – 1964Palmiro Togliatti (1893-1964)Died 21 August 1964, aged 71Togliatti led the Italian Communist Party for nearly four decades, building it into the largest communist party in Western Europe. He died while visiting the Soviet Union, and the city of Tolyatti was later named in his honour.