About the day » Sunday January 20, 1963Calender converter

• Willem Kieft, Putten († 2008)
• Adrianus Johannes Jacobus (Adrie) Hageman, Castricum
• Adriaan Roeland Berg van den, Zwartsluis († 2021)
• Guy Omer (Guy) Thewis, Sint-Truiden, België († 1998)
• adri van den berg, zwartsluis († 2021)
• Adrianus Petrus Christianus van Steenpaal, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2010)
• Willem Kieft, Putten († 2008)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1963)
• Adriaan Roeland (Adri) van den Berg, Zwartsluis, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2021)
• Margaretha Laurentia de Kanter, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2004)

• Antonie Gyot van der Ham (76), Den-Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Romeijnders (75), Oss
• Antonie van Wijk (72), wijk en aalburg (noordbrabant)
• Annie Matilda Gore (70), Galveston, Texas
• Berend Jan Prins (69)
• Anna Maria Romeijnders (75), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie de Hon (84), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Groeneveld (89), Rotterdam Netherlands
• Benjamin Pekel (68), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Francisca Diepstraten (77), Breda

• 1963 » James Denton, American actor
• 1963 » Mark Ryden, American painter and illustrator
• 1964 » Aquilino Pimentel III, Filipino lawyer and politician
• 1964 » Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist and author
• 1964 » Jack Lewis, American soldier and author
• 1964 » Kazushige Nojima, Japanese screenwriter and songwriter
• 1964 » Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
• 1964 » Ron Harper, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 » Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer defender and manager
• 1965 » Sophie, Countess of Wessex

• 1954 » Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Robert P. T. Coffin, American author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (b. 1887)
• 1965 » Alan Freed, American radio host (b. 1922)
• 1971 » Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1971 » Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903)
• 1973 » Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924)
• 1973 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and surgeon (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, 151st Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Hendrik
6. John
7. Cornelis
8. Ronald
9. Willem
10. Pieter
11. Paul
12. Johan
13. Gerrit
14. Dirk
15. Michael
16. David

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Yvonne
7. Monique
8. Ingrid
9. Jolanda
10. Catharina
11. Linda
12. Wilhelmina
13. Karin
14. Adriana
15. Anita
16. Jacqueline

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
• April 16 » Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
• May 3 » The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement.
• June 16 » Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
• July 19 » Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
• August 31 » Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self governance.
• September 25 » Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.

The temperature on January 20, 1963 was between -9.0 °C and -2.0 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.