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• Barend Marcel van Dijk, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• NN Kulk, Den Haag {ZH} ('s Gravenhage) († 1963)
• Ivette Maria Petronella CLAUSMAN, Venraij
• Nn Lohn, São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1963)
• Michael Russ Haverkamp, Grand Rapids (Kent County) (Michigan) († 2007)
• kind Gremmen, Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1963)
• Jurrien Vinckers († 1966)
• Frederikus Klijnstra, Tolbert († 2001)
• Peter Rutjens, Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Johanna Hermanna (Anke) ten Brinke, Lemmer

• Anna Mechthilde Speemann (71), Sonsbeck
• Alphonse Charles Peeters (85), Paris 15e
• Albertha Koetsier (48)
• Charles Jack Hoover (56), Grundy County, Missouri, United States of America
• Arie Maat (71)
• Agnes Theodora Goumans (82), Venray
• Adrianus Mattheus Warmerdam (72), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berbera Magdalena Frederiks (76), Oost-en West-Souburg
• Bertha Stoehr (78)
• Arymol Haywood Sosebee [Ob] (49), Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas

• 1960 » Lyudmila Andonova, Bulgarian high jumper
• 1961 » Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and diplomat, First Vice President of the European Commission
• 1961 » George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Gina Riley, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Oleksandr Apaychev, Ukrainian decathlete and coach
• 1961 » Tom Hunter, Scottish businessman and philanthropist
• 1962 » Brad Izzard, Australian rugby league player
• 1962 » Tom Brake, English politician
• 1963 » Alessandra Ferri, Italian ballerina
• 1965 » Leslie Hope, Canadian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)
• 1967 » Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)
• 1970 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)
• 1973 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1893)

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. David
16. Michael

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.
• March 5 » American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
• March 8 » The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
• March 21 » Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
• April 11 » Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
• 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.
• October 31 » A propane tank explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now the Indiana Farmers Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people and injures another 400 during an ice skating show.

The temperature on May 6, 1963 was between 2.1 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.