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• Mathijs Antonius Johanna van Baal, Oeffelt († 1963)
• Pieter van Dijk, Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1978)
• Christopher Wayne Rowlette, Jenkins Letcher, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Albertha Willemijntje (Willeke) Hardeman, Veenendaal, Nederland († 2015)
• Christine Luce Nicole Baudry († 2017)

• Adrianus van Akkerveken (84), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Elizabeth Bull (84), St Mary's House, Milton, Portsmouth
• Adriana Theodora Maria van den Gevel (49), Bussum
• Antje van der Leij (86), Wolvega
• Aaltje Niekamp (80), Salt Lake City,us, Verenigde Staten
• Ambrosius van Meurs (38), Rotterdam
• Antonius Bekken (86), Lichtenvoorde,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alphonse Gustave Huwel (83), Tourcoing, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Christina Elisabeth Swart (86), Amsterdam
• Alosius Jacobus Bruggeman (68), Heerlen, Nederland

• 1958 » Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist († 1996)
• 1959 » Marc Cohn, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1960 » Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor and director
• 1962 » Sarina Hülsenbeck, German swimmer
• 1963 » Edie Falco, American actress
• 1964 » Ronald D. Moore, American screenwriter and producer
• 1965 » Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli-American pianist and educator
• 1965 » Kathryn Erbe, American actress
• 1966 » Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer and coach
• 1966 » Susannah Doyle, English actress, director, and playwright

• 1948 » Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
• 1948 » Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (b. 1888)
• 1957 » Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
• 1965 » Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican race car driver, polo player, and diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1966 » George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1969 » Leo McCarey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1969 » Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician, 1st Kenyan Minister of Justice (b. 1930)
• 1969 » Walter Gropius, German architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building and Werkbund Exhibition (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist and educator (b. 1884)
• 1975 » Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano and actress (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. David
15. Dirk
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. Karin
13. Wilhelmina
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.
• June 16 » Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
• August 18 » Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
• September 4 » Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
• November 29 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• December 10 » An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.

The temperature on July 5, 1963 was between 14.3 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.