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• Jacqueline Elaine Coke, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica († 2005)
• Gerard Hansje Spijkerman († 2022)
• Maria Dam († 2018)
• Richard den Boer, Amsterdam
• Hendrikje (Hennie) Mulder, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 1986)

• Anna Arends (77), Ashton, Osceola County, Iowa
• Anna Maria Tieben (60), Sellingerbeetse ( gem. Vlagtwedde), Groningen ( NL)
• Anna Wicherdina Roelfsema (75), Delft
• antoon manders (75), venlo (ziekenhuis)
• Cornelis Weenig (78), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Antoinette Marie Hubertine de Hue (84), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonia Johanna Janssen (56), Waalwijk
• Bokke Doekes Bokma (81), Menaldumadeel
• Antoon Manders 10AAJ (75), Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antonius Manders (75), Venlo

• 1962 » John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player († 2015)
• 1962 » Kevin Mack, American football player
• 1962 » Louis Lipps, American football player and radio host
• 1963 » Barton Lynch, Australian surfer
• 1963 » Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1963 » Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress († 2012)
• 1964 » Brett Hull, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
• 1964 » Hoda Kotb, American journalist and television personality
• 1966 » Linn Ullmann, Norwegian journalist and author
• 1966 » Vinny Del Negro, American basketball player and coach

• 1957 » Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
• 1967 » Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 1969 » C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1975 » Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1906)

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

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

• 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
• April 7 » IBM announces the System/360.
• April 26 » Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
• August 4 » Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
• August 16 » Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Dương Văn Minh with General Nguyễn Khánh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
• October 16 » China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• October 29 » A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

The temperature on August 9, 1964 was between 8.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.