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• Stillborn Boven, Kitchener, Ontario Canada
• Christina Maria van den Bosch († 1979)
• Henriëtta Wilma Boven, Kitchener, Ontario Canada
• Corrie Severijns († 2013)
• Shelley Rae Richardson, Bakersfield, Kern, California, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Theodorus Petrus Anthonia Dam, Hoogwoud († 1967)
• Hilde Steenhout, Aalst
• Tom Iversen, Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norge († 2021)
• Gijsbert Geurt Johannes Heij, Veenendaal († 2006)

• Antje van Geest (88), 's-Gravenzande
• Anna Maria Hendrika Strijbosch (81), Meijel, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adriana Anna van den Berg (76), Delft
• Antonius Marinus Sweere (68), Wouw
• Aiko Ackerman (81), Wagenborgen (gem. Termunten)
• Antonius Hubertus Isiger (64), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hendrika Strijbos (81), Meijel
• Anna Pietje Cornelia Herfst (86), Rotterdam
• Antonia Johanna Peters (70), Zevenaar, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Johannis Lucas (88), Rotterdam

• 1961 » Daniel M. Tani, American engineer and astronaut
• 1961 » Kaduvetti Guru, Indian politician († 2018)
• 1961 » Volker Fried, German field hockey player and coach
• 1962 » José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer († 2004)
• 1962 » Takashi Murakami, Japanese painter and sculptor
• 1962 » Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 » Jani Lane, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2011)
• 1964 » Linus Roache, English actor
• 1964 » Mario Pelchat, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1965 » Stéphanie of Monaco, designer, singer and princess

• 1949 » Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1880)
• 1957 » Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
• 1958 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
• 1970 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)
• 1976 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

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.
• March 17 » Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
• June 17 » A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
• August 15 » President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
• August 30 » The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
• October 10 » The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
• October 22 » A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.

The temperature on February 1, 1963 was between -7.4 °C and -3.5 °C and averaged -5.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.