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• Aafje Christina van der Helm, Leeuwarden († 2015)
• (_____) Orr, Washington, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 1963)
• J.J.L.M. (Jeanke) Aangenendt, Veldhoven († 2009)
• Willem Jan Elzinga, Groningen
• Cornelia Marina (Corrie) VERBREE, Delft († 1986)
• Gerard van Diepen, Alkmaar, Gemeente Alkmaar, Nord Holland, Niederlande († 1973)
• Hamers, Tilburg († 1963)
• Sonja van Esveld, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Gerard van Diepen, Alkmaar († 1973)
• Ingeborg van Dijk, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)

• August Jules Debunne (90), Menen, België
• Aag Zweed (90), Makkum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Barteld ten Napel (58), Ludwigshafen am Rhein-Duisburg (Duitsland)
• Aag Zweed (90), Makkum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Barbara Joanna Van Camp (78), Duffel, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Anna Maria Sophia van Rossum (72), Houten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia (Anna) Dietz (79), Den Haag
• Albert Tuzee (76), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje Vis (63), Assen, Nederland
• Arie van Winkel (68), Amsterdam

• 1961 » Didier Camberabero, French rugby player
• 1961 » Henry Omaga-Diaz, Filipino journalist
• 1962 » Ray Houghton, Scottish-born footballer
• 1963 » Irwin McLean, Northern Irish biologist and academic
• 1964 » Stan Javier, Dominican baseball player and manager
• 1965 » Andrei Nazarov, Estonian decathlete and coach
• 1965 » Eric Erlandson, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1965 » Haddaway, Trinidadian-German singer and musician
• 1965 » Iain Dowie, English-Northern Irish footballer and coach
• 1965 » Joely Richardson, English actress

• 1946 » Countee Cullen, American poet and playwright (b. 1903)
• 1947 » Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1960 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author and educator (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Emily Greene Balch, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1964 » Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Elmer Flick, American baseball player and scout (b. 1876)
• 1972 » Ted Shawn, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1975 » Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower (b. 1891)

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. Michael
16. Dirk

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.
• January 23 » The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 26 » Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
• October 18 » Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space.

The temperature on January 9, 1963 was between -10.2 °C and -4.2 °C and averaged -7.8 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.