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• Johannes van Boesschoten, Gilze en Rijen († 1963)
• Jantje van Boesschoten, Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1963)
• Emmanuel Meuleman, Ieper († 2024)
• Meery Yosephine Sugiono, Pati († 2018)
• Andre van Dijk, Rotterdam († 1964)
• Wilhelmus Johannes van Zeggelaar, Utrecht
• James Brian (Jim) FRYLING († 2015)
• Pietje van Boesschoten, Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1963)
• peter arnoldus maria engels, helden-beringe
• Petrus van Boesschoten, Gilze en Rijen († 1963)

• Cecile Lillian Ludington (82), Washington
• Coenraad Nierop (65), Schiedam
• Antonius van Leijenhorst (81), Delft
• Christina Wilhelmina Petronella Lange (82), Leiden,Gemeente Leiden,South Holland,Nederland
• Barend Sleeuwenhoek (77), Newton, Jasper county IOWA-USA
• Anna Maria Crijns (86), NIEDERLANDE, Limburg, Amstenrade
• Cornelis Tentij (73), 's Gravenhage
• Adrianus Killestein (68), Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adriaan Moerdijk (78), Zwartsluis
• Anna Charlotta Lundberg (79)

• 1962 » Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian engineer and politician, 3rd President of the Republic of Macedonia
• 1962 » Carlos Bernard, American actor and director
• 1962 » Chris Botti, American trumpet player and composer
• 1962 » John Coleman, English footballer and manager
• 1963 » Alan McDonald, Irish footballer and manager († 2012)
• 1963 » Dave Legeno, English actor and mixed martial artist († 2014)
• 1963 » Hideki Fujisawa, Japanese composer
• 1963 » Luis Polonia, Dominican baseball player
• 1963 » Raimond Aumann, German footballer
• 1963 » Satoshi Kon, Japanese animator and screenwriter († 2010)

• 1956 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)
• 1958 » Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
• 1964 » John Watkins, Canadian diplomat (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1967 » Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910)
• 1969 » Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (b. 1891)
• 1969 » Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter and academic (b. 1906)
• 1969 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (b. 1912)

• 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.
• February 27 » The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
• March 17 » Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
• August 31 » Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self governance.
• October 9 » In Italy, a large landslide a causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
• November 9 » At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
• December 14 » The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.

The temperature on October 12, 1963 was between 11.3 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.