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• Wim Vugts, Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1999)
• Camille Sundberg, Burley, Cassia County, Idaho, United States of America († 2013)
• Christiaan Willem van Zwienen, Ouderkerk aan de IJssel-Nederland († 2017)
• Yvonne Johanna Maria Schomaker, Den Helder († 2019)
• Marc Nicolas Guy FAELENS, Brussel († 2009)
• Ben Karregat († 2022)
• Femke Winkeler († 2023)
• Yvonne Johanna Maria Boerma, Den Helder, Nederland († 2019)
• Stefan Gerhard Emge, Kahl am Main, Duitsland († 2011)
• Johannes Casper Zuijderduijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)

• Cornelia Durieux (80), Leiden
• Christoffel KITSZ (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia van den Doel (53), Breda
• Albert Uit den Boogaard (65), (NH) Amsterdam
• Catherine Ann Kerwin (78), Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Claude Leslie Sanders (69), Crown Point, Lake, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Carel Willem Pape (87), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Anna Walheim (79), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Aartsen (76), Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alexandrine Woltera Elias (86), Lochem,Gemeente Lochem,Gelderland,Netherlands

• 1961 » Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer
• 1961 » Rick Moody, American author and composer
• 1961 » Wynton Marsalis, American trumpet player, composer, and educator
• 1962 » Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist
• 1962 » Vincent Spano, American actor, director, and producer
• 1963 » Sigvart Dagsland, Norwegian singer, pianist and composer
• 1964 » Charles Stross, English journalist, author, and programmer
• 1964 » Dan Lilker, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1965 » Curtis Stigers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 » Zakir Naik, an Indian Islamic preacher; founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)

• 1956 » Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
• 1959 » Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
• 1961 » Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Iván Petrovich, Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Henry Travers, Irish-American actor (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)
• 1966 » S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (b. 1867)
• 1973 » Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (b. 1913)

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. David
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. 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 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.
• 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 21 » The first election of the Universal House of Justice is held, marking its establishment as the supreme governing institution of the Bahá'í Faith.
• May 15 » Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space, and the last American to go into space alone.
• June 24 » The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
• November 24 » Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.

The temperature on October 18, 1963 was between 6.0 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.