About the day » Wednesday October 2, 1963Calender converter

• Martinus (Tiny) Andreas Maria Huvenaars († 1963)
• Patrick Vanbrabant († 2024)
• Petrus Gerardus Antonius Cornelis Maria Lijten, Geldrop (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1964)
• Broer Roorda († 1987)
• Martinus Andreas Maria Huvenaars, Veghel († 1963)
• Gerard Willem (Gerard) de Sain († 2010)
• Co Alexander Schut, Groningen († 1989)
• Bart op den Buijs, Eindhoven († 1994)
• Chantal Marcella Crabbe, Roeselare († 2011)
• Karin Ellen Brands, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2023)

• Arthur Albert CHIVERS (55)
• Aagje Sonneveld (84), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Maria Haas (81), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Haaima (89), Dokkum, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adriaan van der Weel (84), Haren
• Aalbert Krook (67), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna E Preeschl (74), Faribault, Rice, Minnesota, United States
• Adriana Cornelia Platschorre (94), Kortgene
• Arvilla DYE (54), Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho, United States of America
• Alida Lalleman (60), Mijdrecht (U)

• 1960 » Django Bates, English pianist and composer
• 1960 » Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1960 » Johan Lammerts, Dutch cyclist
• 1961 » Jaan Toomik, Estonian director and producer
• 1962 » James Hunter, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Mark Rypien, Canadian-American football player
• 1963 » Keith Bradshaw, Australian cricketer and accountant
• 1964 » Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player
• 1965 » Darren Cahill, Australian tennis player and coach
• 1965 » Tom Moody, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
• 1962 » Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)
• 1968 » Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1971 » Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
• 1973 » Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1974 » Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1975 » K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)

• 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 22 » The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
• June 12 » NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
• July 1 » ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
• September 2 » CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
• November 25 » President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is buried on the same day in Fort Worth, Texas.
• November 29 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The temperature on October 2, 1963 was between 6.3 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.