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• Wilma van der Horst, St Jacobiparochie, Nederland
• Rita Ann Timmermeyer († 2021)
• Cedric Ignacio Konket, willemstad, Curaçao
• louisa martina maria (loes) peters, venlo
• Marcy Willis, Toombs, Georgia, United States († 2002)
• Frederik van Beerschoten, Ermelo († 1985)
• Anne Marie Chantal THIBAUT de MAISIÈRES, Bruxelles, 21004, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique († 2022)
• Werner de Ridder, Sluiskil († 1990)
• Martha Johanna Bergman, Oudeschild, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Levenloos Seijkens, Helmond († 1963)

• Arnoldus van Bladel (101), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernhardus Herman ten Bokum (56), Ootmarsum, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Smit (79), Ter Oele
• Catharina Maria Elisabeth (Cato) Reijven- (71), Tilburg, Nederland
• Catharina Reijven (71), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• Catharina Maria Gitzels (34), Hoorn
• Alameda Maurine Werner (58), Upland, San Bernardino, California, United States
• * Arnoldus # van Bladel (101), Eindhoven
• Antoinetta Catharina Louiza Maria van Gils (73), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Bell McQuillan (96), Ramsey, Minnesota

• 1961 » Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer and sportscaster
• 1961 » Laurie Halse Anderson, American author
• 1961 » Vinicio Gómez, Guatemalan politician († 2008)
• 1962 » Doug Flutie, American football player, sportscaster, and drummer
• 1963 » Gordon Korman, Canadian-American author
• 1963 » Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer
• 1964 » Anabell López, Cuban singer
• 1964 » Eddy Cue, American computer scientist and businessman
• 1964 » Robert Trujillo, American bass player and songwriter
• 1965 » Augusten Burroughs, American author and screenwriter

• 1943 » Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931)
• 1950 » Al Jolson, Lithuanian-American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869)
• 1959 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885)
• 1959 » Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
• 1964 » Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (b. 1886)
• 1978 » Maybelle Carter, American singer and autoharp player (Carter Family) (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)

• 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 8 » The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
• February 19 » The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
• April 12 » The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
• 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.
• July 1 » The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
• July 12 » Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.

The temperature on October 23, 1963 was between 1.9 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.