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• Eve Michaud
• Joëlle, Nelly, Marie-Rose JAMBLIN
• Levenloos Mantel, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Hendrikus Johannes Wilhelmus Henk Weinreder († 2014)
• Juliann Aukeman († 1965)
• Connie M Erpelding, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2015)
• Nn Steffens, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1963)
• N.N. Botter, Groningen († 1963)
• Antonius Fransiscus Hopstaken, Utrecht
• Ray Nagel († 2016)

• Anna Delwel (83), Rotterdam
• Aimée Joséphine Louise CHEDEMAIL (59), Cornillé, 35500, France
• Arnold H. Uecker (57), Helena
• Arigje de Kreij (86), Wijngaarden
• * Martinus Leonardus de Gouw (54), Drunen
• Adrianus Cornelis Donders (79), Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Franciscus Besters (65), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• ADRIANUS JACOBUS VAN SPRONSEN (76), 'S-GRAVENHAGE
• Albert Knops (19), Heerlen
• Arnold Adam Maria Taverne (38), Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1961 » Eriko Kitagawa, Japanese director and screenwriter
• 1961 » Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijani businessman and politician, 4th President of Azerbaijan
• 1961 » Mary Barra, American businesswoman, current CEO and chairwoman of General Motors
• 1962 » Kate Spade, American fashion designer († 2018)
• 1963 » Caroline Aherne, English actress, producer, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1963 » Jay Bilas, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1963 » Mary Ramsey, American singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1963 » Neil Turbin, American singer-songwriter
• 1963 » Timo Jutila, Finnish ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1964 » Mark Valley, American actor

• 1957 » Norma Talmadge, American actress and producer (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Robert Hillyer, American poet and academic (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Eveline Adelheid von Maydell, German illustrator (b. 1890)
• 1962 » Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (b. 1896)
• 1964 » Claudia Jones, Trinidad-British journalist and activist (b. 1915)
• 1965 » John Black, English businessman (b. 1895)
• 1965 » William M. Branham, American minister and theologian (b. 1906)
• 1967 » Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1913)
• 1969 » Cortelia Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)
• 1969 » Stanisław Błeszyński, Polish-German entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1927)

• 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 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.
• 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.
• June 11 » Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
• November 2 » South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
• 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 » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.

The temperature on December 24, 1963 was between -10.7 °C and -3.8 °C and averaged -7.4 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.