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• Willem Altena, Coevorden
• Erik Kahlman († 1995)
• Kay L. Hathaway († 1963)
• Evan Kent Haarsma, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2020)
• Gerard Emma Jozef Van de moortel, Bornem († 2022)
• Cornelis Willem ten Kate, Marrum, Noardeast-Fryslân, Friesland, Nederland († 1990)
• Aaltje Profijt († 2002)
• Emiel(Emilius Maria) Latenstein, Warmenhuizen,Gemeente Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Margriet Post, Schiedam († 2014)
• Karen Elizabeth Waugh († 2019)

• Annegien Pomper (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia Hendrika van Velzen (79), Delft
• Agatha Cornelia Uittenbogaard (78), unbekannt
• Aagje Langereis (84), Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Maria van Rossum (83), Lith, 5397, Netherlands
• Aaltje SCHULS (74), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Netherlands
• Andries POORTVLIET (41), Vlissingen
• Antonius Pans (90), Mechelen
• Andries Vos (29), Huizen
• Anna Westerborg (68), Groningen (Groningen)

• 1960 » Buck Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 » Irek Mukhamedov, Russian ballet dancer
• 1960 » Jeffrey Eugenides, American author and academic
• 1961 » Camryn Manheim, American actress
• 1961 » Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and journalist
• 1962 » Leon Robinson, American actor and producer
• 1964 » Kate Betts, American journalist and author
• 1965 » Kenny Smith, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1966 » Greg Barker, Baron Barker of Battle, English politician
• 1966 » Jaime Levy, American computer scientist and academic

• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)
• 1945 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (b. 1879)
• 1971 » Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1973 » Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1975 » George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)

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.
• February 12 » Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
• May 11 » Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
• May 19 » The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
• October 4 » Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
• October 18 » Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space.
• December 10 » An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.

The temperature on March 8, 1963 was between 2.1 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.