About the day » Tuesday April 16, 1963Calender converter

• Martin Dykgraaff, Griffith, New South Wales, Australia († 1963)
• Yvonne van Zwamen, Venlo († 1990)
• Pieter Frans Nagtegaal, Middelburg († 2003)
• René Koolen, Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland († 2010)
• Peter Jan Schuttinga
• Ronald Arnold Harry Löesink, Doetinchem († 2018)
• catharina jaqueline petronella (riny) nijssen, helden-dorp
• Cornelia Alexandra Weij, amsterdam, Nederland († 2000)
• Meleea Annette Clark, Garland, Dallas, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Saskia Oldenziel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1989)

• August Eduard Klein (53), Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland
• Anna M Mauch (84), Mount Lebanon, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Aafje Jandr Plugboer (61), Broek op Langedijk, NH, Nederland
• Berend Geerts Gritter (85), Hellendoorn
• Carl Friedrich Witt (64), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aletta Huisman (80)
• Berend van Halsema (76), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Uijtdewilligen (91), Kruisland, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Cornelis van Dinter (79), Rotterdam
• Aurea Isselhardt (61)

• 1961 » Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh († 2014)
• 1961 » Linda Ruth Williams, British film studies academic
• 1962 » Anna Dello Russo, Italian journalist
• 1962 » Douglas Elmendorf, American economist and politician
• 1962 » Ian MacKaye, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1963 » Jimmy Osmond, American singer
• 1963 » Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer
• 1964 » Dave Pirner, American singer, songwriter and producer
• 1964 » David Kohan, American screenwriter and producer
• 1964 » Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish pianist († 2008)

• 1958 » Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1960 » Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1965 » Francis Balfour, English soldier and colonial administrator (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Sydney Chaplin, English actor, comedian, brother of Charlie Chaplin (b. 1885)
• 1966 » Eric Lambert, Australian author (b. 1918)
• 1968 » Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator and painter (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (b. 1892)

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. David
15. Michael
16. Dirk

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.
• April 12 » The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
• May 3 » The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement.
• May 19 » The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
• August 15 » President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
• October 7 » President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
• November 29 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The temperature on April 16, 1963 was between 7.4 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain during 13.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.