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• Matthew W Koch († 1963)
• N.N. Hamstra, Leeuwarden († 1963)
• Baby Gene Salsberry († 1963)
• Jan Schaap, Scheveningen († 2013)
• Geertruida Vos, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 2006)
• Douglas Cartwright "Doug" Houston, fortasse, somewhere, Verenigde Staten
• Marike Cariene Kuperus, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Michael Loren Boneschans, Usa († 1978)
• Edward Allen Peters, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Anke van Dijk, Dokkum, Friesland, Nederland

• Cornelia Hendrika van Kleef (64), Amsterdam
• Antonius Theodorus Marie van Hoek (54), Schiedam
• Aaltje Hindriks HARMSMA (72), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Aafje STROOBACH (77), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ariaantje SMITS (82)
• Achiel Frans Jozef Philemon MAES (68), Evere, 1140, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Bertha Geisner (76), Oran, Scott County, MO
• Carolina Christina Gieze (70), Utrecht
• Baby Gene Salsberry (0)
• Cornelia Elisabeth Vrakking (79), Hilversum, Utrecht, Nederland, Nederland

• 1962 » Black, English singer-songwriter († 2016)
• 1962 » Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Genie Francis, Canadian-American actress
• 1963 » Claude Legault, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1963 » Jamie Spence, English golfer
• 1963 » Mary Nightingale, English journalist
• 1963 » Simon Armitage, English poet, playwright and novelist
• 1964 » Argiris Pedoulakis, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1964 » Caitlín R. Kiernan, Irish-American paleontologist and author
• 1964 » Lenny Kravitz, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor

• 1951 » Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer (b. 1880)
• 1954 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (b. 1900)
• 1955 » Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1959 » Philip Kassel, American gymnast (b. 1876)
• 1966 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
• 1969 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (b. 1889)

• 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.
• July 1 » The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
• July 26 » Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
• 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 1 » The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
• December 7 » Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
• December 26 » The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.

The temperature on May 26, 1963 was between 7.4 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.