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• Altink, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• George Reilly, Sheboygan County († 1963)
• Evert Jens Johan (Evert) Scholten, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Abraham Kosten, St. Philipsland († 2000)
• Francisca Engelina Maria Sweegers, Eindhoven
• Donna Jo Klyn († 2021)
• Jeanetta Christina Van Latum, Eindhoven, Nederland († 1997)
• Leonardus Innocentius Aloysius Maria Lohuis, NMontfoort († 1978)
• Evert Jens Johan Scholten, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• George Reilly, Sheboygan County († 1963)

• Adriana Boer de (84)
• Adriana de Boer (84), Oostzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Harmelink (58), Zutphen
• Berendina Wiltjer (73), Slochteren (gem. Midden-Groningen)
• Bernardus Asbroek (72), Enter
• Baukje Feddes van Douma (85), Tietjerksteradeel Friesland Bergum
• Aafke Werkman (83), Usquert, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Aukes Breeuwsma (22), Wagenborgen, Termunten, Groningen, Nederland
• Aart Bakker (60)
• Aaltje Sikkema (95), Groningen

• 1959 » Bob Tway, American golfer
• 1959 » Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1959 » Valdemaras Chomičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1960 » Werner Faymann, Austrian politician, 28th Chancellor of Austria
• 1961 » Jay Aston, English singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1964 » Silvia Costa, Cuban high jumper
• 1966 » Gary Elkins, English footballer and manager
• 1966 » Jane McGrath, English-Australian activist, co-founded the McGrath Foundation († 2008)
• 1967 » Ana Gasteyer, American actress and singer
• 1967 » Kate Garraway, English journalist

• 1945 » Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1953 » Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)
• 1955 » George Enescu, Romanian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Karl Robert Pusta, Estonian politician, 4th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Jane Bowles, American author and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1975 » Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (b. 1886)
• 1980 » Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)

• 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 21 » The first election of the Universal House of Justice is held, marking its establishment as the supreme governing institution of the Bahá'í Faith.
• May 30 » A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• June 3 » Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army attack protesting Buddhists in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalized for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
• August 18 » Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
• September 15 » Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
• October 4 » Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.

The temperature on May 4, 1963 was between 3.1 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.