About the day » Sunday May 5, 1963Calender converter

• Petrus Antonius Johannes Maria Stoop, Maastricht
• Rienke TEKELENBURG
• Denis RITZINGER, Paris XIV, 75114, Parie, Île-de-France, France († 2019)
• Tomas M. Haring, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Vincentius Gerardus Maria Boerkamp, Olst († 1982)
• Wilhelmina Henrica Maria van den Dobbelsteen, Enschede († 2018)
• Hetty Hellemons († 2016)
• Petrus Eduardus van Eunen, Deventer (Prov.Overijssel) († 2015)
• Wietse Smid, Dordrecht († 2018)
• Anne-Marie de Vries, Utrecht († 2012)

• Bernard "Barney" O'Neill (74), Armagh, Co. Armagh, N. Ireland
• Cornelia Jacoba van Broekhoven (90), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cäcilia Bus´ko (75), 21:30 Uhr in Bergheim
• Anna Louise van Iddekinge Hofkamp (79), Amersfoort
• Arie VISBEEN (86), Paterson, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Aartje OOREBEEK (85), Rotterdam
• Andrew Jann (71), Buffalo NY
• Bernard Kiefer (87)
• Annie van Hutten (70), Eindhoven
• Clarence Ogle Baisch (60), Decatur, Morgan Co., Alabama, Verenigde Staten

• 1961 » Marg Downey, Australian actress
• 1962 » Kaoru Wada, Japanese composer and conductor
• 1963 » James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1963 » Scott Westerfeld, American author and composer
• 1963 » Simon Rimmer, English chef and author
• 1964 » Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer († 2013)
• 1964 » Efrat Mishori, Israeli poet and filmmaker
• 1964 » Heike Henkel, German high jumper
• 1964 » Jean-François Copé, French politician, French Minister of Budget
• 1964 » Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer

• 1947 » Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1957 » Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1965 » John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1971 » Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)
• 1977 » Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Hendrik
6. John
7. Ronald
8. Cornelis
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.
• February 12 » Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
• May 15 » Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space, and the last American to go into space alone.
• July 1 » ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
• August 8 » The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
• August 24 » Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
• October 3 » A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.

The temperature on May 5, 1963 was between 3.3 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.