About the day » Monday May 6, 1963Calender converter

• kind Gremmen, Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1963)
• Ivette Maria Petronella CLAUSMAN, Venraij
• Barend Marcel van Dijk, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Nn Lohn, São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1963)
• Nn Vellekoop, Amersfoort
• Jurrien Vinckers († 1966)
• Michael Russ Haverkamp, Grand Rapids (Kent County) (Michigan) († 2007)
• Astrid Schrijnders, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Geesje Roosien († 2021)
• Frederikus Klijnstra, Tolbert († 2001)

• Anna Fidelia Beck (73), Lake Worth, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Elisabeth Adriana Middag (72)
• Arnoldus Heesters (89), Luyksgestel, Nederland
• Berbera Magdalena Frederiks (76), Oost-en West-Souburg
• Agnes Theodora Goumans (82), Venray, Limburg, Netherlands
• Albertha Koetsier (48)
• Annie van Hutten (70), Eindhoven
• Adrianus Mattheus Warmerdam (72), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Mechthilde Speemann (71), Sonsbeck
• Carolus Franciscus Vale (60), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1960 » Lyudmila Andonova, Bulgarian high jumper
• 1961 » Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and diplomat, First Vice President of the European Commission
• 1961 » George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Gina Riley, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Oleksandr Apaychev, Ukrainian decathlete and coach
• 1961 » Tom Hunter, Scottish businessman and philanthropist
• 1962 » Brad Izzard, Australian rugby league player
• 1962 » Tom Brake, English politician
• 1963 » Alessandra Ferri, Italian ballerina
• 1965 » Leslie Hope, Canadian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)
• 1967 » Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)
• 1970 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)
• 1973 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1893)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 5 » Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
• June 12 » NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
• June 17 » A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
• July 22 » Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance.
• December 31 » The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.

The temperature on May 6, 1963 was between 2.1 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.