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• franciscus christiaan martin maria (frank) jacobs, helden-panningen
• Wilhelmina Donk, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Kevin Lee Pendleton, Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma († 1995)
• Peter Opbroek († 1998)
• Robert Allen Cambron, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky († 1964)
• Anita Maria Rutjes, hengelo († 2000)
• Christopher Frens, USA († 1998)
• michaël johannes peter joachim absil, helden-dorp
• Rene de Koster († 2000)
• Karin Rog, Scheveningen († 2004)

• Adrianus Anthonius MICHIELSEN (57)
• Claire Marie VANBREDAM (65), Wambrechies,59118,Nord,Hauts-de-France,France
• Antonius Josephus Franciscus Maria de Leeuw (39), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Henricus de Kok (64), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Camiel Myny (76), Roeselare, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Gelberdina Boomsma (74), sneek
• Cent Willem van Yperen (70), Delft, Delft, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Wijgerse (78), Maasbommel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Witt (75), Kropp, Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland
• adriana heuvel van den (60), oss

• 1960 » Rosita Baltazar, Belizean choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor († 2015)
• 1960 » Timothy Hutton, American actor, producer and director
• 1961 » Angela Smith, English academic and politician
• 1961 » Christian Okoye, American football player
• 1962 » Steve Carell, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Aloísio Pires Alves, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1963 » Christine Cavanaugh, American voice artist († 2014)
• 1964 » Barry Venison, English footballer and journalist
• 1964 » Jimmy Arias, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1964 » Nigel Redman, English rugby player

• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1973 » Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

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 24 » Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
• August 5 » Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
• 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.
• September 4 » Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
• November 18 » The first push-button telephone goes into service.
• December 10 » An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.

The temperature on August 16, 1963 was between 10.6 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.