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• Mattheus van de Graaf († 1965)
• Andre Simon VAN DEN BROEK, St Laurens,Zeeland,NEDERLAND
• Jos d'HOKER, Geraardsbergen, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1963)
• Cornelis Thomas Pieter Roorda Van Eijsinga, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 1963)
• Mary Helen Heezen, Indianapolis, Ind. VS († 2005)
• Sebastianus Wilhelmus Maria, Bas Schulten, Emmeloord († 2018)
• Franciscus Asbroek, Hengelo († 2001)
• Petrus Bernardus Johannes Maria Bakker, Hengelo († 2011)

• Berdina den Boer (81), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carla Anna Catharina Wulms (3), Clayton Victoria, Australië
• Anna Jean (Annechien) van der Veen (95)
• Carl Strötker (29), Enschede
• Catharina Johanna Kila (77), Dordrecht
• Anna Henrietta Elisabeth Adam (78), 's-Gravenhage
• Coenraad Willem Anthonij Marie Groskamp (85), 's Gravenhage
• Chester Thomas Anderson (40), Lincoln, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• COLETA AUGUSTA CORDEEL (76), SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Antonio Ralph Talancon (21), Costa Mesa, Orange, California, United States

• 1961 » Andrés Calamaro, Argentine singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1961 » Debbi Peterson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1961 » Iain Coucher, English businessman
• 1961 » Roland Orzabal, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1962 » Stefano Tilli, Italian sprinter
• 1963 » James DeBarge, American R&B/soul singer
• 1963 » Terry Catledge, American basketball player
• 1963 » Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1964 » Mats Wilander, Swedish-American tennis player and coach
• 1964 » Trey Gowdy, American lawyer and U.S. Representative

• 1950 » Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (b. 1888)
• 1951 » Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1913)

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 10 » One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USSThresher sinks at sea.
• June 20 » Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington and Moscow.
• July 26 » The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
• August 15 » Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
• August 22 » X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96km (67.08mi) (354,200 feet)).
• October 31 » A propane tank explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now the Indiana Farmers Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people and injures another 400 during an ice skating show.

The temperature on August 22, 1963 was between 13.1 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.