About the day » Monday August 26, 1963Calender converter

• Godfried Timmermans, Monster († 1997)
• Rober van der Ham, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Nicholas Bryan Muntjewerff, St.Alberta, Alberta, Canada († 2012)
• John Thomas Bernard Hebert, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, Verenigde Staten († 1964)
• Frances Grece Segger, Edmonton († 1996)
• Pieter Griffioen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Eduard Christiaan Westdijk, Rotterdam († 2009)
• Michael Adrain Peterson, Norfolk, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2009)

• Antonius Johannes TEUNISSEN (75), Den Haag, ZH, Nederland
• Adela Verwilgen (64), Schoten (B)
• Alma Sowles (73)
• Adriana Ventevogel (65), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Angenita Aafien Brul (73), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Gerhardus de Boer (43), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje de Roos (75), Leeuwarden
• Anna Maria Philomena Lagerberg (63), Wateringen,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Johannes Slagter (72), Ruinen, Nederland
• Aebe Douma (1937)

• 1962 » Roger Kingdom, American hurdler
• 1963 » David Byas, English cricketer and umpire
• 1963 » Patrice Oppliger, American author, critic, and academic
• 1963 » Stephen J. Dubner, American journalist and author
• 1964 » Allegra Huston, English-American author and screenwriter
• 1964 » Bobby Jurasin, American-Canadian football player and coach
• 1964 » Carsten Wolf, German cyclist
• 1964 » Chad Kreuter, American baseball player and manager
• 1964 » Torsten Schmitz, German boxer
• 1964 » Zadok Malka, Israeli footballer and manager

• 1956 » Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)
• 1958 » Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (b. 1872)
• 1966 » W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1972 » Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (b. 1888)
• 1977 » H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)

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. Dirk
15. David
16. Michael

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.
• January 29 » The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• March 5 » American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
• April 11 » Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
• August 28 » March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
• November 1 » The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins.
• November 23 » The BBC broadcasts An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.

The temperature on August 26, 1963 was between 13.6 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 10.0 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.