About the day » Thursday August 29, 1963Calender converter

• Eddy Bleus, Sint-Truiden, België († 2018)
• Mark Stephen Jones Self, California († 1963)
• Ruud M. F. Bremer, Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• van Zoeren († 2006)
• Dieuwerke Renate ROP, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland († 1963)
• Lance O'Reilly († 2015)
• NN Schouten, Vierhouten (Ermelo) († 1963)
• Johannes Willem Huig Mourik, Krimpen aan de IJssel († 1971)
• Marcel Antonius Johannes ALBERDA, Nijmegen († 2004)
• Jay Johnson, Minneapolis MN († 2010)

• Elisabeth Agnes Ramm (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clara May Speirs (93), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Donardus Wilhelm Bouchier (87), Breda
• Cornelis de Wijs (62), 's Gravenhage
• Abraham Hendrix Salyers (95), Dickenson Co., Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Ernestina Augusta de Mello (85), Piraju, São Paulo, Brasil
• Antonius van Nispen (78), Bergen op Zoom
• Antonie Kers (79), Wenum
• Edward Bean (63), Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Emily Baron (89), New Bedford, Bristol, MA

• 1961 » Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
• 1961 » Rodney McCray, American basketball player
• 1962 » Carl Banks, American football player and sportscaster
• 1962 » Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese game designer and composer
• 1962 » Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor, writer, producer and author
• 1962 » Simon Thurley, English historian and academic
• 1963 » Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 1964 » Perri "Pebbles" Reid, American dance-pop and urban contemporary singer-songwriter
• 1964 » Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer
• 1965 » Will Perdue, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1951 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
• 1971 » Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1977 » Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
• 1977 » Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)

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.
• March 17 » Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
• June 10 » The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.
• June 21 » Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
• 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 22 » A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
• November 18 » The first push-button telephone goes into service.

The temperature on August 29, 1963 was between 6.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.