About the day » Sunday August 4, 1963Calender converter

• Wilhelmina P.M. Verhoeven, Gilze en Rijen († 1963)
• Maarten Wiebrand Weima († 1965)
• Geja Brouwer, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 2011)
• will van der elsen
• Adrianus Berkhout, Rotterdam
• Harry John Boer, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada († 1963)
• Ben de Olde, Heetveld, Ambt Vollenhove, Nederland († 2006)
• Gerardus Adrianus Wilhelmus Versluis, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 2016)
• Corine Coemans († 1966)

• Cornelis Nicolaas van Schaik (69)
• Ann Mahoney (Naomi) Wiley (80), Ekatahuna, Wairarapa, New Zealand
• Cornelis (Kees) Peters (63), Dordrecht
• Clasina Schoen (72), Westzaan, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus_Josephus van Loon (56), Loon op Zand
• Christina Martina (Stien) De Swart (82), 's-Gravenhage
• Anthonius Karel Willem Adelaar (67), Utrecht
• David Emelander (71)
• Bartus Demmer (53)
• Adrianus Hopman (46), Haarlem

• 1961 » Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1962 » Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Roger Clemens, American baseball player and actor
• 1963 » Keith Maurice Ellison, 30th Attorney General of Minnesota
• 1964 » Andrew Bartlett, Australian social worker and politician
• 1965 » Adam Afriyie, English businessman and politician
• 1965 » Dennis Lehane, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1965 » Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish soldier and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1965 » Michael Skibbe, German footballer and manager
• 1965 » Vishal Bhardwaj, Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer

• 1957 » John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Washington Luís, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869)
• 1958 » Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (b. 1883)
• 1959 » József Révai, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (b. 1926)
• 1967 » Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop and martyr (b. 1923)
• 1976 » Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)

• 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 21 » Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
• May 8 » South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
• May 11 » Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
• September 2 » CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
• November 29 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• December 26 » The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.

The temperature on August 4, 1963 was between 14.9 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 22.7 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.