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• Maria Gerrelmann, Haselünne
• Anton Meindert KORFAGE († 1988)
• Marc Geldof († 1986)
• Margot Patricia Hulst, Heemstede
• Conny Van Reij († 1979)
• Paul Ploeger, Sint Pancras († 1969)
• Anton Meindert Korfage, Pijnacker, Nederland († 1988)
• Martha Louisa PRETORIUS († 1989)
• Alexa Schuffelen, Grefrath (Dl) († 1983)
• "Janet" Henriette Foekens, Emmen († 2006)

• Albertus Zwart (73), Egmond aan Zee
• Andrew Madison Taylor, Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Margaretha de Niet (78), Amsterdam
• Catharina Frederica Huffmeijer (79), Amsterdam
• Anna Bernice Buehler (72), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
• Annigje Regelink (74)
• Anna Spijkstra (36), Ferwerd, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Bartholomeus Gerardus van Maris (53), Sassenheim
• Cornelis Quirinus van Dijk (79), Poeldijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Dekker (84), Assen

• 1962 » Bertrand Gachot, Belgian race car driver
• 1962 » Kang Je-gyu, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Keiji Mutoh, Japanese wrestler and actor
• 1962 » Stefan Hell, Romanian-German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1963 » Ante Zelck, German businessman
• 1963 » Donna Tartt, American author
• 1963 » Jess Harnell, American singer-songwriter
• 1963 » Jim Harbaugh, American football player and coach
• 1964 » Eddie Vedder, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 » Badi Assad, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1950 » Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (b. 1878)
• 1953 » Lavrentiy Beria, Georgian-Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1899)
• 1954 » René Iché, French soldier and sculptor (b. 1897)
• 1961 » Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, American author (b. 1875)
• 1961 » Kurt Meyer, German general (b. 1910)
• 1970 » Aleksander Warma, Estonian lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1890)
• 1970 » Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1972 » Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder and model (b. 1892)
• 1973 » Irna Phillips, American screenwriter, created Guiding Light and As the World Turns (b. 1901)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Ronald
6. John
7. Cornelis
8. Hendrik
9. Paul
10. Pieter
11. Marcel
12. Richard
13. Mark
14. Gerrit
15. Willem
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Monique
6. Yvonne
7. Cornelia
8. Jolanda
9. Anita
10. Ingrid
11. Karin
12. Catharina
13. Wilhelmina
14. Jacqueline
15. Petra
16. Caroline

• 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
• January 13 » Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
• January 28 » An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
• February 10 » Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMASVoyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
• March 14 » Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• April 1 » The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
• April 11 » Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected President by the National Congress.

The temperature on December 23, 1964 was between -4.3 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.