page_title: 1963
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1963 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: Official portrait of United States Senator Rand Paul (R-KY).
context_page_description: 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1963rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.
context_section_description: January 1
  Linda Henry, English actress
  Glenn Trimble, Australian cricketer
  January 2
  David Cone, American baseball player
  Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
  January 3 – Rebecca Broussard, American actress and model
  January 4
  Dave Foley, Canadian actor and comedian
  Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
  January 5 – Jiang Wen, Chinese actor, film director and screenwriter
  January 6
  Eugene McDowell, American basketball player (d. 1995)
  Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician (d. 2010)
  January 7
  Mohammed Yaseen Mohammed, Iraqi weightlifter (d. 2020)
  Rand Paul, American politician and physician
  January 10 – Kira Ivanova, Soviet Russian figure skater (d. 2001)
  January 11 – Teal Marchande, American actress
  January 13 – Tim Kelly, American guitarist (d. 1998)
  January 14 – Steven Soderbergh, American film director
  January 15
  Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, Polish chess grandmaster (d. 2006)
  Mathias Döpfner, journalist and chief executive officer of German media group Axel Springer SE
  Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, cyber security expert, and writer
  January 16 – James May, English motoring journalist and television show host
  January 17 – Kai Hansen, German power metal guitarist and singer
  January 18 – Ian Crook, English footballer
  January 19 – Caron Wheeler, British singer-songwriter (Soul II Soul)
  January 20 – Firebreaker Chip, American professional wrestler
  January 21
  Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian basketball player
  Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
  January 23 – Gail O'Grady, American actress
  January 24 – Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
  January 25
  Don Mancini, American screenwriter and film director
  Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician
  January 26
  Chin Siu-ho, Hong Kong actor
  Jazzie B, British DJ, music producer (Soul II Soul)
  José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
  Guy Lawson, American writer and journalist
  Andrew Ridgeley, English singer
  January 29 – Octave Octavian Teodorescu, Romanian composer, vanguard rock musician, multi-instrumentist
  January 30
  Daphne Ashbrook, American actress
  Thomas Brezina, Austrian author
  Shōko Tsuda, Japanese voice actress
  January 31 – John Dye, American actor (d. 2011)
caption: Rand Paul
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