1963

**1963** (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events 
* January 5 – The Beach Boys record one of their trademark songs, "Surfin' USA"
* February 11 – The Beatles record 10 songs for the album "Please Please Me"
* June 1 – Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first Prime Minister of Kenya
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* June 11 – Buddhist Monk, Thích Quảng Đức sets himself on fire and burns to death for part of the Vietnam War of the Buddhist crisis.
* July 15 – The Who drummer Doug Sandom is arrested on charges of homosexuality. 
* September 15 – "Birmingham Sunday" when a bomb killed 4 black girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama
* September – *The X-Men* make their debut
* November 22 – John F. Kennedy assassinated, Lyndon Johnson sworn in as President
* November 23 – *Doctor Who* airs for the first time in the United Kingdom
* December 12 - Kenya is officially independent from the United Kingdom
* December 31 – The Central African Federation breaks apart. It eventually became Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia
* The cassette tape was invented
* Diazepam - first synthesized in this year by Leo Sternbach (Polish). It was approved for human use 20 years later in 1983

## Births 
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* January 2 - Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
* March 9 - Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director (d. 2021)
* April 9 - Roberto Casarin, Italian religious leades and guru.
* March 21 – Shawn Lane, American musician
* May 8 – Helena Blagne Zaman, Slovene singer
* May 8 - Anthony Field, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
* May 9 – Barry Douglas Lamb, rock musician, writer, Christian preacher
* May 11 – Natasha Richardson, actress (d. 2009)
* May 12 – Vanessa A. Williams, actress
* May 24 – Joe Dumars, basketball star
* May 25 – Mike Myers, actor, comedian
* May 30 - Tracey Childs, actress
* June 6 – Jason Isaacs, actor
* June 9 – Johnny Depp, actor
* June 13 – Bettina Bunge, tennis player.
* June 17 – Greg Kinnear, TV host and actor
* June 18 – Bruce Smith, American football player
* June 23 – Colin Montgomerie, golfer.
* June 25 – George Michael, singer
* June 27 – Meera Syal, comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress
* July 9 – Johnny Depp, American actor
* July 16 – Phoebe Cates, actress
* July 17 - Regina Belle, American singer
* July 24 – Karl Malone, basketball
* July 30 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
* August 3 – James Hetfield, Metallica frontman and co-founder
* August 6 – Kevin Mitnick, computer cracker
* August 19 – Joey Tempest, Europe frontman
* August 19 – John Stamos, actor
* August 23 – Kenny Wallace, NASCAR race car driver
* August 24 – Hideo Kojima, video game director
* August 30 – Paul Oakenfold, DJ
* September 7 – Eazy-E, American rapper
* September 10 – Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner
* September 21 – Cecil Fielder, baseball player
* September 29 – Dave Andreychuk, NHL player
* October 1 – Mark McGwire, baseball star
* October 4 – Mark Powley, English actor
* October 10 – Daniel Pearl, journalist (d. 2002)
* October 22 – Brian Boitano, figure skater
* October 26 – Natalie Merchant, singer/songwriter/musician
* October 31 – Fred McGriff, baseball player
* November 13 – Vinny Testaverde, American football quarterback
* November 18 – Dante Bichette, baseball player
* November 19 – Terry Farrell, actress
* November 21 – Nicolette Sheridan, actress
* November 24 – Iris Erlingsdottir, OMD, writer, journalist
* December 2 – John Kennedy Morrisey, entertainer/athlete/storyteller
* December 6 – Kay Purcell, English actress (d. 2020)
* December 13 – Ilkka Remes, writer
* December 16 – Benjamin Bratt, actor
* December 18 – Brad Pitt, actor
* December 21  Russell Armstrong, attorney and venture capitalist (d. 2011)
* December 23 – Jim Harbaugh, American football player

## Deaths 
### January 
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* January 2 – Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
* January 2 – Al Mamaux, American baseball player (b. 1894)
* January 2 – Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
* January 5 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball manager (b. 1896)
* January 13 – Sylvanus Olympio, President of Togo (b. 1902)
* January 18 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (b. 1899)
* January 22 – Alf Henry Andresen, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1891)
* January 23 – Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1909)
* January 29 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
* January 30 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)

### February 
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* February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (suicide) (b. 1932)
* February 28 – Rajendra Prasad, 1st President of India (b. 1884)
* February 28 – Eppa Rixey, American baseball player (b. 1891)
* February 28 – Alba Chrétien-Vaguet, French singer (b. 1872)

### March 
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* March 4 – William Carlos Williams, American writer (b. 1883)
* March 5 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
* March 11 – Alpha Brumage, American football player (b. 1880)
* March 18 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)

### April 
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* April 6 – Otto Struve, Russian-American astronomer (b. 1897)
* April 9 – Eddie Edwards, American jazz musician (b. 1891)
* April 23 – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (b. 1884)

### May 
* May 12 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
* May 31 – Edith Hamilton, educator and writer (b. 1867)

### June 
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* June 3 – Pope John XXIII head of the Catholic Church (b. 1881)
* June 11 – Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Bhuddist monk (b. 1897)
* June 18 – Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)

### July 
* July 1 – Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Egyptian film director (b. 1919)

### August 
* August 5 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
* August 6 – Gottfried Klaus, Swiss politician (b. 1899)
* August 23 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist (b. 1906)
* August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)

### September 
* September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889)

### October 
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* October 11 – Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
* October 11 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)

### November 
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* November 1 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
* November 5 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish writer (b. 1902)
* November 15 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
* November 22 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
* November 22 – J. D. Tippit, Police officer (b. 1924)
* November 22 – Aldous Huxley, English novelist (b. 1894)
* November 22 – C. S. Lewis, English novelist (b. 1898)
* November 24 – Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1939)
* November 27 – Kikuji Ishimoto, Japanese architect (b. 1894)
* November 28 – Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar, Indian historian (b. 1895)

### December 
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* December 1 – Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, British-American spy (b. 1910)
* December 2 – Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner (b. 1875)
* December 5 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
* December 5 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
* December 8 – Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
* December 12 – Theodor Heuss, President of Germany (b. 1884)
* December 14 – Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
* December 28 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)

## Nobel Prizes 
* Nobel Prize in Physics – Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
* Chemistry – Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
* Medicine – Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
* Literature – Giorgos Seferis
* Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies