1963

1963 (MCMLXIII) was .
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
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
Births
January 2 - Edgar Martinez, American baseball player
March 9 - Jean-Marc Vallee, Canadian director (d. 2021)
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 13 - Ilkka Remes, writer
December 16 - Benjamin Bratt, actor
December 18 - Brad Pitt, actor
December 23 - Jim Harbaugh, American football player
Deaths
January
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
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 Chretien-Vaguet, French singer (b. 1872)
March
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
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
June 3 - Pope John XXIII head of the Catholic Church (b. 1881)
June 11 - Thich Quang Duc, 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
October 11 - Edith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
October 11 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
November
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
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