1963

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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1960 1961 1962 - 1963 - 1964 1965 1966

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Films released
5 Hit songs
6 New books
7 Nobel Prizes

[change] Events

February 11- The Beatles record 10 songs for the album "Please Please Me."
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 31 - The Central African Federation breaks apart, and eventually became Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
The cassette tape invented.

[change] Births

March 21 - Shawn Lane, American musician
May 8 - Helena Blagne Zaman, Slovene singer
May 9 - Barry Douglas Lamb, rock musician, author, Christian preacher
May 11 - Natasha Richardson, actress
May 12 - Vanessa A. Williams, actress
May 24 - Joe Dumars, basketball star
May 25 - Mike Myers, actor, comedian
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 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 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 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

[change] Deaths

January 2 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
January 2 - Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
January 5 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896)
January 18 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (b. 1899)
January 29 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
January 30 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
February 11 - Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (suicide) (b. 1932)
February 28 - Eppa Rixey, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1891)
March 4 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (b. 1883)
March 5 - Patsy Cline, singer (Cowboy Copas) (b. 1932)
April 6 - Otto Struve, astronomer (b. 1897)
April 9 - Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (b. 1891)
May 12 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
May 31 - Edith Hamilton, educator and author (b. 1867)
June 3 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
June 11 - Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Bhuddist monk (suicide)(b. 1897)
June 18 - Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (suicide)(b. 1912)
August 5 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
August 23 - Glen Gray, saxophonist and conductor (b. 1906)
August 31 - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
September 11 - Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889)
October 11
- Edith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
- Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
November 1 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
November 15 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
November 22
- John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
- Aldous Huxley, English novelist (b. 1894)
- C. S. Lewis, English novelist and Christian apologist (b. 1898)
November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy assassin (shot) (b. 1939)
November - Luis Cernuda, Spanish writer (b. 1902)
December 1 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in World War II
December 2 - Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner (b. 1875)
December 5 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint (b. 1828)
December 5 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
December 28 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)

[change] Films released

[change] Hit songs

"Dominique" - The Singing Nun
"Please Please Me" - The Beatles
"She Loves You" - The Beatles
"Love Me Do" - The Beatles
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" - The Beatles
"From Me To You" - The Beatles
"In Dreams" - Roy Orbison
"Blue Bayou" - Roy Orbison
"Mean Woman Blues" - Roy Orbison
"Pretty Paper" - Roy Orbison
"Hey Paula" - Paul & Paula
"He's So Fine" - The Chiffons
"Bo Diddley" - Buddy Holly
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" - Buddy Holly
"Surf City" - Jan & Dean
"It's My Party" - Lesley Gore
"Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa" - Gene Pitney
"Be My Baby" - The Ronettes
"Wipe Out" - The Surfaris
"If I Had A Hammer" - Trini Lopez
"Da Doo Ron Ron" - The Crystals
"Pipeline" - The Chantays
"Walk Like A Man" - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
"Heat Wave" - Martha & the Vandellas
"Up On The Roof" - The Drifters
"I Can't Stay Mad At You" - Skeeter Davis
"Only In America" - Jay & the Americans
"Who Stole The Keeshka?" - Matys Brothers
"Wonderful Summer" - Robin Ward
"I Only Want to Be With You" - Dusty Springfield
"The Folk Singer" - Tommy Roe
"Guilty" - Jim Reeves
"Is This Me" - Jim Reeves

[change] New books

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Benefactor - Susan Sontag
Caravans - James A. Michener
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
City of Night - John Rechy
The Collector - John Fowles
Elizabeth Appleton - John O'Hara
False Colours – Georgette Heyer
John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
The Glass-Blowers - Daphne Du Maurier
Gradmother and the Priests - Taylor Caldwell
The Group - Mary McCarthy
Happiness Is a Warm Puppy - Charles M. Schulz
The Making of the English Working Class - E. P. Thompson
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ian Fleming
Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes) - Pierre Boulle
The Rise of the West - William H. McNeill
The Sand Pebbles - Richard McKenna
Second Skin - John Hawkes
The Shoes of the Fisherman - Morris West
Six Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman
The Spy who Came in from the Cold - John le Carré
That Summer in Paris - Morley Callaghan

[change] 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

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