1963

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s  1940s  1950s  – 1960s –  1970s  1980s  1990s
Years:	1960 1961 1962 – 1963 – 1964 1965 1966

1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of 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."
• 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.

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 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 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 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 – Thích Quảng Đức, 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
  • Édith 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 alleged 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)

Films released

• How the West Was Won
• Cleopatra
• The Longest Day
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Irma La Douce
• The V.I.P.s
• Son of Flubber
• The Great Escape
• Tom Jones
• Charade
• From Russia With Love
• The Sword in the Stone
• The Birds
• Blood Feast
• It Happened at the World's Fair
• Fun in Acapulco
• Zuo ye meng hun zhong
• Mépris, Le
• La Baie des anges
• 8½
• Bye Bye Birdie
• The Nutty Professor
• The Mask
• An Actor's Revenge
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• Hud

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

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

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