1963

1963 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1963; MCMLXIII
Ab urbe condita	2716
Armenian calendar	1412; ԹՎ ՌՆԺԲ
Assyrian calendar	6713
Bahá'í calendar	119–120
Balinese saka calendar	1884–1885
Bengali calendar	1370
Berber calendar	2913
British Regnal year	11 Eliz. 2 – 12 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2507
Burmese calendar	1325
Byzantine calendar	7471–7472
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger); 4659 or 4599; — to —; 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit); 4660 or 4600
Coptic calendar	1679–1680
Discordian calendar	3129
Ethiopian calendar	1955–1956
Hebrew calendar	5723–5724
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2019–2020
- Shaka Samvat	1884–1885
- Kali Yuga	5063–5064
Holocene calendar	11963
Igbo calendar	963–964
Iranian calendar	1341–1342
Islamic calendar	1382–1383
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 38; (昭和３８年)
Javanese calendar	1894–1895
Juche calendar	52
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4296
Minguo calendar	ROC 52; 民國52年
Nanakshahi calendar	495
Thai solar calendar	2506
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年; (male Water-Tiger); 2089 or 1708 or 936; — to —; 阴水兔年; (female Water-Rabbit); 2090 or 1709 or 937

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 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

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

January 2 - Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
March 9 - Jean-Marc Vallée, 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 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

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 Chrétien-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 – 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

October 11 – Édith 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

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