1963 facts for kids
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
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, writer, 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 (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 writer (b. 1867)
- June 3 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
- June 11 – Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Bhuddist monk (b. 1897)
- June 18 – Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (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)
Movies 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
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