1963 facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

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.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Movies released
Hit songs
New books
Nobel Prizes
Images for kids
See also

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

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1963 para niños

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