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 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

1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1963rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 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 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 12 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
• May 31 – Edith Hamilton, educator and writer (b. 1867)

• 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 1 – Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Egyptian film director (b. 1919)

• 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 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889)

• October 11 – Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
• October 11 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)

• 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 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 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