1963

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Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1963

January

January - Beginning of Britain's "Big Freeze", which lasts into April.
January 1 - Bogle-Chandler case: CSIRO scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumably poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney.
January 14

George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!
The Flying Scotsman in its British Railways guise as No. 60103 makes its last scheduled run before going into the hands of Sir Alan Pegler for preservation.

January 22 - France and Germany sign the Elysée Treaty.
January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration.
January 29 - French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the EEC.

February

February 8 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration..
February 10 - Five Japanese cities located on the northernmost part of Kyūshū had been merged and became City of Kitakyūshū, which population was more than one million.
February 11 - The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created.
February 21 - An earthquake destroys the village of Barce, Libya, killing 500.
February 27

Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the Dominican Republic.
Female suffrage is enacted in Iran.

February 28 - A large cloud that some say resembles the face of Jesus is seen on Sunset Mountain, Arizona.

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March

March - The divorce case of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll causes scandal in the United Kingdom.
March 1 - Yoko Ono's marriage to American Christian fundamentalist filmmaker Anthony Cox is annulled.
March 4 - In Paris, 6 people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle pardons 5 of them but the other conspirator is executed by firing squad few days later.
March 5 - In Camden, Tennessee, country music superstar Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley) is killed in a plane crash along with fellow performers Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Cline's manager and pilot Randy Hughes while returning from a benefit performance in Kansas City, Kansas for country radio disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call.
March 16 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali, killing 11,000.
March 18 - Gideon v. Wainwright: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the poor must have lawyers.
March 21 - The Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes; the last 27 prisoners are transferred elsewhere at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

March 22 - The Beatles release the album Please Please Me.
March 23 - Dansevise by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 for Denmark.
March 27 - In Britain, Dr. Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the UK's rail network.

April

April 3 - SCLC volunteers kick off the Birmingham campaign against segregation with a sit-in.
April 7 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life.
April 10 - The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks 220 miles east of Cape Cod with all hands (129 dead).
April 12

Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham protest for "parading without a permit".
The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits. Although both vessels are severely damaged both can make it to port.

April 15 - 70,000 marchers arrive in London from Aldermaston, to demonstrate against nuclear weapons.
April 16 - Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
April 20 – In Quebec, Canada, members of the Quebec terrorist group, the Front de libération du Québec, bomb a Canadian Army recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill.
April 21-April 23 - First election of the Supreme Institution of the Bahá'í Faith, known as the Universal House of Justice whose Seat is at the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
April 22 - Lester B. Pearson becomes Canada's 14th prime minister.
April 28 - A general election is held in Italy.
April 29- Buddy Rogers becomes first WWF Champion.

May

May 1 - The Coca-Cola Company debuts its first diet drink, TaB cola.
May 2

Thousands of African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Sheriff Eugene "Bull" Connor later unleashes fire hoses and police dogs on the demonstrators.
Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany).

May 8 - Dr. No, the first James Bond film, was shown in US theaters.
Scottish SuperStar Ian David Taylor born in Maryfield Hospital ,Dundee
May 13 - A smallpox outbreak was recognized at Stockholm, Sweden, lasting until July that year.
May 15 - Mercury program: NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury 9, the last mission (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete).
May 23 - Fidel Castro visits the Soviet Union.
May 25 - The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

June

June 3 - Pope John XXIII dies.
June 4 - President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 11110.
June 5 - First annual NHL draft is held in Montreal, Quebec.
June 10 - University of Central Florida established by Florida legislature.
June 11

In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest against integration, before stepping aside and allowing African Americans James Hood and Vivian Malone to enrol.
President John F. Kennedy makes an historic civil rights speech, in which he promises a Civil Rights Bill, and asks for "the kind of equality of treatment that we would want for ourselves."

June 12 - Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi (his killer is convicted in 1994).
June 13 - Cancellation of Mercury 10 effectively ends the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight.
June 16 - Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, into space.
June 17 - Abington School District v. Schempp: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that state-mandated Bible reading in public schools is unconstitutional.
June 21 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope..

July

July 1 - ZIP Codes are introduced in the U.S.
July 5

Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level.
The Roman Catholic Church accepts cremation as a funeral practice.

July 12- 16-year-old Pauline Reade is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in Manchester, England
July 26

An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia leaves 1,800 dead.
NASA launches Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite.

July 27 – Indonesian Confrontation: Indonesian president-for-life Sukarno declares that he will crush Malaysia.
July 30 - The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow.

August

August 5 - The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
August 8 - The Great Train Robbery of 1963 takes place in Buckinghamshire, England.
August 18 - American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
August 21 - Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
August 28 - Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

September

September 5 - British prostitute Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury. On December 6 she is sentenced to 9 months in prison.
September 6 - The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
September 7 - The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
September 10 - Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on April 11, 2006).
September 15 - American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 and injures 22.
September 16

Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and Sarawak.
In Fort-Lamy, Chad, demonstrations are quelled with 300 dead.

September 18 - Rioters burn down the British Embassy in Jakarta, to protest the formation of Malaysia.
September 23 - King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals.
September 24 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the nuclear test ban treaty.
September 25 - The Denning Report on the Profumo affair is published in Great Britain.
September 29 - The second period of Second Vatican Council in Rome opens.

October

October 1 - Nigeria becomes a republic; The 1st Republican Constitution is established
October 4 - Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits Hispaniola and Cuba killing nearly 7,000 people.
October 8 - Sam Cooke and his band were arrested after trying to register at a "whites only" motel in Louisiana. In the months following, he recorded A Change Is Gonna Come (song).

October 9 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
October 10

The nuclear test ban treaty, signed on August 5, takes effect.
From Russia With Love is shown in UK cinemas.

October 31 - 74 die in a gas explosion at a coliseum in Indianapolis, United States.

November

November 1 - Arecibo Observatory officially begins operation.
November 2 - 1963 South Vietnamese coup: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
November 6 - Vietnam War: Coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over as leader of South Vietnam.
November 7 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
November 9

Miike Coal Mine explosion: In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.
A triple-train disaster in Yokohama, Japan kills 161.

November 14 - A volcanic eruption under the sea near Iceland creates a new island, Surtsey.
November 15 - Conductor Fritz Reiner dies. On his next Young People's Concert, scheduled to be telecast November 29, Leonard Bernstein, a former pupil of Reiner's, will pay tribute to him.
November 16 - A newspaper strike begins in Toledo, Ohio.
November 18 - The Dartford Tunnel opens in the U.K.

November 22 -

John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President. All television coverage for the next three days is devoted to the assassination, its aftermath, the procession of the horsedrawn casket to the Capitol Rotunda, and the funeral of President Kennedy. Stores and businesses shut down for the entire weekend and Monday, in tribute.
C. S. Lewis dies.
Aldous Huxley dies.

November 23

12-year-old John Kilbride is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
The first episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
The Golden Age Nursing Home Fire kills 63 elderly people near Fitchville, Ohio.

November 24

Alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television. Later that night, a hastily arranged program, A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts, featuring actors, opera singers, and noted writers, all performing dramatic readings and/or music, is telecast on ABC-TV.
Vietnam War: New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.

November 25 - U.S. President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Schools around the nation do not have class on that day, millions watch the funeral on live international television.
November 29

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all on board (the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history).

December

December 3 - The Warren Commission begins its investigation.
December 4 - The second period of Second Vatican Council closes.
December 5 - The Seliger Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military use to military representatives of non-NATO-countries near Cuxhaven. Although these rockets land via parachute at the end of their flight and no allied laws are violated, the Soviet Union protests this action.
December 10 - In the United States, the X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled.
December 12 - Kenya becomes independent, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister.
December 19 - Zanzibar gains independence from Great Britain as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
December 21 - Cyprus Emergency: inter-communal fighting erupts between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.
December 22 - The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira, with the loss of 128 lives.
December 25 - Walt Disney releases his 18th feature-length animated motion picture The Sword in the Stone, about the boyhood of King Arthur. It is the next-to-last animated film personally supervised by Disney, but it has not become one of his greatest hits.
December 26 - I Want to Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing There are released in the U.S., marking the beginning of full-scale Beatlemania.

Undated

Heavy snow results in many houses and buildings collapsed by heavy snow on roofs in northwestern Japan. At least 231 reported died. (from January to February). An express train delayed 106 hours 30 minutes arrived at Tokyo, because of heavy snow and adverse weather.
David. H. Frisch and* J. H. Smith prove radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion. (See Einstein's special relativity and general relativity).
Full deployment of SAGE, the semi-automated ground environment.
TAT-3 cable goes into operation.
Construction of Moscow's Ostankino Tower begins.
Harvey Ball invents the ubiquitous smiley face symbol.
The Reformed Druids of North America (RDNA) is founded.
The IEEE Computer Society is founded.
Urdu typewriter keyboard standardised by Central Language Board in Pakistan.

Births

January-February

January 2

David Cone, baseball player
Edgar Martínez, baseball player

January 4 - Till Lindemann, German musician (Rammstein)
January 13 - Tim Kelly, American musician; lead guitar player for Slaughter (band) from 1988 to 1998 (d. 1998)
January 14 - Steven Soderbergh, American film director
January 16 - James May, English motoring journalist and television show host
January 18 - Ian Crook, English footballer
January 21

Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian basketball player
Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player

January 23 - Gail O'Grady, American actress
January 24 - Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
January 26

José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
Andrew Ridgely, English musician

January 30 - Thomas Brezina, Austrian author
February 2 - Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (d. 1996)
February 9 - Travis Tritt, American singer
February 11

Diane Franklin, American actress

February 17

Michael Jordan, American basketball player
Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian

February 19 - Seal, English singer
February 20 - Charles Barkley, American basketball player
February 21 - William Baldwin, American actor
February 22 - Vijay Singh, Fiji golfer

March-April

March 1 - Dan Michaels, American record producer and saxophonist (The Choir and The Swirling Eddies)
March 2 - Tuff Hedeman, 4-Time PRCA World Champion Bull Rider
March 4

Jason Newsted, American bassist (Voivod)
Daniel Roebuck, American actor
Janey Lee Grace, UK-based singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey

March 6

Gary Stevens, American jockey

March 10 - Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician
March 12 - Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
March 13 - Fito Páez, Argentine musician
March 14 - Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
March 15 - Bret Michaels, American singer (Poison)
March 17

Nick Peros, Canadian composer
Michael Ivins, American bassist (The Flaming Lips)

March 18 - Vanessa L. Williams, American beauty queen, actress, and singer
March 20

Paul Annacone, American tennis player and coach
Kathy Ireland, American model and actress

March 21

Ronald Koeman, Dutch football player and manager.
Shawn Lane, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2003)

March 23 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
March 26 - Susan Ann Sulley, British musician
March 27

Quentin Tarantino, American actor, director, writer, and producer.
Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician

March 29 - Elle Macpherson, Australian supermodel
March 30 - Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer, conductor and music theorist
April 3 - Criss Oliva, American metal guitarist (savatage)
April 4

Jack Del Rio, American football player and coach
Graham Norton, Irish comedian and talk show host

April 6 - Andrew Weatherall, English disc jockey
April 8 - Julian Lennon, musician son of John Lennon
April 9 - Joe Scarborough, American newscaster
April 10

Doris Leuthard, Swiss Federal Councillor
Warren DeMartini, American guitarist (Ratt)

April 11 - Chris Ferguson, American poker player
April 12 - Michael English, American singer
April 13 - Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
April 14 - Frank Yallop, Canadian footballer
April 16 - Jimmy Osmond, American singer
April 17 - Joel Murray, American actor
April 18

Eric McCormack, Canadian actor
Conan O'Brien, American television entertainer

April 21

Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (d. 2004)
Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor

April 24 - Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian musician (Vennaskond)
April 26

Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor
Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player

April 27 - Cali Timmins, Canadian actress
April 30 - Michael Waltrip, American race car driver

May-June

May 1 - Benjamin LaGuer, Massachusetts inmate proclaiming innocence for more than two decades
May 3 - Jeff Horacek, former National Basketball Association player
May 5 - James LaBrie, Canadian vocalist (Dream Theater)
May 9 - Barry Douglas Lamb, English musician, author, and preacher
May 11 - Natasha Richardson, English-born actress
May 16 - Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
May 23

Wally Dallenbach Jr., American race car driver and announcer
Gregg "Opie" Hughes, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)

May 24 - Joe Dumars, American basketball player
May 24 - Rich Rodriguez, American football coach
May 25 - Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
May 31 - Teresa Cheung, Hong Kong socialite & actress
June 5 - Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer
June 6 - Jason Isaacs, British actor
June 9 - Johnny Depp, American actor
June 13 - Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
June 16 - James Fullington, American professional wrestler who goes by The Sandman
June 17 - Greg Kinnear, American actor
June 18 - Bruce Smith, American football player
June 22 - Randy Couture, American mixed martial artist
June 23 - Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
June 23 - Miguel Ameigeiras, Man of action
June 24

Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007)
Preki, Serbia-born American soccer player

June 25

Doug Gilmour, Canadian hockey player
George Michael, English singer

June 26 - Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian businessman, a former Komsomol activist who became one of Russia's oligarchs
June 27 - Meera Syal, English comedian, writer, singer, and actress
June 30 - Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist, composer, and bandleader

July-August

July 4 - Christopher George Kennedy, son of Robert F Kennedy
July 6 - Stuart Garrard, English guitarist
July 16 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
July 17 - Letsie III, King of Lesotho
July 22 - Karl Bown, International card player
July 24

Julie Krone, American jockey
Karl Malone, American basketball player

July 25 - John Christopher Burrow, American Guitarist
July 26 - Andy Timmons, American guitarist
July 29

Graham Poll, English football referee
Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator

July 30 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress
August 1 - Coolio, American rapper
August 3

Tasmin Archer, English singer
James Hetfield, American singer (Metallica)

August 4 - Gary King, British disc jockey
August 6 - Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker
August 8 - Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive
August 9 - Whitney Houston, American singer
August 13 - John Slattery, American actor
August 16 - Steve Carrell, American comedian
August 19

Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
John Stamos, American actor

August 22 - Tori Amos, American singer
August 23

Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
Kenny Wallace, American race car driver

August 24 - Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director
August 30

Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
Michael Chiklis, American actor
Phil Mills, British race car driver

August 31

Reb Beach, American guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake)
Todd Carty, British actor

September-October

September 1 - Carola Smit, Dutch musician
September 6 - Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
September 7 - Eazy-E, American rapper (d. 1995)
September 10 - Randy Johnson, baseball player
September 11 - Joey Dedio, Actor
September 19 - Jarvis Cocker, English musician (Pulp)
September 21

Cecil Fielder, baseball player
Angus MacFadyen, Scottish actor

September 23 - Jackie Pearcey, English politician
September 28 - Steve Blackman, American professional wrestler
September 29

Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player
Les Claypool, American bassist and singer (Primus)

October 1 - Mark McGwire, American baseball player
October 5 - Laura Davies, English golfer
October 6 - Elisabeth Shue, American actress
October 7 - Ronni Le Tekro, Norwegian guitarist
October 10

Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer

October 12

Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director
Alan McDonald, Irish footballer

October 17 - Norm MacDonald, Canadian comedian
October 22 - Brian Boitano, American figure skater
October 26 - Natalie Merchant, American singer, songwriter, and musician
October 27 - Feyyaz Uçar, Turkish footballer
October 28 - Lauren Holly, American actress
October 30 - Kristina Wagner, American actress
October 31 - Fred McGriff, baseball player

November-December

November 1 - Rick Allen, British musician (Def Leppard)
November 2 - Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
November 4 - Lena Zavaroni, Scottish entertainer (d. 1999)
November 10 - Tanju Çolak, Turkish footballer
November 13 - Vinny Testaverde, American football player
November 15 - Benny Elias, Australian rugby player
November 18 - Dante Bichette, baseball player
November 19

Terry Farrell, American actress
Jon Potter, British field hockey player

November 21 - Nicolette Sheridan, English actress
November 22 - Winsor Harmon, American actor
November 23 - Troy Hurtubise, Canadian inventor
November 25

Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer
Bernie Kosar, American football player

December 2 - Ann Patchett, American novelist
December 3 - Terri Schiavo, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 2005)
December 7 - Mark Bowen, Welsh footballer
December 13 - Jake White, South African rugby coach
December 14

Victoria Taranova, Russian soprano
Cynthia Gibb, American actress

December 16

Benjamin Bratt, American actor
Jeff Carson, American singer

December 18

Brad Pitt, American actor
Pauline Ester, French singer

December 21 - Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician (d. 2007)
December 22

Bryan Gunn, Scottish footballer
Luna H. Mitani, Japanese American Surrealism Painter

December 23

Jim Harbaugh, American football player
Donna Tartt, American author

December 26 - Lars Ulrich, Danish-born drummer (Metallica)
December 29

Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
Sean Payton, American football coach

Deaths

January - June

January 2 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
January 3 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b. 1910)
January 5 - Rogers Hornsby, baseball player (b. 1896)
January 18 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (b. 1899)
January 23 - Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (b. 1908)
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 20 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
February 28 - Eppa Rixey, baseball player (b. 1891)
March 4 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (b. 1883)
March 5 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932) (air crash)
March 11 - Ignat Bednarik, Romanian painter (b. 1882)
April 6 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
April 7 - Amedeo Maiuri, Neapolitan archaeologist (b. 1886))
April 9 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (b. 1891)
May 11 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
May 12

Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Protestant pastor (b. 1897)

May 31 - Edith Hamilton, German-born author (b. 1867)
June 3

Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1901)

June 11 - Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (suicide) (b. 1897)
June 12 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
June 18 - Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (suicide) (b. 1912)

July - December

July 10 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
July 18 - Jack Solomon, American restaurateur (b. 1896)
August 5 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
August 9 - Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, infant son of President and Mrs. Kennedy (b. 1963)
August 10 - Ernst Wetter, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1877)
August 23 - Glen Gray, American saxophonist and conductor (b. 1900)
August 27 - Allama Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Indian founder of the Khaksar Movement (b. 1888)
August 31 - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
September 3 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907)
September 11 - Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889)
September 15 - 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victims:

Addie Mae Collins (b. 1948)
Carol Denise McNair (b. 1951)
Carole Robertson (b. 1949)
Cynthia Wesley (b. 1949)

September 19 - David Low, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1891)
September 25 - Alexander Sakharoff, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1886)
October 11

Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)

November 1 - Le Quang Tung, Vietnamese military leader (b. 1923) (assassinated)
November 2 - 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 21 - Robert Stroud, prisoner and Alcatraz "Birdman" (b. 1890)
November 22

Aldous Huxley, English writer (b. 1894)
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1917)
C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British writer (b. 1898)

November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald, American alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1939) (shot)
November 26 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian opera singer (b. 1882)
December 2 - Thomas J. Hicks, American runner (b. 1875)
December 5

Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint (b. 1828)

December 14 - Dinah Washington, American jazz/blues singer (b. 1924)
December 28 - A. J. Liebling, American journalist (b. 1904)
December - Andy Kennedy, Northern Ireland footballer (b. 1897)

Nobel prizes

Physics - Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
Chemistry - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
Physiology or 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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