1963

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Years :	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Films released 5 Hit songs 6 New books 7 Nobel Prizes

[edit] Events

• 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.

[edit] Births

• March 21 - Shawn Lane, American musician
• May 8 - Helena Blagne Zaman, Slovene singer
• May 9 - Barry Douglas Lamb, rock musician, author, 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 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

[edit] 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 (suicide) (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 author (b. 1867)
• June 3 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• June 11 - Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Bhuddist monk (suicide)(b. 1897)
• June 18 - Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (suicide)(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
  • Edith 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 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)

[edit] Films released

• How the West Was Won
• Cleopatra
• The Longest Day
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Irma La Douce
• The V.I.P.s
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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