Famous People Who Died In 1963
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1963. This list includes people like John F. Kennedy, Sylvia Plath, Lee Harvey Oswald, C. S. Lewis, Patsy Cline and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, artists and soldiers who died in 1963. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
John F. Kennedy29 May 1917, American
35th President of the United States
Lee Harvey Oswald18 October 1939, American
Armed force officer
C. S. Lewis29 November 1898, Irish, British
Novelist
Robert Frost26 March 1874, American
Poet
Sylvia Plath27 October 1932, American
Poet, Novelist, and Writer
Patsy Cline08 September 1932, American
Country Singer
Aldous Huxley26 July 1894, British, American
Writer
W. E. B. Du Bois23 February 1868, Ghanaian
Civil Rights Activists
Rajendra Prasad03 December 1884, Indian
Former President of India
Medgar Evers02 July 1925, American
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy07 August 1963, American
John F. Kennedy's Son
Pope John XXIII25 November 1881, Italian
Pope
Jean Cocteau05 July 1889, French
Novelist, Poet, Artist & Filmmaker
Dick Powell14 November 1904, American
Singer
Diana Churchill11 July 1909, British
Winston Churchill's Daughter
Francis Poulenc07 January 1899, French
Musician
Ernie Davis14 December 1939, American
American Football Player
John Farrow10 February 1904, Australian, American
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Adolphe Menjou18 February 1890, American
Actor
Paul Hindemith16 November 1895, German
Composer
Edith Piaf19 December 1915, French
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
William Beveridge05 March 1879, British
Economist
Theodore Roethke25 May 1908, American
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
A. J. Liebling18 October 1904, American
Journalist
Muhammad Ali Bogra19 October 1909, Pakistani
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Sam Shoemaker1893 AD, American
Priest
Ngo Dinh Diem03 January 1901, Vietnamese
Politician
Stephen Ward19 October 1912, British
Physician
The Great Gama22 May 1878, Pakistani
Amateur wrestler
Adrian Carton de Wiart05 May 1880, British
Military personnel
Dinah Washington29 August 1924, American
Singer, Jazz musician
Guy Burgess16 April 1911, British
Spy, Journalist
William Carlos Williams17 September 1883, American
Poet
Georges Braque13 May 1882, French
Sculptor, Painter, Engraver
A. W. Tozer21 April 1897, American
Author
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Garrett Morgan04 March 1877, American
Inventor
Elmore James27 January 1918, American
Guitarist
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy08 September 1892, Pakistani
Politician
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke23 July 1883, British
Military personnel
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria02 September 1883, Austrian
Politician
Theodor Heuss31 January 1884, German
Politician, University teacher, Journalist
Abd al-Karim Qasim21 November 1914, Iraqi
Military personnel
Remedios Varo16 December 1908, Spanish
Painter
Oleg Penkovsky23 April 1919, Russian
Spy
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Hubert Gough12 August 1870, British
Military personnel
John Fitzgerald Kennedy29 May 1917, American
Politician, Military Officer, Author
Nâzım Hikmet15 January 1902, Greek, Russian
Poet
Rahul Sankrityayan09 April 1893, Indian
Linguist, Author, Autobiographer, Biographer
Clifford Odets18 July 1906, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Actor, Writer,
Abd el-Krim1882 AD, Egyptian
Political leader
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi24 November 1884, Israeli, Ukrainian
Politician, Historian, Writer
Jean Bastien-Thiry19 October 1927, French
Engineer, Aerospace engineer, Military personnel
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg21 March 1889, New Zealander, British
Politician, Officer
Piero Manzoni13 July 1933, Italian
Artist, Painter
Louis MacNeice12 September 1907, British
Poet, Writer, Playwright
Margaret Murray13 July 1863, British
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Egyptologist
Stavros G. Livanos1891 AD, Greek
Kurt Zeitzler09 June 1895, German
Officer
Sylvanus Olympio06 September 1902, Togolese
Politician, Prime Minister
Jacques Hadamard08 December 1865, French
Mathematician, Professor
Mabel Walker Willebrandt23 May 1889, American
Lawyer
Margaret Preston29 April 1875, Australian
artist, painter
Fritz Reiner19 December 1888, Hungarian, American
Conductor, Composer
W.E.B. Du Bois1868 AD, American
Journalist, Educator, Civil Rights Activist
Thich Quang Duc1897 AD, Vietnamese
Vietnamese monk
Karl Amadeus Hartmann02 August 1905, German
Composer
Herbert Spencer Gasser05 July 1888, American
physiologist
Patrick MacGill24 December 1889, Irish
Journalist, Poet
Theodore von Karman11 May 1881, Hungarian
Mathematician
Alfred Whitney Griswold27 October 1906, American
Historian
Yasujiro Ozu12 December 1903, Japanese
Japanese film director
Abdul Karim Qassim21 November 1914, Iraqi
Political leader
Sivananda08 September 1887, Indian
Harry Lew04 January 1884, American
Basketball player
Aiden Wilson Tozer21 April 1897, American
David Low07 April 1891, British
caricaturist, journalist
Samuel Moor Shoemaker27 December 1893, American
Józef Gosławski24 April 1908, Polish
Polish sculptor
Phyllis Forbes Dennis31 May 1884, British