Year (''' MCMLXIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
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- March 27 - In Britain, Dr. Beeching issues a report calling for Huge Cuts to the UK's rail network.
- 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".
- April 12 - 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 Aldermarston , 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 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.
- May 2 - 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.
- May 13 - A Smallpox outbreak was recognized at Stockholm , Sweden , lasting until July that year.
- 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 .
- 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 ).
- , 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 .
- September 16 - 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.
- , United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as 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.
- November 22 - Deaths of Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis . Both of these go unnoticed in the media, due to the assassination of President Kennedy.
- November 23 - 12-year-old John Kilbride is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
- November 23 - The first episode of the BBC television series '' Doctor Who '' is broadcast in the United Kingdom .
- November 23 - 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 .
- 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.
- November 29 - 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).
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- January 2 - David Cone , baseball player
- January 2 - Edgar Martinez , 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
- January 21 - 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
- January 26 - 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 11 - Todd Benzinger , baseball player
- February 17 - Michael Jordan , American basketball player
- February 17 - 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 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 ( Metallica )
- March 4 - Daniel Roebuck , American actor
- March 4 - Janey Lee Grace , UK-based singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey
- March 6 - D.L. Hughley , American actor and comedian
- 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
- March 17 - 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
- March 20 - Kathy Ireland , American model and actress
- March 21 - Ronald Koeman , Dutch football player and manager.
- March 21 - Shawn Lane , American guitar virtuoso (d. 2003 )
- March 23 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku , Japanese writer
- March 27 - Quentin Tarantino , American actor, director, writer, and producer.
- March 27 - Xuxa , Brazilian television personality
- March 27 - 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
- April 4 - Graham Norton , Irish 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
- April 10 - 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 17 - Joel Murray , American actor
- April 18 - Eric McCormack , Canadian actor
- April 18 - Conan O'Brien , American television entertainer
- April 21 - Ken Caminiti , American baseball player (d. 2004 )
- April 21 - Roy Dupuis , Canadian actor
- April 24 - Tõnu Trubetsky , Estonian musician ( Vennaskond )
- April 26 - Jet Li , Chinese martial artist and actor
- April 26 - Colin Scotts , Australian-born American football player
- April 27 - Cali Timmins , Canadian actress
- April 30 - Michael Waltrip , American race car driver
- May 1 - Benjamin LaGuer , Massachusetts inmate proclaiming innocence for more than two decades
- May 4 - Gerald Cleaver , African American musician, jazz drummer
- May 5 - Heidi Kozak , American actress
- 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
- May 23 - 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 24 - Mike Wieringo , American comic book artist
- June 24 - Preki , Serbia-born American soccer player
- June 25 - Doug Gilmour , Canadian hockey player
- June 25 - 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 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 24 - Julie Krone , American jockey
- July 24 - Karl Malone , American basketball player
- July 26 - Andy Timmons , American guitarist
- July 29 - Graham Poll , English football referee
- July 29 - Jim Beglin , Irish football commentator
- July 30 - Lisa Kudrow , American actress
- August 1 - Coolio , American rapper
- August 3 - Tasmin Archer , English singer
- August 3 - 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 )
- August 19 - John Stamos , American actor
- August 22 - Tori Amos , American singer
- August 23 - Hans-Henning Fastrich , German field hockey player
- August 23 - Kenny Wallace , American race car driver
- August 24 - Hideo Kojima , Japanese video game director
- August 30 - Paul Oakenfold , British disc jockey
- August 30 - Michael Chiklis , American actor
- August 30 - Phil Mills , British race car driver
- August 31 - Reb Beach , American guitarist ( Winger , Whitesnake )
- August 31 - Todd Carty , British actor
- 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 - Dr Patrick McWilliams , Irish author
- September 18 - Rob Brettle , British historian
- September 19 - Jarvis Cocker , English musician ( Pulp )
- September 21 - Cecil Fielder , baseball player
- September 21 - Angus MacFadyen , Scottish actor
- September 23 - Jackie Pearcey , English politician
- September 28 - Steve Blackman , American professional wrestler
- September 29 - Dave Andreychuk , Canadian hockey player
- September 29 - Les Claypool , American bassist and singer ( Primus )
- October 1 - Mark McGwire , baseball player
- October 3 - Tommy Lee , American musician ( Mötley Crüe )
- October 6 - Elisabeth Shue , American actress
- October 7 - Ronni Le Tekro , Norwegian guitarist
- October 10 - Anita Mui , Hong Kong singer (d. 2003 )
- October 10 - Daniel Pearl , American journalist (d. 2002 )
- October 10 - Jolanda De Rover , Dutch swimmer
- October 12 - Satoshi Kon , Japanese anime director
- October 12 - 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 1 - Kenny Alphin , American guitarist ('' Big & Rich '')
- 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
- November 19 - Jon Potter , British field hockey player
- November 21 - Nicolette Sheridan , English actress
- November 22 - Winsor Harmon , American actor
- November 23 - Troy Hurtubise , Canadian inventor
- 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
- December 14 - Cynthia Gibb , American actress
- December 16 - Benjamin Bratt , American actor
- December 16 - Jeff Carson , American singer
- December 18 - Brad Pitt , American actor
- December 21 - Jacques Simonet , Belgian politician (d. 2007 )
- December 22 - Bryan Gunn , Scottish footballer
- December 23 - Jim Harbaugh , American football player
- December 23 - Donna Tartt , American author
- December 23 - Sonig Menemchian , Lebanese-Armenian food tester
- December 26 - Lars Ulrich , Danish-born drummer ( Metallica )
- December 29 - Francisco Bustamante , Filipino billiard player
- December 29 - Dave McKean , English artist and filmmaker
- December 29 - Sean Payton , American football coach
- 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 )
- April 6 - Otto Struve , Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897 )
- 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 )
- May 12 - Aiden Wilson Tozer , American Protestant pastor (b. 1897 )
- May 31 - Edith Hamilton , German-born author (b. 1867 )
- June 3 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881 )
- June 3 - 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 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 )
- October 11 - Jean Cocteau , French writer (b. 1889 )
- 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 )
- November 22 - John F. Kennedy , 35th President Of The United States (assassinated) (b. 1917 )
- November 22 - C.S. Lewis , Irish-born British writer (b. 1898 )
- November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald , American alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1939 )
- December 2 - Thomas Hicks , American runner (b. 1875 )
- December 5 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann , German composer (b. 1905 )
- December 5 - 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 )
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