Year '1963' ('
MCMLXIII') was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Table of Contents
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Events of 1963
January
★
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 11 - The
Whisky a Go Go night club in
Los Angeles, California, the first
disco in the
United States, is opened.
★
January 14 -
George C. Wallace becomes governor of
Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!"
[1][2] Also on 14th January Often noted as "the worlds most famous locomotive" the Flying scotsman in her British Railways guise as No. 60103 with sparkling brunswick green livery makes her last sceduled run before going into the hands of Sir Alan Pegler for a life in 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 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.
★
February 27 -
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.
March
★
March 1 -
Yoko Ono's marriage to American
Christian fundamentalist filmmaker
Anthony Cox is annulled.
★
March 5 - In
Camden, Tennessee, Country 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, KS for country radio disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call.
★
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 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: British Rail network, as it would have become, if "
Beeching axe" plans had been implemented (only bolded rail lines would have remained).
★
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".
★
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
★
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.
★
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 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.
★
June 11 -
Alabama Governor
George C. Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest integration, before stepping aside and allowing
African Americans
James Hood and
Vivian Malone to enroll.
★
June 11 - 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 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.
★
July 5 - 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.
★
July 26 -
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.
★
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.
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 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.
★
October 10 - ''
From Russia With Love'' is shown in
UK theaters.
★
October 31 - 74 die in a gas explosion at a coliseum in
Indianapolis,
United States.
November
★
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.
★
November 9 - 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 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.
★
November 24 -
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.
★
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).
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 full-length animated film ''
The Sword in the Stone'', about the boyhood of
King Arthur. It is the next-to-last animated film personally supervised by Disney, and does not become one of his big 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
★ January - April - Britain had the
The Big Freeze of 1963
★ End of the
Mercury program of
United States manned
spaceflight.
★
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.
★
Arecibo Observatory officially begins operation.
★
Ostankino Tower, in
Moscow, begins construction.
★ The divorce case of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll causes scandal in the
United Kingdom.
★
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.
★ Shri Jameel Ahmad Lakkadshaw born to Shri Aqueel Husain and Smt Shirin Bai on 26th March 1963, Nagpur India
Ongoing
(none)
Births
January-February
★
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-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 (
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-June
★
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-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 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-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 -
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-December
★
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
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)
★
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 - December
★
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)
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
See also
★
20th century
Notes
1. The American Experience: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire: Timeline (1952 - 1972), ''Public Broadcasting Service'', 2000
2. Michael J. Klarman. "''Brown v. Board'': 50 Years Later", ''Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities'', March/April 2004
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