| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Birdman of Alcatraz |
Criminal |
28-Jan-1890 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Subject of Burt Lancaster movie |
| Richard Barthelmess |
Actor |
9-May-1895 |
17-Aug-1963 |
Tol'able David |
| Monte Blue |
Actor |
11-Jan-1887 |
18-Feb-1963 |
Orphans of the Storm |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
Activist |
23-Feb-1868 |
27-Aug-1963 |
Civil rights activist |
| Georges Braque |
Artist |
13-May-1882 |
31-Aug-1963 |
Co-Founded Cubism |
| Alan Brooke |
Military |
23-Jul-1883 |
17-Jun-1963 |
Chief military advisor to Churchill |
| Van Wyck Brooks |
Critic |
16-Feb-1886 |
2-May-1963 |
Finders & Makers |
| Jack Carson |
Actor |
27-Oct-1910 |
2-Jan-1963 |
Two Guys From Milwaukee |
| Luis Cernuda |
Poet |
21-Sep-1902 |
5-Nov-1963 |
Generation of '27 |
| Selden Chapin |
Diplomat |
19-Sep-1899 |
26-Mar-1963 |
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1949-53 |
| Patsy Cline |
Country Musician |
8-Sep-1932 |
5-Mar-1963 |
I Fall To Pieces |
| Jean Cocteau |
Poet |
5-Jul-1889 |
11-Oct-1963 |
La Belle et la Bête |
| Henry Daniell |
Actor |
5-Mar-1894 |
31-Oct-1963 |
British-American character actor |
| Ernie Davis |
Football |
14-Dec-1939 |
18-May-1963 |
Winner, 1961 Heisman Trophy |
| Orvil Dryfoos |
Publisher |
8-Nov-1912 |
26-May-1963 |
New York Times Publisher, 1961-63 |
| Medgar Evers |
Activist |
2-Jul-1925 |
12-Jun-1963 |
Civil rights activist murdered in 1963 |
| Oliver La Farge |
Author |
19-Dec-1901 |
2-Aug-1963 |
Laughing Boy |
| John Farrow |
Screenwriter |
10-Feb-1904 |
28-Jan-1963 |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Robert Frost |
Poet |
26-Mar-1874 |
29-Jan-1963 |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
| Hugh Gaitskell |
Politician |
9-Apr-1906 |
18-Jan-1963 |
Leader of the Labour Party, 1955-63 |
| Herbert S. Gasser |
Scientist |
5-Jul-1888 |
11-May-1963 |
Nerve conduction |
| Philip L. Graham |
Publisher |
18-Jul-1915 |
3-Aug-1963 |
Washington Post publisher, 1947-63 |
| William J. Green, Jr. |
Politician |
5-Mar-1910 |
21-Dec-1963 |
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1949-63 |
| Jacques-Salomon Hadamard |
Mathematician |
8-Dec-1865 |
17-Oct-1963 |
Prime number theorem |
| Robert Hamer |
Film Director |
31-Mar-1911 |
4-Dec-1963 |
Kind Hearts and Coronets |
| Edith Hamilton |
Educator |
12-Aug-1867 |
31-May-1963 |
The Greek Way |
| Carl Hatch |
Politician |
27-Nov-1889 |
15-Sep-1963 |
Hatch Act |
| Theodor Heuss |
Head of State |
31-Jan-1884 |
12-Dec-1963 |
President of Germany, 1949-59 |
| Paul Hindemith |
Composer |
16-Nov-1895 |
28-Dec-1963 |
Mathis der Maler |
| Rogers Hornsby |
Baseball |
27-Apr-1896 |
5-Jan-1963 |
The Raj |
| Patrick J. Hurley |
Military |
8-Jan-1883 |
30-Jul-1963 |
US Secretary of War, 1929-33 |
| Aldous Huxley |
Author |
26-Jul-1894 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Brave New World |
| Pope John XXIII |
Religion |
25-Nov-1881 |
3-Jun-1963 |
Pope 1958-63 |
| Theodore von Kármán |
Mathematician |
11-May-1881 |
7-May-1963 |
Kármán vortices |
| Estes Kefauver |
Politician |
26-Jul-1903 |
10-Aug-1963 |
US Senator from Tennessee, 1949-63 |
| John F. Kennedy |
Head of State |
29-May-1917 |
22-Nov-1963 |
35th US President, 1961-63 |
| Robert S. Kerr |
Politician |
11-Sep-1896 |
1-Jan-1963 |
Governor and Senator from Oklahoma |
| Alan G. Kirk |
Military |
30-Oct-1888 |
15-Oct-1963 |
US Navy Admiral, Ambassador to USSR |
| Herbert H. Lehman |
Politician |
28-Mar-1878 |
5-Dec-1963 |
Governor of New York, 1933-42 |
| C. S. Lewis |
Novelist |
29-Nov-1898 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Chronicles of Narnia |
| A. J. Liebling |
Journalist |
18-Oct-1904 |
28-Dec-1963 |
The New Yorker |
| Louis MacNeice |
Poet |
12-Sep-1907 |
3-Sep-1963 |
Autumn Journal |
| Adolphe Menjou |
Actor |
18-Feb-1890 |
29-Oct-1963 |
A Farewell to Arms |
| Perry Miller |
Historian |
25-Feb-1905 |
9-Dec-1963 |
The New England Mind |
| Margaret Murray |
Archaeologist |
13-Jul-1863 |
13-Nov-1963 |
Egyptologist, mother of Wicca |
| Seth Barnes Nicholson |
Astronomer |
12-Nov-1891 |
2-Jul-1963 |
Four satellites of Jupiter |
| John W. Nordstrom |
Business |
15-Feb-1871 |
1-Oct-1963 |
Founder of Nordstrom |
| Clifford Odets |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1906 |
14-Aug-1963 |
Sweet Smell of Success |
| Lee Harvey Oswald |
Assassin |
18-Oct-1939 |
24-Nov-1963 |
Assassin of John F. Kennedy |
| Edith Piaf |
Singer |
19-Dec-1915 |
11-Oct-1963 |
Internationally-renowned French chanteuse |
| Jean Piccard |
Aviator |
28-Jan-1884 |
28-Jan-1963 |
Extreme balloonist |
| Zazu Pitts |
Actor |
3-Jan-1894 |
7-Jun-1963 |
The Wedding March |
| Sylvia Plath |
Poet |
27-Oct-1932 |
11-Feb-1963 |
Ariel and Collected Poems |
| Francis Poulenc |
Composer |
7-Jan-1899 |
30-Jan-1963 |
Les dialogues des Carmélites |
| Dick Powell |
Actor |
14-Nov-1904 |
2-Jan-1963 |
The Bad and the Beautiful |
| John Cowper Powys |
Novelist |
8-Oct-1872 |
17-Jun-1963 |
Wolf Solent |
| Theodore Roethke |
Poet |
25-May-1908 |
1-Aug-1963 |
The Waking |
| Sabu |
Actor |
27-Jan-1924 |
2-Dec-1963 |
Jungle Book |
| Herbert Samuel |
Politician |
6-Nov-1870 |
2-Feb-1963 |
High Commissioner of Palestine, 1920-25 |
| William H. Standley |
Military |
18-Dec-1872 |
25-Oct-1963 |
US Chief of Naval Operations, 1933-37 |
| Frank Tuttle |
Film Director |
6-Aug-1892 |
6-Jan-1963 |
This Gun for Hire |
| Tristan Tzara |
Poet |
16-Apr-1896 |
24-Dec-1963 |
Founded the Dada movement |
| Dinah Washington |
Singer |
29-Aug-1924 |
14-Dec-1963 |
Queen of the Blues |
| William Carlos Williams |
Poet |
17-Sep-1883 |
4-Mar-1963 |
Pictures from Brueghel |
| Monty Woolley |
Actor |
17-Aug-1888 |
6-May-1963 |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| Stark Young |
Critic |
11-Oct-1881 |
6-Jan-1963 |
So Red the Rose |
| Fazlollah Zahedi |
Head of State |
1897 |
2-Sep-1963 |
Prime Minister of Iran, 1953-55 |
| James David Zellerbach |
Business |
17-Jan-1892 |
1963 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1957-60 |
