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Months in Year 1963: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 224

Jan 2nd - Dick Powell, actor/director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58
Jan 2nd - Jack Carson, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52
Jan 3rd - Oscar Backing, Austria/Neth viola player, dies at 83
Jan 5th - Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at 66
Jan 6th - Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68
Jan 7th - Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
Jan 8th - Stark Young, US writer (So Red the Rose), dies at 81
Jan 8th - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
Jan 10th - Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, dies at 66
Jan 11th - Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St Paul), dies at 60
Jan 13th - Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 76
Jan 14th - Gustav Regler, writer, dies at 64
Jan 16th - Gilardo Gilardi, composer, dies at 73
Jan 16th - Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (b. 1918)
Jan 18th - Johnnie Moyes, journalist/cricketer (S Aust batsman), dies
Jan 21st - Al St John, actor (Law & Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70
Jan 21st - Franz Jung, writer, dies at 74
Jan 25th - Wilson Kettle, Nfld, dies at 102, leaving 582 living descendents
Jan 26th - John Sigvard Olsen, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
Jan 27th - John Farrow, actor/director (Botany Bay), dies at 58
Jan 28th - Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday
Jan 28th - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
Jan 29th - Robert Lee Frost, US poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88
Jan 30th - P F "Plum" Warner, cricketer (England mgr during Bodyline tour), dies
Jan 30th - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
Feb 1st - Fleetwood Lindley, the last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face (b. 1888)
Feb 2nd - Herman Bouber, [Blom], actor/playwright (Bluejackets), dies at 77
Feb 6th - Mohammed ibn al-Chattabi Abd el-Krim, Morocco opposition leader, dies
Feb 6th - Werner Erich Josten, German composer (Jungle), dies at 77
Feb 6th - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
Feb 7th - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
Feb 8th - Abdul Karim Kassem, PM of Iraq (58-63), assassinated in Baghdad at 48
Feb 8th - George Dolenz, Italian actor (Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 55
Feb 11th - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30
Feb 13th - Harry Steers, bowling hall of famer, dies
Feb 16th - Laszlo Lajtha, composer, dies at 70
Feb 18th - Monte Blue, silent film actor (Apache), dies of heart attack at 73
Feb 18th - Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56
Feb 20th - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
Feb 20th - Jacob Gade, Danish composer(b. 1879)
Feb 26th - Artturi A Leinonen, Fin journalist/politician (Prophet), dies at 74
Feb 28th - Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58
Feb 28th - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
Mar 1st - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
Mar 1st - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
Mar 4th - William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at 79
Mar 5th - Cyril Smith, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70
Mar 5th - Hawkshaw Hawkins, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at 41
Mar 5th - Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy), dies in a plane crash at 30
Mar 5th - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
Mar 6th - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91
Mar 8th - John Hartley, cricketer (bowl avg 115 in 2 Tests for Eng 1906), dies
Mar 11th - Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies
Mar 13th - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
Mar 17th - William Henry Squire, composer, dies at 91
Mar 18th - Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
Mar 20th - Karl Otten, writer, dies at 73
Mar 23rd - Davey Moore, dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship
Mar 25th - David Moore, US feather weight boxer, dies at 29
Mar 28th - Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52
Mar 29th - Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64
Mar 30th - Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer, dies at 69
Apr 4th - Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18
Apr 4th - Jason Robards Sr, actor (Acapulco), dies at 70
Apr 5th - Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (The Style), dies at 73
Apr 5th - Julius Harrison, composer, dies at 78
Apr 6th - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
Apr 8th - Len Tuckett, cricketer (no runs no wkts in 1 Test for S A), dies
Apr 15th - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
Apr 18th - Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
Apr 18th - Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
Apr 30th - Bryant Washburn, actor (Nabonga, Millionaire Kid), dies at 74
May 1st - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (b. 1879)
May 2nd - Jack Crawford, cricketer (469 runs & 39 wickets in 12 Tests), dies
May 2nd - Tomas Vackar, composer, dies at 17
May 2nd - Van Wyck Brooks, US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77
May 5th - Heinrich Gebhard, composer, dies
May 5th - Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73
May 6th - Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
May 6th - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881)
May 10th - Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
May 11th - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
May 12th - Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at 69
May 12th - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
May 13th - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
May 17th - John Wilce, physician and former head football coach at the Ohio State University (b. 1888)
May 18th - Ernie Davis, American football player (b. 1939)
May 24th - Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack
May 26th - Sharon Lynn, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast), dies at 53
May 27th - Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
May 28th - Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer, dies at 60
May 31st - Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at 63
Jun 3rd - John XXIII, [Angelo G Roncalli], Pope (1958-63), dies at 81
Jun 3rd - Paul Maxey, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice), dies at 57
Jun 3rd - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
Jun 7th - Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65
Jun 10th - Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74
Jun 11th - Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon
Jun 12th - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
Jun 12th - Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37
Jun 16th - J C Powys, writer, dies at 90
Jun 17th - Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79
Jun 17th - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
Jun 18th - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
Jun 20th - Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
Jun 20th - Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Wash state execution in 25 yrs
Jun 20th - Ralph Sanford, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
Jun 20th - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
Jun 22nd - Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)
Jun 26th - Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies
Jun 28th - Frank "Home Run" Baker, (hit 2 HRs in 1911 world series) dies at 77
Jul 1st - Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies
Jul 4th - Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66
Jul 4th - Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48
Jul 4th - Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
Jul 5th - Daniel Ruyneman, composer, dies at 76
Jul 9th - Frank Mayo, actor (Santa Fe Trail), dies of heart attack at 74
Jul 10th - John Sutton, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of heart attack at 54
Jul 10th - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
Jul 18th - A H C Cooper, South African cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies
Jul 25th - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
Jul 29th - Dave Smith, cricketer (2 Tests in 1912 Australian side), dies
Jul 29th - Dorian Le Gallienne, composer, dies at 48
Aug 1st - Theodore Roethke, US poet (Praise to the end!), dies
Aug 2nd - Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61
Aug 5th - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
Aug 6th - Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68
Aug 8th - Sandor Jemnitz, composer, dies at 72
Aug 10th - Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60
Aug 10th - Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days
Aug 10th - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
Aug 14th - Clifford Odets, US playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57
Aug 15th - John Powell, composer, dies at 80
Aug 17th - Richard Barthelmess, actor (Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68
Aug 19th - Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
Aug 20th - Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
Aug 21st - John Gunn, cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05), dies
Aug 22nd - William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies
Aug 23rd - Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
Aug 26th - Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67
Aug 27th - W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
Aug 27th - William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies
Aug 27th - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
Aug 27th - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
Aug 30th - Axel Stordahl, orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50
Aug 30th - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
Aug 31st - George F Broque, cubist painter, dies at 81 in Paris
Aug 31st - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
Sep 1st - Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR
Sep 1st - Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73

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