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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Birdman of Alcatraz
Criminal
28-Jan-1890 22-Nov-1963 Subject of Burt Lancaster movie
Walt Anderson
Business
26-Nov-1880 13-Dec-1963 Co-Founder of White Castle
Pedro Armendáriz
Actor
9-May-1912 18-Jun-1963 From Russia with Love
Home Run Baker
Baseball
13-Mar-1886 28-Jun-1963 MLB Hall of Famer
Phil Baker
Radio Personality
26-Aug-1896 30-Nov-1963 Host of Take It or Leave It, 1941-47
Richard Barthelmess
Actor
9-May-1895 17-Aug-1963 Tol'able David
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Head of State
24-Nov-1884 23-Apr-1963 President of Israel, 1952-63
Clem Bevans
Actor
16-Oct-1879 11-Aug-1963 Saboteur
William Beveridge
Economist
5-Mar-1879 16-Mar-1963 Social Insurance and Allied Services
Monte Blue
Actor
11-Jan-1887 18-Feb-1963 Orphans of the Storm
Georges Braque
Painter
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
Edward L. Cahn
Film Director
12-Feb-1899 25-Aug-1963 It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Frederick Carder
Artist
18-Sep-1863 10-Dec-1963 "Aurene" glass artist
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
Robert L. Cochran
Politician
28-Jan-1886 23-Feb-1963 Governor of Nebraska, 1935-41
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
Vernon Dent
Actor
16-Feb-1895 5-Nov-1963 Frequent foil to The Three Stooges
Orvil Dryfoos
Publisher
8-Nov-1912 26-May-1963 New York Times Publisher, 1961-63
W. E. B. Du Bois
Sociologist
23-Feb-1868 27-Aug-1963 Civil rights activist
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
Otto Harbach
Songwriter
18-Aug-1873 24-Jan-1963 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Carl Hatch
Politician
27-Nov-1889 15-Sep-1963 Hatch Act
Melville J. Herskovits
Anthropologist
10-Sep-1895 25-Feb-1963 The Myth of the Negro Past
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 Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1958-63
Gordon Jones
Actor
5-Apr-1911 20-Jun-1963 The Green Hornet
Theodore von Kármán
Mathematician
11-May-1881 7-May-1963 Kármán vortices
Larry Keating
Actor
13-Jun-1896 26-Aug-1963 Roger Addison on Mister Ed
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
Thomas Kennedy
Labor Leader
2-Nov-1887 19-Jan-1963 UMW President, 1960-63
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
Otto Krueger
Politician
7-Sep-1890 6-Jun-1963 Congressman from North Dakota, 1953-59
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
Theodore Newton
Actor
4-Aug-1904 28-Feb-1963 The Working Man
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
Alicia Patterson
Business
15-Oct-1906 2-Jul-1963 Founder of Newsday
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 Daddy
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
Rosa Raisa
Singer
30-May-1893 28-Sep-1963 Operatic soprano
Fritz Reiner
Conductor
19-Dec-1888 15-Nov-1963 Music Director, Chicago Symphony, 1953-62
Jason Robards, Sr.
Actor
31-Dec-1892 4-Apr-1963 Bedlam
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
Isaac Shoenberg
Engineer
1-Mar-1880 25-Jan-1963 405-line format television
Horton Smith
Golf
22-May-1908 15-Oct-1963 Winner, 1934 and 1936 Masters Tournaments
William H. Standley
Military
18-Dec-1872 25-Oct-1963 US Chief of Naval Operations, 1933-37
Otto Struve
Astronomer
12-Aug-1897 6-Apr-1963 Hydrogen in the interstellar medium
John Sutton
Actor
22-Oct-1908 10-Jul-1963 Hudson's Bay
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
Marcus L. Urann
Business
2-Oct-1873 1-Apr-1963 Cranberry magnate
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


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