1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1963rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.

Clockwise from top-left: Hurricane Flora strikes Hispaniola and Cuba killing 7,193 people; Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space during Vostok 5 mission; Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington; Thích Quảng Đức self-immolated during the Buddhist crisis; an earthquake in Skopje kills 1,070 people; the U.S. and the Soviet Union sign the Hot Line Agreement; Doctor Who airs on BBC One becoming a icon of British pop culture; U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1963 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1963
MCMLXIII
Ab urbe condita2716
Armenian calendar1412
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԲ
Assyrian calendar6713
Baháʼí calendar119–120
Balinese saka calendar1884–1885
Bengali calendar1370
Berber calendar2913
British Regnal year11 Eliz. 2 – 12 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2507
Burmese calendar1325
Byzantine calendar7471–7472
Chinese calendar壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4660 or 4453
    — to —
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
4661 or 4454
Coptic calendar1679–1680
Discordian calendar3129
Ethiopian calendar1955–1956
Hebrew calendar5723–5724
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2019–2020
 - Shaka Samvat1884–1885
 - Kali Yuga5063–5064
Holocene calendar11963
Igbo calendar963–964
Iranian calendar1341–1342
Islamic calendar1382–1383
Japanese calendarShōwa 38
(昭和38年)
Javanese calendar1894–1895
Juche calendar52
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4296
Minguo calendarROC 52
民國52年
Nanakshahi calendar495
Thai solar calendar2506
Tibetan calendar阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
2089 or 1708 or 936
    — to —
阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
2090 or 1709 or 937

Events edit

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March edit

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May edit

June edit

July edit

August edit

 
August 28: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

September edit

October edit

November edit

 
November 22: Assassination of John F. Kennedy

December edit

Date unknown edit

Births edit

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December · Date unknown

January edit

 
James May
 
José Mourinho

February edit

 
Michael Jordan
 
Larry the Cable Guy
 
Seal
 
William Baldwin

March edit

 
Thomas Anders
 
Anthony Albanese
 
Rick Rubin
 
Quentin Tarantino

April edit

 
Graham Norton
 
Rafael Correa
 
Garry Kasparov
 
Eric McCormack
 
Conan O'Brien
 
Jet Li

May edit

 
Anthony Field
 
Natasha Richardson
 
Mike Myers
 
Viktor Orbán

June edit

 
Bernard Cazeneuve
 
Jason Isaacs
 
Johnny Depp
 
Jeanne Tripplehorn
 
Helen Hunt
 
George Michael

July edit

 
Brigitte Nielsen
 
Phoebe Cates
 
Letsie III of Lesotho
 
Matti Nykänen
 
Martín Torrijos
 
Lisa Kudrow

August edit

 
James Hetfield
 
Whitney Houston
 
Sridevi
 
Emmanuelle Béart
 
Glória Pires
 
Mohammed VI of Morocco
 
Hideo Kojima
 
Miro Cerar

September edit

 
Dan Povenmire
 
Geert Wilders
 
John Powell

October edit

 
Elisabeth Shue
 
Tom Cavanagh
 
Farin Urlaub
 
Lauren Holly
 
Johnny Marr
 
Rob Schneider
 
Ha Seung Moo

November edit

 
Gabby Concepcion
 
Ming-Na Wen
 
Nicollette Sheridan

December edit

 
Juan Carlos Varela
 
Benjamin Bratt
 
Brad Pitt
 
Jennifer Beals
 
Til Schweiger

Deaths edit

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December · Date unknown

January edit

 
Dick Powell
 
Sylvanus Olympio
 
Mohammad Ali Bogra
 
Robert Frost

February edit

 
Abd al-Karim Qasim
 
Sylvia Plath
 
Fernando Tambroni
 
Rajendra Prasad

March edit

 
Patsy Cline
 
William Beveridge
 
Thoralf Skolem
 
Henry Bordeaux

April edit

 
Alma Richards
 
Saint Gaetano Catanoso
 
Felix Manalo
 
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

May edit

 
Herbert Spencer Gasser
 
Mehdi Frashëri

June edit

 
Pope John XXIII
 
Thích Quảng Đức
 
Pedro Armendáriz

July edit

August edit

 
W. E. B. Du Bois
 
Georges Braque

September edit

 
Edwin Linkomies

October edit

 
Gustaf Gründgens
 
Jean Cocteau

November edit

 
Ngô Đình Diệm
 
Ngô Đình Nhu
 
John F. Kennedy
 
Lee Harvey Oswald

December edit

 
Theodor Heuss
 
Dinah Washington

Nobel Prizes edit

 

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