1963: The Year in People

Baby Boomers · Year of the Rabbit 🐇 · Born in 1963 turn 63 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$0.31

Median home

$13,100

Minimum wage

$1.25/hr

Movie ticket

$0.86

US population

3.19B

US president

Lyndon B. Johnson

Top song

"Sugar Shack" — Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs

Top film

Cleopatra

Top TV show

Beverly Hillbillies

Best Picture

Tom Jones

In the news: JFK assassinated in Dallas; Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech

What happened in 1963

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.

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Born in 1963

410 people in our data · most viewed first

Brad Pitt

b. 1963 · December 18

American actor

George Michael

1963–2016 · June 25

English singer-songwriter

Armando Iannucci

b. 1963 · November 28

Scottish comedian, film director and producer

James Hetfield

b. 1963 · August 3

American musician

Edie Falco

b. 1963 · July 5

American actress

Alex Kingston

b. 1963 · March 11

English actress

Anthony Albanese

b. 1963 · March 2

Prime Minister of Australia since 2022

Graham Norton

b. 1963 · April 4

Irish comedian, actor, and television host

Fisher Stevens

b. 1963 · November 27

American actor, director, producer and writer

Garry Kasparov

b. 1963 · April 13

Russian chess grandmaster

Benjamin Bratt

b. 1963 · December 16

American actor

Brigitte Nielsen

b. 1963 · July 15

Danish actress, model, and singer

Coolio

1963–2022 · August 1

American rapper

Lisa Ann Walter

b. 1963 · August 3

American actress

Joel Osteen

b. 1963 · March 5

American televangelist, businessman, and author

John Carroll Lynch

b. 1963 · August 1

American character actor and film director

Chris Mullin

b. 1963 · July 30

American basketball player & coach

Alejandro González Iñárritu

b. 1963 · August 15

Mexican filmmaker

Donnie Yen

b. 1963 · July 27

Hong Kong actor and martial artist

Fatboy Slim

b. 1963 · July 31

English musician

Dave Foley

b. 1963 · January 4

Canadian stand-up comedian and actor

Bret Michaels

b. 1963 · March 15

American musician

Enrico Colantoni

b. 1963 · February 14

Canadian actor (b. 1963)

Isaiah Washington

b. 1963 · August 3

American actor

Died in 1963

C. S. Lewis1898–1963 · British writer, lay theologian, and scholar
Aldous Huxley1894–1963 · English writer and philosopher
Medgar Evers1925–1963 · American civil rights activist
Jean Cocteau1889–1963 · French writer and film director
Dinah Washington1924–1963 · American singer, songwriter, pianist
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria1883–1963 · Princess Otto of Windisch-Graetz
Georges Braque1882–1963 · French painter and sculptor
Adolphe Menjou1890–1963 · American actor
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke1883–1963 · British Army field marshal
Elmore James1918–1963 · American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader
Charles Vyner Brooke1874–1963 · 3rd Rajah of Sarawak
A. J. Liebling1904–1963 · American journalist