* Atlas ( 1863 – 1885 ), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives

* 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2, 000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

* 1863 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian writer and journalist ( d. 1922 )

** Haliotis varia f. dohrniana Dunker, 1863 – synonym: Haliotis dohrniana Dunker, 1863

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

* 1863 – Ernest Thayer, American poet ( d. 1940 )

* Adrian Knox ( 1863 – 1932 ), Australian judge

* 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom ( Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863 ).

* 1863 – Aleksey Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician ( d. 1945 )

* 1863 – The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.

* 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.

* 1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.

Cl., 43 ( 1863 ) 491 – 528 online (= Gesammelte philologische Schriften ( Leipzig & Berlin 1911 ) 1. 117 – 155 )

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

* 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

* 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.

* 1921 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer ( b. 1863 )

* 1863 – Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and chemical engineer ( d. 1935 )

* 1947 – Arthur Machen, Welsh author ( b. 1863 )

* Russell, Arthur T. ( 1863 ) Memoirs of the Life and Works of Lancelot Andrewes, Lord Bishop of Winchester.

* 1944 – Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer ( b. 1863 )

* 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1863 )

* 1863 – Arthur Henderson, British politician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1935 )

His given name was confused for that of his brother and heir, Arthur Marcus Cecil Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys ( 1798 – 1863 ), in the story.

* October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist ( b. 1863 )

* April 27 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer ( born 1863 )

* October 20 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1863 )

Arthur Machen ( 1863 – 1947 ), the author of many supernatural and fantastic fictions, lived at 23 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill Gate, in the 1880s ; he writes of his life here in his memoirs, Far Off Things ( 1922 ) and Things Near and Far ( 1923 ).

* Albert Edward Arthur Liddell ( 1863 – 28 May 1863 ).

( Other possible precursors are Monmouthshire-born Arthur Machen ( 1863 – 1947 ), and Joseph Keating ( 1871 – 1934 ), who began his working life as a South Wales miner.

Although the older of the two, established in 1863, was destroyed by the Nazis during the Kristallnacht, around 60, 000 graves still remain intact. The number of interred in this part of the cemetery is given as 79, 833 Jewish burials as of date July 10, 2011. Prominent burials here include those of the Rothschild family and that of the author Arthur Schnitzler.

* 1863 – 1895 Arthur Cayley

Arthur Henderson ( 20 September 1863 – 20 October 1935 ) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician.

Arthur Henderson was born at 10 Paterson Street, Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland in 1863, the illegitimate son of Agnes Henderson, a domestic servant.

Afterwards, in 1863, his father retired from the navy and later Arthur and his father returned to England.

Arthur Morrison ( 1863 – 1945 ), best known for his grim novels about London's East End, lived in Salcombe House, Loughton High Road.

He was succeeded in the earldom by his second but eldest surviving son, Arthur William Cairns, who left one daughter, and from whom the title passed to his two next younger brothers in succession, Herbert John, third Earl ( 1863 – 1905 ), and Wilfred Dallas, fourth Earl ( b. 1865 ).

Major Sir Frederic Arthur Kelley OBE ( 6 May 1863 – 29 May 1926 ) was a British Unionist Party politician, Justice of the Peace ( JP ) for the West Riding of Yorkshire and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Rotherham from 1918 to 1923.

* Arthur George Egerton, 5th Earl of Wilton ( 1863 – 1915 )

Arthur Webb Mold ( 27 May 1863 – 29 April 1921 ) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire as a fast bowler between 1889 and 1901.

Mold was born on 27 May 1863 in the village of Middleton Cheney in Northamptonshire.