* 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.

** 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.

* October 30 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author ( b. 1863 )

* October 30-Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian historical novelist ( born 1863 )

* Ferenc Herczeg ( 1863 – 1954 ), Hungarian writer

János Count Hadik de Futak ( 23 November 1863, Pálóc – 10 December 1933, Budapest ) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister for 17 hours starting 30 October 1918, at the end of World War I.

Ferenc Herczeg ( born Franz Herzog, 22 September 1863, Versec, Hungarian Kingdom-24 February 1954, Budapest, Hungary ) was a Hungarian playwright and author who promoted conservative nationalist opinion in his country.

* Count Ferdinánd Zichy ( born 1829 ), vice-president of the Hungarian stadtholdership under the Mailath regime, was condemned in 1863 under the press laws to the loss of his titles and to imprisonment.

* 1863 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and writer ( d. 1952 )

* 1863 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer ( b. 1813 )

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

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

* Qasim Amin, Egyptian writer ( b. 1863 )

** Jakob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist, and writer ( d. 1863 )

* Sir George Cornewall Lewis ( 1806 – 1863 ), writer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary

* F. W. Bain ( 1863 – 1940 ), writer of fantasy stories

* Dragutin Lerman ( 1863 – 1918 ), writer, African explorer, East Congo commissioner

In addition to those mentioned in the text above, notable people born in Farnham include William Willett, campaigner for daylight saving time ( 1856 ); George Sturt, writer and social historian ( 1863 ); and Maud Gonne, feminist and activist in Irish politics ( 1866 ).

* William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1811 – 1863 ), writer

* Hans Aanrud ( 1863 – 1953 ) was a Norwegian writer who wrote plays, poetry, and stories depicting rural life in Norway.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE ( 31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset ) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer.

* November 15 – Edith Durham, travel writer ( born 1863 )

A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold ( 1863 ) and The Coal Question ( 1865 ) placed him in the front rank as a writer on applied economics and statistics ; and he would be remembered as one of the leading economists of the 19th century even had his Theory of Political Economy never been written.

* March 24-Robert Fleming Gourlay, agriculturist and writer ( died 1863 )

* Adalbert Kuzmanović ( 1863 – 1911 ), Croatian writer

Frederick William Faber ( 28 June 1814 — 26 September 1863 ) was a British hymn writer and theologian.

The date she published her first collection of poetry in Galician, Cantares gallegos (" Galician Songs "), May 17, 1863, is commemorated every year as the Día das Letras Galegas (" Galician Literature Day "), an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia, and has been dedicated to an important writer in the Galician language since 1963.

* Andrei Mureşanu ( 1816 – 1863 ), writer of the Romanian national anthem

* Ferenc Herczeg ( 1863 – 1954 ), born Franz Herzog, German-Hungarian writer

Galusha Aaron Grow ( August 31, 1822 – March 31, 1907 ) was a prominent U. S. politician, lawyer, writer and businessman, and was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863.

Jean Ingelow followed this book of verse in 1851 with a story, Allerton and Dreux, but it was the publication of her Poems in 1863 which suddenly made her a popular writer.