Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

* 1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador

* 1963 – The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M / S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.

* 1963 – Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, Mexican journalist

* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

* 1963 – Michael Waltrip, American race car driver

* 1963 – Stefan Kisyov, Bulgarian novelist

* 1877 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss politician ( d. 1963 )

* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )

* 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Charles Ingram, English game show contestant and author

* 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author

* 1914 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1963 – Sridevi, Indian actress

* 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Laura Bennett, American fashion designer

* 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer

* 1998 – Rozz Williams, American musician ( Christian Death, Shadow Project, and Premature Ejaculation ) ( b. 1963 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1963 – Mike Gascoyne, British engineer, designer of Formula One cars

Aalto's awards included the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects ( 1957 ) and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects ( 1963 ).

* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope ( 1883 – 1963 ), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiral

He also managed to score in every British Home Championship tournament he played in except 1963 in an association with the tournament which lasted from 1958 to 1970 and included 16 goals and ten tournament victories ( five shared ).

A board of 25 trustees ( with the Director as their accounting officer for the purposes of reporting to Government ) is responsible for the general management and control of the Museum, in accordance with the British Museum Act 1963 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.

The Museum has also argued that the British Museum Act of 1963 legally prevents any object from leaving its collection once it has entered it.

* 1963 – Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress

While originally conceived and edited for American television ( and announced in an advertisement by NBC in the Tuesday, July 9, 1963 issue of The Hollywood Reporter ), the production was re-edited for a British theatrical run before the American television debut.

Titled Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow, the British theatrical version was released on a double bill with The Sword in the Stone, and ran during the 1963 Christmas season ( advertised in the January 1964 issue of Photoplay ).

He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class ( 1963 ).

Vágar Airport was built by the British during World War II ; it was reopened as a civilian international airport in 1963.

* 1963 – Quentin Letts, British journalist

British born director Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ), was the first " slasher " movie, while in the same director's The Birds ( 1963 ) menace stems from nature gone mad.

The last time a British monarch unilaterally selected the British prime minister was in 1963, when Queen Elizabeth II appointed Alec Douglas-Home on the advice of outgoing prime minister Harold Macmillan.

On 31 August 1963, the British territories in North Borneo and Singapore were granted independence and formed Malaysia with the Peninsular states on 16 September 1963.

Sidney Parker is a British egoist individualist anarchist who wrote articles and edited anarchist journals from 1963 to 1993 such as Minus One, Egoist, and Ego.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

* 1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.

* 1963 – A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.

* 1963 – Mark Moraghan, British actor and singer

* 1963 – Caron Wheeler, British singer ( Soul II Soul )

John Charles Julian Lennon ( born 8 April 1963 ) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, actor, and photographer.