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 ).

* Koji Ishikawa ( illustrator ) ( born 1963 ), Japanese children's book author and illustrator

* 1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut

* 1963 – Kōji Kitao ), Japanese sumo wrestler ( the 60th Yokozuna )

* 1963 – Hiromi Makihara, Japanese baseball player

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

* 1963 – Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese wrestler

* 1963 – Luna H. Mitani, Japanese American surrealism painter

* 1963 – Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor

* 1963 – Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna

* 1963 – Ukyo Katayama, Japanese race car driver

* 1963 – Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian

* 1963 – Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor

* 1963 – Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese racing driver

* 1963 – Mamoru Takuma, Japanese convicted murderer and rapist ( d. 2004 )

* 1963 – Taki Inoue, Japanese race car driver

* 1963 – Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japanese comedian

** Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director ( d. 1963 )

In addition to the aforementioned Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco and the film adaptation, based on actual events, a fictional LBO is the basis of the 1963 Japanese film High and Low.

* Japanese children sing this melody with improvised lyrics of " Monkey ( in Japanese, saru )-Gorilla-Chimpanzee " as a joke, while among grown-ups the lyrics as a title " Kuchibue Fuite ( When We Whistle ) are well known after a 1963 NHK children's program, Minna no Uta, performed this song.

In 1963, singer Kyu Sakamoto is featured on the Japanese television program Shall We Meet At Seven?

Tomino, began his career in 1963 with Osamu Tezuka's company, Mushi Productions, scripting the storyboards and screenplay of the first Japanese anime television series, Tetsuwan Atomu ( also known as Astro Boy ).

* Emi Fujita ( born 1963 ), a Japanese singer

Japan started its surveys in 1963, at which time the number of Japanese centenarians was found to be 153.

The 1952 Russian film Sadko ( based on Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko ) was overdubbed and released in English in 1962 as The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, while the 1963 Japanese film Dai tozoku ( whose main character was a heroic pirate named Sukezaemon ) was overdubbed and released in English in 1965 as The Lost World of Sinbad.