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 – The Hotline between the leaders of the U. S. A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

* 1963 – The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.

* Profumo Affair ( 1963 ): Secretary of State for War John Profumo had an affair with prostitute Christine Keeler ( to whom he had been introduced by pimp and drug-dealer Stephen Ward ) who was having an affair with a Soviet spy at the same time.

canal from Russia ( the original agreement with the Soviet Union dates to 1963 ).

Powers received the CIA's Intelligence Star in 1963 after his return from the Soviet Union.

* 1963 – The so-called " red telephone " is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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

* 1963 – Kira Ivanova, Soviet figure skater ( d. 2001 )

After Philby defected to the Soviet Union in 1963, Eleanor visited him in Moscow ; in November 1964, following a visit to America, she returned, intending to settle permanently.

The film recounts Philby's love affair and marriage to Eleanor Brewer during his time in Beirut, and his eventual defection to the Soviet Union in late January 1963.

It ran from 1959 through 1963 with two goals: putting a human in orbit around the Earth, and doing it before the Soviet Union, as part of the early space race.

After the negotiated retreat of Soviet troops, Romania, under the new leadership of Nicolae Ceauşescu, started to pursue independent policies, including the condemnation of the Soviet-led 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia ( Romania being the only Warsaw Pact country not to take part in the invasion ), the continuation of diplomatic relations with Israel after the Six-Day War of 1967 ( again, the only Warsaw Pact country to do so ), and the establishment of economic ( 1963 ) and diplomatic ( 1967 ) relations with the Federal Republic of Germany.

He became Lieutenant Colonel ( or Podpolkovnik ) of the Soviet Air Force on 12 June 1962 and on 6 November 1963 he received the rank of Colonel ( Polkovnik ) of the Soviet Air Force.

** British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 for spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale.

In 1963, the Chinese Communist Party began to openly denounce the Soviet Union, publishing a series of nine polemics against its Marxist revisionism, with one of them being titled On Khrushchev's Phoney Communism and Historical Lessons for the World, in which Mao charged that Khrushchev was not only a revisionist but also increased the danger of capitalist restoration.

In 1963, Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn is said to have secretly claimed that Wilson was a KGB agent.

He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 June 1963.

Spassky won the Soviet Chess Championship twice outright ( 1961, 1973 ), and twice lost in playoffs ( 1956, 1963 ), after tying for first place during the event proper.

At Leningrad 1963, the site of the 31st Soviet final, Spassky tied for first with Stein and Ratmir Kholmov, with Stein winning the playoff, which was held in 1964.

The Front, named after Augusto César Sandino ( a Nicaraguan rebel leader in the 1920s ), began its guerrilla war against the Somozas in 1963 and was funded by Cuba under Fidel Castro and the Soviet Union.

When Hồ called for the establishment of a neutral South Vietnamese state in 1963, Lê responded by making overtures to the Chinese, who rejected the Soviet position of peaceful coexistence.

Macmillan was also a force in the successful negotiations leading to the signing of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty by the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union.