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

* 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 – Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian pistol shooter

* Borislav Mikhailov ( b. 1963 ), football player and Bulgarian Football Union president, member of the executive committee of UEFA

At the head of synodal delegations, he visited the following Orthodox churches: Russian ( several times ), Georgian ( 1948 ), Serbian ( 1957 ), Bulgarian ( 1953, 1966 and 1971 ), the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ( 1968 ), the Churches of Alexandria ( 1971 ) and Jerusalem ( 1975 ) and the Church of Greece ( 1963, 1971 and 1975 ).

He won the Bulgarian national chess championship in 1963, the year he was awarded the Grandmaster title, only the second Bulgarian player thus honored ( after Milko Bobotsov ).

* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

* 1963 – Marian Keyes, Irish novelist

In May 1963 he published a work entitled Raymond Rousell, which was devoted to the eponymous poet, novelist and playwright, who was one of Foucault's favourite authors.

Another well-known literary puzzle is Hopscotch ( 1963 ) by the Paris-resident Argentinian novelist Julio Cortázar.

* Thomas Wharton ( author ) ( born 1963 ), Canadian novelist

The Liverpool-born novelist James Hanley ( 1897 – 1985 ) lived in Wales from 1931 until 1963 and was buried there, but only a few of his many works have Welsh subject matters.

This includes the novelist John Cowper Powys ( 1872 – 1963 ) and novelist and essayist Llewelyn Powys ( 1884 – 1939 ).

More modern writers living on or writing about Öland include novelist Margit Friberg ( 1904 – 1997 ), poet Anna Rydstedt ( 1928 – 1994 ), novelist Birgitta Trotzig ( 1929-2011 ), poet Lennart Sjögren ( 1930 -), children novelist Eva Bexell ( 1945 -), poet Tom Hedlund ( 1945 -), novelist Johan Theorin ( 1963 -), poet and novelist Magnus Utvik ( 1964 -) and novelist Per Planhammar ( 1965 -).

Stark Young ( October 11, 1881 – January 6, 1963 ) was an American teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic and essayist.

After a short period as a teacher at Barnsbury Girls ' School in Islington, north London ( 1961 – 1963 ), she has worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to BBC Radio 4 and various newspapers and magazines.

; Sylvia Plath: ( 1932 – 1963 ) Poet, novelist, and short story writer

Nâzım Hikmet Ran ( 15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963 ), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (), was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist.

* Aneurin Gareth Thomas, novelist, born 1963.

In 1963, Tyler married Iranian psychiatrist and novelist Taghi Mohammad Modarressi, with whom she had two daughters, Tezh and Mitra.

Robin Jarvis ( born May 8, 1963 ) is a British children's novelist, who writes fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals – especially mice – and Tudor times.

John Kinsella ( born 1963 ) is an Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor.