* April 20 – Lady Duff Gordon, British fashion designer ( b. 1863 )

* Ray, Gordon N. Thackeray: The Age of Wisdom, 1847 – 1863.

During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), York became the largest Northern town to be occupied by the Confederate army when the division of Major General Jubal Anderson Early spent June 28 – 30, 1863, in and around the town while the brigade of John B. Gordon marched to the Susquehanna River at Wrightsville and back.

In March 1863 Gordon took command of the force at Songjiang, which had received the name of " Ever Victorious Army ".

Captain Frey was taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg on 1 July 1863 and held in Libby Prison for eighteen months before being exchanged for Captain Gordon, a Confederate prisoner under sentence of death.

In November 1863 the Ever Victorious Army of Charles Gordon recaptured the city from the Taiping forces.

* Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly ( 1792 – 1863 ), Scottish peer and politician

* Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly ( 1792 – 1863 )

In 1863 Ambrose Burnside forced an unconditional surrender of the Cumberland Gap and 2, 300 Confederate soldiers and in 1864 General Gordon Granger forced an unconditional surrender of Fort Morgan.

* Theodore Lyman ( Massachusetts ), George Gordon Meade's staff officer ( 1863 – 1865 ), Congressman from Massachusetts in 1883 – 1885

* James Riely Gordon ( 1863 – 1937 ), American architect

In early 1863, when Justice Gordon Mott's resignation from the Supreme Court of Nevada Territory was a certainty, Judge Horatio M. Jones recommended North for the vacancy.

* John Rozet Drexel ( 1863 – 1935 ), who married Alice Gordon Troth ( 1865 – 1947 )

Maritime Union was a project pursued in 1863 and 1864 by Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

* James Gordon Legge ( 1863 – 1947 ), Australian Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I

* Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly 13 February 1861 – 18 September 1863

The company was founded by Enos Gordon Goudey ( 1863 – 1946 ) of Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia.

Lord Ancaster married Lady Evelyn Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly, in 1863.

* 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1927 – Gordon Scott, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, pacifist, and author ( d. 2007 )

* 1938 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician

* 1960 – Gary Gordon, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1993 )

* 1892 – Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist ( d. 1957 )

* 1978 – Joe Gordon, American baseball player ( b. 1915 )

* 1985 – Noele Gordon, English actress ( b. 1919 )

* 1964 – Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer

* 1971 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver

* 1943 – Gordon West, English footballer ( d. 2012 )

Reprinted on pp. 92 – 119 in Bell, C. Gordon and Newell, Allen ( 1971 ), Computer Structures: Readings and Examples, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.

* 1980 – 81 Paul " Loaf " Gordon

* Gordon, David M. The China-Japan War, 1931 – 1945.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

* Gordon Wilson ( 1927 – 1995 ), Peace campaigner and Irish senator

Gordon., " The counter-cult monitoring movement in historical perspective ," in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson, ( Routledge, London, 2003 ), pp. 102 – 113.

After time spent in Palestine in 1882 – 83, General Charles George Gordon found a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been the real location of Golgotha.

* 1949 – Mary Gordon, American writer

* 1965 – Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer

* 1969 – Lewis Gordon Pugh, English swimmer, explorer and motivational speaker

Gordon Onslow Ford ( 1912 – 2003 ), a leading British surrealist painter, attended the Royal Naval College.

* Margaret Maria Gordon ( 1823 – 1907 ) wrote a book on Brewster, which is considered the most comprehensive description of his life.

* 1937 – Gordon Banks, English footballer