Events
January
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January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the ye ...
–
Bogle–Chandler case
The Bogle–Chandler case refers to the mysterious deaths of Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler on the banks of the Lane Cove River in Sydney, Australia on 1 January 1963. The case became famous because of the circumstances in which the bodies ...
:
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research.
CSIRO works with leading organisations around the world. From its headquarters in Canberra, CSIRO ...
scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the
Lane Cove River
The Lane Cove River, a northern tributary of the Parramatta River, is a tide-dominated, drowned valley estuary west of Sydney Harbour, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The river is a tributary of the Parramatta River, winding thro ...
, Sydney, Australia.
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January 2
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
* 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire ...
–
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
–
Battle of Ap Bac
The Battle of Ấp Bắc was a major battle fought on 2 January 1963 during the Vietnam War, in Định Tường Province (now part of Tiền Giang Province), South Vietnam. On 28 December 1962, US intelligence detected the presence of a radio ...
: The
Viet Cong
,
, war = the Vietnam War
, image = FNL Flag.svg
, caption = The flag of the Viet Cong, adopted in 1960, is a variation on the flag of North Vietnam. Sometimes the lower stripe was green.
, active ...
win their first major victory.
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January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin ...
– A
total penumbral lunar eclipse
A total penumbral lunar eclipse is a lunar eclipse that occurs when the Moon becomes completely immersed in the penumbral cone of the Earth without touching the umbra.
The path for the Moon to pass within the penumbra and outside the umbra is ve ...
is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of
Lunar Saros 114
Saros cycle series 114 for lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. Such alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital ...
. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963.
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January 13
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the raci ...
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1963 Togolese coup d'état
The 1963 Togolese coup d'état was a Togolese Armed Forces, military Coup d'état, coup that occurred in the West African country of Togo on 13 January 1963. The coup leaders — notably Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma (later Gnassingbé Ey ...
: A military coup in
Togo
Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...
results in the installation of coup leader
Emmanuel Bodjollé
Emmanuel Bodjollé (born 1928) is a Togolese former military officer who was Chairman of the nine-member Insurrection Committee that overthrew the government of President Sylvanus Olympio on 13 January 1963.
Biography
Bodjollé, a former maste ...
as president.
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January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
– A last quarter moon occurs between the
penumbral lunar eclipse and the
annular solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee.
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January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender a ...
– Soviet spy
Gheorghe Pintilie
Gheorghe Pintilie (born Panteley Timofiy Bodnarenko, ua, Пантелей Тимофій Боднаренко; also rendered as Pintilie Bodnarenco, nicknamed Pantiușa; November 9, 1902 – August 21, 1985) was a Soviet and Romanian intelligence ...
is removed from his position as
Deputy Interior Minister of the
Romanian People's Republic
The Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989. From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian Peopl ...
, as a step in ensuring
Romania's political independence; the
Workers' Party Politburo
A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states.
Names
The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contracti ...
discusses way of neutralizing "Soviet intelligence networks
..which Gheorghe Pintilie had coordinated."
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January 22
Events Pre-1600
* 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor ('' Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
* 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw ...
– France and West Germany sign the
Élysée Treaty
The Élysée Treaty was a treaty of friendship between France and West Germany, signed by President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on 22 January 1963 at the Élysée Palace in Paris. With the signing of this treaty, Germa ...
.
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January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– A
large annular solar eclipse covered 99.5% of the Sun and a narrow path at most 19.6 km (12.2 mi). It was visible in Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Madagascar, and was the 26th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros 140
Saros cycle series 140 for solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during a ...
. Gamma had a value of -0.48984.
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January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
* 1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
* 1564 – The Council of T ...
– The
Australia Day
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove and raising of the Union Flag by Arthur Phillip following days of exploration of Port ...
shootings rock
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
; 2 people are shot dead and 3 others injured by
Eric Edgar Cooke
Eric Edgar Cooke (25 February 1931 – 26 October 1964), nicknamed the Night Caller and later the Nedlands Monster, was an Australian serial killer who terrorised the city of Perth, Western Australia, from September 1958 to August 1963. Cooke c ...
.
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January 29
Events
Pre-1600
* 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
* 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...
– French President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Governm ...
vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the
European Common Market.
February
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February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– The
European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ, french: Cour de Justice européenne), formally just the Court of Justice, is the supreme court of the European Union in matters of European Union law. As a part of the Court of Justice of the European U ...
's ruling in ''
Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen
''Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen'' (1963) Case 26/62 was a landmark case of the European Court of Justice which established that provisions of the '' Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community'' were cap ...
'' establishes the principle of
direct effect, one of the basic tenets of
European Union law
European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community following World War II, the EU has developed the aim to "promote peace, its valu ...
.
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February 8
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of ...
– Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribb ...
are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration.
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February 10
Events Pre-1600
*1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparki ...
– Five Japanese cities located on the northernmost part of
Kyūshū
is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...
are merged and become the city of
Kitakyūshū
is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of June 1, 2019, Kitakyushu has an estimated population of 940,978, making it the second-largest city in both Fukuoka Prefecture and the island of Kyushu after the city of Fukuoka. It is one o ...
, with a population of more than 1 million.
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February 12
Events Pre-1600
* 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
* 1429 – English forces und ...
–
Northwest Airlines Flight 705
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 was a scheduled passenger flight operated on February 12, 1963, that broke up in midair and crashed into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami International Airport in a severe thunderstor ...
crashes in the Florida
Everglades
The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The system begins near Orlando with the Kissim ...
, killing all 43 aboard.
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February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis t ...
–
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He ...
becomes leader of the opposition
Labour Party in the United Kingdom; in October 1964 he becomes prime minister.
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February 21
Events Pre-1600
*452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
*1440 – The Pru ...
– The 5.6
Marj earthquake affects northern Libya with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), causing 290–375 deaths and 375–500 injuries.
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February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantin ...
–
Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
.
March
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March 4
Events Pre-1600
* AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a ...
– In Paris, six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Governm ...
. De Gaulle pardons five, but the other conspirator,
Jean Bastien-Thiry
Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry (; 19 October 1927 – 11 March 1963) was a French Air Force lieutenant-colonel and military air-weaponry engineer. He was the creator of the Nord SS.10/SS.11 missiles. He attempted to assassinate French President ...
, is executed by
firing squad
Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French ''fusil'', rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are ...
several days later.
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March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...
–
Mount Agung
Mount Agung ( id, Parwata Agung; ban, ᬕᬦ ᬆᬕ) is an active volcano in Bali, Indonesia, southeast of Mount Batur volcano, also in Bali. It is the highest point on Bali, and dominates the surrounding area, influencing the climate, especiall ...
erupts on
Bali
Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and ...
, killing approximately 1,500.
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March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
– "''Dansevise''" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1963
The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest and took place in London, United Kingdom. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporatio ...
for Denmark.
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March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
*1282 &ndash ...
–
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
are legally allowed to drink alcohol in
New South Wales
)
, nickname =
, image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates:
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
.
April
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April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...
–
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...
is proclaimed to be a
socialist republic, and
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his death ...
is named
President for Life.
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April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– The
35th Academy Awards
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra.
Ceremony
The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of t ...
ceremony is held. ''
Lawrence of Arabia
Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918 ...
'' wins
Best Picture
This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards.
Best Actor/Best Actress
*See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
.
*
April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 1407 ...
– The U.S. nuclear submarine ''
Thresher'' sinks east of
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...
; all 129 aboard (112 crewmen plus yard personnel) die.
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April 11
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
*1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
*1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrare ...
–
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 28 Oc ...
issues his final
encyclical
An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Roman Church. At that time, the word could be used for a letter sent out by any bishop. The word comes from the Late Latin (originally fr ...
, ''
Pacem in terris
''Pacem in terris'' () was a papal encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII on 11 April 1963 on the rights and obligations of individuals and of the state, as well as the proper relations between states. It emphasized human dignity and equality ...
'', entitled ''On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty'', the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than to Roman Catholics only.
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April 12
Events Pre-1600
* 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
* 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to ...
– The Soviet nuclear powered submarine ''
K-33'' collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S ''Finnclipper'' in the Danish Straits. Although severely damaged, both vessels make it to port.
*
April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor O ...
– The
Institute of Mental Health (Belgrade)
The Institute of Mental Health in Belgrade ( sr, Институт за ментално здравље / Institut za mentalno zdravlje), established in 1963, is the first social-psychiatric institution in Southeast Europe. It is a tertiary care in ...
is established.
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April 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
* 73 – Masad ...
– Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "
Letter from Birmingham Jail
The "Letter from Birmingham Jail", also known as the "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. It says that people have a moral responsibility to ...
".
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April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys ...
– In
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ...
, Canada, members of the terrorist group
Front de libération du Québec
The (FLQ) was a Marxist–Leninist and Quebec separatist guerrilla group. Founded in the early 1960s with the aim of establishing an independent and socialist Quebec through violent means, the FLQ was considered a terrorist group by the Cana ...
bomb a
Canadian Army
The Canadian Army (french: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces. It maintains regular forces units at bases across Canada, and is also respo ...
recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill.
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April 21
Events Pre-1600
* 753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
–
23 – The first election of the Supreme Institution of the
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. Established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th century, it initially developed in Iran and parts of the ...
(known as the
Universal House of Justice
The Universal House of Justice ( fa, بیتالعدل اعظم) is the nine-member supreme ruling body of the Baháʼí Faith. It was envisioned by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, as an institution that could legislate ...
, whose seat is at the
Baháʼí World Centre
The Baháʼí World Centre is the name given to the spiritual and administrative centre of the Baháʼí Faith, representing sites in or near the cities of Acre and Haifa, Israel.
Much of the international governance and coordination of th ...
on
Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel ( he, הַר הַכַּרְמֶל, Har haKarmel; ar, جبل الكرمل, Jabal al-Karmil), also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias ( ar, link=no, جبل مار إلياس, Jabal Mār Ilyās, lit=Mount Saint Elias/ Elijah), is a ...
in
Haifa
Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
) is held.
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April 22 –
Lester Bowles Pearson
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, diplomat, and politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968.
Born in Newtonbrook, Ontario (now part of ...
becomes the 14th
Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (french: premier ministre du Canada, link=no) is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the confidence of a majority the elected House of Commons; as su ...
.
*
April 28
Events Pre-1600
* 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
* 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
–
1963 general election is held in
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
.
*
April 29
Events Pre-1600
* 1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
* 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and b ...
–
Buddy Rogers becomes the first
WWWF Champion.
May
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May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
*1169 – N ...
–
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation founded in 1892, best known as the producer of Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Company also manufactures, sells, and markets other non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups ...
introduces its first diet drink,
Tab cola.
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May 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
*1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprison ...
–
Berthold Seliger
The Berthold Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (BSFEGmbH) was a company founded by West German rocket technical designer Berthold Seliger in 1961. Seliger was a former assistant theoretician professor Dr. Eugen Sänger. The com ...
launches near
Cuxhaven
Cuxhaven (; ) is an independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town includes the northernmost point of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River. Cuxhaven ...
a 3-stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany).
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May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus ar ...
– The Le Monde Theater fire in Dioirbel,
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
, kills 64 people.
*
May 8
Events Pre-1600
*453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs an ...
–
Huế Phật Đản shootings
The Huế Phật Đản shootings were the deaths of nine unarmed Buddhist civilians on 8 May 1963 in the city of Huế, South Vietnam at the hands of the army and security forces of the government of Ngô Đình Diệm, a Roman Catholic. The ...
: The
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; ; french: Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. It is estimated to have suf ...
opens fire on Buddhists who defy a ban on the flying of the
Buddhist flag
The Buddhist flag is a flag designed in the late 19th century as a universal symbol of Buddhism. It is used by Buddhists throughout the world.
History
The flag was originally designed in 1885 by the Colombo Committee, in Colombo, Ceylon (''no ...
on
Vesak
Vesak (Pali: ''Vesākha''; sa, Vaiśākha), also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhists in South Asia and Southeast Asia as well as Tibet and Mongolia. The festival commemora ...
, the birthday of
Gautama Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in L ...
, killing 9. Earlier, President
Ngô Đình Diệm
Ngô Đình Diệm ( or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then served as the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic ...
allowed the flying of the
Vatican flag in honour of his brother, Archbishop
Ngô Đình Thục
Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục () (6 October 1897 – 13 December 1984) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam, and later a sedevacantist bishop who was excommunicated by the Vatican and allegedly reconciled with the Vatican b ...
, triggering the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.
*
May 13 – A
smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus) which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) c ...
outbreak hits
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...
,
Sweden
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, lasting until July.
*
May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and f ...
– Kuwait becomes the 111th member of the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoni ...
.
*
May 15 –
Project Mercury
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Un ...
:
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
launches
Gordon Cooper
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human spa ...
on
Mercury-Atlas 9
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named ''Faith 7'', completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in ...
, the last Mercury mission (on
June 12
Events Pre-1600
* 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
*1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
NASA Administrator
James E. Webb
James Edwin Webb (October 7, 1906 – March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second Administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968. Webb led NAS ...
tells Congress the program is complete).
*
May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
*11 ...
–
A.C. Milan
Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...
beats
Benfica 2–1 at
Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium (branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE for sponsorship reasons) is a football stadium in Wembley, London. It opened in 2007 on the site of the Wembley Stadium (1923), original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 200 ...
, London and wins the
1962–63 European Cup
The 1962–63 European Cup was the eighth season of the European Cup, a football competition for European clubs. The competition was won by Milan, who beat two-time defending champions Benfica in the final at Wembley Stadium in London. Milan ...
(football).
*
May 23
Events Pre-1600
* 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
*1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
* 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...
–
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 20 ...
visits the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
.
*
May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– The
Organisation of African Unity
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; french: Organisation de l'unité africaine, OUA) was an intergovernmental organization established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 32 signatory governments. One of the main heads for OAU's ...
is established in
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...
,
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
.
June
*
June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, depo ...
–
Huế chemical attacks
The Huế chemical attacks occurred on 3 June 1963, when soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) poured liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades onto the heads of praying Buddhism in Vietnam, Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam. The ...
: The
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; ; french: Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. It is estimated to have suf ...
rains
liquid chemicals on the heads of Buddhist protestors, injuring 67 people. The United States threatens to cut off aid to the regime of
Ngô Đình Diệm
Ngô Đình Diệm ( or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then served as the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic ...
.
*
June 4
Events Pre-1600
*1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
* 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
– President of the United States
John F. Kennedy signs
Executive Order 11110 Executive Order 11110 was issued by U.S. President John F. Kennedy on June 4, 1963.
This executive order amended Executive Order 10289 (dated September 17, 1951) by delegating to the Secretary of the Treasury the president's authority to issue s ...
, authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury
The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...
to continue issuing
silver certificates.
*
June 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.
*1288 & ...
– The first annual
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey sports league, league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranke ...
Entry Draft is held in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...
.
* June 10 – In the United States:
** President
John F. Kennedy signs the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law.
** President John F. Kennedy delivers his American University speech, "A Strategy of Peace", in Washington, D.C.
** The University of Central Florida is established by the Florida legislature.
* June 11
![Thích Quảng Đức self-immolation](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c_self-immolation.jpg)
– In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the
Ngô Đình Diệm
Ngô Đình Diệm ( or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then served as the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic ...
administration.
* June 13
** The cancellation of Mercury-Atlas 10 effectively ends the United States' manned spaceflight
Project Mercury
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Un ...
.
** The New York Commodity Exchange begins trading silver futures contracts.
* June 15 – The AC Cobra makes its first appearance at the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Le Mans. It will go on to win its class 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans, the following year.
* June 16 – Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman into space.
* June 19 – Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space, returns to Earth, landing in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
.
* June 20
** Establishment of the Moscow–Washington hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL; unofficially, the "red telephone"; and in fact a teleprinter link) is authorized by signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States.
** Swedish Air Force Colonel Stig Wennerström (spy), Stig Wennerström is arrested as a spy for the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
.
* June 21 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 28 Oc ...
as the 262nd pope.
* June 26
**
John F. Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin, Germany.
** David Ben-Gurion is replaced by Levi Eshkol as prime minister of Israel.
July
* July 1 – ZIP codes are introduced by the United States Postal Service.
* July 5 – Diplomatic relations between the
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level.
* July 7 – Double Seven Day scuffle: Secret police loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President
Ngô Đình Diệm
Ngô Đình Diệm ( or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then served as the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic ...
, attack American journalists including Peter Arnett and David Halberstam at a demonstration during the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.
* July 11 – South Africa: police raid Liliesleaf Farm to the north of Johannesburg, arresting a group of African National Congress leaders.
* July 19 – American test pilot Joseph A. Walker, Joe Walker, flying the X-15, reaches an altitude of 65.8 miles (105.9 kilometers), making it a sub-orbital spaceflight by recognized international standards.
* July 26
** An 1963 Skopje earthquake, earthquake in Skopje,
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...
(present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,800 dead.
**
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary orbit, geostationary (geosynchronous orbit, synchronous) satellite.
* July 30 – The Soviet newspaper ''Izvestia'' reports that British diplomat and double agent Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow.
August
![March on Washington edit](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/March_on_Washington_edit.jpg)
* August 5 – The United States, United Kingdom and
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
* August 8 – The Great Train Robbery (1963), Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England.
* August 14 – A huge and devastating forest fire hits the region around Paraná (state), Paraná State, Brazil. According to government documents, two million hectares (4.94 million acres) were lost to burning and 110 persons perished.
* August 15 – ''Trois Glorieuses (1963), Trois Glorieuses'': President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo after a three-day uprising in the capital, Brazzaville.
* August 21 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President
Ngô Đình Diệm
Ngô Đình Diệm ( or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then served as the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic ...
, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across South Vietnam, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead. In the wake of the raids, the Kennedy administration by Cable 243 orders the United States Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in the country, opening the way towards a coup against Diệm.
* August 22 – American test pilot Joseph A. Walker, Joe Walker again achieves a sub-orbital spaceflight according to international standards, this time by piloting the X-15 to an altitude of 67.0 miles (107.8 kilometers).
* August 24 – First games played in the Bundesliga, the primary professional Association football league in West Germany, replacing the Oberliga.
* August 28 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single Largest protests in American history, largest protest in American history.
September
* September 1 – Language legislation in Belgium#1962: Establishment of the language areas and facilities, Establishment of language areas and facilities in Belgium comes into effect. This will become the foundation for further state reform in Belgium.
* September 6 – The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
* September 10 – Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on
April 11
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
*1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
*1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrare ...
, 2006).
* September 15 – American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 and injures 22.
* September 16 – Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and Sarawak.
* September 18 – Rioters burn down the British Embassy in Jakarta, to protest the formation of Malaysia.
* September 23 – King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the ''College of Petroleum and Minerals''.
* September 24 – The United States Senate ratifies the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
* September 25 – In the
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
,
Juan Bosch is deposed by a coup d'état led by the military with civilian support.
* September 29 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council in Rome opens.
October
* October 1 – U.S. President
John F. Kennedy toasts Emperor Haile Selassie at a luncheon in Rockville, Maryland.
* October 2
** Nigeria becomes a republic; The First Nigerian Republic, 1st Republican Constitution is established.
** The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in the United States issues its final reports to President Kennedy.
* October 3 – 1963 Honduran coup d'état: A violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13 election, ends a period of reform under President Ramón Villeda Morales and begins two decades of military rule under General Oswaldo López Arellano.
* October 4 – Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits Hispaniola and
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribb ...
, killing nearly 7,000 people.
*October 7 – Buddhist crisis: Amid worsening relations, outspoken South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu arrives in the US for a speaking tour, continuing a flurry of attacks on the Kennedy administration.
* October 9 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
* October 10 – Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed on August 5, takes effect.
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* October 14 – A revolution starts in Radfan, South Yemen, against British colonial rule.
* October 16 – Ludwig Erhard replaces Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor of West Germany.
* October 19 – Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* October 24 – Fire at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome in an R-9 Desna Missile launch facility, underground missile silo; seven people are killed.
* October 30 – The car manufacturing firm Lamborghini is founded in Italy.
* October 31 – 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion: 81 die in a gas explosion during a Holiday on Ice show at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis, United States.
]
November
* November 1 – Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope, officially begins operation in Puerto Rico.
* November 2 – 1963 South Vietnamese coup: Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President.
* November 6 – 1963 South Vietnamese coup: Coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over as leader of South Vietnam.
* November 7 – 11 German miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days in what becomes known as the "Wunder von Lengede" ("miracle of Lengede").
* November 8 – Finnair aircraft OH-LCA crashes before landing at Mariehamn Airport on Åland.
* November 9 – Two disasters in Japan:
** Miike coal mine explosion: A Coal mining, coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.
** Tsurumi rail accident: A triple train disaster in Yokohama kills 161.
* November 10 – Malcolm X makes an historic speech in Detroit, Detroit, Michigan ("Message to the Grass Roots").
* November 14 – A volcanic eruption under the sea near Iceland creates a new island, Surtsey.
* November 22
** Assassination of John F. Kennedy: In a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, U.S. President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, and Governor of Texas John Connally is seriously wounded at 12:30 Central Time Zone, CST. Upon Kennedy's death, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President of the United States. A few hours later, President Johnson is First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in aboard Air Force One, as Kennedy's body is flown back to Washington, D.C. Stores and businesses shut down for the next four days, in tribute.
* November 23
** The Golden Age Nursing Home fire kills 63 elderly people near Fitchville, Ohio, United States.
** The long-running sci-fi television series ''Doctor Who'' premieres on BBC One, BBC TV in the United Kingdom.
* November 24
** Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, an event seen on live national television.
** Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.
* November 25 – State funeral of John F. Kennedy: President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Schools around the nation cancel classes that day; millions watch the funeral on live international television. Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral takes place on the same day.
* November 29
** U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
** Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...
, killing all 118 on board, the worst Aviation accidents and incidents, air disaster for many years in Canada's history.
** Foundation stone for Mirzapur Cadet College is laid in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).
* November 30 – 1963 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, Country Coalition (Australia), Coalition Menzies Government (1949-66), Government is re-elected with an increased majority to an unprecedented eighth term in office, defeating the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. (This would be the final lower house election won by Menzies, who would retire from office during the term as the longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister in Australian history; he would be 1966 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, replaced by Harold Holt.)
December
*December 3 – The Warren Commission begins its investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
* December 4 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council closes.
* December 5 – The Seliger Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military use to military representatives of non-NATO-countries near Cuxhaven
Cuxhaven (; ) is an independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town includes the northernmost point of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River. Cuxhaven ...
. Although these rockets land via parachute at the end of their flight and no allied laws are violated, the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
protests this action.
* December 7 – The first instant replay system to use videotape instead of film is used by Tony Verna, a CBS-TV director, during a live televised sporting event, the Army–Navy Game of college football played in Philadelphia, United States.
* December 8 – A lightning strike causes the crash of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing 81 people.
* December 10
** Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom, as a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Jamshid bin Abdullah.
** Chuck Yeager narrowly escapes death while testing an NF-104A rocket-augmented aerospace trainer when his aircraft goes out of control at 108,700 feet (nearly 21 miles up) and crashes. He parachutes to safety at 8,500 feet after vainly battling to gain control of the powerless, rapidly falling craft. In this incident he becomes the first pilot to make an emergency ejection in the full pressure suit needed for high altitude flights.
* December 12 – Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister.
* December 20 – The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials begin.
* December 21 – Cyprus Emergency: Inter-communal fighting erupts between Greek Cypriots, Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
* December 22 – The cruise ship TSMS Lakonia, TSMS ''Lakonia'' burns north of Madeira, with the loss of 128 lives.
* December 25 – İsmet İnönü of the Republican People's Party (CHP) forms the new government of Turkey (28th government, coalition partners; independents, İnönü has served ten times as a prime minister, this is his last government).
* December 31 – Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolves.
Date unknown
* David H. Frisch and J.H. Smith prove that the radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion (see Albert Einstein, Einstein's special relativity and general relativity).
* The TAT-3 transatlantic communications cable goes into operation.
* Ivan Sutherland writes the revolutionary Sketchpad program and runs it on the Lincoln TX-2 computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* Construction of Moscow's Ostankino Tower begins.
* The IEEE Computer Society is founded.
* The Urdu keyboard is standardised by the Central Language Board in Pakistan.
* Harvey Ball invents the ubiquitous smiley face symbol.
* The classic Porsche 911 is first produced.
* The Reformed Druids of North America is founded.
* Hergé's ''The Castafiore Emerald'' is published.
* Marvel Comics, Marvel releases their Superhero assembly team The Avengers
Births
January
* January 4
** Dave Foley, Canadian actor and comedian
** Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
* January 5 – Jiang Wen, Chinese actor, film director and screenwriter
* January 6 – Paul Kipkoech, Kenyan long-distance runner (d. 1995)
* January 10 – Kira Ivanova, Soviet Russian figure skater (d. 2001)
* January 14 – Steven Soderbergh, American film director
* January 15 – Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, cyber security expert, and writer
* January 16 – James May, English motoring journalist and television show host
* January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
– Kai Hansen, German power metal guitarist and singer
* January 21 – Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian basketball player
* January 23 – Gail O'Grady, American actress
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician
* January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
* 1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
* 1564 – The Council of T ...
** José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
** Andrew Ridgeley, English singer
February
* February 2 – Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (d. 1996)
* February 3 – Gretel Killeen, Australian journalist
* February 4 – Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier
* February 6
** David Capel, English cricketer (d. 2020)
** Cláudia Ohana, Brazilian actress and singer
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
* 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
* 1429 – English forces und ...
– John Michael Higgins, American actor and voice actor
* February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis t ...
** Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor and director
** Alex Perry, Australian fashion designer
* February 15 – Shoucheng Zhang, Chinese-American physicist (d. 2018)
* February 16 – Claudio Amendola, Italian actor, television presenter and director
* February 17
** Jinggoy Estrada, Filipino politician, actor and film producer
** Michael Jordan, American basketball player
** Larry the Cable Guy, American actor and comedian
* February 18 – Rob Andrew, English rugby union player
* February 19 – Seal (musician), Seal, English singer
* February 20 – Charles Barkley, American basketball player
* February 21
Events Pre-1600
*452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
*1440 – The Pru ...
– William Baldwin, American actor, producer and writer
* February 22 – Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
* February 23 – Reza Abdoh, Iranian-American director and playwright (d. 1995)
* February 25 – Merab Katsitadze, retired Georgian professional football player
* February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantin ...
– Virginie Boutaud, Brazilian singer and actress (Metrô (band), Metrô, Virginie & Fruto Proibido)
March
* March 1
** Miss Shangay Lily, Spanish drag queen, writer, actor, and director (d. 2016)
** Thomas Anders, German singer
* March 2
** Anthony Albanese, 31st Prime Minister of Australia
** Tuff Hedeman, American PRCA World Champion Bull Rider
* March 3 – Martín Fiz, Spanish long-distance runner
* March 4
Events Pre-1600
* AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a ...
– Jason Newsted, American bassist
* March 8 – Juan Gilberto Funes, Argentine footballer (d. 1992)
* March 9 - Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter (d. 2021)
*March 10
** Rick Rubin, American music producer
** Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Italian politician
* March 11
** Azem Hajdari, Albanian student leader (d. 1998)
** Alex Kingston, English actress
** David LaChapelle, American photographer
* March 12
** Farahnaz Pahlavi, Iranian princess
** Jake Weber, British actor
** Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
* March 13 – Fito Páez, Argentine musician
* March 14
** Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
** Mahiro Maeda, Japanese animator
* March 15 – Bret Michaels, American rock singer (Poison (American band), Poison)
* March 16 – Kevin Smith (New Zealand actor), Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
* March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...
– Alex Fong (actor), Alex Fong, Hong Kong actor
* March 18
** Ratna Pathak, Indian actress
** Vanessa Williams, American beauty queen, actress and singer
* March 20
** Kathy Ireland, American actress and model
** David Thewlis, British actor
* March 21 – Ronald Koeman, Dutch football player and manager
* March 22
** Marty Natalegawa, Indonesian diplomat
** Martín Vizcarra, Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th President of Peru
* March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
– Míchel (footballer, born 1963), Jose Miguel Gonzalez Martin del Campo, Spanish football player
* March 25 – Andrew O'Connor (actor), Andrew O'Connor, English actor, comedian, magician, television presenter and executive producer
* March 26 – Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
* March 27
** Dave Koz, American jazz musician
** Quentin Tarantino, American actor, director, writer and producer
** Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
* March 28
** Chieko Honda, Japanese voice actress (d. 2013)
** Bernice King, American activist, lawyer, and minister
* March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
*1282 &ndash ...
– Panagiotis Tsalouchidis, Greek footballer
* March 31 – Stephen Tataw, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2020)
April
* April 3 – Sarah Woodward, English actress
* April 4
** Siraj Raisani, Pakistani politician (d. 2018)
** Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2020)
** Graham Norton, Irish comedian and talk show host
** Frank Yallop, Canadian footballer
* April 6
** Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador
** Clark Spencer, American film producer, businessman and studio executive
** Shaun Toub, Iranian-born American actor
* April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– Dean Norris, American actor
* April 9
** Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer
** Erdal Tosun, Turkish actor (d. 2016)
* April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 1407 ...
– Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician and lawyer
* April 11
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
*1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
*1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrare ...
** Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Nigerian-born British biophysicist and virologist (d. 2021)
** Chris Ferguson, American poker player
* April 13 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
* April 15
** Beata Szydło, Prime Minister of Poland
** Diosdado Cabello, Venezuelan politician
* April 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
* 73 – Masad ...
– Jimmy Osmond, American singer
* April 18
** Universo 2000, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2018)
** Eric McCormack, Canadian actor
** Conan O'Brien, American television entertainer and talk show host
* April 21
Events Pre-1600
* 753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
* April 22 – Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish ski racer (d. 2019)
* April 23 – Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak, Iranian politician (d. 2020)
* April 26 – Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor
* April 27– Russell T Davies, Welsh television producer and writer
* April 28
Events Pre-1600
* 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
* 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
– Beate Grimsrud, Norwegian novelist and playwright (d. 2020)
* April 29
Events Pre-1600
* 1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
* 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and b ...
– Mike Babcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
May
* May 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
*1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprison ...
– Yoram Yosefsberg, Israeli actor and voice actor
* May 5 – James LaBrie, Canadian vocalist (Dream Theater)
* May 9 – Gary Daniels, British martial artist and actor
* May 10
** Rich Moore, American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor
** Lisa Nowak, American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut
** A. Raja, Indian politician
* May 11
** Roark Critchlow, Canadian actor
** Natasha Richardson, British-American actress (d. 2009)
* May 16 – Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
* May 21 – Kevin Shields, Irish-American singer (My Bloody Valentine (band), My Bloody Valentine)
* May 24
** Michael Chabon, American author
** Joe Dumars, American basketball player
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
** Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
** Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower
* May 26
** Clive Cowdery, English insurance entrepreneur
** Musetta Vander, South African actress
* May 29 – Débora Bloch, Brazilian actress
* May 31 – Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary
June
* June 1 – David Westhead, English actor and producer
* June 2 – Bernard Cazeneuve, Prime Minister of France
* June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, depo ...
– Alessandra Karpoff, Italian voice actress
* June 4
Events Pre-1600
*1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
* 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
** Sean Fitzpatrick, New Zealand rugby union player
** Mossimo Giannulli, mossimo giannulli, American fashion designer
* June 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.
*1288 & ...
– Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer
* June 6 – Jason Isaacs, British actor
* June 9 – Johnny Depp, American actor and film director
* June 10 – Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
* June 11 – Chic Charnley, Scottish footballer
* June 12
Events Pre-1600
* 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
*1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
– Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer
* June 13 – Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
* June 14 – Rambo Amadeus, Montenegrin singer-songwriter
* June 15
** Helen Hunt, American actress
** Lourdes Valera, Venezuelan actress
* June 17 – Greg Kinnear, American actor
* June 18
** Juan Chioran, Argentine-Canadian actor
** Rumen Radev, President of Bulgaria
* June 19 – Laura Ingraham, American television host
* June 21
** Tiger Huang, Taiwanese popular singer
** Rene Medvešek, Croatian actor
** Jan Pinkava, Czech director and writer
* June 22
** Randy Couture, American mixed martial arts fighter and actor
** Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
** John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (d. 2006)
* June 23
** Marianne Berglund, Swedish road racing cyclist
** Laureen Harper, wife of Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper
** Shin Ji-ho, South Korean politician
** Liu Cixin, Chinese science fiction writer
** Márcio França, Brazilian lawyer and politician
** Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
* June 24
** Preki, Serbia-born American footballer
** Sükhbaataryn Batbold, Mongolian politician
** Jascha Richter, Danish single and songwriter, frontman of Michael Learns to Rock
* June 25
** Doug Gilmour, Canadian hockey player
** Yann Martel, Canadian author
** George Michael, British singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
* June 26
** Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman, activist and oligarch
** Farukh Ruzimatov, Russian ballet dancer
* June 27
** Gerrit Plomp, Dutch football defender
** Miroslav Šindelka, Slovak director, writer and producer
* June 28 – Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director and screenwriter
* June 29
** Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
** Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Swedish actor
** Mark Bourneville, New Zealand rugby league player
** Rupert Graves, English actor
** Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader
** Vladimir Vermezović, Serbian football player and coach
** Judith Hoag, American actress
July
* July 1
** Naser Khader, Danish-Syrian politician
** Igor Zhelezovski, Belarusian speed skater
** Zhang Zhicheng, Chinese fencer
* July 2 – Faiq Al Sheikh Ali, Iraqi lawyer and politician
* July 3 – Zainudin Nordin, Singaporean politician
* July 4
** Henri Leconte, French tennis player
** R.S. Thanenthiran, Malaysian politician and businessman
* July 5
** Edie Falco, American actress
** Zbigniew Hoffmann, Polish politician
* July 6 – Sorin Matei, Romanian high jumper
* July 7
** Othman Abdul, Malaysian politician
** Vonda Shepard, American pop/rock singer, songwriter and actress
** Doug Dunakey, American golfer
** Fermín Alvarado Arroyo, Mexican politician
** Janni Larsen, Danish female darts player
** José María Larrañaga, Peruvian swimmer
** Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Indian filmmaker and screenwriter
* July 8
** Michael Cuesta, American film and television director
** Luis de Jesús Rodríguez, Dominican attorney, businessman and entrepreneur
** Dmitry Pevtsov, Russian actor
* July 9 – Marc Mero, American amateur boxer and professional wrestler
* July 10
** Fatemeh Goudarzi, Iranian actress
** Ian Lougher, British motorcycle racer
** John Altschuler, American television and film producer and writer
* July 11
** Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player
** Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban politician; Prime Minister of Cuba
** Lisa Rinna, American actress
* July 12
** Bertus Servaas, Polish entrepreneur
** Aleksandr Domogarov, Russian actor
** Andrés Roemer, Mexican diplomat
* July 13
** Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer, and model
** Spud Webb, American basketball player
* July 14 – Wouter Bos, Dutch politician
* July 15
** Steve Thomas (ice hockey), Steve Thomas, British-Canadian retired ice hockey player
** Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress
** Joy Smithers, Australian actress
* July 16
** Phoebe Cates, American actress
** Mikael Pernfors, Swedish tennis player
** Srečko Katanec, Slovenian football manager and player
** Goran Pandurović, Serbian footballer
* July 17
** Suha Arafat, widow of Yasser Arafat
** King Letsie III of Lesotho
** Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper (d. 2019)
* July 18 – Martín Torrijos, President of Panama
* July 19 – Sándor Wladár, Hungarian swimmer
* July 20
** Alexander Zhulin, Russian ice dancing coach and competitor
** Gbenga Aluko, Nigerian politician
** Adoni Maropis, Greek-American actor
** Roy Cheung, Hong Kong actor
* July 21 – Giant Silva, Brazilian national basketball player, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
* July 22
** Joanna Going, American actress
** Rob Estes, American actor
** Emilio Butragueño, Spanish football player
* July 24 – Karl Malone, American professional basketball player
* July 27 – Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor and martial artist
* July 28 – Beverley Craven, British singer-songwriter
* July 29
** Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
** Alexandra Paul, American actress, activist, health coach, and former model
* July 30
** Lisa Kudrow, American actress
** Chris Mullin, American basketball player, coach, and executive
** Gisèle Meygret, French fencer (d. 1999)
** Mandakini (actress), Mandakini (aka Yasmeen Joseph), Indian Bollywood actress
* July 31
** Fatboy Slim, English DJ, musician, and record producer
** Martin H. Wiggers, German economist, editor, author and businessman
August
* August 1
** Coolio, American rapper (d. 2022)
** Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor
** John Carroll Lynch, American actor and film director
* August 3
** Tasmin Archer, English singer
** James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)
* August 4 – Keith Ellison, American politician and lawyer
* August 5
** Mark Strong, English actor
** Doris Schröder-Köpf, German journalist
* August 6 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker
* August 7
** Hiroaki Hirata, Japanese voice actor
** Harold Perrineau, American actor
** Wendy van der Plank, Welsh actress
* August 9 – Whitney Houston, American singer (d. 2012)
* August 13
** Sridevi, Indian actress (d. 2018)
** Édouard Michelin (born 1963), Édouard Michelin, French businessman (d. 2006)
** Valerie Plame, American writer and spy novelist
* August 14 – Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
* August 15
** Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter
** Valery Levaneuski, entrepreneur, politician and political prisoner
* August 16 – Christine Cavanaugh, American actress and voice actress (d. 2014)
* August 17 – James Whitbourn, British composer
* August 18 – Heino Ferch, German actor
* August 19
** Marcos Palmeira, Brazilian actor
** John Stamos, American actor
** Joey Tempest, Swedish singer-songwriter (Europe (band), Europe)
* August 21
** King Mohammed VI of Morocco
* August 22 – Tori Amos, American singer
* August 23
** Glória Pires, Brazilian actress
** Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
** Laura Flores, Mexican actress, hostess and singer
** Park Chan-wook, South Korean film director and screenwriter
* August 24 – Hideo Kojima, Japanese director, screenwriter, video game designer and video game producer
* August 25 – Miro Cerar, 10th Prime Minister of Slovenia
* August 26
** Liu Huan, Chinese singer
** Michael Tao, Hong Kong actor
* August 30
** Michael Chiklis, American actor
** Phil Mills, British racing driver
* August 31 – Todd Carty, Irish actor
September
* September 2 - Tio Pakusadewo, Indonesian actor
* September 6
** Betsy Russell, American actress
** Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and critic of Islam
* September 8 – Li Ning, Chinese gymnast
* September 9 – Markus Wasmeier, German alpine-skier
* September 10
** Randy Johnson, American baseball player
** Jay Laga'aia, New Zealand-Australian actor and singer
** Gabriel Tiacoh, Ivorian sprinter (d. 1992)
* September 11 – Gabriela Goldsmith, Mexican actress
* September 12 – Michael McElhatton, Irish actor and writer
* September 14 – Robert Herjavec, Canadian businessman, investor and television personality
* September 16
** Andréa Beltrão, Brazilian actress
** Richard Marx, American pop/rock singer
* September 17 – Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
* September 18
** Christopher Heyerdahl, Canadian actor
** John Powell (film composer), John Powell, English-American composer, conductor, pianist, and record producer
** Dan Povenmire, American animator, producer and voice actor
* September 19
** Jarvis Cocker, English rock musician (Pulp (band), Pulp)
** David Seaman, English football goalkeeper
* September 21
** Cecil Fielder, American baseball player
** Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
** Mamoru Samuragochi, Japanese impostor
* September 25 – Tate Donovan, American actor and director
* September 29
** Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player
** Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus (band), Primus)
October
* October 1
** Mark McGwire, American baseball player
** Iriana Joko Widodo, 7th First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Joko Widodo
* October 2 – Maria Ressa, Filipina American campaigning journalist, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize laureate
* October 4 – Marcelo Buquet, Uruguayan-Mexican actor, previously model
* October 5 –Dame Laura Davies, English golfer
* October 6 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
* October 10
** Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
** Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
** Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
* October 11 – Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer
* October 12 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director (d. 2010)
* October 14 – Alan McDonald (association football), Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer
* October 19
** Prince Laurent of Belgium
** Sinitta, Anglo-American singer
* October 20
** Domingos Simões Pereira, 16th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
** Gisela Kozak, Venezuelan writer and essayist.
** Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and Governor General of Canada
* October 21 – Marisa Orth, Brazilian actress, singer and TV host
* October 22 – Brian Boitano, American figure skater
* October 23 – Wilson Yip, Hong Kong actor and director
* October 25 – John Levén, Swedish bassist (Europe (band), Europe)
* October 26 – Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor and director
* October 27
** Sergey Smiryagin, Russian freestyle swimmer (d. 2020)
** Feyyaz Uçar, Turkish footballer
** Farin Urlaub, German singer, band Die Ärzte
** Marla Maples, American actress and television personality
* October 28 – Lauren Holly, American actress
* October 31
** Johnny Marr, English musician
** Dermot Mulroney, American actor
** Rob Schneider, American actor, comedian and film director
November
* November 1
** Rick Allen (drummer), Rick Allen, British rock musician (Def Leppard)
** Mark Hughes, Welsh football player & manager
** Katja Riemann, German actress
* November 2
** Brian Kemp, American politician, 83rd Governor of Georgia
** Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
** Borut Pahor, incumbent President of Slovenia
* November 4 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish entertainer (d. 1999)
* November 5 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
* November 7 – John Barnes (footballer), John Barnes, Jamaican-born English footballer
* November 8 – Paul Butcher (American football), Paul Butcher, American football linebacker
* November 10
** Hugh Bonneville, British actor
** Mike Powell (long jumper), Mike Powell, American long jumper
* November 11 – Billy Gunn, American professional wrestler
* November 15 – Benny Elias, Australian rugby league player
* November 18 – Peter Schmeichel, Danish-born football goalkeeper
* November 19
** Jon Potter, British field hockey player
** Terry Farrell (actress), Terry Farrell, American actress
* November 20 – Ming-Na Wen, Macanese-American actress
* November 21 – Nicollette Sheridan, English actress
* November 23
** Erika Buenfil, Mexican actress, TV host and singer
** Yoshino Takamori, Japanese voice actress
* November 25 – Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer
* November 28 – Matt Parkinson (comedian), Matt Parkinson, Australian comedian, actor, radio presenter, and game show personality
December
* December 2 – Ann Patchett, American novelist
* December 4 – Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
* December 7
** Mark Bowen (footballer), Mark Bowen, Welsh footballer
** Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Malaysian politician
** Paul Dobson (actor), Paul Dobson, British voice actor
* December 8
** Greg Howe, American guitarist
** Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler
* December 9
** Empress Masako, Empress of Japan
** Bárbara Palacios, Miss Universe 1986
* December 12
** Juan Carlos Varela, Panamian politician and 37th President of Panama
** Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress
* December 13
** Uwe-Jens Mey, German speed skater
** Jake White, South African rugby coach
* December 14
** Cynthia Gibb, American actress
** Vytautas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian baritone, professor and television host
* December 15 – Helen Slater, American actress, singer and songwriter
* December 16
** Benjamin Bratt, American actor
** Jeff Carson, American singer
** Bärbel Schäfer, German television presenter and talk show host
* December 18
** Pauline Ester, French singer
** Rikiya Koyama, Japanese voice actor
** Charles Oakley, American basketball player
** Brad Pitt, American actor and film producer, co-founder of Plan B Entertainment
* December 19
** Jennifer Beals, American actress
** Til Schweiger, German actor
* December 20
** Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo
** Joel Gretsch, American actor
* December 21
** Donovan Ruddock, Jamaican Canadian former professional boxer
** Govinda Ahuja, Indian actor and politician
** Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician (d. 2007)
** Chua Tian Chang, Malaysian politician
* December 22
** Vladdo, Vladimir Flórez, Colombian cartoonist
** Bryan Gunn, Scottish footballer
** Russell Lewis, British child actor and television writer
** Luna H. Mitani, Japanese-American Surrealist painter
* December 23 – Donna Tartt, American author
* December 24
** Sanjay Mehrotra, Indian entrepreneur
** Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedienne and writer (d. 2016)
* December 26 – Lars Ulrich, Danish rock drummer (Metallica)
* December 29
** Graciano Rocchigiani, German professional boxer (d. 2018)
** Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
** Sean Payton, American football coach
** Ulf Kristersson, Prime Minister of Sweden, 35th Prime Minister of Sweden
* December 30 – Kim Hill (singer), Kim Hill, American Christian singer
* December 31 – Azalina Othman Said, Malaysian politician
Deaths
January
* January 2
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
* 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire ...
** Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b. 1910)
** Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
* January 3 – Shinobu Ishihara, Japanese ophthalmologist (b. 1879)
* January 5 – Erik Strandmark, Swedish film actor (b. 1919)
* January 6 – Frank Tuttle, American film director (b. 1892)
* January 7 – Erik Lundqvist, Swedish athlete (b. 1908)
* January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin ...
– Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-born American aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
* January 10 – Franz Planer, Austrian film cinematographer (b. 1894)
* January 13
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the raci ...
** Sonny Clark, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
** Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese politician, 1st President of Togo (assassinated) (b. 1902)
** Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer (b. 1888)
* January 14 – Gustav Regler, German socialist novelist (b. 1898)
* January 15 – Cesare Fantoni, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1905)
* January 18
** Hugh Gaitskell, British politician, leader of the Labour Party (b. 1906)
** Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (b. 1899)
* January 20
** Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1925)
** Avra Theodoropoulou, Greek suffragist (b. 1880)
* January 21 – Al St. John, American actor (b. 1892)
* January 23
** Mohammad Ali Bogra, Pakistani statesman, politician and diplomat, 3rd Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1909)
** Józef Gosławski (sculptor), Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (b. 1908)
* January 24
** Otto Harbach, American lyricist and librettist (b. 1873)
** Kenneth Western, part of The Western Brothers (b. 1899)
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– Marion Sunshine, American actress (b. 1894)
* January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
* 1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
* 1564 – The Council of T ...
– Ole Olsen (comedian), Ole Olsen, American actor (b. 1892)
* January 27 – John Farrow, Australian-born American film director (b. 1904)
* January 29
Events
Pre-1600
* 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
* 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...
** Anthony Coldeway, American screenwriter (b. 1887)
** Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
** Lee Meadows, American baseball player (b. 1894)
** Isaías de Noronha, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1874)
* January 30
** Jane Gail, American silent movie and stage actress (b. 1890)
** Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
* January 31 – Alasgar Alakbarov, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1910)
February
* February 1
** Louis D. Lighton, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1895)
** Wyndham Standing, English actor (b. 1880)
* February 2 – William Gaxton, American vaudeville, film and theatre performer (b. 1893)
* February 6
** Abd el-Krim, Riffian political and military leader (b. 1882)
** Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (b. 1933)
* February 8
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of ...
** George Dolenz, American actor (b. 1908)
** Ernst Glaeser, German writer (b. 1902)
* February 9 – Abd al-Karim Qasim, Iraqi general, 24th Prime Minister of Iraq (executed) (b. 1914)
* February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (b. 1932)
* February 15
** Edgardo Donato, Uruguayan tango composer and orchestra leader (b. 1897)
** Louis J. Gasnier, French film director (b. 1875)
** Bump Hadley, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1904)
* February 16
** Else Jarlbak, Danish film actress (b. 1911)
** László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor (b. 1892)
* February 18
** Monte Blue, American actor (b. 1887)
** Beppe Fenoglio, Italian writer (b. 1887)
** Fernando Tambroni, Italian politician and 36th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1901)
** Tokugawa Iemasa, Japanese politician, 17th head of the Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1884)
** Zareh I, Armenian Catholicos of Cilicia (b. 1915)
* February 19 – Benny Moré, Cuban singer (b. 1919)
* February 20
** Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
** Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (b. 1879)
** Bill Hinchman, American baseball player (b. 1883)
* February 22 – Arthur Guy Empey, American soldier (in British service), author, screenwriter and actor (b. 1883)
* February 24 – Herbert Asbury, American journalist and writer (b. 1889)
* February 25 – Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist (b. 1895)
* February 28
** Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, 1st President of India (b. 1884)
** Eppa Rixey, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891)
March
* March 1 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
* March 4
Events Pre-1600
* AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a ...
– William Carlos Williams, American writer (b. 1883)
* March 5
** Patsy Cline, American singer plane crash (b. 1932)
** Ludde Gentzel, Swedish film actor (b. 1885)
** Cyril Smith (actor), Cyril Smith, Scottish actor (b. 1892)
** Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Egyptian intellectual and anti-colonial activist (b. 1872)
* March 6 – Robert E. Cornish, scientist (b. 1903)
* March 7 – Joachim Holst-Jensen, Norwegian film actor (b. 1880)
* March 11
** Ignat Bednarik, Romanian painter (b. 1882)
** Joe Judge (baseball), Joe Judge, American baseball player (b. 1894)
* March 16
** Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (b. 1883)
** William Beveridge, British economist (b. 1879)
* March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...
** Thomas Lennon (screenwriter, born 1896), Thomas Lennon, screenwriter (b. 1896)
** Lizzie Miles, American blues singer (b. 1895)
* March 18
** Hubert Gough, Sir Hubert Gough, British general (b. 1870)
** Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
* March 20 – Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt, Cuban Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1879)
* March 21 – Felice Minotti, Italian film actor (b. 1887)
* March 22
** Cilly Aussem, German tennis champion (b. 1909)
** Abraham Ellstein, American composer (b. 1907)
** Mihály Székely, Hungarian bass singer (b. 1901)
* March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
– Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1887)
* March 25 – Felix Adler (screenwriter), Felix Adler, American screenwriter (b. 1884)
* March 26 – Jean Bruce, French writer (b. 1921)
* March 27 – Harry Piel, German actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1892)
* March 28
** Antoine Balpêtré, French film actor (b. 1898)
** Frank J. Marion, American motion picture pioneer (b. 1869)
* March 29
** Pola Gojawiczyńska, Polish writer (b. 1896)
** Henry Bordeaux, French writer and lawyer (b. 1870)
* March 31
** Harry Akst, American songwriter (b. 1894)
** Harold Franklyn, Sir Harold Franklyn, British army general (b. 1885)
April
* April 1 – Agnes Mowinckel, Norwegian actress and stage producer (b. 1875)
* April 3 – Alma Richards, American Olympic gold medalist (b. 1890)
* April 4
** Gaetano Catanoso, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1879)
** Jason Robards Sr., American stage and screen actor, heart attack (b. 1892)
** Oskari Tokoi, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (b. 1873)
* April 6
** Mario Fabrizi, comedian and actor, Stress (biology), stress-related illness (b. 1924)
** Otto Struve, Russian–American astronomer (b. 1897)
* April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...
– Amedeo Maiuri, Neapolitan archaeologist (b. 1886)
* April 9
** Eddie Edwards (musician), Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (b. 1891)
** Benno Moiseiwitsch, Jewish-Ukrainian pianist (b. 1890)
** Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor, writer (b. 1887)
* April 11
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
*1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
*1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrare ...
– Nando Bruno, Italian film actor (b. 1895)
* April 12
Events Pre-1600
* 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
* 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to ...
** Felix Manalo, 1st Executive Minister, Iglesia ni Cristo (b. 1886)
** Herbie Nichols, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1919)
* April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor O ...
** Abdel Messih El-Makari, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, priest and saint (b. 1892)
** Arthur Jonath, German Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
** Kodō Nomura, Japanese novelist and music critic (b. 1882)
** Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, writer and scholar (b. 1893)
* April 23
** Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel (b. 1884)
** Ferruccio Cerio, Italian film writer and director (b. 1904)
** Paul Fejos, Hungarian film director (b. 1897)
** Harry Harper, American baseball player (b. 1895)
** Don C. Harvey, American television and film actor (b. 1911)
** Frederick Peters (actor), Frederick Peters, American film actor (b. 1884)
** William Lewis Moore, American postal worker (b. 1927)
* April 24
** Rino Corso Fougier, Italian air force general (b. 1894)
** Leonid Lukov, Soviet film director and screenwriter (b. 1909)
* April 26 – Roland Pertwee, English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor (b. 1885)
* April 27 – Kenneth Macgowan, American film producer (b. 1888)
* April 30
** Giovanni Grasso, Italian film actor (b. 1888)
** William C. Mellor, American cinematographer, heart attack (b. 1903)
** Bryant Washburn, American film actor, heart attack (b. 1889)
May
* May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
*1169 – N ...
– Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of Filipino language, Philippine National Language and Grammar (b. 1879)
* May 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
*1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprison ...
– Van Wyck Brooks, American literary critic and writer (b. 1886)
* May 5 – Mohamed Khemisti, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1930)
* May 6
** Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American engineer and physicist (b. 1881)
** Monty Woolley, American actor (b. 1888)
* May 11 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
* May 12
** Robert Kerr (athlete), Robert Kerr, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1882)
** A. W. Tozer, American Protestant pastor (b. 1897)
* May 16 – Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet military officer & spy (b. 1919)
* May 18 – Ernie Davis, American football player, first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy (b. 1939)
* May 24 – Elmore James, American blues guitarist (b. 1918)
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– Mehdi Frashëri, Albanian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1872)
* May 28 – Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (b. 1882)
* May 29 – Netta Muskett, British novelist (b. 1887)
* May 31 – Edith Hamilton, German-born author (b. 1867)
June
* June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, depo ...
** Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 28 Oc ...
(b. 1881)
** Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
* June 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.
*1288 & ...
– Adrian Carton de Wiart, English general (b. 1880)
* June 6 – William Baziotes, American painter (b. 1912)
* June 7 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
* June 9
** Antony Thachuparambil, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic priest and servant of God (b. 1894)
** Jacques Villon, French painter (b. 1875)
* June 10 – Anita King, American actress and race-car driver (b. 1884)
* June 11
** Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (suicide) (b. 1897)
** Syed Abdul Rahim, First Indian national football manager (b. 1909)
** Alfred V. Kidder, American archaeologist (b. 1885)
* June 12
Events Pre-1600
* 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
*1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
** Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
** Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Andrew Cunningham, British admiral (b. 1883)
* June 17
** Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British Field Marshal (b. 1883)
**Robert James Hudson, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1885)
** John Cowper Powys, British novelist (b. 1872)
* June 18 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
* June 19 – Amy Hannah Adamson, Australian principal (b. 1893)
* June 24 – Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1878)
* June 27 – John Maurice Clark, American economist (b. 1884)
* June 28 – Frank Baker, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
July
* July 1 – Sultan Abdullah bin Khalifa of Zanzibar (b. 1910)
* July 4 – Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, British army general and Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
* July 6 – George, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
* July 7 – Frank P. Lahm, American aviator (b. 1877)
* July 14 – Rasmus Hatledal, Norwegian topographer and military officer (b. 1885)
* July 22 – Albertus Soegijapranata, Indonesian Jesuit priest (b. 1896)
* July 27 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
August
* August 1 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
* August 4 – Tom Keene (actor), Tom Keene, American actor (b. 1896)
* August 10 – Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903)
* August 11
** Clem Bevans, American actor (b. 1880)
** Tanxu, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 1875)
* August 14 – Clifford Odets, American dramatist (b. 1906)
* August 17 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (b. 1895)
* August 22 – William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1877)
* August 23
** Mary Gordon (actress), Mary Gordon, Scottish actress (b. 1882)
** Larry Keating, American actor (b. 1899)
* August 24 – James Kirkwood, Sr., American film director (b. 1875)
* August 27
** W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist (b. 1868)
** Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Indian founder of the Khaksar Movement (b. 1888)
* August 30 – Guy Burgess, British spy, one of the Cambridge Five (b. 1911)
* August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
September
* September 4 – Robert Schuman, French statesman, a Founding fathers of the European Union, founding father of the European Union (b. 1886)
* September 9 – Edwin Linkomies, 25th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1894)
* September 11
** Claude Fuess, American author, historian and List of Phillips Academy Heads of School, headmaster (b. 1885)
** Richard Oswald, Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
** Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889)
* September 17 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1882)
* September 19 – David Low (cartoonist), David Low, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1891)
* September 25
** Alexander Sakharoff, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1886)
** Kurt Zeitzler, German Army officer (b. 1895)
* September 30 – Paul Alexiu, Romanian general (b. 1893)
October
* October 4
** Lloyd Fredendall, American general (b. 1883)
** Kate Gordon Moore, American psychologist (b. 1878)
* October 7 – Gustaf Gründgens, German actor (b. 1899)
* October 9 – Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (b. 1938)
* October 10 – Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915)
* October 11 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
* October 15 – Alan Goodrich Kirk, American admiral (b. 1888)
* October 20 – Diana Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1909)
* October 21 – Jean Decoux, French admiral, Governor-General of French Indochina (1940-1945) (b. 1884)
* October 24
** Karl Bühler, German psychologist and linguist (b. 1879)
** Beverly Wills, American actress (b. 1933)
* October 25
** Roger Désormière, French conductor (b. 1898)
** Björn Þórðarson, 9th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1879)
** Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian civil engineer and "father of soil mechanics" (b. 1883)
* October 28 – Jack E. Bairstow, American politician and lawyer (b. 1902)
* October 29 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
* October 30
** Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician (b. 1866)
** Saburō Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (b. 1872)
* October 31 – Henry Daniell, English actor (b. 1894)
November
* November 1
** Hồ Tấn Quyền, South Vietnamese Navy officer (assassinated) (b. 1927)
** Lê Quang Tung, South Vietnamese Army officer (assassinated) (b. 1923)
** Elsa Maxwell, American gossip columnist and hostess (b. 1883)
* November 2
** Ngô Đình Diệm
Ngô Đình Diệm ( or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then served as the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic ...
, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (assassinated) (b. 1901)
** Ngô Đình Nhu, South Vietnamese politician (assassinated) (b. 1910)
* November 4 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican politician, substitute President of Mexico 1930-1932 (b. 1877)
* November 5 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (b. 1902)
* November 12
**José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (b. 1925)
**John R. Hodge, United States Army general (b. 1893)
* November 15 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
* November 16 – Albert H. Pearson, American politician (b. 1920)
* November 19 – Carmen Amaya, Spanish dancer (b. 1918)
* November 21 – Robert Stroud, American prisoner, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (b. 1890)
* November 22
** Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazism, Nazi physician at Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
** Aldous Huxley, British writer (''Brave New World'') (b. 1894)
** John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1917)
** C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic, novelist (''The Chronicles of Narnia'') and Christian apologist (b. 1898)
* November 23 – John Baumgarten, American businessman and politician (b. 1902)
* November 24 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (murdered) (b. 1939)[Warren Commission Report.]
* November 26
**Gheorghe Băgulescu, Romanian general and diplomat (b. 1886)
**Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian opera singer (b. 1882)
* November 28 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (b. 1896)
* November 30
** Phil Baker (comedian), Phil Baker, American comedian and radio personality (b. 1896)
** Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall, British Air Marshal and State servant, 6th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1886)
December
* December – Andy Kennedy (footballer, born 1897), Andy Kennedy, Northern Ireland footballer (b. 1897)
* December 2
** Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor (b. 1924)
** Thomas Hicks (athlete), Thomas Hicks, American runner (b. 1875)
* December 5 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
* December 10 – K. M. Panikkar, Indian scholar, diplomat and journalist (b. 1895)
* December 12
** Theodor Heuss, German politician, 5th President of Germany (b. 1884)
** Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1903)
* December 14
** Hubert Pierlot, Belgian lawyer and jurist, 32nd Prime Minister of Belgium, leader of the Belgian government in exile (b. 1883)
** Dinah Washington, American jazz/blues singer (b. 1924)
* December 15 – Rikidōzan, Korean-born Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1924)
* December 21 – Jack Hobbs, Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (b. 1882)
* December 25 – Tristan Tzara, French poet (b. 1896)
* December 26 – Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (b. 1915)
* December 28
** Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
** A. J. Liebling, American journalist (b. 1904)
Nobel Prizes
*Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen
*Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta
*Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley
*Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Giorgos Seferis
*Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
References
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