1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1963rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1930s  1940s  1950s  – 1960s –  1970s  1980s  1990s
Years: 1960 1961 196219631964 1965 1966

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Doctor Who space-and-time-ship, the TARDIS
 
Thích Quảng Đức self-immolated during the Buddhist crisis.


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Colin Montgomerie at Austrian Open in 2006

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Sylvanus Olympio

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Sylvia Plath
 
Rajendra Prasad

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Patsy Cline

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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

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Pope John XXIII
 
Thích Quảng Đức

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Édith Piaf

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Ngo Dinh Diem
 
John F. Kennedy
 
Lee Harvey Oswald

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Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
 
Sarit Thanarat
 
Theodor Heuss
 
Dinah Washington

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