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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.
Édith Piaf
French singer (1915–1963)
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
John XXIII
head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
Robert Frost
American poet (1874–1963)
Jean Cocteau
French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
Georges Braque
French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)
Rajendra Prasad
First President of the Republic of India
Tristan Tzara
Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)
Nâzım Hikmet
Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist (1902–1963)
Robert Schuman
Luxembourgish-born German-French statesman and Venerable (1886-1963)
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
Ngô Đình Diệm
South Vietnamese politician; President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963
Theodor Heuss
German journalist and politician (1884-1963)
William Carlos Williams
American poet (1883-1963)
Abd el-Krim
war leader and president of the Rif Republic from 1921 to 1926
Paul Hindemith
German composer (1895–1963)
Józef Gosławski
Polish sculptor and medallic artist (1908–1963)
Francis Poulenc
French composer and pianist (1899–1963)
Herbert Spencer Gasser
American physiologist (1888-1963)
Yasujirō Ozu
Japanese film director, screenwriter (1903–1963)
Carmen Amaya
Spanish flamenco dancer and singer
Patsy Cline
American country singer (1932–1963)
Jacques Hadamard
French mathematician (1865–1963)
Theodore von Kármán
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)
Thích Quảng Đức
Vietnamese monk who self-immolated in 1963
Abd al-Karim Qasim
Iraqi Army brigadier, nationalist and first prime minister of Iraq after the fall of the monarchy
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio
President of Togo (1902-1963)
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
2nd President of Israel (1952–1963) - (1884–1963)
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist (1924-1963)
Pedro Armendáriz
Mexican actor (1912-1963)
William Beveridge
British economist and social reformer (1879-1963)
Fernando Tambroni
Prime Minister of Italy (1901-1963)
Sivananda Saraswati
Hindu spiritual teacher (1887–1963)
Luis Cernuda
Spanish poet (1902–1963)
Margaret Murray
Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (1863–1963)
Sarit Thanarat
Prime Minister of Thailand (1908-1963)
Muhammad Ali Bogra
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955
Dick Powell
American actor (1904-1963)
Richard Barthelmess
American actor (1895–1963)
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Spanish writer (1888–1963)
Remedios Varo
Spanish painter (1908–1963)
Adolphe Menjou
American actor (1890–1963)
Otto Struve
Baltic German astronomer (1897–1963)
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
Royal Navy officer (1883–1963)
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Bengali barrister and politician (1892–1963)
Kurt Zeitzler
German General (1895–1963)
Barnum Brown
American paleontologist (1873-1963)
Karl Bühler
German psychologist (1879–1963)
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
British Field Marshal (1883-1963)
John Farrow
Film director, screenwriter and producer (1904–1963)
Camille Chautemps
French politician (1885–1963)
Theodore Roethke
American poet (1907-1963)
Oleg Penkovsky
British spy in the USSR (1919–1963)
Gustaf Gründgens
German actor, director, intendant (1899-1963)
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
British politician (1870–1963)
Seth Barnes Nicholson
American astronomer (1891–1963)