List of Famous people who died at 63

Taira Hara was a Japanese manga artist and tarento born in Tosayamada, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. He was a long-time resident of Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. He made his professional manga debut in 1963 with his story Shinjuku BB , published in Weekly Manga Times.

Dock Phillip Ellis Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1968 through 1979, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates teams that won five National League Eastern Division titles in six years between 1970 and 1975 and won the World Series in 1971. Ellis also played for the New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers and New York Mets. In his MLB career, Ellis accumulated a 138–119 (.537) record, a 3.46 earned run average, and 1,136 strikeouts.

Gary Allan Knopp was an American politician who served in the Alaska House of Representatives from the 30th district as a member of the Republican Party.

Pedro Segundo Mardones Lemebel was an openly gay Chilean essayist, chronicler, and novelist. He was known for his cutting critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer perspective. He was nominated for Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014. He died of cancer of the larynx on 23 January 2015 in Santiago, Chile.

Michael Drelich, better known by the stage name Max Alexander, was an American stand-up comedian and actor who appeared numerous times on The Tonight Show.

Malek Chebel was a renowned Algerian philosopher and anthropologist of religions. He was one of the most prominent North African intellectuals. He studied in Algeria, then later in France at Paris where he also studied psychoanalysis. He was a teacher at many universities worldwide.

Marek Perepeczko was a popular Polish movie and theatrical actor.

Bernardus Andries "Dries" Riphagen was a Dutch gangster and Nazi collaborator who is best known in the Netherlands for collaborating with the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (SD) to locate as many Dutch Jews as possible and have them delivered to Nazi concentration camps during the occupation.

Uwe Bracht was a German football player. He spent eleven seasons as a midfielder in the Bundesliga with SV Werder Bremen.

Robert Schenk Minton was a banker who helped the country of Nigeria manage its debt and a well-known critic of Scientology.