List of Famous people who died at 63

Basu Bhattacharya was a Hindi film director, most famous for his 1966 film Teesri Kasam, starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1967. The most popular and critically acclaimed film which he directed remains Avishkaar, starring Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore, which received five stars in the Bollywood Guide Collections and Rajesh Khanna received Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1975.

Iona Brown, OBE, was a British violinist and conductor.

Ľudmila Pajdušáková was a Slovak astronomer.

Yuli Markovich Daniel was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial in 1966.

Matti Yrjänä Joensuu was a Finnish writer of crime fiction. He has been awarded the State's Literature Prize (1982), Vuoden johtolanka prize, and he has been nominated for two Finlandias. He received the Martin Beck Award in 1987.

William Donald Hamilton, FRS was an British evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the most significant evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.

Alice Playten was an American actress and voice actress known for her high-pitched, childlike voice.

Ingeborg Drewitz was a German writer and academic.