List of Famous people who died in 1963

Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of "Queen of the Blues". She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Joseph Harry Hampton was an English footballer who was born in Wellington, Shropshire. To this day Hampton remains Aston Villa's all-time leading goalscorer in the League.

Barnum Brown, commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist. Named after the circus showman P. T. Barnum, he discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.

Karyn Kupcinet was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was the only daughter of Chicago newspaper columnist and television personality Irv Kupcinet.

Albertus Soegijapranata, SJ, better known by his birth name Soegija, was a Jesuit priest who became the Apostolic Vicar of Semarang and later its archbishop. He was the first native Indonesian bishop and known for his pro-nationalistic stance, often expressed as "100% Catholic, 100% Indonesian".

Else Gebel was a communist member of the German resistance to Nazism. She is particularly notable for having been the cellmate of Sophie Scholl in the Gestapo headquarters in the Wittelsbacher Palais of Munich before Scholl's execution.

Wilfred Theodore "Ted" Weems was an American bandleader and musician. Weems' work in music was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Walther Rehm was a German literary scholar.

Carlo Vittorio Varetti was an early Italian football player at Juventus who played as a defender. When Juventus joined the Italian Football Championship in 1900 Varetti was one of the players involved; he played for the club over the course of eight seasons, being part of the bianconeri's first league title victory in 1905.