List of Famous people who died in 1963

James Cornelius Kirkwood Sr. was an American actor and director.

Luis Russell was a pioneering Panamanian jazz pianist, orchestra leader, composer, and arranger.

Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, codenamed HERO, was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky is known for informing the United Kingdom about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba, thus providing both the UK and the United States with the precise knowledge necessary to address rapidly developing military tensions with the Soviet Union.

Frederick Albert Saunders was a Canadian-born American physicist and academic remembered for his work in sub-infrared spectroscopy and acoustics.

Gustav Machatý was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed films in Czechoslovakia, USA and Germany including Erotikon and Ecstasy.

Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk was a senior officer in the United States Navy and a diplomat.

Pingali Venkayya was an Indian freedom fighter. He was a staunch worshipper of Mahatma Gandhi and the designer of the flag on which the Indian national flag was based. He was born at Bhatlapenumarru, near Machilipatnam, in what is now the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Raphaël Salem (Greek: Ραφαέλ Σαλέμ; November 7, 1898 in Salonika, Ottoman Empire – June 20, 1963 in Paris, France), was a Greek mathematician after whom are named the Salem numbers and Salem–Spencer sets and whose widow founded the Salem Prize.

Louis Joseph Gasnier was a French-American film director, producer, screenwriter and stage actor. A cinema pioneer, Gasnier shepherded the early career of comedian Max Linder, co-directed the enormously successful film serial The Perils of Pauline (1914) and capped his output with the notorious low-budget exploitation film Reefer Madness (1936) which was both a critical and box office failure.

Luigi Almirante was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 62 films between 1921 and 1955.