List of Famous people who died in 1963

James Francis Courage was a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, poet and bookseller. He was born in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand on 9 February 1903.

Valerio Valeri was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious in the Roman Curia from 1953 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.

Cilly Aussem was a German female tennis player.

Frederick Kennedy was an English footballer who played as a forward.

Erich Ollenhauer was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1952 until 1963.

John Hampden Mercer-Henderson, 8th Earl of Buckinghamshire, styled Lord Hobart until 1930, was a British soldier and politician.

Berthold, Margrave of Baden, was the head of the House of Zähringen, which had reigned over the Grand Duchy of Baden until 1918, from 1929 until his death. He was invalided out of the Nazi Germany's unified armed force Wehrmacht in 1940 after an injury in France.