List of Famous people who died in 1963

Douglas Croft was an American child actor and a soldier who is best remembered for being the first person to portray the DC Comics character Robin, the Boy Wonder, as well as his secret identity Dick Grayson, in the 1943 serial Batman when he was 16 years old.

John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS was an Australian-born American film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1942 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Wake Island, and in 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days. He had seven children by his wife, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, including actress Mia Farrow.

Thoralf Albert Skolem was a Norwegian mathematician who worked in mathematical logic and set theory.

Frank Leslie Stillwell OBE, was an Australian geologist, winner of the David Syme Research Prize awarded by the University of Melbourne in 1919 and the Clarke Medal awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1951.

George Cecil Westropp Bennett was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael politician from 1927 to 1951.

George Fitzmaurice was an Irish dramatist and short story writer, some of whose plays were broadcast on Radio Éireann.

Raghu Vira was an Indian linguist, scholar, prominent politician, and member of the Constituent Assembly. He was one of the Editors of the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata which was compiled at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune. More specifically he was the editor of the Fourth Book of the Mahabharata i.e. the Virataparvan.

Paul Hindemith was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor. In the 1920s, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit style of music. Notable compositions include his song cycle Das Marienleben (1923), Der Schwanendreher for viola and orchestra (1935), and the opera Mathis der Maler (1938). Hindemith's most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is likely the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, written in 1943.

Giuseppe Piazzi was an Italian bishop who led the Diocese of Crema and then the Diocese of Bergamo.