In the year 1963, Betty Friedan’s _The Feminine Mystique _ reawakens the Women’s Movement in the U.S. (Feb 19), the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes (Mar 21), the Beatles release their first album (Mar 22), Hitchcock’s The Birds is released in the U.S. (Mar 28), the first James Bond film is released (May 8), Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space (Jun 16), President John F. Kennedy gives his Ich bin ein Berliner speech in West Berlin, East Germany (Jun 26), Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial (Aug 28), JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas (Nov 22) - and all these fine people were born:
1963-0102 Oleg Znarok* Latvian hockey coach/OG - Ust-Katav, Soviet Union
1963-0103 Rebecca Broussard* actress/2 children w Jack Nicholson - Louisville, KY USA
1963-0104 Till Lindemann* singer/songwriter (Rammstein) - Leipzig, East Germany
1963-0106 Tony Halme* wrestler/actor/politician - Finland (2010/47)
1963-0107 Anshu Jain* Indian-British business executive - Jaipur, Rajasthan, India (2022/59)
1963-0107 Clint Mansell* musician/composer - Coventry, England
1963-0107 Mari Rantasila* actress - Pori, Finland
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1963-0111**Jan Arnald*** novelist/literary cricic/crime writer (Arne Dahl) - Sollentuna, Sweden
1963-0111 Jason Connery* actor/director/ son of Sean Connery - Marylebone, London, England
1963-0114 Steven Soderbergh* film director/ screenwriter/ producer - Atlanta, GA USA
1963-0117 Jürgen Schmidhuber* computer scientist - Munich, West Germany
1963-0118 Vera Pauw* football player/manager - Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1963-0125 Timo Rautiainen* singer/guitarist/songwriter - Sulkava, Finland
1963-0126 José Mourinho* soccer player/manager - Setúbal, Portugal
1963-0126 Andrew Ridgeley* singer (Wham!)/record producer - Windlesham, Surrey, England
1963-0131 John Dye* actor - Amory, MS USA (2011/47)
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1963-0212 Allison Rosati* television news anchor/philanthropist - Dover, DE USA
1963-0217 Jenifer Estess* theater producer/founder of Project ALS - Moline, IL USA (2003/40)
1963-0217 Michael Jordan* basketball player - Brooklyn, NY USA
1963-0221 William Baldwin* actor/writer/producer - Massapequa, Long Island, NY USA
1963-0224 Mike Vernon* hockey goalie/SC - Calgary, AB Canada
1963-0225 Joseph Edward Duncan III* convicted serial killer - Tacoma, WA USA (2021/58)
1963-0225 Doris Younane* actress (McLeod’s Daughters) - Parramatta, NSW Australia
1963-0301 Ron Francis* hockey player (NHL 100)/GM- Salt Ste. Marie, ON Canada
1963-0305 Joe Exotic* (b Schreibvogel) zoo operator/convicted felon - Garden City, KS USA
1963-0307 Bill Brochtrup* actor - Inglewood, CA USA
1963-0307 E. L. James* writer (Fifty Shades of Grey) - Willesden, Middlesex, England
1963-0307 Russell Williams* colonel/convicted criminal/to Canada as a child - Bromsgrove, Worcesteshire, England
1963-0308 Robert Stanton* actor/ director/playwright - San Antonio, TX USA
1963-0309 Hannes M. Schalle* film director/producer/film composer - Villach-Warmbad, Austria
1963-0309 Jean-Marc Vallée* film director/ producer - Montreal, QC Canada
1963-0315 Mauri Eivola* hockey player/inspiration for Teemu Selanne’s goal celebration in 1993 - Turku, Finland
1963-0318 Vanessa Williams* singer/ actress/fashion designer - New York City, NY USA
1963-0320 David Thewlis* actor/director/author - Blackpool, Lancashire, England
1963-0322 Hannu Virta* hockey player/OB/coach - Turku, Finland
1963-0323 Kaj Kunnas* sports commentator - Pyhäjärvi, Uusimaa, Finland
1963-0327 Quentin Tarantino* film director - Knoxville, TN USA
1963-0328 Leena Harkimo* (b Alamäki) hockey executive/ politician - Pori, Finland
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1963-0404 Dale Hawerchuk* hockey player/coach - Toronto, ON Canada (2020/57)
1963-0408 Dean Norris* actor - South Bend, IN USA
1963-0413 Garry Kasparov* (b Weinstein) chess grandmaster/political activist/commentator- Baku, Azerbaijan, Soviet Union
1963-0413 John Paulk* former gay reparative therapy advocate/catering service owner - Columbus, OH USA
1963-0414 Pasi Heikura* humorist/musician/writer - Karvia, Satakunta, Finland
1963-0414 Anna Kuoppamäki* composer/teacher - Helsinki, Finland
1963-0416 Nick Berry* actor (Heartbeat)/singer/producer - Woodford, Essex, England
1963-0416 Jimmy Osmond* singer/actor/businessman - Canoga Park, CA USA
1963-0418 Andrés Universo 2000" González* pro wrestler - Jalisco, Mexico (2018/55)
1963-0418 Conan O’Brien* stand-up comedian/talk show host - Brookline, MA USA
1963-0420 Rachel Whiteread* artist/ sculptor - Ilford, Essex, England
1963-0421 Erik King* actor (Dexter) - Washington, D.C. USA
1963-0422 Jukka Lewis* (b Homi) musician/singer (Yö) - Helsinki, Finland
1963-0422 Sean Lock* stand-up comedian/actor - Chertsey, Surrey, England (2021/58)
1963-0425 Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu* French actress - Rome, Italy
1963-0428 Jim Aldred* hockey player/ coach/active in Portugal - Toronto, ON Canada
1963-0429 Mike Babcock* hockey coach/SC - Manitouwadge, ON Canada
1963-0501 Risto Dufva* hockey goalie/coach - Jyväskylä, Finland
1963-0502 Harri Virtanen* playwright/ screenwriter - Sippola, Finland
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1963-0509 Ron Miles* jazz trumpeter/cornetist/composer - Indianapolis, IN USA (2022/58)
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1963-0511 Natasha Richardson* actress - Marylebone, London, England (2009/45)
1963-0517 Ari-Pekka Selin* hockey player/coach - Pori, Finland
1963-0519 Pilín León* Miss World 1981/columnist - Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela
1963-0520 Marita Hällfors* film director - Kotka, Finland
1963-0521 David Lonsdale* actor (Heartbeat) - Southport, Lancashire, England
1963-0525 Mike Myers* actor - Scarborough, ON Canada
1963-0530 Helen Sharman* chemist/astronaut - Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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1963-0603 Hólmfríður “Hófí” Karlsdóttir* Miss World 1985/kindergarten worker - Reykjavik, Iceland
1963-0605 Johan Rheborg* actor - Täby, Sweden
1963-0606 Jason Isaacs* actor - Liverpool, England
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1963-0608 Gembong Warsono* politician - Wonogiri, Central Java, Indonesia (2023/60)
1963-0609 Johnny Depp* actor - Owensboro, KY USA
1963-0610 Jeanne Tripplehorn* actress - Tulsa, OK USA
1963-0611 Magnus Roosmann* actor - Stockholm, Sweden
1963-0612 Tim DeKay* actor - Lansing, NY USA
1963-0615 Helen Hunt* actress - Culver City, CA USA
1963-0615 Blanca Portillo* actress - Madrid, Spain
1963-0617 Greg Kinnear* actor - Logansport, IN USA
1963-0618 Christian Vadim* actor - Boulogne-Billancourt, France
1963-0620 Jeff Beal* composer - Hayward, CA USA
1963-0623 Astrid Carolina Herrera* Miss World 1984 - Yaracuy, Venezuela
1963-0625 George Michael* (b Georgios Panayiotou) singer (Wham!) - East Finchley, London, England (2016/53)
1963-0626 Carolin Fortenbacher* musical actress/singer - Hamburg, West Germany
1963-0626 Mikhail Khodorkovsky* businessman/opposition activist - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1963-0626 Felipe Ortiz* racing driver/w Bolivian heritage - Genf, Switzerland
1963-0626 Farukh Ruzimatov* ballet dancer - Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Soviet Union
1963-0626 Jörg Schmidt* politician/ mayor - Bonn, West Germany
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1963-0705 Edith “Edie” Falco* actress - New York City, NY USA
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1963-0711 Al MacInnis* hockey player (NHL 100)/coach/philanthropist - Inverness, NS Canada
1963-0715 Brigitte Nielsen* actress - Copenhagen, Denmark
1964-0716 Mikael Pernfors* tennis player - Malmö, Sweden
1963-0717 Regina Belle* singer-songwriter/actress - Englewood, NJ USA
1963-0717 Matti Nykänen* ski jumper/OG/singer - Jyväskylä, Finland (2019/55)
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1964-0723 Karl Malone* basketball player - Summerfield, LA USA
1963-0725 Risto Pietiläinen* rally co-driver - Finland
1963-0726 Torgny Mogren* cross-country skier/OG - Hällefors, Sweden
1963-0730 Lisa Kudrow* actress - Encino, CA USA
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1963-0801 Demián Bichir* actor - Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
1963-0801 Coolio* (b Artis Leon Ivey Jr.) rapper - Monessen, PA USA (2022/59)
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1963-0805 Mark Strong* (b Marco Salussolia) actor - Islington, London, England
1963-0806 Kevin Mitnick* convicted hacker/computer security consultant/ author - Los Angeles, CA USA (2023/59)
1963-0807 Ramon Estevez* actor/director/son of Martin Sheen - New York, NY USA
1963-0807 Harold Perrineau* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA
1963-0808 Carol Lewis* long jumper/sister of Carl Lewis - Birmingham, AL USA
1963-0809 Tarja Filatov* politician - Hämeenlinna, Finland
1963-0809 Whitney Houston* singer - Newark, NJ USA (2012/48)
1963-0809 Vance Lovelace* baseball player - Tampa, FL USA
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1963-0815 Alejandro G. Iñárritu* film director/producer - Mexico City, Mexico
1963-0816 Larry Nassar* pedophile doctor - Farmington Hills, MI USA
1963-0819 **Joey **Tempest* (b Rolf Larsson) singer (Europe) - Stockholm, Sweden
1963-0820 Patrick Drahi* French-Israeli billionaire magnate/investor - Casablanca, Morocco
1963-0821 Hidayat Arsani* Indonesian businessman/politician - Pangkal Pinang, South Sumatra, Indonesia
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1963-0823 Abdullah Al-Rashidi* sport shooter/OB - Kuwait City, Kuwait
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1963-0828 Matthias Fornoff* journalist/ television presenter - Mainz, West Germany
1963-0828 Peter Mygind* actor - Frederiksberg, Denmark
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1963-0830 Michael Chiklis* actor/television producer - Lowell, MA USA
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1963-0902 Stanislav Cherchesov* football goalie/manager - Alagir, Russia, Soviet Union
1963-0902 Gerard Gallant* hockey player/coach - Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
1963-0903 Holt McCallany* (b McAloney) actor (Mindhunter) - New York City, NY USA
1963-0904 John Vanbiesbrouck* hockey goalie/ executive - Detroit, MI USA
1963-0906 Simo Frangén* comedian/TV-presenter - Ulvila, Finland
1963-0907 Neerja Bhanot* model/flight purser/ killed while trying to rescue airplane passengers - Chandigarh, Punjab, India (1986/22)
1963-0907 Regina Martínez Pérez* journalist/ crime reporter/murder victim - Rafael Lucio, Veracruz, Mexico (2012/48)
1963-0913 Jennifer Nicholson* actress/daughter of Jack Nicholson - Los Angeles, CA USA
1963-0918 Christopher Heyerdahl* actor/Thor Heyerdahl was his father’s cousin - BC, Canada
1963-0919 Paul McGuigan* film director - Bellshill, Scotland
1963-0915 Mikael Persbrandt* actor - Jakobsberg, Stockholm County, Sweden
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1963-0921 Johnny Hardwick* comedian/voice actor/writer - Austin, TX USA (2023/59)
1963-0923 Michiru Yamane* 山根ミチル pianist/video game composer - Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
1963-0925 Joey Moss* dressing room attendant for the Edmonton Oilers - Edmonton, AB Canada (2020/57)
1963-0927 Scott Lawrence* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA
1963-1002 Maria Ressa* journalist/co-founder of Rappler/N - Manila, Philippines
1963-1006 Timo Jurkka* actor/son of Sakari Jurkka - Helsinki, Finland
1963-1006 Elisabeth Shue* actress - Wilmington, DE USA
1963-1008 David Yates* film director - St. Helens, Lancashire, England
1963-1021 VM - Tallinn, Estonia
1963-1022 Brian Boitano* figure skater/OG - Mountain View, CA USA
1963-1023 Thomas Di Leva* singer/personal development coach - Gävle, Sweden
1963-1023 Giselle Laronde* Miss World 1986/karateka/sociologist - Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
1963-1025 Stina Rautelin* actress (Beck) - Helsinki, Finland (2023/59)
1963-1026 Tom Cavanagh* actor - Ottawa, ON Canada
1963-1028 Lauren Holly* actress - Bristol, PA USA
1963-1028 Sheryl Underwood* stand-up comedian/ actress/ television host - Omaha, Nebraska USA
1963-1029 Jyrki Lehtola* columnist - Tampere, Finland
1963-1030 Michael Beach* actor - Roxbury, MA USA
1963-1031 Timo Koivusalo* actor/director/musician - Pori, Finland
1963-1031 Eija Koriseva* seamstress/ singer/restaurateur – Toivakka, Finland
1963-1031 Dermot Mulroney* actor/musician - Alexandria, VA USA
1963-1101 Nita Ambani* founder of Reliance Foundation/philanthropist - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
1963-1102 Jonas Gardell* stand-up comedian/writer/ screenwriter - Täby, Stockholm, Sweden
1963-1105 Tatum O’Neal* actress/ daughter of Ryan O’Neal - Los Angeles, CA USA
1963-1105 Jean-Pierre Papin* football player/coach - Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
1963-1107 John Barnes* Jamaican-British football player/manager/author/to England at age 12 - Kingston, Jamaica
1963-1110 Hugh Bonneville* actor (Downtown Abbey) - Paddington, London, England
1963-1110 Mike Powell* athlete (long jump)/OS/WR - Philadelphia, PA USA
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1963-1112 Damon Galgut* novelist/ playwright - Pretoria, South Africa
1963-1112 Sam Lloyd* actor/singer/ musician - Weston, VT USA (2020/56)
1963-1115 Kevin J.O’Connor* actor - Chicago, IL USA
1963-1118 Peter Schmeichel* football goalie - Gladsaxe, Denmark
1963-1121 Andrew Fairlie* chef - Perth, Scotland (2019/55)
1963-1122 Winsor Harmon* actor - Crowley, LA USA
1963-1122 Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson* actor- Reykjavik, Iceland
1963-1123 Erika Buenfil* actress /singer/TV host - Monterrey, Mexico
1963-1127 Thomas Bo Larsen* actor - Gladsaxe, Denmark
1963-1128 Armando Iannucci* satirist/director/ radio producer - Glasgow, Scotland
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1963-1202 Rich Sutter* hockey player/twin of Ron - Viking, AB Canada
1963-1202 Ron Sutter* hockey player/twin of Rich - Viking, AB Canada
1963-1204 Sergey Bubka* athlete (pole vault)/OG - Voroshilovgrad, Ukraina, Soviet Union
1963-1207 Randall Einhorn* television director/ cinematographer - Cincinnati, OH USA
1963-1208 Wendell Pierce* actor/ businessman/philanthropist - New Orleans, LA USA
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1963-1215 Helen Slater* actress/singer/songwriter - Bethpage, NY USA
1963-1216 Benjamin Bratt* actor - San Francisco, CA USA
1963-1216 Jeff Carson* country music artist/police officer - Tulsa, OK USA (2022/58)
1963-1216 Tina Joemat-Pettersson* (b Joemat) politician/married to a Swede - Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa (2023/59)
1963-1216 James Mangold* filmmaker - New York City, NY USA
1963-1217 Meherzia Labidi Maïza* translator/ lecturer/politician - Hammamet, Tunisia (2021/57)
1963-1218 Brad Pitt* actor - Shawnee, OK USA
1963-1220 Iqbal Theba* Pakistani-American actor - Karachi, Pakistan
1963-1224 Timo Jutila* hockey player/OB - Tampere, Finland
1963-1225 Raju Srivastav* stand-up comedian - Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
1963-1227 Gaspar Noé* filmmaker /to France at age 12 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
1963-1229 Ulf Kristersson* politician/PM - Lund, Sweden
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