Famous People Who Died in August 1963
- Aug 1 Theodore Roethke, American poet (Praise to the end!), dies at 55
- Aug 2 Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, American anthropologist and novelist, dies at 61
- Aug 5 Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer, dies at 64
- Aug 6 Tom Keene, American actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68
- Aug 8 Sándor Jemnitz, Hungarian composer, dies at 72
- Aug 10 Ernst Wetter, Member of the Swiss Federal Council, dies at 85
- Aug 10 Estes Kefauver, American politician (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60
- Aug 10 Patrick Kennedy, son of US President John F, Kennedy, dies at only 3 days
- Aug 14 Clifford Odets, American playwright (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy), dies at 57
- Aug 14 Clyde Hurley, American session and big band jazz trumpeter (Glenn Miller - "Tuxedo Junction"; "In The Mood"), dies of heart failure at 46
- Aug 15 John Powell, American composer, dies at 80
- Aug 17 Richard Barthelmess, American actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose, Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68
- Aug 19 Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist, and educator, dies at 72
- Aug 20 Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer, dies at 84
- Aug 21 John Gunn, English cricket medium pace bowler (6 Tests, 18 wickets, BB 5/76; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 87
- Aug 22 William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies
- Aug 23 Glen Gray [Knoblauch], American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra), dies of lymphoma, at 63
- Aug 24 Jack Pettis, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 61
- Aug 26 Larry Keating, American radio announcer and quiz master, and actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, 1953-58 - "Harry"; Mr. Ed - "Roger"), dies of leukemia at 64
- Aug 27 Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
- Aug 28 Bernard Silver, American co-inventor of the barcode, dies of leukemia at 38 [1]
- Aug 30 Axel Stordahl, American arranger (Tommy Dorsey; Frank Sinatra), orchestra leader (Eddie Fisher), and composer (McHales's Navy theme), dies of cancer at 50
- Aug 30 Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy, dies of acute liver failure at 52
- Aug 31 Georges Braque, French cubist painter and sculptor (My bicycle) who helped develop Cubism with Pablo Picasso, dies at 81
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Update: 2024-09-05