Famous people and celebrities who died in August 1963

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in August 1963. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• Aug. 2 Oliver La Farge

  Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and anthropologist known for his work on Native American cultures, particularly the Navajo. His novel 'Laughing Boy' won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1930.

• Aug. 2 Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge

  At 61, a us writer/anthropologist dies

• Aug. 5 Salvador Bacarisse

  Spanish composer (born 1898).

• Aug. 6 Tom Keene

  Actor (our daily bread) dies from cancer at the age of 68

• Aug. 7 Ramon Vila Capdevila

  Last of the spanish maquis, holding out after the end of the spanish civil war (b. 1908)

• Aug. 8 Sandor Jemnitz

  Composer dies at 72

• Aug. 9 Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

  American son of john f. kennedy (b. 1963)

• Aug. 10 Estes Kefauver

  Estes Kefauver was a prominent Democratic U.S. Senator from Tennessee who led significant crime investigations in the 1950s and ran as Adlai Stevenson's vice presidential candidate in 1956.

• Aug. 10 Patrick J Kennedy

  American politician from the famous Kennedy political dynasty, known for his public service and advocacy for mental health and addiction issues.

• Aug. 10 Ernst Wetter

  Swiss politician and lawyer 48th president of swiss confederation (d.63)

• Aug. 11 Otto Wahle

  Austrian-american swimmer and coach (b. 1879)

• Aug. 13 Louis Bastien

  French fencer and cyclist (d. 1963).

• Aug. 14 Clifford Odets

  Prominent American playwright and screenwriter known for his socially conscious works during the Great Depression era, including 'Waiting for Lefty' and 'Golden Boy'.

• Aug. 15 John Powell

  American discus thrower

• Aug. 16 Joan Eardley

  Influential British artist known for her powerful landscape and portrait paintings, particularly of Scottish coastal scenes and children.

• Aug. 17 Richard Barthelmess

  Actor (heroes for sales), passes away from cancer at the age of 68

• Aug. 19 Kathleen Parlow

  Canadian violinist (born 1890).

• Aug. 20 Joan Voûte

  Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1963).

• Aug. 22 William Morris

  1st viscount nuffield, english businessman and philanthropist, founded morris motors (b. 1877)

• Aug. 23 Glen Gray

  Prominent American jazz musician and bandleader who led the renowned Casa Loma Orchestra during the swing era.

• Aug. 27 W. E. B. Du Bois

  American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)

• Aug. 27 Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi

  Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)

• Aug. 27 Allama Mashriqi

  Pakistani politician and scholar (born 1888).

• Aug. 27 Garrett Morgan

  American inventor (born 1877).

• Aug. 30 Guy Burgess

  Guy Burgess was a notorious British diplomat and Soviet spy who was part of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that passed critical intelligence to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

• Aug. 31 Georges Braque

  French painter and sculptor (b. 1882)