Famous People Who Died in 1963

• Burgess, Guy

  The most flamboyant member of the Cambridge Spies

• Cline, Patsy

  Country and pop sensation who sang "Crazy"

• Du Bois, W.E.B.

  Author of The Souls of Black Folk

• Evers, Medgar

  Assassinated Mississippi civil rights leader

• Frost, Robert

  The poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken"

• Huxley, Aldous

  The author of Brave New World

• Kennedy, John F.

  President of the United States, 1961-63

• Lewis, C.S.

  Author of The Chronicles of Narnia

• Morgan, Garrett

  The inventor of the three-way traffic light

• Odets, Clifford

  The author of the play Waiting for Lefty

• Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Accused assassin of John F. Kennedy

• Piaf, Edith

  French singer known as "the waif sparrow"

• Pitts, Zasu

  Big-eyed actress of early Hollywood

• Plath, Sylvia

  Poet and author of The Bell Jar

• Roethke, Theodore

  The Michigan poet who wrote "Elegy for Jane"

• Tippit, J.D.

  The Dallas policeman shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963

• Williams, William Carlos

  Author of the poetic epic Paterson

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