1963 in music

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Deaths

• January 2 - Dick Powell, actor and singer
• January 6 - Lina Barbanell, German singer and actress
• January 24 - Otto Harbach, lyricist
• January 30 - Francis Poulenc
• February 19 - Benny Moré, Cuban singer
• February 20 - Ferenc Fricsay, conductor
• March 5 - Patsy Cline, American country singer, in a plane crash
• March 17 - Lizzie Miles, singer
• March 31 - Harry Akst, US composer and pianist
• April 12 - Herbie Nichols, jazz musician
• May 6 - Ted Weems, 61, US bandleader
• May 10 - Irving Aaronson, bandleader and composer
• September 12 - Modest Altschuler, cellist, conductor and composer
• October 11 - Edith Piaf, French singing superstar
• November 1 - Elsa Maxwell, songwriter, "the hostess with the mostest"
• November 19 - Carmen Amaya, flamenco dancer and singer
• November 22 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, United States President
• November 26 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Operatic soprano
• November 29 - Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer, pianist and bandleader
• December 5 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer
• December 28 - Paul Hindemith, composer
• date unknown - Naftule Brandwein, clarinettist