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In 1963, Roger Corman directed The Raven, a horror-comedy written by Richard Matheson very loosely based on the poem, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. It stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as a trio of rival sorcerers.

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1963 (MCMLXIII) was the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.

Art and culture

• Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
• Coxsone Dodd opens the first black-owned Jamaican recording facility Studio One
• Assassination of John F. Kennedy
• Ted Nelson coins the term hypertext
• Richard Hoggart becomes the first director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
• The results of the Milgram experiment are published
• Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz playing chess, a photo by Julian Wasser of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a Eve Babitz

Literature

• The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
• Blues People by Amiri Baraka

Visual arts

• Grotesk by Hannah Höch
• Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
• Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein

Music

Singles

• "Cristo Redentor" by Donald Byrd
• "Mas que Nada" by Jorge Ben
• "Madness" by Prince Buster
• "Oye Como Va" by Tito Puente
• "Yeh Yeh" by Mongo Santamaría
• "Needles and Pins", a song made famous by The Searchers
• "Les Nuits d'une demoiselle" by Colette Renard

Albums

• The Lonely Surfer by Jack Nitzsche

Film

• The Silence by Ingmar Berman
• Blood Feast by Herschell Gordon Lewis
• Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard
• The Servant by Joseph Losey
• The Whip and the Body by Mario Bava
• X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes by Roger Corman
• La ricotta by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• The Haunting by Robert Wise
• Flaming Creatures by Jack Smith
• The Girl Hunters by Roy Rowland
• Towers Open Fire by Antony Balch
• The Sadist by James Landis
• The Nutty Professor by Jerry Lewis

Births

• David LaChapelle
• Simon Reynolds
• Gaspar Noé
• Tracey Emin
• Quentin Tarantino
• Jeff Mills
• Derrick May

Deaths

• Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
• Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963)
• Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
• Édith Piaf (1915 - 1963)
• Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963)
• Jean Bruce (1921 - 1963)