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← 1962 1961 1960 1963 in Chile → 1964 1965 1966
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1963 Timeline of Chilean history

The following lists events that happened during 1963 in Chile.

• President of Chile: Jorge Alessandri

• 1 January – The Deportes Ovalle football club is founded.

• The fourth version of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival takes place.

• 7 April - Municipal elections are held, which largely favored the Christian Democrats.
• 21 April - The first prize of Miss World Chile is given to Maria Pilar Aguirre Gómez.
• 30 April - The Jackal of Nahueltoro is murdered under Capital punishment, convicted of murdering his former partner and his five children (only hers).

• 6 May - an explosion of a cyclopropane balloon in the San Borja Arriaran Hospital in Santiago caused the death of 6 people (2 surgeons, 2 patients and 2 anesthesiologists) and left another 2 surgeons and 12 assistants seriously injured.

• 3 July - The first edition of the Juan Pinto Duran Cup is held.

• 16 December - The statutes and regulations of Rugby in Chile, founded 10 years before, were made official.

• 16 January – Tomás Jocelyn-Holt^[1]
• 11 March – Hugo González
• 13 March – Aníbal González
• 24 March – Iván Morovic
• 25 March – Jaime Vera
• 21 April – Eduardo Vilches
• 23 April – Fernando Luis Capurro

• 8 December – Juana Rosa Aguirre (b. 1877)