1963 in Chile
# 1963 in Chile

The following lists events that happened during 1963 in Chile.

## Incumbents

* President of Chile: Jorge Alessandri

## Events

### January

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

### February

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

### April

* 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).

### May

* 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.

### July

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

### December

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

## Births

* 16 January – Tomás Jocelyn-Holt
* 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

## Deaths

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