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April 9, 1963

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Notable Births

Marc Jacobs

1963Marc Jacobs, American-French fashion designer[†]

Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for his own fashion label, Marc Jacobs, and formerly Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, which was produced for approximately 15 years, before it was discontinued after the 2015 fall/winter collection. At its peak, it had over 200 retail stores in 80 countries. He was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014. Jacobs was on Time magazine's "2010 Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and was #14 on Out magazine's 2012 list of "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America". He married his longtime partner Charly Defrancesco on April 6, 2019.

Joe Scarborough

1963Joe Scarborough, American journalist, lawyer, and politician[†]

Charles Joseph Scarborough is an American television host and former politician who is the co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC with his wife Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist. He previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same network. A former member of the Republican Party, Scarborough was in the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 1st district from 1995 to 2001. He was appointed to the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce in 2002 and was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was named in the 2011 Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world.

Notable Deaths

Eddie Edwards (musician)

1963Eddie Edwards, American trombonist (born 1891)[†]

Edwin Branford Edwards was an early jazz trombonist who was a member of the Original Dixieland Jass Band.

Xul Solar

1963Xul Solar, Argentinian painter and sculptor (born 1887)[†]

Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari, an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages.

Historical Context for April 9, 1963

In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]