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== Events ==

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1933}}
[[File:Golden Gate Bridge from underneath.jpg|thumb|140px|right| [[January 5]]: Construction of the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] begins.]]
[[File:LocationPhilippines.png|thumb|140px|right|[[January 17]]: Vote on [[Philippines]] independence.]]
* [[January 11]] – Australian aviator Sir [[Charles Kingsford Smith]] makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* [[January 17]] – The [[United States Congress]] votes in favour of [[Philippines]] independence, against the wishes of U.S. President [[Herbert Hoover]].<ref>{{cite book|author=M. Epstein|title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1935|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EkvODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA640|date=December 28, 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27064-0|pages=640}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] – "[[Pakistan Declaration]]": [[Choudhry Rahmat Ali]] publishes (in [[Cambridge]], UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls "[[Pakistan|Pakstan]]"; this influences the [[Pakistan Movement]].<ref name="RahmatʻAli1978">{{cite book|author=Choudhary RahmatʻAli|title=Pakistan: The Fatherland of the Pak Nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPkJAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Book Traders|page=24}}</ref>
* [[January 30]]
** [[Nazi Party]] leader [[Adolf Hitler]] is appointed [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] by President of Germany [[Paul von Hindenburg]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Shirer | first = William L. | author-link = William L. Shirer | title = The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | publisher = Simon & Schuster | location = New York | year = 1960 | lccn = 60-6729 | title-link = The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich| page=184}}</ref>
** [[Édouard Daladier]] forms a government in France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/histoire/personnages/daladier-edouard-1884-1970-26-08-2013-1717267_1617.php|title=Édouard Daladier, un résistant entre paix et guerre|work=Le Point|date=2013-10-30|access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref> in succession to [[Joseph Paul-Boncour]]. He is succeeded on October 26 by [[Albert Sarraut]] and on November 26 by [[Camille Chautemps]].

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1933}}
[[File:Reichstagsbrand.jpg|thumb|240px|right|[[February 27]]: [[Reichstag fire]]]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Adolf Hitler]] gives his "Proclamation to the German People" in Berlin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Year in History: 1933 Timeline |url=https://www.historic-newspapers.com/en-au/blogs/article/1933-timeline |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=Historic Newspapers |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – Adolf Hitler gives a secret speech to his military leaders, outlining his plans to rearm Germany in defiance of the [[Treaty of Versailles]] and to adopt a policy of ''[[Lebensraum]]'' in eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Hoffmann|author-link=Peter Hoffmann (historian)|title=German resistance to Hitler|url=https://archive.org/details/germanresistance00pete|url-access=registration|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Mass|year=1988|pages=[https://archive.org/details/germanresistance00pete/page/15 15–16]}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] – A [[mutiny]] starts on the [[Royal Netherlands Navy]] [[coastal defence ship]] [[HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (1909)|''De Zeven Provinciën'']] in the [[Dutch East Indies]]. After 6 days, it is bombed by a Dutch aircraft, killing 23 men, and the remaining mutineers surrender. 
* [[February 6]]–[[February 7|7]] – Officers on the [[USS Ramapo (AO-12)|USS ''Ramapo'']] record a 34-meter high sea wave in the Pacific Ocean.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Queensland |first=c=AU; o=The State of |title=Frequently asked questions {{!}} Wave monitoring |url=https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/coasts-waterways/beach/monitoring/waves-faq |access-date=2025-09-21 |website=www.qld.gov.au |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 9]] – [[The King and Country debate]]: The [[Oxford Union]] student debating society in England passes a resolution stating, "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and country."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ceadel|first=Martin|title=The King and Country Debate, 1933: Student Politics, Pacifism and the Dictators|journal=[[The Historical Journal]]|volume=22|issue=2|year=1979|pages=397–422|doi=10.1017/s0018246x00016885|s2cid=153490642 }}</ref>
* [[February 10]] – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first [[singing telegram]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=February 10, 1983|title=The Singing Telegram at 50: Singing Telegrams are Catching On|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/10/business/the-singing-telegram-at-50.html|access-date=June 14, 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] – In [[Miami]], [[Giuseppe Zangara]] attempts to assassinate President-elect [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], but instead fatally wounds the [[Mayor of Chicago]], [[Anton Cermak]]. Zangara is executed on March 20 by the [[electric chair]].
* [[February 17]] – [[Repeal of Prohibition in the United States]]: The [[Blaine Act]] passes the [[United States Senate]], submitting the proposed [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution]] to the states for ratification. The amendment is ratified on December 5, ending [[prohibition in the United States]].
*[[February 23]] – The [[Imperial Japanese Army]] [[Battle of Rehe|invades Rehe province]] in northern China.
* [[February 25]] – Arminda de Jesus is burned for witchcraft in [[Marco de Canaveses|Soalhães, Portugal]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hutchinson |first=Joshua |date=2025-03-08 |title=International Women's Day Stories: The 1933 Burning of Arminda de Jesus for Witchcraft in Soalhaes, Portugal |url=https://witchhuntshow.com/2025/03/07/international-womens-day-stories-the-1933-burning-of-arminda-de-jesus-for-witchcraft-in-soalhaes-portugal/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Witch Hunt: The Podcast of Witch Trials and Harmful Practices Related to Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[Reichstag fire]]: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the [[Reichstag building]], is set on fire under controversial circumstances.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Holborn |first1=Hajo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYn-quXf_9cC |title=Republic to Reich: The Making of the Nazi Revolution; Ten Essays |date=1972 |publisher=Pantheon Books |isbn=978-0-394-47122-8 |page=182 |language=en}}</ref> The following day, the [[Reichstag Fire Decree]] is passed in response to the Reichstag fire, nullifying many German civil liberties.
* [[February 28]] – [[English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33]]: The [[England cricket team]] wins [[The Ashes]] using the controversial [[bodyline]] tactic.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/510 510]–512}}</ref>

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1933}}
* [[March 2]] – [[King Kong]]: The [[King Kong (1933 film)|original ''King Kong'' film]], starring [[Fay Wray]] and directed by [[Merian C. Cooper]], debuts in [[New York City]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lasky |first=Betty |title=RKO, the biggest little major of them all |date=1984 |publisher=Prentice-Hall |isbn=978-0-13-781451-0 |location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J}}</ref>
* [[March 3]] – [[1933 Sanriku earthquake]]: A powerful earthquake and [[tsunami]] hit [[Honshū]], Japan, killing approximately 3,000 people.
* [[March 4]]
** The [[Parliament of Austria]] is suspended because of a quibble over procedure; [[Chancellor of Austria|Chancellor]] [[Engelbert Dollfuss]] initiates authoritarian rule by decree, an origin of [[Austrofascism]].
** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] is [[First inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt|sworn in]] as the [[Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1941)|32nd president]] of the [[United States]].
* [[March 5]]
** The [[Great Depression]]: President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] declares a "[[Emergency Banking Act|Bank holiday]]", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on [[March 13]]).
** [[March 1933 German federal election]]: The [[Nazi Party]] gains 43.9% of the votes.
* [[March 7]] – The real-estate trading board game ''[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]'' is developed in the United States.
* [[March 10]] – The 6.4 {{M|w}} [[1933 Long Beach earthquake|Long Beach earthquake]] shakes [[Southern California]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''), killing 115 people.
* [[March 12]] – [[Great Depression]]: [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States, in the first of his "[[Fireside chats]]".
* [[March 14]] – Indonesian Association football club [[Persib Bandung]] is founded as Bandoeng Inlandsche Voetbal Bond.
* [[March 15]]
** The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] rises from 53.84 to 62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains the largest 1-day percentage gain for the index.
** Austrian Chancellor [[Engelbert Dollfuss]] keeps members of the [[National Council of Austria|National Council]] from convening, starting the [[Austrofascism|Austrofascist]] dictatorship.
* [[March 20]]
** [[Dachau concentration camp|Dachau]], the first [[Nazi concentration camp]], is completed in Germany (it opens [[March 22]] to hold political prisoners).
** First of a series of meetings in the United States called by Jewish organizations calling for an international [[1933 anti-Nazi boycott|anti-Nazi boycott]] in response to the persecution of German Jews.
* [[March 22]] – President Franklin Roosevelt signs the [[Cullen–Harrison Act]], an amendment to the Volstead Act, allowing the manufacture and sale from April 7 of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines,<ref>"Roosevelt Authorizes Beer Sale By Signing Bill For 3.2 Brew". ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' March 23, 1933, p.1.</ref> 8 months before the full [[repeal of Prohibition in the United States]] in December.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA213|year=2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|page=213}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – ''[[Gleichschaltung]]'': The [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] passes the [[Enabling Act of 1933|Enabling Act]], making [[Adolf Hitler]] effectively the [[dictator]] of Germany.<ref name=1933Mc>{{cite journal|first=Frank|last=McDonough|title=1933: death of a democracy|journal=[[History Today]]|volume=70|issue=2|date=February 2020|pages=70–83}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – Japan announces it will leave the [[League of Nations]] (due to a cancellation period of exactly two years, the egression becomes effective March 27, 1935).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zaoerv.de/04_1934/4_1934_1_b_148_151_1.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.zaoerv.de/04_1934/4_1934_1_b_148_151_1.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=pdf}}</ref> 
* [[March 29]] – Welsh journalist [[Gareth Jones (journalist)|Gareth Jones]] makes the first report in the West of the [[Holodomor]] famine genocide in Ukraine.
* [[March 31]]
** March revolution in [[Uruguay]]: President [[Gabriel Terra]] carries out a coup with the support of the civilian population, police officers and firefighters and rules as a dictator until 1938.
** The [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] is established in the United States as an unemployment relief program.

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1933}}
* [[April 1]] – The recently elected [[Nazism|Nazis]] (under [[Julius Streicher]]) organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.<ref name="Häsler1969">{{cite book|author=Alfred A. Häsler|title=The Lifeboat is Full: Switzerland and the Refugees, 1933-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d4BCAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Funk & Wagnalls|page=55}}</ref>
* [[April 2]] – As a member of the [[English cricket team in New Zealand in 1932–33|English cricket team touring New Zealand, 1933]], batsman [[Wally Hammond]] scores a record 336 runs in a test match at [[Eden Park]], [[Auckland]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[April 3]]
** An anti-monarchist rebellion occurs in Siam ([[Thailand]]).
** The first flight over [[Mount Everest]] is made by the British [[Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition]], led by the [[Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton|Marquis of Clydesdale]], and funded by [[Lucy, Lady Houston]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Watson Davis|title=The Advance of Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EItCAQAAIAAJ|year=1934|publisher=Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated|oclc=25639966|page=124}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] – American airship ''[[USS Akron (ZRS-4)|Akron]]'' crashes off the coast of [[New Jersey]], killing 73 of its 76 crewmen. It is the worst aviation accident in history up to this date (and until [[1950]]).
* [[April 5]]
** The [[International Court of Justice]] in [[The Hague]] decides that [[Greenland]] belongs to Denmark, and condemns [[Erik the Red's Land|Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland]]. Norway submits to the decision.
** United States President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] declares a national emergency and issues [[Executive Order 6102]], making it illegal for U.S. citizens to own substantial amounts of monetary gold or [[bullion]].
* [[April 7]] – In Germany, the [[Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service]] is passed, the first law of the new regime directed against Jews (as well as political opponents).<ref>{{cite book|first=Diemut|last=Majer|title="Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_BCNrHG9K8C&pg=RA4-PA85|year=2003|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-6493-3|pages=4}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] – Aviator [[Bill Lancaster (aviator)|Bill Lancaster]] takes off from Lympne in England, in an attempt to make a speed record to the [[Cape of Good Hope]], but vanishes (his body is not found in the [[Sahara Desert]] until [[1962]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Flight International|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QDWifwN0igC|year=1975|publisher=Illiffe Transport Publications|page=509}}</ref>
* [[April 13]] – The [[Children and Young Persons Act 1933|Children and Young Persons Act]] is passed in the [[United Kingdom]]. This raises the [[age of criminal responsibility]] from 7 to 8, raises the minimum age for [[Capital punishment in the United Kingdom|capital punishment]] to 18, places restrictions on the identification in the press of persons under 18 appearing in court, sets a minimum full-time working age of 14 and makes it illegal to sell tobacco products to under-16s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Halsbury's Statutes of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n4NQAQAAIAAJ|year=1970|page=438}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] – [[Nazi Germany]] outlaws the [[kosher]] ritual ''[[shechita]]''.
* [[April 24]] – In Nazi Germany:
** [[Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany|Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses]] begins with the seizure of the Bible Students' office in [[Magdeburg]].
** Jewish physicians are excluded from official insurance schemes, forcing many to give up their practices.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Margarete|last1=Limberg|first2=Hubert|last2=Rübsaat|title=Germans No More: Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933–1938|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2006|pages=17–8}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] – The [[Gestapo]] [[secret police]] is established in Nazi Germany by [[Hermann Göring]].
* [[April 27]] – The [[Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten|Stahlhelm]] veterans' organization joins the [[Nazism|Nazi]] party in Germany.

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1933}}
* [[May 2]] – ''[[Gleichschaltung]]'': [[Adolf Hitler]] prohibits [[trade union]]s.
* [[May 3]]
** In the [[Irish Free State]], [[Dáil Éireann]] abolishes the [[oath of allegiance]] to the [[British Crown]].
** [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] becomes the first woman to be named director of the [[United States Mint]].
* [[May 5]] – The detection by [[Karl Jansky]] of radio waves from the center of the [[Milky Way]] Galaxy is reported in ''The New York Times''. The discovery leads to the birth of [[radio astronomy]].
* [[May 8]] – [[Mohandas Gandhi]] begins a 3-week [[hunger strike]] because of the mistreatment of the lower castes in [[India]].
* [[May 10]] – [[Chaco War]]: [[Paraguay]] formally declares war on [[Bolivia]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-05 |title=Chaco War {{!}} Bolivia, Paraguay & Causes [1932–1935] {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Chaco-War |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] – [[Vidkun Quisling]] and [[Johan Bernhard Hjort]] form the [[Nasjonal Samling]] (the National Gathering Party) of Norway.
* [[May 18]] – [[New Deal]]: President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs an act creating the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]].
* [[May 26]] – The [[Nazism|Nazi]] Party in Germany introduces a law to legalize [[eugenics|eugenic]] [[Human sterilization|sterilization]].
* [[May 27]]
** [[New Deal]] in the United States: The [[Federal Securities Act]] is signed into law, requiring the registration of securities with the [[Federal Trade Commission]].
** The ''[[Century of Progress]]'' [[World's Fair]] opens in Chicago.

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1933}}
* June – The [[Holodomor]] famine-genocide in [[Ukraine]] reaches its peak, with 30,000 deaths from human-made starvation each day.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://holodomorct.org/holodomor-facts-and-history/|title=Holodomor Facts and History: chronology of events surrounding the famine}}</ref> The average life expectancy for a Ukrainian male born this year is 7.3 years.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Vallin|first1=Jacques |last2=Meslé|first2=France|last3=Adamets |first3=Serguei|last4=Pyrozhkov|first4=Serhii|title=A New Estimate of Ukrainian Population Losses during the Crises of the 1930s and 1940s|url=http://ncua.inform-decisions.com/eng/files/VallinNewEstimate.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ncua.inform-decisions.com/eng/files/VallinNewEstimate.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|journal=[[Population Studies]]|volume=56|issue=3|year=2002 |pages=249–264|doi=10.1080/00324720215934|pmid=12553326|s2cid=21128795}}</ref> 
* [[June 5]] – The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] abrogates the United States use of the [[gold standard]], by enacting a joint resolution<ref>48 Stat. 112.</ref> nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
* [[June 6]] – The first [[drive-in theater|drive-in movie theater]] is opened in [[Pennsauken Township, New Jersey|Pennsauken Township]], near [[Camden, New Jersey]], by [[Richard Hollingshead]], according to his patent granted May 16.<ref>{{US patent|1909537}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/82_years_ago_first_drive-in_theatre_opened_in_nj.html|title=82 years ago today, first U.S. drive-in theater opened in N.J.|date=June 2015|website=NJ.com|access-date=2017-10-16}}</ref>
* [[June 12]] – The [[London Economic Conference]] is held.
* [[June 17]] – [[Kansas City massacre]]: At the Union Station in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], gangsters kill four law enforcement officers and detained fugitive bank robber [[Frank Nash]].
* [[June 22]] – [[Nazi Germany]] outlaws the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social-Democratic Party]] (SPD).<ref>{{cite book |last=Evans|first=Richard J. |title=The Coming of the Third Reich |publisher=Penguin Press |location=New York |year=2003 |page=359 |isbn=978-0-143-03469-8}}</ref>
* [[June 25]] – Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the [[persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany]].
* [[June 26]] – In the United States:
** The American Totalisator Company unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine, at the [[Arlington Park]] race track near Chicago.
** Founding of [[Twentieth Century Pictures]] as a motion picture production company by [[Joseph Schenck]] and [[Darryl F. Zanuck]] in Hollywood.

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1933}}
* [[July 1]]
** The [[London Passenger Transport Board]] begins operation.
** [[Business Plot]]: [[Smedley Butler]] becomes involved in a coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against the President of the United States [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] which fails (according to his testimony in 1934).
* [[July 4]] – [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] is sentenced to prison in India.
* [[July 6]] – The first [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game]] is played at [[Comiskey Park]] in Chicago.
* [[July 8]] – The first [[rugby union]] [[Test match (rugby union)|test match]] is played between the [[Australia national rugby union team|Wallabies of Australia]] and the [[South Africa national rugby union team|Springboks of South Africa]], at Newlands in [[Cape Town]].
* [[July 14]] – In [[Nazi Germany]]:
** Formation of new political parties is forbidden.<ref name=1933Mc/>
** The [[Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring]] is enacted,<ref>Coming into force January 1934. {{cite book|title=[[IBM and the Holocaust]]|first=Edwin|last=Black|author-link=Edwin Black |year=2001 |publisher=Crown / Random House|page=93}}</ref> allowing [[compulsory sterilization]] of citizens suffering from a list of alleged [[genetic disorders]].
* [[July 15]]
** The [[Four-Power Pact]] is signed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
** The [[Left Opposition|International Left Opposition]] (ILO) is renamed the International Communist League (ICL).
* [[July 20]] – ''[[Reichskonkordat]]'': Vatican state secretary Eugenio Pacelli (later [[Pope Pius XII]]) signs an accord with Germany.
* [[July 22]]
** [[Wiley Post]] becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, landing at [[Floyd Bennett Field]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York, after traveling eastbound {{convert|15596|mi|km|abbr=on}} in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes.
** "[[Machine Gun Kelly (gangster)|Machine Gun Kelly]]" and [[Albert Bates (criminal)|Albert Bates]] kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200,000 ransom.

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1933}}
* [[August 1]] – The Blue Eagle emblem of the [[National Recovery Administration]] in the United States is displayed publicly for the first time.
* [[August 2]] – The [[White Sea–Baltic Canal]], Stalin's 227 [[km]] [[ship canal]] constructed using [[forced labour]] in the [[Soviet Union]], opens, connecting the [[White Sea]] with [[Lake Onega]] and the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]].
* [[August 7]] – [[Simele massacre]]: More than 3,000 [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] Iraqis are killed by [[Iraq]]i government troops.
* [[August 12]] – British politician [[Winston Churchill]] makes his first speech publicly warning of the dangers of German rearmament.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=376–377|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] – Loggers cause a [[forest fire]] in the [[Oregon Coast Range|Coast Range]] of [[Oregon]], later known as the first forest fire of the [[Tillamook Burn]]. It is extinguished on [[September 5]], after destroying {{convert|240,000|acre|km2}}.
* [[August 25]] – The [[1933 Diexi earthquake|Diexi earthquake]] shakes [[Mao County]], [[Sichuan]], China and kills 9,000 people.
* [[August 30]] – German-Jewish philosopher [[Theodor Lessing]] is shot in Marienbad ([[Mariánské Lázně]]), [[Czechoslovakia]], dying the following day.

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1933}}
* [[September 12]]
** [[Alejandro Lerroux]] forms a new government in Spain.
** [[Leó Szilárd]], waiting for a red light on [[Southampton Row]] in [[Bloomsbury]] (London), conceives the idea of the [[nuclear chain reaction]].
* [[September 26]] – [[1933 Tampico hurricane]]: A hurricane destroys the town of [[Tampico]], [[Mexico]].

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1933}}
* [[October 1]] – [[Engelbert Dollfuss]], leader of the [[Fatherland's Front]] in Austria, is seriously injured in a failed assassination attempt.
* [[October 7]] – [[Air France]] is formed by the merger of five French airline companies, beginning operations with 250 planes.
* [[October 10]] – [[1933 United Airlines Boeing 247 mid-air explosion]]: A bomb destroys a [[United Airlines]] [[Boeing 247]] on a transcontinental flight in mid-air near [[Chesterton, Indiana]], killing all 7 on board, in the first proven case of sabotage in civil aviation, although no suspect is ever identified.
* [[October 12]] – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on [[Alcatraz]] is acquired by the [[United States Department of Justice]], which plans to incorporate the island into its [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] as a [[Prison|penitentiary]].
* [[October 14]] – Germany announces its withdrawal from the [[League of Nations]] and the World Disarmament Conference, after the U.S., the U.K. and France deny its request to increase its defence armaments under the Versailles Treaty.
* [[October 14]]–[[October 16|16]] – The [[Constitution of Estonia#Second Constitution (1934–1938)|new constitution]] of [[Estonia]] is approved only on the [[October 1933 Estonian constitutional referendum|third consecutive referendum]].
* [[October 16]] – [[Parricide]]s committed in the United States by [[Victor Licata]] lead to calls for the legal prohibition of [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]].
* [[October 17]] – Scientist [[Albert Einstein]] arrives from Europe in the United States, where he settles permanently as a refugee from [[Nazi Germany]] and takes up a position at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]], [[Princeton, New Jersey]].

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1933}}
* [[November 5]] – Spanish [[Basque people]] [[1933 Basque autonomy referendum|vote for autonomy]].
* [[November 8]]
** [[New Deal]]: U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] unveils the [[Civil Works Administration]], an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4&nbsp;million of the unemployed.
** [[Mohammad Zahir Shah]] becomes [[King of Afghanistan]] at the age of 19, following the assassination of his father King [[Mohammad Nadir Shah]].
* [[November 11]] – [[Dust Bowl]]: In [[South Dakota]], a very strong [[dust storm]] ("the great black blizzard") strips [[topsoil]] from desiccated farmlands (one of a series of disastrous dust storms this year).
* [[November 12]] &ndash; Japan Precision Optical Industry, predecessor of the global [[Canon Inc.|Canon]] [[camera]] and [[photocopier]] [[brand]], is founded in Japan.<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Canon 1933-1961|url=https://global.canon/en/corporate/history/01.html|website=Canon|access-date=2021-11-14}}</ref>
* [[November 16]]
** The United States and the [[Soviet Union]] establish formal [[Diplomacy|diplomatic relations]].
** American aviator [[Jimmie Angel]] becomes the first foreigner to see the [[Angel Falls]] in [[Venezuela]] (they are named after him).
* [[November 17]] – The [[Marx Brothers]]' [[anarchic comedy film]] ''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]'' is released in the United States.
* [[November 19]] – [[Second Spanish Republic]]: General elections result in a victory by the right-wing parties.
* [[November 22]] – The [[Fujian People's Government]] is declared in [[Fujian Province]], China.

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1933}}
* [[December 5]] – The [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution]] is ratified, [[Repeal of Prohibition in the United States|repealing Prohibition in the United States]], making production and sale of alcohol legal in the U.S.
* [[December 17]] – The [[1933 NFL Championship Game|first NFL Championship game]] in American football is played. The [[Chicago Bears]] defeat the [[New York Giants]] 23–21.
* [[December 21]] – [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]] returns to [[Crown colony]] status, following financial collapse.<ref name=CBH/>
* [[December 23]] – [[Lagny-Pomponne rail accident]]: A train collision near [[Lagny-sur-Marne]] in France kills 204.
* [[December 26]]
** [[Montevideo Convention]] on the Rights and Duties of States is signed by participants in the 7th [[International Conference of American States]]; it is significant in the development of the [[Sovereign state#Declarative theory|declarative theory of statehood]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1100005689|title=Convention on Rights and Duties of State|year=2024|department=UIA Global Civil Society Database|website=uia.org|publisher=[[Union of International Associations]]|agency=Yearbook of International Organizations Online|location=Brussels|access-date=2025-01-12|url-status=}}</ref>
** The [[Nissan Motors|Nissan]] Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan.
** [[Frequency modulation|FM radio]] is patented.
* [[December 29]] – Members of the [[Iron Guard]] assassinate [[Ion Gheorghe Duca]], prime minister of [[Romania]].

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Turkey]] concludes a treaty with the creditors of the former [[Ottoman Empire]] to schedule the payments in Paris (Turkey succeeds in clearing all the debt in less than twenty years).
* The [[Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery]] is created by the [[League of Nations]].<ref>Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 216</ref>
* The first dated [[Inter-School Christian Fellowship]] group is started in Australia at [[North Sydney Boys High School]], with the group continuing into the 21st century.
* The ''[[Adélaïde Concerto]]'', a spurious violin work attributed to [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], is published as "edited" (actually composed) by [[Marius Casadesus]].

== Births ==
{{BDToC|births}}

=== January ===
[[File:Dalida 1974.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dalida]]]]
[[File:Bill Hayden 1974 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bill Hayden]]]]
[[File:Corazon Aquino 1986.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Corazon Aquino]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Joe Orton]], English playwright (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|title=Orton, John Kingsley [Joe] (1933–1967), playwright {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35334|doi-access=free |isbn=9780198614128}}</ref>
* [[January 2]] – [[On Kawara]], Japanese conceptual artist (d. [[2014]])
* [[January 6]] – [[Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2003]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Diane Leather]], English athlete (d. [[2018]])
*[[January 8]]
**[[Supriya Devi]], Indian Bengali actress (d. [[2018]])
**[[Charles Osgood]], American radio and television commentator (d. [[2024]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Liliana Cavani]], Italian film director and screenwriter
* [[January 13]] – [[Tom Gola]], American basketball player (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{citation |last=Eskenazi |first=Gerald |title=Tom Gola, a Philadelphia Hero, Dies at 81  | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 27, 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/sports/basketball/tom-gola-philadelphia-basketball-star-who-led-la-salle-dies-at-81.html?_r=0}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] – [[Stan Brakhage]], American filmmaker (d. [[2003]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Ernest J. Gaines]], American author (d. [[2019]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Susan Sontag]], American author (d. [[2004]])
* [[January 17]]
** [[Dalida]], French singer (d. [[1987]])
** [[Shari Lewis]], American ventriloquist (d. [[1998]])
** [[Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan]], French U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (d. [[2003]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[David Bellamy]], English author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist (d. [[2019]]) 
** [[John Boorman]], English film director
* [[January 21]] – [[Habib Thiam]], Senegal politician (d. [[2017]])
* [[January 23]] 
** [[Bill Hayden]], Australian politician, 21st [[Governor-General of Australia]] (d. [[2023]])
** [[Chita Rivera]], American actress, dancer (d. [[2024]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Corazon Aquino]], 11th [[President of the Philippines]] (d. [[2009]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Nikolai Fadeyechev]], Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and teacher (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Jack Hill]], American film director

=== February ===
[[File:Paul Biya 2014.png|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Paul Biya]]]]
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[[File:Yokoono2.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Yoko Ono]]]]
[[File:Nina Simone 1965.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Nina Simone]]]]
* [[February 2]] – [[Tony Jay]], English-American actor and voice artist (d. [[2006]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann]], Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and priest (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 8]]
** [[Archduke Joseph Árpád of Austria]], Austro-Hungarian royal (d. [[2017]]) 
** [[Elly Ameling]], Dutch soprano
* [[February 12]] – [[Costa-Gavras]], Greek-born director, writer
* [[February 13]]
** [[Paul Biya]], 2nd [[President of Cameroon]]
** [[Kim Novak]], American actress
** [[Emanuel Ungaro]], French fashion designer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Mark |title=French fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro dies aged 86 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/dec/22/french-fashion-designer-emanuel-ungaro-dies-aged-86 |access-date=29 December 2019 |work=The Guardian|date=22 December 2019}}</ref>
* [[February 14]]
** [[Madhubala]], Indian actress (d. [[1969]])
** [[Nell Hall Williams]], American quilter (d. 2021)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Nell Hall Williams - 2021 - Christian Memorial |url=https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/23499721/nell-hall-williams |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250711055027/https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/23499721/nell-hall-williams |archive-date=2025-07-11 |access-date=2025-07-11 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] – [[Syed Sajjad Ali Shah]], 13th Chief Justice of Pakistan (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 18]]
** [[Yoko Ono]], Japanese-born singer, artist and widow of [[John Lennon]]
** Sir [[Bobby Robson]], English soccer player, manager (d. [[2009]])
**[[Frank Moores]], second [[Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Nina Simone]], African-American singer (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nina-simone-730232.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223155110/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nina-simone-730232.html |archive-date=February 23, 2009 |location=London, UK |work=The Independent |title=Nina Simone obituary |url-status=dead |date=April 23, 2003}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] 
** [[Katharine, Duchess of Kent]], British royal, musician and patron of the arts (d. [[2025]])
** [[Christopher Ondaatje]], Ceylonese-born travel writer, biographer and philanthropist<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles Whately Parker|author2=Charles Wolcott Parker|author3=Barnet M. Greene|title=Who's who in Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnxmAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=International Press|isbn=978-0-7715-7726-0|page=433}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Don Bragg (basketball)|Don Bragg]], American basketball player (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite basketball-reference|name=Don Bragg|id=b/braggdo01|access-date=October 7, 2024}}</ref>
* [[February 26]] – [[Lubomyr Husar]], Ukrainian Catholic bishop (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Charles Vinci]], American weightlifter (d. [[2018]])

=== March ===
[[File:Sir Michael Caine, 28th EFA Awards 2015, Berlin (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Caine]]]]
[[File:Quincy Jones May 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Quincy Jones]]]]
[[File:Philip Roth - 1973.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Philip Roth]]]]
* [[March 3]]
** [[Tomas Milian]], Cuban-American-Italian actor (d. [[2017]])
** [[Lee Radziwill]], American socialite, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (d. [[2019]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Jackie Blanchflower]], Northern Irish footballer (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jackie-blanchflower-1195817.html |title=Obituary|website=The Independent |date=September 3, 1998 |place=UK|access-date=1 January 2022}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] – [[Jesús Gil]], Spanish right-wing politician, construction businessman and football team owner (d. [[2004]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Mike Stoller]], American songwriter
* [[March 14]]
** [[Michael Caine|Sir Michael Caine]], English actor and author
** [[René Felber]], Swiss Federal Councillor (d. [[2020]])
** [[Quincy Jones]], African-American music producer, composer (d. [[2024]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Ruth Bader Ginsburg |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/ruth-bader-ginsburg |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=27 July 2021 |language=en |date=25 March 2020}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – [[Jessie Dalman]], American politician.<ref>{{cite web |title=Legislator Details - Jessie F. Dalman |url=https://mdoe.state.mi.us/legislators/Legislator/LegislatorDetail/3195 |access-date=July 29, 2020 |publisher=[[Library of Michigan]]}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] – [[Unita Blackwell]], African-American civil rights activist (d. [[2019]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Philip Roth]], American novelist (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sanford Pinsker|title=The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oh7Ya84bjtcC&pg=PA145 |year=1991|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-1581-9|page=145}}</ref>
* [[March 22]] – [[Abolhassan Banisadr]], 1st [[President of Iran]] (d. [[2021]])

=== April ===
[[File:Belmondo 1960.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jean-Paul Belmondo]]]]
[[File:Elizabeth Montgomery Bewitched (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elizabeth Montgomery]]]]
[[File:Montserrat_Caballé_1971b.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Montserrat Caballé]]]]
[[File:Jayne Mansfield (Kiss them for me-1957).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jayne Mansfield]]]]
[[File:Willie Nelson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Willie Nelson]]]]
* [[April 1]]
** [[Dan Flavin]], American artist (d. [[1996]])
** [[Claude Cohen-Tannoudji]], French physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel]] laureate
* [[April 5]] – [[Frank Gorshin]], American actor (''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'') (d. [[2005]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Henryk Niedźwiedzki]], Polish boxer (d. [[2018]]) 
* [[April 7]] – [[Wayne Rogers]], American actor (''[[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'') (d. [[2015]])
* [[April 9]] 
** [[Jean-Paul Belmondo]], French actor (d. [[2021]])
** [[Gian Maria Volonté]], Italian actor (d. [[1994]])
* [[April 12]]
** [[Montserrat Caballé]], Catalan operatic soprano (d. [[2018]])
** [[Ben Nighthorse Campbell]], American politician
* [[April 14]] – [[Yuri Oganessian]], Russian nuclear physicist
* [[April 15]]
** [[Roy Clark]], American country musician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Elizabeth Montgomery]], American actress (''[[Bewitched]]'') (d. [[1995]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Jayne Mansfield]], American actress (d. [[1967]])
* [[April 25]] – [[Jerry Leiber]], American composer (d. [[2011]])
* [[April 26]]
** [[Carol Burnett]], American actress, singer and comedian
** [[Arno Allan Penzias]], German-born physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel]] laureate (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hafner |first=Katie |author-link=Katie Hafner |date=January 22, 2024 |title=Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/science/space/arno-a-penzias-dead.html |access-date=January 23, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
** [[Filiberto Ojeda Ríos]], Puerto Rican activist (d. [[2005]])
* [[April 29]]
** [[Mark Eyskens]], [[Prime Minister of Belgium]]
** [[Rod McKuen]], American singer, songwriter and poet (d. [[2015]])
** [[Willie Nelson]], American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, producer, author, poet and activist
* [[April 30]] – [[Vittorio Merloni]], Italian entrepreneur (d. [[2016]])

=== May ===
[[File:James Brown Live Hamburg 1973 1702730029.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Brown]]]]
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[[File:Joan Collins - Monte-Carlo Television Festival.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Joan Collins]]]]
* [[May 3]]
** [[James Brown]], African-American soul musician (''[[I Got You (I Feel Good)]]'') (d. [[2006]])
** [[Steven Weinberg]], American physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel]] laureate (d. [[2021]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Ratnasiri Wickremanayake]], 2-time prime minister of Sri Lanka (d. [[2016]])
* [[May 7]]
** [[Johnny Unitas]], American football player (d. [[2002]])
** [[Nexhmije Pagarusha]], Albanian singer and actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[May 10]]
** [[Barbara Taylor Bradford]], English-born novelist (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Dave Mote|title=Contemporary Popular Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2MkUAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-216-6|page=43}}</ref>
** [[Eurico da Silva]], Indian judge of the High Court of Bombay (d. [[2025]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Louis Farrakhan]], African-American Muslim leader
* [[May 14]] – [[Siân Phillips]], Welsh actress
* [[May 21]] – [[Maurice André]], French trumpeter (d. [[2012]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Chen Jingrun]], Chinese mathematician (d. [[1996]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Joan Collins]], English actress
* [[May 24]] – [[Don Taxay]], American numismatist and historian (disappeared. [[1977]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Helmuth Rilling]], German conductor

=== June ===
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[[File:Joan Rivers 2010 - David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joan Rivers]]]]
[[File:Gene Wilder 1970.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Gene Wilder]]]]
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[[File:James Meredith Portrait.png|thumb|100px|[[James Meredith]]]]
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* [[June 1]]
** [[Charlie Wilson (Texas politician)|Charlie Wilson]], American politician (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/us/politics/11wilson.html |title=Charlie Wilson, Texas Congressman Linked to Foreign Intrigue, Dies at 76 |date=February 10, 2010|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 10, 2010}}</ref>
** [[Haruo Remeliik]], 1st president of Palau (d. [[1985]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Sasao Gouland]], governor of [[Chuuk State]], Micronesia (d. [[2011]])<ref name="cr 16-164">{{cite web|url=https://www.cfsm.gov.fm/ifile/16th%20Congress/Resolutions/CR%2016-164.pdf|title=CR 16-164|date=March 22, 2011|accessdate=September 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918092639/https://www.cfsm.gov.fm/ifile/16th%20Congress/Resolutions/CR%2016-164.pdf|archive-date=September 18, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 3]] – [[Celso Torrelio]], 58th president of Bolivia (d. [[1999]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Godfried Danneels]], Belgian cardinal (d. [[2019]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Heinrich Rohrer]], Swiss physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2013]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Joan Rivers]], American actress, comedian, and television host (d. [[2014]])
* [[June 10]] – [[F. Lee Bailey]], American lawyer (d. [[2021]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Gene Wilder]], American actor (d. [[2016]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Eddie Adams (photographer)|Eddie Adams]], American photographer and photojournalist (d. [[2004]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Sven-Olov Sjödelius]], Swedish sprint canoeist (d. [[2018]])
* [[June 14]] 
** [[Svetlin Rusev]], Bulgarian artist (d. [[2018]])
** [[Henri, Count of Paris (1933–2019)|Henri, Count of Paris]], French noble (d. [[2019]])
* [[June 15]] – [[Mohammad-Ali Rajai]], 2nd president of Iran, 47th prime minister of Iran (d. [[1981]])
* [[June 17]] – [[Maurice Stokes]], American basketball player (d. [[1970]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Viktor Patsayev]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[1971]])
* [[June 20]] – [[Danny Aiello]], American actor (d. [[2019]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Bernie Kopell]], American actor and comedian 
* [[June 22]] – [[Dianne Feinstein]], American politician, Senator and mayor of [[San Francisco]] (d. [[2023]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Abel Alier]], South Sudanese politician and judge
* [[June 24]]
** [[Sam Jones (basketball, born 1933)|Sam Jones]], American basketball player (d. [[2021]])
** [[Ngina Kenyatta]], [[First Lady of Kenya]]
* [[June 25]] 
** [[James Meredith]], American civil rights activist and writer 
** [[Hong Sook-ja]], South Korean politician, feminist
** [[Álvaro Siza]], Portuguese architect
* [[June 26]] – [[Claudio Abbado]], Italian conductor (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2014/01/21/264506409/tracing-the-career-of-claudio-abbado-a-consummate-conductor|title = Abbado obituary |website = NPR |date = January 21, 2014 | access-date =March 7, 2019|last1 = Tsioulcas |first1 = Anastasia }}</ref>
* [[June 28]] – [[V. Sasisekharan]], Indian molecular biologist
* [[June 30]] – [[Lea Massari]], Italian actress (d. [[2025]])

=== July ===
[[File:9.13.09OliverSacksByLuigiNovi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Oliver Sacks]]]]
* [[July 3]]
** [[Carmen Barbará]], Spanish comics artist, illustrator
** [[Lidy Stoppelman]], Dutch figure skater
* [[July 6]] – [[Reza Davari Ardakani]], Iranian philosopher
* [[July 7]] – [[Murray Halberg]], New Zealand runner (d. [[2022]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Oliver Sacks]], English-born [[neurologist]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[July 11]] 
** [[Joyce Piliso-Seroke]], South-African educator, activist, feminist and community organizer
** [[György Czakó]], Hungarian figure skater (d. [[2023]])
* [[July 14]]
** [[Franz von Bayern]], German royal
** [[Dumaagiin Sodnom]], 13th prime minister of Mongolia
* [[July 15]]
** [[Julian Bream]], English guitarist and lutenist (d. [[2020]])
** [[Guido Crepax]], Italian comics artist (d. [[2003]])
** [[John Hopfield]], American physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate 
** [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]], Indian writer (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=ലേഖകൻ|first=മാധ്യമം|date=2021-07-29|title=എം.ടിക്ക് ഇന്ന് പിറന്നാൾ {{!}} Madhyamam|url=https://www.madhyamam.com/kerala/today-is-mt-vasudevan-nairs-birthday-829928|access-date=2021-07-29|website=www.madhyamam.com|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 16]]
** [[Julian A. Brodsky]], American businessman
** [[Gheorghe Cozorici]], Romanian actor (d. [[1993]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici]], 9th prime minister of Malta (d. [[2022]])
* [[July 18]]
** [[Syd Mead]], American industrial and conceptual designer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/30/syd-mead-artist-behind-blade-runner-dies-tron-aliens-star-trek|title=Syd Mead, Artist Behind Blade Runner, Dies|work=IGN|last=Fowler|first=Matt|date=December 30, 2019|access-date=December 31, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Jean Yanne]], French humorist and film actor and director (d. [[2003]])
** [[Yevgeny Yevtushenko]], Russian poet (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/world/europe/yevgeny-yevtushenko-dead-dissident-soviet-poet.html|title=Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet Who Stirred a Generation of Soviets, Dies at 83|first=Raymond H.|last=Anderson|date=1 April 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=6 April 2017}}</ref> 
* [[July 19]] – [[Michel Lévêque]], French diplomat and politician
* [[July 20]] – [[Cormac McCarthy]], American [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author (d. [[2023]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Richard Rogers]], Italian-born British architect (d. [[2021]])
* [[July 29]] 
** [[Lou Albano]], Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor (d. [[2009]])
** [[Robert Fuller (actor)|Robert Fuller]], American actor and rancher

=== August ===
[[File:Dom Deluise Allan Warren.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Dom DeLuise]]]]
[[File:Julie Newmar - 1965.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Julie Newmar]]]]
[[File:Stuart Allen Roosa.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Stuart Roosa]]]]
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[[File:Roman Polanski at Cannes in 2013 cropped and brightened.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Roman Polanski]]]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Dom DeLuise]], American actor, comedian (d. [[2009]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Tom Bell (actor)|Tom Bell]], English actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Anthony Anenih]], Nigerian politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Suchinda Kraprayoon]], 19th [[Prime Minister of Thailand]] (d. [[2025]])
* [[August 7]]
** [[Elinor Ostrom]], American economist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[2012]])
** [[Jerry Pournelle]], American science fiction writer (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/obituaries/jerry-pournelle-science-fiction-novelist-and-computer-guide-dies-at-84.html|title=Jerry Pournelle, Science Fiction Novelist and Computer Guide, Dies at 84|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|work=The New York Times |date=September 15, 2017|access-date=September 1, 2019|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
* [[August 10]]
** [[Silvia Caos]], Cuban-Mexican actress (d. [[2006]])
** [[Doyle Brunson]], American poker player (d. [[2023]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Jerry Falwell]], American evangelist, conservative political activist (d. [[2007]])
* [[August 14]]
** [[Robert Harold Porter]], Canadian businessman, farmer and politician (d. [[2018]]) 
** [[Richard R. Ernst]], Swiss chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 16]]
** [[Julie Newmar]], American actress  
** [[Stuart Roosa]], American astronaut (d. [[1994]])
** [[Ricardo Blume]], Peruvian-Mexican actor and theater director (d. [[2020]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Gene Kranz]], American [[NASA]] [[Flight Director]]
* [[August 18]] 
** [[Roman Polanski]], Polish film director
** [[Fiachra Ó Ceallaigh]], Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 20]] 
** [[George J. Mitchell]], American lawyer, businessman, author and politician<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=m000811 |title=Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress - Retro Member details |access-date=2020-10-20 |archive-date=2020-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017091724/https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=M000811 |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Don Fuqua]], American politician and member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1963 to 1987
* [[August 21]] – [[Janet Baker|Dame Janet Baker]], English mezzo-soprano
* [[August 23]] – [[Robert Curl]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1996/curl/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=5 July 2022}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] – [[Guillermo Bredeston]], Argentine actor (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Tom Skerritt]], American actor
* [[August 29]] – [[Arnold Koller]], Swiss Federal Councillor

=== September ===
[[File:Conway Twitty 1974.JPG|100px|thumb|[[Conway Twitty]]]]
[[File:Mathieu Kérékou 2006Feb10.JPG|100px|thumb|[[Mathieu Kérékou]]]]
[[File:Karl Lagerfeld 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Karl Lagerfeld]]]]
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[[File:Samora Moises Machel detail DF-SC-88-01383.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Samora Machel]]]]
* [[September 1]]
** [[T. Thirunavukarasu]], Sri Lankan Tamil politician (d. [[1982]])
** [[Conway Twitty]], American country music artist (d. [[1993]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Mathieu Kérékou]], 5th [[President of Benin]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[September 10]]
** [[Yevgeny Khrunov]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2000]])
** [[Karl Lagerfeld]], German fashion designer, artist (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/feb/19/karl-lagerfeld-obituary|title=Karl Lagerfeld obituary|date=19 February 2019|author=Veronica Horwell|website=The Guardian|access-date=14 July 2024}}</ref>
* [[September 11]] – [[William Luther Pierce]], American [[Neo-Nazi]] and [[far-right]] activist (d. [[2002]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Mahant Swami Maharaj]] (b. Vinu Patel), Indian Hindu guru
* [[September 14]] – [[Hillevi Rombin]], Swedish athlete, model and [[Miss Universe 1955]] (d. [[1996]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos]], Spanish conductor (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 17]] 
** [[Arsenio Corsellas]], Spanish actor (d. [[2019]])
** [[Chuck Grassley]], American politician
** [[Evelyn Kawamoto]], American competition swimmer (d. [[2017]])
** [[Dorothy Loudon]], American actress and singer (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 18]]
** [[Scotty Bowman]], Canadian ice hockey coach
** [[Robert Blake (actor)|Robert Blake]], American actor (d. [[2023]])
** [[Fred Willard]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2020]])
* [[September 19]] – [[David McCallum]], Scottish-born actor (d. [[2023]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Anatoly Krutikov]], Russian footballer and manager (d. [[2019]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Raffaele Farina]], Italian cardinal, archivist of the Holy Roman Church
* [[September 25]] – [[Hubie Brown]], American basketball coach, broadcaster
* [[September 27]]
** [[Kathleen Nolan]], American actress
** [[Will Sampson]], American actor (d. [[1987]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Samora Machel]], [[President of Mozambique]] (d. [[1986]])<ref>"Samora Machel, a Biography", Author(s) of Review: David Hedges, ''Journal of Southern African Studies'', Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 1993), pp. 547–549. {{JSTOR|2636927}}</ref>
* [[September 30]]
** [[Ajitesh Bandopadhyay]], Indian actor, playwright and director (d. [[1983]]) 
** [[Cissy Houston]], American singer (d. [[2024]])
** [[Barbara Knox]], English actress<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sansome |first=Jessica |date=2023-10-13 |title=Real life of Corrie's Barbara Knox - age, divorces and retirement plans |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/real-life-coronation-streets-rita-27905416 |access-date=2025-06-01 |website=[[Manchester Evening News]] |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Dirce Migliaccio]], Brazilian actress (d. [[2009]])
** [[Michael Parenti|Micheal Parenti]], American political scientist

=== October ===
[[File:John Gurdon Cambridge 2012.JPG|thumb|100px|[[John Gurdon]]]]
[[File:William Anders.jpg|thumb|100px|[[William Anders]]]]
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[[File:MFdSantos-Garrincha.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Garrincha]]]]
* [[October 2]]
** [[John Gurdon]], British developmental biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2025]])
** [[Dave Somerville]], Canadian singer ([[The Diamonds]]) (d. [[2015]])
** [[Waldo Von Erich]], Canadian professional wrestler (d. [[2009]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Abdon Pamich]], Italian Olympic athlete
* [[October 9]] – [[Peter Mansfield]], British physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Jay Sebring]], American hair stylist (d. [[1969]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Thomas Atcitty]], American politician (d. [[2020]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Mark Zakharov]], Soviet and Russian film and theatre director (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 17]]
** [[William Anders]], American astronaut (d. [[2024]])
** [[Jeanine Deckers]], Belgian nun, known as "The Singing Nun" (d. [[1985]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Firuz Mustafayev]], Azerbaijani politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Geraldo Majella Agnelo|Dom Geraldo Majella]], Brazilian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 24]]
** [[Reginald Kray]], British gangster (d. [[2000]])
** [[Ronald Kray]], British gangster (d. [[1995]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Garrincha]], Brazilian footballer (d. [[1983]])

=== November ===
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[[File:Amartya Sen 2012.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Amartya Sen]]]]
[[File:Dukakis campaign portrait 3x4.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Michael Dukakis]]]]
[[File:Charles K. Kao cropped 2.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Charles K. Kao]]]]
[[File:Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda 1964.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda]]]]
* [[November 3]]
** [[John Barry (composer)|John Barry]], British film score composer (d. [[2011]])
** [[Ken Berry]], American actor, dancer and singer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Jeremy Brett]], British actor (d. [[1995]])
** [[Aneta Corsaut]], American actress (d. [[1995]])
** [[Amartya Sen]], Indian economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate
** [[C. K. Jaffer Sharief]], Indian politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Michael Dukakis]], American politician, former [[governor of Massachusetts]], and [[1988 United States presidential election|1988]] presidential candidate
* [[November 4]] – [[Charles K. Kao]], Chinese electrical engineer, physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel]] laureate (d. [[2018]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Knut Johannesen]], Norwegian speed-skater
* [[November 9]] – [[Lucian Pintilie]], Romanian film director, screenwriter (d. [[2018]])
* [[November 10]]
** [[Don Clarke]], New Zealand rugby football player (d. [[2002]])
** [[Seymour Nurse]], Barbadian cricketer (d. [[2019]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda]], Japanese artistic gymnast (d. [[2023]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Jalal Talabani]], Kurdish [[President of Iraq]] (d. [[2017]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Fred Haise]], American astronaut in [[Apollo 13]]
* [[November 19]] – [[Larry King]], American [[Radio Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] broadcaster (''[[Larry King Live]]'', ''[[Larry King Now]]'', ''[[Politicking with Larry King]]'') (d. [[2021]])
* [[November 21]] – [[T. Rasalingam]], Sri Lankan Tamil politician
* [[November 23]] – [[Krzysztof Penderecki]], Polish composer and conductor (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Tunku Abdul Rahman (born 1933)|Tunku Abdul Rahman]], Malaysian aristocrat (d. [[1988]]) 
** [[Kathryn Crosby]], American actress (d. [[2024]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Robert Goulet]], American entertainer (d. [[2007]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Ani Bitenc]], Slovenian translator (d. [[2024]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Hope Lange]], American actress (d. [[2003]])
* [[November 29]]
** [[Francisco Cuoco]], Brazilian actor (d. [[2025]])
** [[John Mayall]], English blues musician (d. [[2024]])

=== December ===
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[[File:Defense.gov News Photo 050511-D-9880W-053 Abel Pacheco cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Abel Pacheco]]]]
[[File:Emperor Akihito of Japan.jpg|thumb|100px|Emperor [[Akihito]]]]
[[File:Carroll Spinney and Oscar the Grouch 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Caroll Spinney]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[Lou Rawls]], American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor and record producer (d. [[2006]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Mike Larrabee]], American Olympic athlete (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Paul J. Crutzen]], Dutch chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2021]])
* [[December 4]]
** [[Tengku Ampuan Afzan]], Queen of Malaysia (d. [[1988]])
** [[Horst Buchholz]], German actor (d. [[2003]]) 
** [[Wink Martindale]], American game show host and disc jockey (d. [[2025]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Henryk Górecki]], Polish composer (d. [[2010]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Mako (actor)|Mako]], Japanese-born actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[December 13]] – [[Lou Adler]], American film and record producer
* [[December 14]]
** [[Justin Rakotoniaina]], 3rd prime minister of Madagascar (d. [[2001]])
** [[Eva Wilma]], Brazilian actress (d. [[2021]])
* [[December 15]] 
** [[Tim Conway]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2019]])
** [[Ralph T. O'Neal]], 4th and 6th Premier of the Virgin Islands (d. [[2019]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Shirley Abrahamson]], American jurist, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (d. [[2020]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Abel Pacheco]], 44th [[President of Costa Rica]]
* [[December 23]] – [[Akihito]], 125th [[List of Emperors of Japan|Emperor of Japan]]
* [[December 25]] – [[Phan Văn Khải]], 5th [[Prime Minister of Vietnam]] (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 26]]
** [[Emmanuel Dabbaghian]], Syrian Armenian Catholic patriarch (d. [[2018]])
** [[Caroll Spinney]], American puppeteer (d. [[2019]])

== Deaths ==
{{BDToC|deaths}}

=== January ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2002-0625-505, Dr. Wilhelm Cuno.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Wilhelm Cuno]]]]
[[File:Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Calvin Coolidge]]]]
[[File:Luigi_Amedeo,_Duke_of_the_Abruzzi.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi]]]]
* [[January 3]]
** [[Wilhelm Cuno]], German businessman, politician and 15th [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1876]])
** [[Jack Pickford]], Canadian-born actor, film director and producer (b. [[1896]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Calvin Coolidge]], 30th [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Bert Hinkler]], Australian aviator (b. [[1892]])
* [[January 9]] 
** [[Kate Gleason]], American engineer (b. [[1865]])
** [[Daphne Akhurst]], Australian tennis champion (b. [[1903]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Roberto Mantovani]], Italian geologist (b. [[1854]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]], American stained glass artist, jewellery designer, son of Charles Lewis Tiffany (b. 1848)
* [[January 25]] – [[Lewis J. Selznick]], American film producer (b. [[1870]])
* [[January 29]]
** [[Thomas Coward]], British ornithologist (b. [[1867]])
** [[Sara Teasdale]], American lyrical poet (b. [[1884]])
* [[January 31]] – [[John Galsworthy]], British writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite book|author=James Gindin|title=John Galsworthy's Life and Art: An Alien's Fortress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YcevCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=18 June 1987|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-349-08530-9|pages=1}}</ref>

=== February ===
* [[February 5]]
** [[James Banning]], American aviation pioneer (b. [[1900]])
** [[Josiah Thomas (politician)|Josiah Thomas]], Australian politician (b. [[1863]])
* [[February 12]] 
** [[Henri Duparc (composer)|Henri Duparc]], French composer (b. [[1848]])
** Sir [[Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet|William Robertson]], British field marshal (b. [[1860]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Carl Correns]], German botanist, geneticist (b. [[1864]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Pat Sullivan (film producer)|Pat Sullivan]], Australian-born American director, producer of animated films (b. [[1885]])
* [[February 18]] – [[James J. Corbett]], American boxer (b. [[1866]])<ref>{{cite web |title=James J. Corbett {{!}} American boxer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-J-Corbett |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=8 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 26]]
** [[Spottiswoode Aitken]], British-American actor (b. [[1868]])
** [[Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia]] (b. [[1866]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Walter Hiers]], American actor (b. [[1893]])

=== March ===
[[File:BaltasarBrum.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Baltasar Brum]]]]
* [[March 2]] – [[Thomas J. Walsh]], American politician (b. [[1859]])
* [[March 6]]
** [[Anton Cermak]], Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (assassinated) (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ds4MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yWkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3008,834759&dq=cermak+colitis&hl=en|title=Reveals Colitis Fatal to Cermak|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=March 31, 1933|page=1}}</ref>
** [[Cyril R. Jandus]], American lawyer and politician (b. [[1867]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi]], Chief of the [[Senussi]] order in [[Libya]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[March 13]] 
** [[Andon Dimitrov]], Bulgarian revolutionary leader (b. [[1867]])
** [[Robert T. A. Innes]], South African astronomer (b. [[1861]])
* [[March 14]]
** [[Balto]], American sled dog (b. [[1919]])
** [[Antonio Garbasso]], Italian physicist, politician (b. [[1871]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Gustavo Jiménez]], Interim [[President of Peru]] (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi]], Italian mountaineer, explorer and admiral (b. [[1873]])
*[[March 19]] – [[Erhard Heiden]], German Nazi officer and 3rd commander [[Reichsführer-SS]] of the [[Schutzstaffel]] (b. [[1901]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Giuseppe Zangara]], American attempted assassin of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Eddie Lang]], American musician (b. [[1902]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Dan O'Connor (prospector)|Dan O'Connor]], Canadian prospector (b. [[1864]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Baltasar Brum]], 23rd [[President of Uruguay]] (b. [[1883]])

=== April ===
[[File:2008.04.24.HildegardBurjan.Pramerg7.Vienna.JPG|thumb|120px|Blessed [[Hildegard Burjan]]]]
[[File:Henry Royce.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Henry Royce]]]]
[[File:Sánchez Cerro.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro]]]]
* [[April 1]] – [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford]], British politician and colonial governor, [[Viceroy of India]] (b. [[1868]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Ranjitsinhji]], Indian cricketer and ruler of [[Nawanagar State|Nawanagar]]. (b. [[1872]])
* [[April 4]] – [[William A. Moffett]], U.S. admiral (crash of airship {{USS|Akron|ZRS-4}}) (b. [[1869]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria]] (b. [[1860]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Mary Isabella Macleod]], North American pioneer (b. [[1852]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Harriet Brooks]], Canadian physicist (b. [[1876]])
* [[April 20]] – [[William Courtenay (actor)|William Courtenay]], Canadian actor, director (b. [[1875]])
* [[April 22]]
** [[Prince Ludwig Philipp of Thurn and Taxis]] (b. [[1901]])
** [[Henry Royce|Sir Henry Royce]], English car manufacturer (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Tim Keefe]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1857]])
*[[April 29]] - [[C.P. Cavafy]], Greek-Egyptian poet (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{cite web | last1=Kunitz | first1=Stanley | last2=Haycraft | first2=Howard | title=Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature | date=1942 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sb1kAAAAMAAJ&q=kavafis+april+29 }}</ref>
* [[April 30]] – [[Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro]], 77th [[Prime Minister of Peru]], 48th [[President of Peru]] (assassinated) (b. [[1889]])

=== May ===
[[File:Li chingYuen.jpeg|thumb|120px|[[Li Ching-Yuen]]]]
* [[May 3]] – [[Frederick Kerr]], English actor (b. [[1858]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Li Ching-Yuen]], Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor
* [[May 13]] – [[Ernest Torrence]], British actor (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Hermann von François]], German general (b. [[1856]])
* [[May 16]] – [[John Henry Mackay]], Scottish-born German anarchist writer and philosopher (b. [[1864]])<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0masjfeO6isC&pg=PA600 | title=Kräm – Marp | isbn=9783110220490 | last1=Kühlmann | first1=Wilhelm | date=29 September 2010 | publisher=Walter de Gruyter }}</ref>
* [[May 22]] – [[Sándor Ferenczi]], Hungarian psychoanalyst (b. [[1873]])
* [[May 24]]
** [[Percy C. Mather]], British Protestant missionary (b. [[1882]])
** [[Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss]], British admiral (b. [[1864]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Horatio Bottomley]], British politician and businessman (b. [[1860]])<ref name= ODNBhb>{{cite ODNB|last= Morris|first= A.J.A.|title= Bottomley, Horatio William|url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31981|date= January 2011|doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/31981 |access-date= 16 June 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143354/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31981?docPos=1|archive-date= 14 July 2014|url-status= live}}</ref>
** [[Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmie Rodgers]], American country singer (b. [[1897]])

=== June ===
[[File:Yrigoyen en ventanilla del ferrocarril viaje a Santa Fe campaña electoral de 1926..jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Hipólito Yrigoyen]]]]
* [[June 2]] – [[Frank Jarvis (athlete)|Frank Jarvis]], American athlete (b. [[1878]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Cyrus H. K. Curtis]], American publisher (b. [[1850]])
* [[June 15]] – [[Hildegard Burjan]], German [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] nun and blessed (b. [[1883]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Harry Sweet]], American actor and director (b. [[1901]])
* [[June 25]]
** [[Jean Cugnot]], French Olympic cyclist (b. [[1899]])
** [[Giovanni Giacometti]], Swiss painter (b. [[1868]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Roscoe Arbuckle]], American actor, comedian, film director and screenwriter (b. [[1887]])

=== July ===
[[File:SulejmanDelvina.jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Sulejman Delvina]]]]
[[File:Hasan Prishtina (portrait).jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Hasan Prishtina]]]]
[[File:King Faisal I of Iraq.png|120px|thumbnail|right|King [[Faisal I of Iraq|Faisal of Iraq]]]]
* [[July 3]] 
** [[Hipólito Yrigoyen]], 18th [[President of Argentina]] (b. [[1852]])
** [[Franz Wilhelm Seiwert]], German painter, sculptor (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Robert Kajanus]], Finnish conductor and composer (b. [[1856]])
* [[July 11]] – [[Edward Dillon (actor)|Edward Dillon]], American actor, director (b. [[1879]])
* [[July 15]]
** [[Irving Babbitt]], American literary critic (b. [[1865]])
** [[Freddie Keppard]], American jazz musician (b. [[1890]])
** [[Léon de Witte de Haelen]], Belgian general (b. [[1857]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Charles Prince (actor)|Charles Prince]], French actor (b. [[1872]])
* [[July 27]] – [[Nobuyoshi Mutō]], Japanese field marshal, ambassador (b. [[1868]])

=== August ===
* [[August 1]] – [[Sulejman Delvina]], Albanian politician, 5th [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Alf Morgans]], Australian politician, 4th Premier of Western Australia (b. [[1850]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Hasan Prishtina]], Albanian politician, 8th [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[August 18]] – [[James Williamson (film pioneer)|James Williamson]], British film director (b. [[1855]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Alexandros Kontoulis]], Greek general (b. [[1858]])
* [[August 23]] 
** [[Marie Cahill]], American singer, actress (b. [[1866]])
** [[Adolf Loos]], Austrian-Czechoslovak architect (b. [[1870]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Kustaa Ahmala]], Finnish politician (b. [[1867]])

=== September ===
* [[September 2]] – [[Francesco de Pinedo]], Italian aviator (b. [[1890]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon]], British statesman (b. [[1862]])
* [[September 8]] – King [[Faisal I of Iraq]] (b. [[1885]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Giuseppe Campari]], Italian opera singer, Grand Prix driver (b. [[1892]])
* [[September 17]] 
** [[Jules Culot]], French entomologist (b. [[1861]])
** [[Joseph De Piro]], Maltese [[Roman Catholic]] priest, missionary and Servant of God (b. [[1877]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Annie Besant]], British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (b. [[1847]])<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 September 1933 |title=Dr. Annie Besant |page=12 |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LvVUAAAAIBAJ&pg=7137%2C2455951 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Kenji Miyazawa]], Japanese novelist and poet of children's literature (b. [[1896]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Dorothea Baird]], British actress (b. [[1875]])
* [[September 25]]
** [[Paul Ehrenfest]], Austrian-Dutch physicist (b. [[1880]])
** [[Ring Lardner]], American writer (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Ring Lardner Dies; Noted as Writer |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0306.html}}</ref>
* [[September 26]] – [[William Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick]], British-born flying ace (b. 1896)
* [[September 28]] – [[Alexander von Krobatin]], Austro-Hungarian field marshal and politician (b. [[1849]])

=== October ===
[[File:Ismael Montes 1914.jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Ismael Montes]]]]
[[File:Paul Painlevé 1923.jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Paul Painlevé]]]]
[[File:BASA-252K-3-23-1-Andrey Lyapchev - Dimitar Karastoyanov Foto.jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Andrey Lyapchev]]]]
[[File:Nadir Khan of Afghanistan.jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|King [[Mohammad Nadir Shah]]]]
[[File:Yamamoto Gonnohyoe 2.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[Yamamoto Gonnohyoe]]]]
* [[October 4]] – [[Edward Lyon Buchwalter]], American Union captain and businessman (b. [[1841]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Renée Adorée]], French actress (b. [[1898]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Jo Labadie]], American labor organizer (b. [[1850]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Ismael Montes]], Bolivian general and political figure, 26th [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1861]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Emily Murphy]], Canadian woman's rights activist (b. [[1868]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/emily-murphy|title=Emily Murphy &#124; Historica Canada|website=www.historicacanada.ca}}</ref>
* [[October 29]] 
** [[George Luks]], American painter (b. [[1867]])
** [[Albert Calmette]], French bacteriologist, immunologist (b. [[1863]])
** [[Paul Painlevé]], French mathematician and statesman, 62nd [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1863]])

=== November ===
* [[November 2]] – [[Gao Qifeng]], Chinese painter (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite news |publisher=[[Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference]] |work=rmzxb.com.cn |title=高奇峰《松猿图》：画海横舟 劈波至勇 |trans-title=Gao Qifeng's "Pine and Monkey": Painting a Boat Crossing the Sea and Bravely Cutting through the Waves |language=zh |url=https://www.rmzxb.com.cn/c/2017-07-31/1690816.shtml |last=Zhu  |first=Wanzhang |author1-mask=Zhu Wanzhang (朱万章) |date=31 July 2017 |access-date=17 September 2024 |archive-date=16 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316190429/https://www.rmzxb.com.cn/c/2017-07-31/1690816.shtml}}</ref>
* [[November 3]] – [[Pierre Paul Émile Roux]], French physician (b. [[1853]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Texas Guinan]], American actress, producer and entrepreneur (b. [[1884]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Andrey Lyapchev]], 22nd [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1866]])
* [[November 8]]
** [[Pietro Albertoni]], Italian psychologist, politician (b. [[1849]])
** [[Mohammad Nadir Shah]], King of Afghanistan (b. [[1883]])
* [[November 16]] – [[Kyrillos III of Cyprus]], archbishop of the Cypriot Orthodox Church (b. [[1859]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Francisco Javier Gaxiola]], Mexican diplomat, lawyer and politician (b. [[1870]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Augustine Birrell]], English politician and author (b. [[1850]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Inez Clough]], American actress (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 23]] 
** [[Eusebio Hernández Pérez]], Cuban eugenicist, obstetrician, and guerrilla (b. [[1853]])
** [[François Albert]], French journalist (b. [[1874]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Arthur Currie|Sir Arthur Currie]], Canadian general (b. [[1875]])

=== December ===
* [[December 2]] 
** [[Clarence Burton]], American actor (b. [[1882]])
** [[Émile Meyerson]], Polish-French epistemologist, chemist and philosopher (b. [[1859]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Stefan George]], German poet (b. [[1868]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Auguste Chapuis]], French composer (b. [[1858]])
* [[December 8]]
** [[Yamamoto Gonnohyoe]], Imperial Japanese army officer, 8th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1852]])
** [[Karl Jatho]], German airplane pioneer (b. [[1873]])
** [[John Joly]], Irish physicist (b. [[1857]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[János Hadik]], 19th prime minister of [[Hungary]] (b. [[1863]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Robert W. Chambers]], American writer (b. [[1865]])<ref>{{Cite news|title = Robert Chambers, Novelist, Is Dead|date = December 17, 1933|work = New York Times|page = 36}}</ref>
* [[December 17]]
**[[13th Dalai Lama|Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama]] (b. [[1876]])
**[[Oskar Potiorek]], Austro-Hungarian general (b. [[1853]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Hans Vaihinger]], German philosopher (b. [[1852]])
* [[December 19]]
** [[George Jackson Churchward]], English Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer (b. [[1857]])
** [[Friedrich von Ingenohl]], German admiral (b. [[1857]])
* [[December 21]]
** [[Dora Montefiore]], English suffragist and socialist (b. [[1851]])
** [[Knud Rasmussen]], Danish polar explorer and anthropologist (b. [[1879]])
** [[Tod Sloan (jockey)|Tod Sloan]], American jockey (b. [[1874]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Prince Aribert of Anhalt]] (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Francesc Macià]], President of the Generalitat (autonomous government of Catalonia) (b. [[1859]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Anatoly Lunacharsky]], Russian Marxist revolutionary (b. [[1875]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Ion G. Duca]], 35th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (b. [[1879]])

== Nobel Prizes ==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Erwin Schrödinger]] and [[Paul Dirac|Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – not awarded
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Ivan Bunin]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Norman Angell|Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060816004520/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1933/1933fr.html The 1930s Timeline: 1933] – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia

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