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January

* January 11 – 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. * 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 " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. *
January 30 Events Pre-1600 *1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. *1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. 1601–1900 *1607 – An estimated ...
** National Socialist German Workers Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed
Chancellor of Germany The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany,; often shortened to ''Bundeskanzler''/''Bundeskanzlerin'', / is the head of the federal government of Germany and the commander in chief of the Ge ...
by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to
Joseph Paul-Boncour Augustin Alfred Joseph Paul-Boncour (; 4 August 1873 – 28 March 1972) was a French politician and diplomat of the Third Republic. He was a member of the Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) and served as Prime Minister of France from December 193 ...
. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by
Camille Chautemps Camille Chautemps (1 February 1885 – 1 July 1963) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic, three times President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister). He was the father-in-law of U.S. politician and statesman Howard J. ...
.


February

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February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the German People" in Berlin. *
February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...
– 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. *
February 5 Events Pre-1600 * 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. * 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. * 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– A
mutiny Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or overthrow an organization to which they were previously loyal. The term is commonly used for a rebellion among member ...
starts on the
Royal Netherlands Navy The Royal Netherlands Navy ( nl, Koninklijke Marine, links=no) is the naval force of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. During the 17th century, the navy of the Dutch Republic (1581–1795) was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world an ...
coastal defence ship ''De Zeven Provinciën'' in the
Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...
. After 6 days, it is bombed by a Dutch aircraft, killing 23 men, and the remaining mutineers surrender. *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
7 – Officers on the USS ''Ramapo'' record a 34-meter high sea-wave in the Pacific Ocean. * February 9
The King and Country debate The King and Country Debate was a debate on 9 February 1933 at the Oxford Union Society. The motion presented, "This House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country", passed at 275 votes for the motion and 153 against it. The mo ...
: 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." * February 10 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first
singing telegram A singing telegram is a message that is delivered by an artist in a musical form. Singing telegrams are historically linked to normal telegrams, but tend to be humorous. Sometimes the artist is in costume or formal clothing. Western Union, the Am ...
. *
February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
– In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds the
Mayor of Chicago The mayor of Chicago is the chief executive of city government in Chicago, Illinois, the third-largest city in the United States. The mayor is responsible for the administration and management of various city departments, submits proposals and r ...
, Anton Cermak. *
February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
– The Blaine Act passes the United States Senate, submitting the proposed Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. The amendment is ratified on December 5, ending
prohibition in the United States In the United States from 1920 to 1933, a Constitution of the United States, nationwide constitutional law prohibition, prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. The alcohol industry was curtai ...
. *
February 27 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
Reichstag fire The Reichstag fire (german: Reichstagsbrand, ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of ...
: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the
Reichstag building The Reichstag (, ; officially: – ; en, Parliament) is a historic government building in Berlin which houses the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany's parliament. It was constructed to house the Imperial Diet (german: Reichstag) of the ...
, is set on fire under controversial circumstances. The following day, the Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in response to the Reichstag fire, nullifying many German civil liberties. *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. *1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...
English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33: The England cricket team wins The Ashes using the controversial bodyline tactic.


March

* March 3 -
1933 Sanriku earthquake The occurred on the Sanriku coast of the Tōhoku region of Honshū, Japan on March 2 with a moment magnitude of 8.4. The associated tsunami caused widespread devastation. Earthquake The epicenter was located offshore, east of the city of Kama ...
: A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit
Honshū , historically called , is the largest and most populous island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island separa ...
, Japan, killing approximately 3,000 people. * March 4 ** Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) is
sworn in Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon ', also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity. A common legal substitute for those who conscientiously object to making sacred oaths is to giv ...
as the 32nd president of the United States, beginning his " first 100 days". In reference to the
Great Depression The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...
, he proclaims "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" in his inauguration speech. It is the last time Inauguration Day in the United States occurs on March 4. ** The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure;
Chancellor Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree, an origin of Austrofascism. *
March 5 Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. * 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
** The
Great Depression The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...
: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "
Bank holiday A bank holiday is a national public holiday in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and the Crown Dependencies. The term refers to all public holidays in the United Kingdom, be they set out in statute, declared by royal proclamation or held ...
", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on March 13). ** March 1933 German federal election: National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes. *
March 7 Events Pre-1600 * 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. * 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
– The real-estate trading board game '' Monopoly'' is invented in the United States. * March 10 – The 6.4
Long Beach earthquake The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach, California, on the Newport–Inglewood Fault. The earthquake had a magnitude estimated at 6.4 , and a m ...
shakes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), killing 115 people. *
March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
Great Depression The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...
:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States, in the first of his "
Fireside chats The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944. Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great De ...
". *
March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
– 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 from convening, starting the
Austrofascist The Federal State of Austria ( de-AT, Bundesstaat Österreich; colloquially known as the , "Corporate State") was a continuation of the First Austrian Republic between 1934 and 1938 when it was a one-party state led by the clerical fascist Fa ...
dictatorship. * March 20 **
Dachau , , commandant = List of commandants , known for = , location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany , built by = Germany , operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) , original use = Political prison , construction ...
, the first
Nazi concentration camp From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps, (officially) or (more commonly). The Nazi concentration camps are distinguished from other types of Nazi camps such as forced-labor camps, as well as concen ...
, 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
anti-Nazi boycott The anti-Nazi boycott was an international boycott of German products in response to violence and harassment by members of Hitler's Nazi Party against Jews following his appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Examples of Nazi v ...
in response to the persecution of German Jews. ** Giuseppe Zangara, the attempted assassin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, is executed by the electric chair. * March 22 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen–Harrison Act, allowing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines. * March 23 – ''
Gleichschaltung The Nazi term () or "coordination" was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society and societies occupied b ...
'': The '' Reichstag'' passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany, curbing its own power. * 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). * March 29 – Welsh journalist Gareth Jones makes the first report in the West of the
Holodomor The Holodomor ( uk, Голодомо́р, Holodomor, ; derived from uk, морити голодом, lit=to kill by starvation, translit=moryty holodom, label=none), also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famin ...
famine-genocide in Ukraine. *
March 31 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian. *1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– The Civilian Conservation Corps is established, with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.


April

* April 1 – The recently elected
Nazis Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...
(under Julius Streicher) organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany. * April 2 – As a member of the English cricket team touring New Zealand, 1933, batsman Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs in a test match at
Eden Park Eden Park is New Zealand's largest sports stadium, with a capacity of 50,000. Located in central Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, it is three kilometres southwest of the CBD, on the boundary between the suburbs of Mount Eden and King ...
, Auckland. * 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 Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. *
April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – ...
– American airship '' 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 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...
). *
April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
** The International Court of Justice in The Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark, and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland. Norway submits to the decision. ** President of the United States 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 Bullion is non-ferrous metal that has been refined to a high standard of elemental purity. The term is ordinarily applied to bulk metal used in the production of coins and especially to precious metals such as gold and silver. It comes from t ...
. * April 7 ** Sale of some beer is legalized in the United States under the Cullen-Harrison Act of March 22, eight months before the full repeal of Prohibition in December. ** The
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Hitler Service (german: Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums, shortened to ''Berufsbeamtengesetz''), also known as Civil Service Law, Civil Service Restoration Act, and Law to Re-es ...
is passed in Germany, the first law of the new regime directed against Jews (as well as political opponents). * April 11 – Aviator Bill Lancaster takes off from Lympne in England, in an attempt to make a speed record to the
Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope ( af, Kaap die Goeie Hoop ) ;''Kaap'' in isolation: pt, Cabo da Boa Esperança is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is t ...
, but vanishes (his body is not found in the Sahara Desert until
1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
). *
April 13 Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– The Children and Young Persons Act is passed in the United Kingdom. *
April 21 Events Pre-1600 *753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date). * 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
Nazi Germany outlaws the
kosher (also or , ) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jewish people are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. Food that may be consumed is deemed kosher ( in English, yi, כּשר), fro ...
ritual shechita. * April 24 ** Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany begins with seizure of the Bible Students' office in Magdeburg. ** Jewish physicians in Nazi Germany are excluded from official insurance schemes, forcing many to give up their practices. * April 26 ** The Gestapo secret police is established in Nazi Germany by Hermann Göring. ** Editors of the '' Harvard Lampoon'' steal the
Sacred Cod of Massachusetts The Sacred Cod is a carved-wood effigy of an Atlantic codfish, "painted to the life", hanging in the House of Representatives chamber of Boston's Massachusetts State House"a memorial of the importance of the Cod-Fishery to the welfare of thi ...
from the State House (it is returned two days later). *
April 27 Events Pre-1600 * 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''. * 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
– The
Stahlhelm The ''Stahlhelm'' () is a German military steel combat helmet intended to provide protection against shrapnel and fragments of grenades. The term ''Stahlhelm'' refers both to a generic steel helmet and more specifically to the distinctive Ger ...
veterans' organization joins the Nazi party in Germany.


May

* May 2 ** ''
Gleichschaltung The Nazi term () or "coordination" was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society and societies occupied b ...
'': Adolf Hitler prohibits trade unions. ** The first alleged modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster occurs. * May 3 ** In the Irish Free State,
Dáil Éireann Dáil Éireann ( , ; ) is the lower house, and principal chamber, of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann (the upper house).Article 15.1.2º of the Constitution of Ireland read ...
abolishes the
oath of allegiance An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges a duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to a monarch or a country. In modern republics, oaths are sworn to the country in general, or to the country's constitution. For ...
to the
British Crown The Crown is the state (polity), state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, overseas territories, Provinces and territorie ...
. **
Nellie Tayloe Ross Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977) was an American educator and politician who served as the 14th governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and as the 28th and first female director of the United States Mint from 193 ...
becomes the first woman to be named director of the United States Mint. * May 5 – The detection by
Karl Jansky Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. He is considere ...
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 Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
Mohandas Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...
begins a 3-week hunger strike, because of the mistreatment of the lower castes in India. *
May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. *1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
Paraguay declares war on
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. * May 17Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form the Nasjonal Samling (the National-Socialist Party) of Norway. *
May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
New Deal The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs agencies included the Civilian Cons ...
: President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority. *
May 26 Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe. * 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
– The Nazi Party in Germany introduces a law to legalize eugenic sterilization. *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...
**
New Deal The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs agencies included the Civilian Cons ...
in the United States: The
Federal Securities Act The Securities Act of 1933, also known as the 1933 Act, the Securities Act, the Truth in Securities Act, the Federal Securities Act, and the '33 Act, was enacted by the United States Congress on May 27, 1933, during the Great Depression and after ...
is signed into law, requiring the registration of securities with the
Federal Trade Commission The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection. The FTC shares jurisdiction ov ...
. ** The '' Century of Progress'' World's Fair opens in Chicago.


June

* June – The
Holodomor The Holodomor ( uk, Голодомо́р, Holodomor, ; derived from uk, морити голодом, lit=to kill by starvation, translit=moryty holodom, label=none), also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famin ...
famine-genocide in Ukraine reaches its peak, with 30,000 deaths from man-made starvation each day. The average life expectancy for a Ukrainian male born this year is 7.3 years. *
June 5 Events Pre-1600 *1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. *1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
– The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard, by enacting a joint resolution nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. *
June 6 Events Pre-1600 * 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
– The first drive-in movie theater opens in
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, near
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. *
June 12 Events Pre-1600 * 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. * 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
– The
London Economic Conference The London Economic Conference was a meeting of representatives of 66 nations from June 12 to July 27, 1933 at the Geological Museum in London. Its purpose was to win agreement on measures to fight the Great Depression, revive international trade, ...
is held. *
June 17 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. * 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
Union Station massacre: In
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, Pretty Boy Floyd kills an FBI agent, 3 local police, and the person they intended to rescue, captured bank robber Frank Nash. *
June 21 Events Pre-1600 * 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date). * 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
– All non- Nazi political parties are forbidden in Germany. * June 25 – Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany. * June 26 – The ''American Totalisator Company'' unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine, at the Arlington Park race track near Chicago and the founding of
20th Century Pictures Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. was an independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1933 by Joseph Schenck (the former president of United Artists) and Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Bros. Financial backing came from Schenck ...
.


July

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July 1 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
** The London Passenger Transport Board begins operation. **
Business Plot The Business Plot (also called the Wall Street Putsch and The White House Putsch) was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933, in the United States to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as di ...
: Smedley Butler becomes involved in a coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against President of the United States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
which fails (according to his own testimony in 1934). * July 4Gandhi is sentenced to prison in India. * July 6 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at
Comiskey Park Comiskey Park was a baseball park in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-southwest side of the city. The stadium served as the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League from 1910 through 1990. Buil ...
in Chicago. *
July 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch. * 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
– The first rugby union test match is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa, at Newlands in Cape Town. * July 14 – In Nazi Germany: ** Formation of new political parties is forbidden. ** The
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring (german: Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses) or "Sterilisation Law" was a statute in Nazi Germany enacted on July 14, 1933, (and made active in January 1934) which allowed the com ...
is enacted, allowing compulsory sterilization of citizens suffering from a list of alleged genetic disorders. * July 15 ** The
Four-Power Pact The Four-Power Pact, also known as the Quadripartite Agreement, was an international treaty between Britain, France, Italy, and Nazi Germany that was initialled on 7 June 1933 and signed on 15 July 1933 in the Palazzo Venezia, Rome. The Pact was ...
is signed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy. ** The
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(ILO) is renamed the International Communist League (ICL). * July 20Reichskonkordat: Vatican state secretary Eugenio Pacelli (later
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) 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 eastabout in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes. ** " Machine Gun Kelly" and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200,000 ransom.


August

* August 1 – The Blue Eagle emblem of the
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in the United States is displayed publicly for the first time. *
August 2 Events Pre-1600 *338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. *216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...
– The Stalin White Sea–Baltic Canal, a 227 km ship canal constructed using
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in the Soviet Union, opens, connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega and the
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. * August 7Simele massacre: More than 3,000
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Iraqis are killed by Iraqi government troops. * August 12
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makes his first speech publicly warning of the dangers of German rearmament. *
August 14 Events Pre-1600 * 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
– Loggers cause a
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in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying . * August 25 – The Diexi earthquake shakes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people. * August 30 – German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing is shot in Marienbad (
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), Czechoslovakia, dying the following day.


September

* September 12 ** Alejandro Lerroux forms a new government in Spain. ** Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in
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, conceives the idea of the
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. * September 26 – A hurricane destroys the town of Tampico, Mexico.


October

* October 1Engelbert Dollfuss, leader of the
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in Austria, is seriously injured in a failed assassination attempt. * October 7Air France is formed by the merger of five French airline companies, beginning operations with 250 planes. * October 10
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: 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 penitentiary. * October 13 – The British Interplanetary Society is founded. *
October 14 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings. * 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's i ...
– 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 defense armaments under the Versailles Treaty. *
October 14 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings. * 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's i ...
16 – The new constitution of Estonia is approved only on the third consecutive referendum. * October 16Parricides 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 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

* November 5 – Spanish Basque people 1933 Basque autonomy referendum, vote for autonomy. * November 8 –
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: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed. * 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 – Japan Precision Optical Industry, predecessor of the global Canon Inc., Canon camera and photocopier brand is founded in Japan. * 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 19 – Second Spanish Republic: General elections result in victory by the right-wing parties. * November 22 – The Fujian People's Government is declared in Fujian Province, China.


December

* December 5 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, repealing Prohibition. * December 15 – The 21st Amendment officially goes into effect, making alcohol legal in the United States. * 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. ** The British Plastics Federation (the oldest in the world) is founded. * December 23 – Lagny-Pomponne rail accident: A train crash in Lagny, Oise, Lagny, France kills over 200. * December 26 ** 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 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 work attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is published as "edited" (actually composed) by Marius Casadesus.


Births


January

* January 1 – Joe Orton, English playwright (d. 1967) * 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) * January 12 – Liliana Cavani, Italian film director and screenwriter * January 13 – Tom Gola, American basketball player (d. 2014) * 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 ** Chita Rivera, American actress, dancer * January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009) * January 27 – Nikolai Fadeyechev, Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and teacher (d. 2020)


February

* February 2 – Tony Jay, English-American actor and voice artist (d. 2006) *
February 5 Events Pre-1600 * 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. * 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. * 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
** Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and priest (d. 2017) ** Jörn Donner, Finnish writer, film director and politician (d. 2020) * 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) * February 14 – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969) *
February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
– 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 ** Bob Rafelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2022) ** Nina Simone, African-American singer (d. 2003) * February 22 ** Katharine, Duchess of Kent, British royal, musician and patron of the arts ** Christopher Ondaatje, Ceylonese-born travel writer, biographer and philanthropist * February 23 – Lee Calhoun, American athlete (d. 1989) * February 26 – Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian Catholic bishop (d. 2017) *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. *1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...
– Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (d. 2018)


March

* March 3 ** Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (d. 2013) ** Tomas Milian, Cuban-American-Italian actor (d. 2017) ** Lee Radziwill, American socialite, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (d. 2019) *
March 7 Events Pre-1600 * 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. * 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
– Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998) *
March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
– Jesús Gil, Spanish right-wing politician, construction businessman and football team owner (d. 2004) * March 13 – Mike Stoller, American songwriter *
March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
** Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger Swiss judge (d. 2022) ** Michael Caine, Sir Michael Caine, English actor and author ** René Felber, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 2020) ** Quincy Jones, African-American music producer, composer * March 15 ** Philippe de Broca, French film director (d. 2004) ** Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2020) * March 17 – Penelope Lively, English writer * March 18 – Unita Blackwell, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2019) * March 19 ** Edward G. Robinson Jr., American actor (d. 1974) ** Philip Roth, American novelist (d. 2018) ** Michel Sabbah, Israeli patriarch ** Renée Taylor, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director * March 22 ** Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st President of Iran (d. 2021) ** May Britt, Swedish actress ** Buddy MacKay, American politician, diplomat, 42nd Governor of Florida * March 23 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, professor at Stanford University * March 27 – Michel Guérard, French chef * March 28 – Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997) * March 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007) *
March 31 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian. *1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1983)


April

* April 1 ** Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996) ** Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel laureate *
April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – ...
** Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician ** Brian Hewson, English athlete (d. 2022) *
April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
– 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) ** Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Persian-American Islamic scholar * April 9 ** Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (d. 2021) ** Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (d. 1994) * April 11 – Denis Goldberg, South African social campaigner (d. 2020) * April 12 ** Montserrat Caballé, Catalan operatic soprano (d. 2018) ** Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American politician * April 14 ** Yuri Oganessian, Russian nuclear physicist ** Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian science fiction author (d. 2012) * April 15 ** Roy Clark, American country musician (d. 2018) ** Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (''Bewitched'') (d. 1995) * April 16 – Marcos Alonso (footballer, born 1933), Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer (d. 2012) * April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967) *
April 21 Events Pre-1600 *753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date). * 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– Ian Carr, Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer and educator (d. 2009) * April 23 – Frederic Pryor, American economist (d. 2019) * 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 ** 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

* 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 – 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 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. *1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer * May 11 – Louis Farrakhan, African-American Muslim leader * May 14 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress *
May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
** H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian politician, 11th Prime Minister of India ** Carroll Hardy, American baseball player (d. 2020) * May 21 – Maurice André, French trumpeter (d. 2012) * May 22 – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (d. 1996) * May 23 – Joan Collins, English actress (''Dynasty (1981 TV series), Dynasty'') *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...
– Edward S. Rogers Jr., Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2008) * May 29 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor


June

* June 1 ** Charlie Wilson (Texas politician), Charlie Wilson, American politician (d. 2010) ** Haruo Remeliik, 1st president of Palau (d. 1985) * June 3 – Celso Torrelio, 58th president of Bolivia (d. 1999) * June 4 – Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (d. 2019) *
June 6 Events Pre-1600 * 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
– Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) * June 7 ** Juan R. Torruella, Puerto Rican Olympic sailor and jurist (d. 2020) ** Beverly Wills, American actress (d. 1963) * June 8 – Joan Rivers, American actress, comedian, television host (d. 2014) * June 10 – F. Lee Bailey, American lawyer (d. 2021) * June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016) *
June 12 Events Pre-1600 * 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. * 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
– 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 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. * 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
– Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (d. 1970) * June 19 – Viktor Patsayev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971) * June 20 ** Danny Aiello, American actor (d. 2019) ** Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist (d. 2020) *
June 21 Events Pre-1600 * 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date). * 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
– Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian * June 22 ** Dianne Feinstein, American politician, Senator and mayor of San Francisco ** Libor Pešek, Czech conductor (d. 2022) * 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) * June 28 – V. Sasisekharan, Indian molecular biologist * June 29 – Hayes Alan Jenkins, American figure skater * June 30 – Lea Massari, Italian actress


July

* July 3 ** Carmen Barbará, Spanish comics artist, illustrator ** Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, German prince ** Lidy Stoppelman, Dutch figure skater * July 6 – Reza Davari Ardakani, Iranian philosopher * July 7 ** J. J. Barrie, Canadian songwriter and singer ** Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner (d. 2022) ** David McCullough, American historian and author (d. 2022) * July 9 – Oliver Sacks, English-born neurologist (d. 2015) * July 10 – Bernard P. Randolph, United States Air Force General (d. 2021) * July 11 ** Joyce Piliso-Seroke, South-African educator, activist, feminist and community organizer ** György Czakó, Hungarian figure skater ** Robert Spence (engineer), Robert Spence, British engineer * July 14 ** Franz, Duke of Bavaria, 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) ** M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian writer * July 16 ** Julian Klymkiw, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2022) ** 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 ** Gaston Orellana, Spanish painter ** Syd Mead, American industrial and conceptual designer (d. 2019) ** Jean Yanne, French humorist and film actor and director (d. 2003) ** Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (d. 2017) * July 19 – Michel Lévêque, French diplomat and politician * July 20 – Cormac McCarthy, American Pulitzer Prize-winning author * July 21 – Herman Timme, Dutch decathlete * July 23 – Richard Rogers, Italian-born British architect (d. 2021) * July 29 – Lou Albano, Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor (d. 2009)


August

* August 1 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009) *
August 2 Events Pre-1600 *338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. *216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...
– Tom Bell (actor), Tom Bell, English actor (d. 2006) * August 4 ** Sheldon Adelson, American businessman and casino magnate (d. 2021) ** Anthony Anenih, Nigerian politician (d. 2018) * August 6 – Suchinda Kraprayoon, 19th Prime Minister of Thailand * August 7 ** Elinor Ostrom, American economist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012) ** Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction writer (d. 2017) * August 9 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese actress, Goodwill Ambassdor for UNICEF * August 10 ** Silvia Caos, Cuban-Mexican actress (d. 2006) ** Doyle Brunson, American poker player ** Lynn Cohen, American actress (d. 2020) * August 11 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist, conservative political activist (d. 2007) *
August 14 Events Pre-1600 * 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
** 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 15 – Lori Nelson, American actress and model (d. 2020) * August 16 ** Julie Newmar, American actress (''Batman (TV series), Batman'') ** 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 * 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) * August 24 ** Guillermo Bredeston, Argentine actor (d. 2018) ** Ham Richardson, American tennis player (d. 2006) * August 25 ** Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist and composer ** Tom Skerritt, American actor * August 27 – Kerstin Ekman, Swedish novelist * August 29 – Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councillor * August 31 – Claudio Rodríguez (actor), Claudio Rodríguez, Spanish voice actor (d. 2019)


September

* September 1 ** T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (d. 1982) ** Conway Twitty, American country music artist (d. 1993) * September 2 ** Ed Conlin, American basketball player (d. 2012) ** Mathieu Kérékou, 5th President of Benin (d. 2015) * September 3 – Tompall Glaser, American singer (d. 2013) * September 8 – Asha Bhosle, Indian musician * September 9 – Michael Novak, American philosopher, author (d. 2017) * September 10 ** Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2000) ** Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer, artist (d. 2019) * September 11 – William Luther Pierce, American author, 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 ** Fred Willard, American actor and comedian (d. 2020) * September 19 – David McCallum, Scottish actor * September 21 – 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) * September 30 ** Ajitesh Bandopadhyay, Indian actor, playwright and director (d. 1983) ** Cissy Houston, American singer ** Dirce Migliaccio, Brazilian actress (d. 2009)


October

* October 2 ** John Gurdon, British developmental biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ** 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 theater director (d. 2019) * October 17 ** William Anders, American astronaut ** 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 * October 24 ** Draga Olteanu Matei, Romanian actress (d. 2020) ** Reginald Kray, British gangster (d. 2000) ** Ronald Kray, British gangster (d. 1995) * October 27 – Jan Hettema, Springbok cyclist and five times South African National Rally Champion (d. 2016) * October 28 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)


November

* 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) * November 4 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese electrical engineer, physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel laureate (d. 2018) * November 6 ** Else Ackermann, German physician, pharmacologist and politician (d. 2019) ** 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 * November 14 – Fred Haise, American astronaut in Apollo 13 * 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 * November 26 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (d. 2007) * November 28 – Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003) * November 29 ** Francisco Cuoco, Brazilian actor ** John Mayall, English blues musician


December

* 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 * December 6 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (d. 2010) * December 8 – Johnny Green (basketball), Johnny Green, American basketball player * December 9 – Milton Gonçalves, Brazilian actor and television director (d. 2022) * December 10 – Mako (actor), Mako, Japanese-born actor (d. 2006) * December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Filipino politician (d. 2019) * December 12 – Manu Dibango, Cameroonian saxophonist (d. 2020) * 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 18 – Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 2017) * December 19 – Galina Volchek, Soviet and Russian actress (d. 2019) * December 20 – Jean Carnahan, American politician * 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) * December 30 – Andy Stewart (musician), Andy Stewart, Scottish singer, entertainer (d. 1993)


Date unknown

* Jalal Talabani, Kurdish President of Iraq (d. 2017)


Deaths


January

* January 3 ** Wilhelm Cuno, German businessman, politician and 15th
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(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) **J. M. Robertson, British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician, writer and journalist, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (b. 1856) * January 7 – Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer 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, jewelry designer, son of Charles Lewis Tiffany * 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)


February

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February 5 Events Pre-1600 * 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. * 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. * 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
** 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 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
– Pat Sullivan (film producer), Pat Sullivan, Australian-born director, producer of animated films (b. 1885) * February 18 – James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866) * February 26 ** Spottiswoode Aitken, British-American actor (b. 1868) ** Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (b. 1866) *
February 27 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
– Walter Hiers, American actor (b. 1893)


March

* March 1 – Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900) * March 2 - Thomas J. Walsh, American politician (b. 1859) * March 6 ** Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (assassinated) (b. 1873) ** 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 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
** 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 20Giuseppe 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 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian. *1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– Baltasar Brum, 23rd President of Uruguay (b. 1883)


April

* 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 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – ...
– William A. Moffett, U.S. admiral (crash of airship ) (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 Famer (b. 1857) * April 30 – Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, 77th Prime Minister of Peru, 48th President of Peru (assassinated) (b. 1889)


May

* May 2 – Leonard Huxley (writer), Leonard Huxley, British writer (b. 1860) * 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, German writer (b. 1864) * May 19 – Thomas J. O'Brien (Michigan politician), Thomas J. O'Brien, American politician, diplomat (b. 1842) * May 22 – Sándor Ferenczi, Hungarian psychoanalyst (b. 1873) * May 24 ** Ludovic Arrachart, French aviator (b. 1897) ** Percy C. Mather, British Protestant missionary (b. 1882) ** Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss, British admiral (b. 1864) *
May 26 Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe. * 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
** Horatio Bottomley, British politician and businessman (b. 1860) ** Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), Jimmie Rodgers, American country singer (b. 1897)


June

* 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 Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1883) * June 18 - Harry Sweet, American actor and director (b. 1901) *
June 21 Events Pre-1600 * 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date). * 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...

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* 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

* 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) * September 21 – 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) * 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) ** G. R. S. Mead, British writer (b. 1863)


October

* 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) * 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 3 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician (b. 1853) * November 5 – Texas Guinan, American actress, producer and entrepreneur (b. 1884) * November 6 – Andrey Lyapchev, 22nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1866) * November 8 ** Pietro Albertoni, Italian psychologist, politician (b. 1849) ** Mohammed 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 – 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 – János Hadik, 19th prime minister of Hungary (b. 1863) * December 16 – Robert W. Chambers, American writer (b. 1865) * December 17 **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 * December 25 – Francesc Macia, Francesc Macià, President of the Generalitat (autonomous government of Catalonia) (b. 1859) * December 26 ** Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary (b. 1875) ** Eduard Vilde, Estonian writer (b. 1865) * December 29 – Ion G. Duca, 35th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1879)


Nobel Prizes

* 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 Alekseyevich Bunin * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Norman Angell, Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)


References


External links


The 1930s Timeline: 1933
– from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia {{DEFAULTSORT:1933 1933,