1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events 

 January 28 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali chose the name Pakistan in his pamphlet for a Muslim state in northwest India
 January 30 – Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg
 February 17 – Newsweek magazine is published for the first time in the United States
 March 3
 Earthquake in Japan kills 3.000 people
 Ching Yun University was established
 March 10 – Earthquake in Long Beach, California
 March 20 – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed 
 April 2 – In a cricket test match against New Zealand, England batsman Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs.
 May 8 – Mahatma Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest for 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 is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town
 August 2 – Opening of the Stalin White Sea–Baltic Sea Canal, connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega and the Baltic
 September 26 – Hurricane in Tampico, Mexico kills 1.000 people
 October 7 – Air France is formed
 December 5 – Prohibition ends in the United States
 The Toyota company starts in Japan

Births 

 January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
 February 18 – Yoko Ono, singer, artist, wife of John Lennon
 March 10 - Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet (d. 2004)
 March 13 - Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (d. 1991)
 April 7 – Wayne Rogers, actor
 May 3
 James Brown, African-American soul musician (I Feel Good) (d. 2006)
 Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 June 6 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
 June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)
 July 2 – Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player
 July 16 – John Baddeley, British diplomat
 July 17 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
 August 18 – Roman Polanski, movie director
 August 25 – Tom Skerritt, actor 
 September 29 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (d. 1986)
 October 10 – Jay Sebring, hairstylist
 November 3 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
 November 12 – Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq (d. 2017)
 December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. 
 December 23 – Akihito, Emperor of Japan

Deaths 

 January 5 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
 January 31 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
 February 12 – Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
 March 1 – Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
 April 17 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876)
 May 2 – Leonard Huxley, English writer (b. 1860)
 July 3 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, 18th President of Argentina (b. 1852)
 August 15 – Christie Fuller, Australia singer
 September 8 – Faisal I of Iraq, king of Iraq
 October 16 – Ismael Montes, 26th President of Bolivia (b. 1861)
 November 3 – Émile Roux, French physician (b. 1853)
 December 16 – Robert W. Chambers, American writer (b. 1865)

Nobel Prizes 
 Nobel Prize in Physics won by Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, English physicist
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist
 Nobel Prize in Literature won by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer
 Nobel Peace Prize won by Sir Norman Angell, British lecturer, writer, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party

Movies released 

 42nd Street 
 Alice in Wonderland
 Duck Soup
 Gold Diggers of 1933
 King Kong
 Little Women, starring Kathrine Hepburn
 The Private Life of Henry VIII, starring Charles Laughton
 The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey
 Queen Christina, starring Greta Garbo
 Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and Lionel Atwill
 Secrets, starring Mary Pickford
 She Done Him Wrong, starring Cary Grant amd Mae West
 The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack
 Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
 State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres

Hit songs 
 "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" by Eddy Duchin
 "Just An Echo In the Valley" by Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee
 "Lazy Bones" by Ted Lewis Band; also version by Don Redman's band
 "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" by Ben Bernie
 "Night and Day" by Eddy Duchin
 "Shadow Waltz" by Bing Crosby
 "Stormy Weather" by Ethel Waters
 "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" by Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians

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