1933

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

## Events

- January 28 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali chooses the name Pakistan in his pamphlet for a Muslim country in northwest India
- January 30 – Adolf Hitler is 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 4 – Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as US President
- 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

### January

- January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)

### February

- February 13 – Paul Biya President of Cameroon
- February 13 – Kim Novak, American actress
- February 18 – Yoko Ono, Japanese singer, artist, wife of John Lennon
- February 18 – Bobby Robson, English association football player and manager (d. 2009)

### March

- March 10 – Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet (d. 2004)
- March 13 – Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (d. 1991)
- March 19 – Teresa Berganza, Spanish mezzo-soprano (d. 2022)
- March 22 – Philip Roth, American novelist (d. 2018)

### April

- April 9 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (d. 2021)
- April 18 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)

### May

- May 3 – James Brown, African-American soul musician (_I Feel Good_) (d. 2006)
- May 3 – Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)

### June

- June 6 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)
- June 15 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, President of Iran (d. 1981)

### July

- July 2 – Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- July 16 – John Baddeley, British diplomat
- July 17 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta

### August

- August 18 – Roman Polanski, Polish movie director

### September

- September 29 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (d. 1986)

### October

- October 21 – Paco Gento, Spanish footballer (d. 2022)

### November

- November 3 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 4 – Charles K. Kao, Hong Kong-British-American physicist (d. 2018)
- November 12 – Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq (d. 2017)

### December

- December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. Filipino politician (d. 2019)
- 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 2 - Elizabeth Thompson, British painter
- 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