1933

• June – The Holodomor famine-genocide in Ukraine reaches its peak, with 30,000 deaths from human-made starvation each day.^[20] The average life expectancy for a Ukrainian male born this year is 7.3 years.^[21]
• U.S. Congress abrogates the United States use of the gold standard, by enacting a joint resolution^{[citation needed}
  ] nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
• June 6 – The first drive-in movie theater opens in Pennsauken Township, near Camden, New Jersey.
• June 12 – The London Economic Conference is held.
• June 17 – Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, Pretty Boy Floyd kills an FBI agent, 3 local police, and the person they intended to rescue, captured bank robber Frank Nash.
• June 21 – All non-Nazi political parties are forbidden in Germany.^[11]
• June 25 – Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany.
• 20th Century Pictures
  .

July

• July 1
  • The London Passenger Transport Board begins operation.
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    which fails (according to his testimony in 1934).
• July 4 – 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 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.^[11]
  • The
    genetic disorders
    .
• July 15
  • The Four-Power Pact is signed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy.^[9]
  • The 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 15,596 mi (25,099 km) 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 National Recovery Administration in the United States is displayed publicly for the first time.
• km ship canal constructed using forced labour in the Soviet Union, opens, connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega and the Baltic
  .
• August 7 – Simele massacre: More than 3,000 Assyrian Iraqis are killed by Iraqi government troops.
• August 12 – Winston Churchill makes his first speech publicly warning of the dangers of German rearmament.^[23]
• forest fire 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 240,000 acres (970 km²).
• 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 (Mariánské Lázně), Czechoslovakia, dying the following day.

September

• September 12
  • Alejandro Lerroux forms a new government in Spain.
  • Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction
    .
• September 26 – A hurricane destroys the town of Tampico, Mexico.

October

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 – 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 14–16 – The new constitution of Estonia is approved only on the third consecutive referendum.
• October 16 – Parricides committed in the United States by Victor Licata lead to calls for the legal prohibition of 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

• 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  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 camera and photocopier brand is founded in Japan.^[24]
• November 16
  • The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal 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 a victory by the right-wing parties.
• 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 first NFL Championship game in American football is played. The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 23-21.
• December 21
  • Newfoundland returns to Crown colony status, following financial collapse.^[23]
  • The British Plastics Federation (the oldest in the world) is founded.
• December 23 – Lagny-Pomponne rail accident: A train crash in Lagny, France kills over 200.
• December 26
  • The
    Nissan
    Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan.
  • FM radio is patented.
• Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of Romania
  .

• 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

Dalida

Bill Hayden

Corazon Aquino

• January 1 – Joe Orton, English playwright (d. 1967)^[25]
• January 2 – On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist (d. 2014)
• 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
• January 12 – Liliana Cavani, Italian film director and screenwriter
• January 13 – Tom Gola, American basketball player (d. 2014)^[26]
• 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)
• January 28 – Jack Hill, American film director

February

Paul Biya

Yoko Ono

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)
  • 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 – 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^[27]
• February 23 – Lee Calhoun, American athlete (d. 1989)
• February 25 – Marino Bollini, former Captain Regent of San Marino (d. 2020)
• Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian Catholic bishop (d. 2017
  )
• February 28 – Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (d. 2018)

March

Michael Caine

Quincy Jones

Philip Roth

• 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 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)^[28]
• March 12 – Jesús Gil, Spanish right-wing politician, construction businessman and football team owner (d. 2004)
• Mike Stoller
  , American songwriter
• March 14
  • Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger Swiss judge (d. 2022)
  • 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)^[29]
• 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)^[30]
  • 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
  • Governor of Florida
• March 23
  • Hayes Alan Jenkins, American figure skater
  • 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 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1983)

April

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Elizabeth Montgomery

Montserrat Caballé

Jayne Mansfield

Willie Nelson

• April 1
  • Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996)
  • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist and Nobel laureate
• April 4
  • Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician
  • Brian Hewson, English athlete (d. 2022)
• April 5 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (Batman) (d. 2005)
• April 6 – Henryk Niedźwiedzki, Polish boxer (d. 2018)
• April 7
  • Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2015)
  • 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
  • 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)
• Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer (d. 2012
  )
• April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
• April 21 – Ian Carr, Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer and educator (d. 2009)
• April 23 – Frederic Pryor, American economist (d. 2019)
• Jerry Leiber, American composer (d. 2011
  )
• April 26
  • Carol Burnett, American actress, singer and comedian
  • Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist and 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

James Brown

Joan Collins

• May 3
  • James Brown, African-American soul musician (I Got You (I Feel Good)) (d. 2006)
  • Steven Weinberg, American physicist and 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 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer^[31]
• May 11 – Louis Farrakhan, African-American Muslim leader
• May 14 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
• May 18
  • H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
  • Carroll Hardy, American baseball player (d. 2020)
• May 20 – Constance Towers, American actress
• May 21 – Maurice André, French trumpeter (d. 2012)
• May 22 – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (d. 1996)
• May 23 – Joan Collins, English actress (Dynasty)
• May 27 – Edward S. Rogers Jr., Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2008)
• May 29 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor

June

Joan Rivers

Gene Wilder

James Meredith

• June 1
  • Charlie Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)^[32]
  • 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 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, 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, 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, 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, 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)
  • Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist (d. 2020)
• June 21 – 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, 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)^[33]
• June 28 – V. Sasisekharan, Indian molecular biologist
• June 30 – Lea Massari, Italian actress

July

Oliver Sacks

• July 3
  • Carmen Barbará, Spanish comics artist, illustrator
  • 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)
• 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, 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^[34]
• 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)^[35]
  • 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

Dom DeLuise

Julie Newmar

Stuart Roosa

Roman Polanski

• August 1 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009)
• August 2 – 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)^[36]
• August 9 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese actress, Goodwill Ambassador 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
  • Robert Harold Porter, Canadian businessman, farmer and politician (d. 2018)
  • Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
• August 15 – Lori Nelson, American actress and model (d. 2020)
• August 16
  • Julie Newmar, American actress (Batman)
  • Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (d. 1994)
  • Ricardo Blume, Peruvian-Mexican actor and theater director (d. 2020)
• 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^[37]
• August 21 – Dame Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
• August 23 – Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)^[38]
• August 24
  • Guillermo Bredeston, Argentine actor (d. 2018)
  • Ham Richardson, American tennis player (d. 2006)
• August 25
  • Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 2023)
  • Tom Skerritt, American actor
• August 27 – Kerstin Ekman, Swedish novelist
• August 29 – Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councillor
• August 31 – Claudio Rodríguez, Spanish voice actor (d. 2019)

September

Conway Twitty

Mathieu Kérékou

Karl Lagerfeld

Samora Machel

• 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)
• 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, American actor (d. 2023)
  • 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)
• 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

John Gurdon

Garrincha

• 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 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
  • Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun, known as "The Singing Nun" (d. 1985
    )
• October 18 – Firuz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani politician (d. 2018)
• October 19 – 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

Amartya Sen

Michael Dukakis

Charles K. Kao

Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda

• November 3
  • 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 Prize laureate
  • C. K. Jaffer Sharief, Indian politician (d. 2018)
  • Michael Dukakis, American politician, former governor of Massachusetts, and 1988 presidential candidate
• November 4 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese electrical engineer, physicist and 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 (d. 2023)
• 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, 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
• November 30 - Jane Elliott, American antiracism activist

December

Abel Pacheco

Emperor Akihito

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 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, American basketball player
• December 9 – Milton Gonçalves, Brazilian actor and television director (d. 2022)
• December 10 – 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
• 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, Scottish singer, entertainer (d. 1993)

Date unknown

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

Deaths

January

Wilhelm Cuno

Calvin Coolidge

Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi

• January 3
  • 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)
  • J. M. Robertson, British 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, jewellery 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 laureate (b. 1867)^[39]

February

• February 5
  • James Banning, American aviation pioneer (b. 1900)
  • Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (b. 1863)
• February 12
  • Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
  • Sir William Robertson, British field marshal (b. 1860)
• February 14 – Carl Correns, German botanist, geneticist (b. 1864)
• February 15 – Pat Sullivan, Australian-born American director, producer of animated films (b. 1885)
• February 18 – James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866)^[40]
• 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

Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro

• 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)^[41]
  • Cyril R. Jandus, American lawyer and politician (b. 1867)
• 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, Canadian prospector (b. 1864)
• March 31 – Baltasar Brum, 23rd President of Uruguay (b. 1883)

April

Blessed Hildegard Burjan

• Viceroy of India (b. 1868
  )
• April 2 – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer and ruler of Nawanagar. (b. 1872)
• 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, Canadian actor, director (b. 1875)
• April 22
  • Prince Ludwig Philipp of Thurn and Taxis (b. 1901)
  • Sir Henry Royce, English car manufacturer (b. 1863)
• 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

Li Ching-Yuen

• May 2 – 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, 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
  • Horatio Bottomley, British politician and businessman (b. 1860)^[42]
  • Jimmie Rodgers, American country singer (b. 1897
    )

Hipólito Yrigoyen

• June 2 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
• June 7 – Cyrus H. K. Curtis, American publisher (b. 1850)
• Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1883
  )
• June 18 - Harry Sweet, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• June 21 - Halbert Benton Cole, Georgetown University Law School Alumni, American Attorney in Black River Falls, Wi and Hamilton, Montana (b. 1879)Cole, H.B.
• 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

Sulejman Delvina

Hasan Prishtina

King 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, 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, 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, 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)
  • 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

Ismael Montes

Paul Painlevé

Andrey Lyapchev