1933 in the United Kingdom

• Ronald Lockley establishes the first British bird observatory on the Welsh island of Skokholm.^[11]
• Norman Angell is given the Nobel Peace Prize, not awarded until 1934.^[12]

Publications

• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Lord Edgware Dies.
• Robert Hichens' novel The Paradine Case.^[13]
• James Hilton's utopian novel Lost Horizon.
• A. G. Macdonell's comic novel England, Their England.
• George Orwell's book Down and Out in Paris and London.^[3]
• Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novel Murder Must Advertise.
• Angela Thirkell's novel High Rising.
• H.G. Wells' novel The Shape of Things to Come
  .
• Dennis Wheatley's first published novel The Forbidden Territory.

Births

• 5 January –
  Derek Johnson
  , athlete (died 2004)
• 6 January
  • John Clive, author and actor (died 2012)^[14]
  • Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich, surgeon and academic
• 13 January – Janet Kear, ornithologist (died 2004)
• 18 January
  • David Bellamy, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner (died 2019)
  • John Boorman, film director
• 24 January – Jane Somerville, cardiologist
• 26 January – Peter Zinovieff, engineer and composer (died 2021)
• 2 February
  • Rodney Gordon, architect (died 2008)
  • Tony Jay, British-American actor (died 2006)
• 6 February – Leslie Crowther, television comedian and game show host (died 1996)
• 7 February – John Anderton, footballer
• 8 February – Donald Burgess, track cyclist
• 9 February – John Michell, writer (died 2009)
• 17 February – Cedric Robinson, Queen's Guide to the Sands (died 2021)
• 18 February
  • Sir Bobby Robson, footballer and football manager (died 2009)
  • Mary Ure, actress (died 1975)
• 22 February
  • Sheila Hancock, actress
  • Katharine, Duchess of Kent, née Worsley
• 27 February – Stan Anderson, English football player, manager (died 2018)
• 9 March – Sir David Weatherall, physician (died 2018)
• 12 March – Ken Hodgkisson, English footballer (died 2018)
• 14 March – Sir Michael Caine, actor
• 17 March – Dame Penelope Lively, novelist
• 21 March - Michael Heseltine, British politician and businessman.
• 23 March – Norman Bailey, opera singer (died 2021)^[15]
• 25 March – Ray Spencer, footballer (died 2016)
• 1 April – Brianne Murphy, cinematographer (died 2003)
• 4 April – Brian Hewson, track and field athlete (died 2022)
• 6 April
  • Sir Roy Goode, legal academic
  • Dudley Sutton, actor (died 2018)
• 11 April – Torquil Norman, businessman and philanthropist
• 14 April – Paddy Hopkirk, Northern Ireland-born rally driver (died 2022)
• 16 April – Joan Bakewell, broadcaster
• 18 April – Michael Bradshaw, actor (died 2001)
• 19 April
  • Dickie Bird, cricketer and umpire^[16]
  • Philip Lavallin Wroughton, politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire
    (died 2020)
• 21 April – Ian Carr, jazz musician (died 2009)
• 24 April – Claire Davenport, actress (died 2002)
• 27 April – Peter Imbert, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (died 2017)
• 2 May – Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, lawyer, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• 9 May – Jessica Steele, romance novelist (died 2020)
• 10 May – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English–born novelist
• 15 May
  • Peter Broadbent, footballer (died 2013)
  • Shirley Dynevor, Welsh actress (died 2023)^[17]
• 17 May – Shelley Rohde, journalist and author (died 2007)
• 22 May – Don Estelle, actor (died 2003)
• 23 May – Joan Collins, actress
• 24 May – Anne Mustoe, teacher, cyclist and travel writer (died 2009)
• 25 May
  • Biddy Baxter, television producer
  • Ray Spencer, footballer (died 2016)
• 29 May – Nick Whitehead, Olympic sprinter (died 2002)
• 2 June – David Mudd, politician (died 2020)
• 7 June – Stanley Clarke, businessman (died 2004)
• 8 June – Robert Stevens, English lawyer and academic (died 2021)
• 10 June – Colin Grainger, footballer (died 2022)^[18]
• 14 June – John McHardy Sinclair, linguist (died 2007)
• 16 June – John Cunliffe, author (died 2018)
• 22 June – Tony Booth, poster artist (died 2017)
• 26 June – David Winnick, Labour Party politician
• 1 July – Joe Buick, Scottish footballer
• 6 July – Frank Austin, footballer (died 2004)
• 7 July – Bruce Wells, boxer, actor (died 2009)
• 8 July – Jeff Nuttall, actor, poet and painter (died 2004)
• 9 July –
  neurologist
  (died 2015)
• 13 July – David Storey, novelist and playwright (died 2017)
• 15 July – Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist (died 2020)
• 22 July – Alexander Trotman, businessman (died 2005)
• 29 July – Peter Baldwin, actor (d. 2015)
• 2 August – Tom Bell, actor (died 2006)
• 5 August – Nicholas Scott, politician (died 2005)
• 9 August – Albert Quixall, footballer (died 2020)
• 10 August
  • Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, judge
  • Keith Duckworth, automotive engineer (died 2005)
• 11 August – Chris Harris, basketball player
• 15 August
  • Rita Hunter, opera singer (died 2001)
  • Michael Rutter, Lebanese-English psychiatrist and academic (died 2021)
• 18 August – Michael Baxandall, art historian (died 2008)
• 21 August
  • Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
  • Barry Norman, film critic (died 2017)
• 4 September – George Claydon, actor (died 2001)
• 8 September – Michael Frayn, playwright and novelist
• 11 September – Margaret Booth, judge (died 2021)
• 19 September – David McCallum, actor and musician (died 2023)
• 20 September – Dennis Viollet, English footballer (died 1999)
• 26 September – Nicholas J. Phillips, physicist (died 2009)
• 2 October – John Gurdon, developmental biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 9 October
  • Peter Mansfield, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2017)
  • Bill Tidy, cartoonist and illustrator (died 2023)
• 11 October – Richard Abel Smith, British army officer (died 2004)
• 13 October –
  Thomas Bingham
  , judge (died 2010)
• 21 October – Maureen Duffy, English poet, playwright, author and activist^[19]
• 24 October – Kray twins, gangsters (died 1995 & 2000)
• 25 October – Peter Dennis, actor (died 2009)
• 3 November – John Barry, film score composer (died 2011)
• 8 November – Peter Arundell, racing driver (died 2009)
• 9 November – Geoff Gunney, English rugby league footballer (died 2018)
• 23 November – John Sanders, organist and composer (died 2003)
• 2 December – Peter Robin Harding, air marshal and pilot (died 2021)
• 3 December – Rosalind Knight, actress (died 2020)
• 14 December – David Maloney, television producer (died 2006)
• 16 December – Jennifer Toye, opera singer (died 2022)
• 29 December – Samuel Brittan, economic journalist (died 2020)

Deaths

• 5 January
  • Arthur Borton, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1883)
  • J. M. Robertson, politician, writer and journalist (born 1856)
• 7 January – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, artist and designer (born 1864)
• 14 January – Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (born 1857)
• January –
  Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (born 1854
  )
• 31 January – John Galsworthy, novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)
• 2 February –
  Sir Herbert Cory
  , politician (born 1857)
• 22 April – Sir Henry Royce, car manufacturer (born 1863)
• 7 June – Sir Morley Fletcher, physiologist and administrator (born 1873)
• 14 June – Sir Ernest William Moir, civil engineer (born 1862)
• 16 July – Sir Tudor Walters, politician (born 1866)
• 25 July – John May, Scottish international footballer (born 1878)
• 31 July – Robert Fleming, financier (born 1845)
• 10 August – Alf Morgans, Welsh-born Prime Minister of Western Australia (born 1850)
• 12 October –
  John Lister, politician (born 1847
  )
• 18 October
  • Christine Murrell, medical doctor, first female member of the British Medical Association's Central Council (born 1874)
  • Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, soldier and politician (born 1851)
• 24 October – Annie Swynnerton, ARA, painter (born 1844)
• 20 November – Augustine Birrell, author and politician (born 1850)
• 30 November – Harry de Windt, explorer (born 1856 in France)
• 19 December – George Jackson Churchward, locomotive engineer, Great Western Railway (railway accident) (born 1857)
• 21 December – Dora Montefiore, suffragist and socialist (born 1851)
• 26 December –
  Henry Watson Fowler, lexicographer (born 1858
  )
• 30 December – Dugald Cowan, educationalist and Liberal politician (born 1865)

See also

• List of British films of 1933

References