1933: The Year in People

The Silent Generation · Year of the Rooster 🐓 · Born in 1933 turn 93 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$0.18

US population

2.13B

US president

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Top song

"Stormy Weather" — Ethel Waters

Top film

King Kong

Best Picture

Cavalcade

In the news: FDR's New Deal launches; Prohibition ends

What happened in 1933

1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1933rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 933rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1930s decade.

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Born in 1933

131 people in our data · most viewed first

Carol Burnett

b. 1933 · April 26

American comedian and actress

James Brown

1933–2006 · May 3

American musician

Akihito

b. 1933 · December 23

Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019

Chuck Grassley

b. 1933 · September 17

American politician

Dom DeLuise

1933–2009 · August 1

American actor

Asha Bhosle

b. 1933 · September 8

Indian playback singer

Barbara Taylor Bradford

1933–2024 · May 10

British novelist

Cissy Houston

1933–2024 · September 30

American singer and mother of Whitney Houston

Abolhassan Banisadr

1933–2021 · March 22

President of Iran from 1980 to 1981

Aneta Corsaut

1933–1995 · November 3

American actress

Amartya Sen

b. 1933 · November 3

Indian economist and Nobel laureate

Danny Aiello

1933–2019 · June 20

American actor

Bobby Robson

1933–2009 · February 18

English footballer and manager

Dalida

1933–1987 · January 17

Italian-French singer and actress

Corazon Aquino

1933–2009 · January 25

President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992

Ann Richards

1933–2006 · September 1

American politician

Bert Convy

1933–1991 · July 23

American actor, singer, game show panelist and host

Barbara Feldon

b. 1933 · March 12

American actress

Ali Shariati

1933–1977 · November 23

Iranian sociologist and philosopher

Frank Gorshin

1933–2005 · April 5

American actor and comedian

Bernie Kopell

b. 1933 · June 21

American actor

Chita Rivera

1933–2024 · January 23

American actress, dancer and singer

Costa-Gavras

b. 1933 · February 12

Greek-French film director

Horst Buchholz

1933–2003 · December 4

German actor

Died in 1933

Calvin Coolidge1872–1933 · President of the United States from 1923 to 1929
Annie Besant1847–1933 · English writer and activist
Alva Belmont1853–1933 · American suffragist
13th Dalai Lama1876–1933 · Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1879 to 1933
Clara Zetkin1857–1933 · German politician
Anton Cermak1873–1933 · American politician
Constantine P. Cavafy1863–1933 · Greek poet and journalist
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon1862–1933 · British Liberal statesman
Adolf Loos1870–1933 · Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and theorist of modern architecture
Arthur Currie1875–1933 · Canadian general
Adelbert Ames1835–1933 · Union Army general and politician
Anatoly Lunacharsky1875–1933 · Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman and writer