In the year 1933, construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins (Jan 5), Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany (Jan 30), King Kong premieres in New York City (Mar 2), FDR is sworn in as the 32nd U.S. president (Mar 4), the board game Monopoly is invented (Mar 7), the concentration camp Dachau is completed, years before the WWII starts (Mar 20), Gestapo is founded (Apr 26), the first alleged sighting of the Loch Ness monster occurs (May 2), the first drive-in movie theater opens near Camden, New Jersey (Jun 6), all non-Nazi parties are forbidden in Germany (Jun 21), Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly around the world (Jul 22), Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany (Oct 17), alcohol becomes legal again in the U.S. (Dec 15), FM radio is patented (Dec 26) - and all these fine people were born:

1933-0101 Joe Orton* playwright/author/ diarist - Leicester, England (1967/34) 1933-0105 Anthony Bailey* author/historian - Portsmouth, England (2020/87) 1933-0106 Joseph Sonnabend* physician/HIV/AIDS researcher - Union of South Africa (2021/88) 1933-0108 Jean-Marie /Straub* filmmaker/of the Straub-Huillet duo - Metz, France (2022/89) 1933-0110 1933-0115 Ted Markland* actor - USA (2011/78) 1933-0118 John Boorman* film director - Shepperton, Surrey,  England **** 1933-0118 Ray Dolby* engineer/ inventor of the noise reduction system Dolby NR/founder of Dolby Laboratories - Portland, OR USA (2013/80) 1933-0120 1933-0125 Corazon Aquino* politician/P - Paniqui, Philippines (2009/76) 1933-0126 Teija Sopanen* journalist/TV announcer/actress - Helsinki, Finland (2011/78) 1933-0126 Peter Zinovieff* engineer/composer - Fulham, London, England (2021/88) 1933-0131 J. J. Sakurai* 桜井 純 Japanese–American particle physicist/theorist/to the U.S. as a teenager - Tokyo, Japan (1982/49) 1933-0201 1933-0204 Shirley Burkovich* baseball player/Pacific Bell employee - Pittsburgh, PA USA (2022/89) 1933-0205 Jörn Donner* film director/producer/politician - Helsinki, Finland (2020/86) 1933-0210 1933-0213 Kim Novak* actress/visual artist - Chicago, IL USA **** 1933-0217 Cedric Robinson* guide/ Queen’s Guide to the Sands - Flookburgh, Lancashire, England  (2021/88) 1933-0218 Yoko Ono* 小野 洋子 or オノ・ヨーコ multimedia artist/peace activist - Tokyo, Japan **** 1933-0218 Bobby Robson* football player/ manager - Sacriston, County Durham, England (2009/76) 1933-0219 Martti Kuningas* actor - Viipuri, Finland (1980/47) 1933-0220 1933-0221 Nina Simone* (b Waymon) singer-songwriter/pianist/civil rights activist - Tryon, NC USA (2003/70) 1933-0224 Judah Folkman* medical scientist - Cleveland, OH USA (2008/74) 1933-0228 1933-0301 1933-0302 Simonie Michael* politician/ the first Inuk elected to a legislature in Canada - near Iqaluit, NT Canada (2008/75) 1933-0303 Tomas Milian* actor/also U.S. and Italian citizen - Havana, Cuba (2017/84) 1933-0304 1933-0306 Willy Schäfer* actor - Saarbrücken, Germany (2011/78) 1933-0310 1933-0312 Arlene Alda* (b Weiss) musician/ photographer/writer/m to Alan Alda - The Brons, NY USA **** 1933-0312 Barbara Feldon* model/actress (Get Smart) - Bethel Park, PA USA **** 1933-0313 Gloria McMillan* actress/ radio entertainer - Portland, OR USA  (2022/88) 1933-0314 Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger* jurist/judge/university lecturer - Uzwil, Switzerland (2022/89) 1933-0314 Michael Caine* actor - Rotherhithe, London, England **** 1933-0314 Quincy Jones* musician/ composer/ producer - Chicago, IL USA (2024/91) 1933-0315 Ruth Bader Ginsburg* associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States - Brooklyn, NY USA (2020/87) 1933-0318 Unita Blackwell* civil rights activist/mayor - Lula, MS USA (2019/86) 1933-0319 Philip Roth* author - Newark, NJ USA (2018/85) 1933-0322 Abolhassan Banisadr* Iranian writer/politician/P - Hamadan, Imperial State of Persia (2021/88) 1933-0322 Buddy MacKay* politician/ diplomat/Governor of Florida - Ocala, FL USA (2024/91) 1933-0324 William Smith* actor - Columbia, MO USA (2021/88) 1933-0330 Joe Ruby* animator/writer/ producer - Los Angeles, CA USA (2020/87) 1933-0331 1933-0401 1933-0404 Frits Bolkestein* energy executive/politician - Amsterdam, Netherlands (2025/91) 1933-0406 Yrjö Kukkapuro* interior architect/furniture designer - Viipuri, Finland (2025/91) 1933-0407 Wayne Rogers* actor (M*A*S*H)/ money manager/ investor - Birmingham, AL USA (2015/82) 1933-0407 Cong Weixi* 从维熙 novelist - Daigiantun, Hebei, China (2019/86) 1933-0409 Jean-Paul Belmondo* actor - Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (2021/88) 1933-0410 1933-0411 Denis Goldberg* social campaigner against apartheid - Cape Town, Union of South Africa (2020/87) 1933-0411 Torquil Norman* businessman/ aircraft enthusiast/arts philanthropist - Marylebone, London, England (2025/91) 1933-0412 Montserrat Caballé* opera singer - Barcelona, Spanish Republic (2018/85) 1933-0418 Michael Bradshaw* actor - Plumstead, London, England (2001/68) 1933-0419 Jayne Mansfield* (b Vera Jayne Palmer) actress/singer/mother of Mariska Hargitay - Bryn Mawr, PA USA (1967/34) 1933-0420 1933-0428 Dmitry Zimin* radio scientist/businessman - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (2021/88) 1933-0429 Willie Nelson* singer/musician/ activist - Abbott, TX USA **** 1933-0430 1933-0503 James Brown* singer/ dancer/record producer - Barnwell, SC USA (2006/73) 1933-0503 Steven Weinberg* physicist/N - New York City, NY USA (2021/86) 1933-0510 Barbara Taylor Bradford* British-American novelist - Leeds, Yorkshire, England (2024/91) 1933-0510 Alan Landsburg* writer/producer - White Plains, NY USA (2014/81) 1933-0511 Louis Farrakhan* Nation of Islam leader - The Bronx, NY USA **** 1933-0517 Yelena Gorchakova* athlete (javelin/OB) - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (2002/68) 1933-0520 1933-0521 Puan Noor Aishah* wife of the first President of Singapore - Selangor, British Malaya (2025/91) 1933-0521 Ulf Björlin* composer/conductor - Stockholm, Sweden (1993/60) 1933-0522 Simo Rista* photographer - Helsinki, Finland (2021/87) 1933-0531 Georgi Burkov* actor - Perm, Soviet Union (1990/57) 1933-0606 Eli Broad* billionaire entrepreneur/philanthropist - The Bronx, NY USA (2021/87) 1933-0608 Joan** Rivers*** (b Molinsky) stand-up comedian/ actress/producer - Brooklyn, NY USA (2014/81) 1933-0610 F. Lee Bailey* criminal defense attorney - Waltham, MA USA (2021/87) 1933-0611 Joel Ryce-Menuhin* pianist/psychologist - Sterling, IL USA (1998/64) 1933-0611 Gene Wilder* actor - Milwaukee, WI USA (2016/83) 1933-0613 Grace Chang* actress/singer - Nanjing, Jiangsu, China **** 1933-0614 Edward Edwards* convicted serial killer - Akron, OH USA (2011/77) 1933-0616 John Cunliffe* children’s book author (Postman Pat)/presenter - Coine, Lancashire, England (2018/85) 1933-0619 Janusz Jan Sidło* athlete (javelin/OS) - Katowice, Poland (1993/60) 1933-0620 Hatto Beyerle* German-Austrian violist/conductor/academic teacher - Frankfurt, Nazi Germany (2023/90) 1933-0620 T. Mohandas Pai* Indian business executive/founder of the Kannada language daily Udayavani - British India (2022/89) 1933-0621 1933-0622 Dianne Feinstein* politician/first female mayor of San Francisco - San Francisco, CA USA (2023/90) 1933-0622 Dik Wolfson* economist/ civil servant/politician - Voorburg, Netherlands (2025/91) 1933-0624 1933-0626 Claudio Abbado* conductor - Milan, Italy (2014/80) 1933-0627 Gary Crosby* singer/actor - Los Angeles, CA USA (1995/62) 1933-0701 Heikki Hietamies* journalist/TV-host - Lappeenranta, Finland **** 1933-0703 1933-0707 David McCullough* author /narrator/popular historian - Pittsburgh, PA USA (2022/89) 1933-0709 Oliver Sacks* neurologist/ naturalist//writer - Cricklewood, London, England (2015/82) 1933-0714 Kari Uusitalo* film director/film historian - Pyhäjärvi, Finland **** 1933-0715 Vasudevan Nair* author/screenplay writer/film director - Kudallur, Madras Presidency, British India (2024/91) 1933-0720 1933-0723 Richard Rogers* British architect/to England at age 6 - Florence, Italy (2021/88) 1933-0725 George Dickerson* actor/ writer/father of Dome Karukoski - Topeka, KS USA (2015/81) 1933-0725 Ken Swofford* actor - Du Quoin, IL  Illinois, USA (2018/85) 1933-0725 Jukka Virtanen* actor/writer/ director - Jämsänkoski, Finland (2019/86) 1933-0727 Marlene Ahrens* athlete (javelin/OS)/equestrian/daughter of German immigrants - Concepción, Chile (2020/86) 1933-0804 Carmelo Rado* athlete (discus)/masters athlete - Oderzo, Kingdom of Italy**** 1933-0807 Matti Kuusla* actor - Helsinki, Finland (2018/85) 1933-0807 Elinor Ostrom* (b Awan) political economist/N - Los Angeles, CA USA (2012/78) 1933-0807 Jerry Pournelle* polymath/science fiction writer/one of the first bloggers - Shreveport, LA USA (2017/84) 1933-0810 Lynn Cohen* (b Kay) actress - Kansas City, MO USA (2020/86) 1933-0814 Richard R. Ernst* physical chemist/N - Winterthur, Switzerland (2021/87) 1933-0815 Lori Nelson* model/actress - Santa Fe, NM USA (2020/87) 1933-0816 Tom Maschler* British publisher/writer - Berlin, Germany (2020/87) 1933-0818 Roman Polanski* film director/ producer - Paris, France **** 1933-0821 Jules Wright* businessman/ politician - Nenana, AK USA (2022/88) 1933-0825 Roberto De Simone* stage director/composer/ethnomusicologist - Naples, Kingdom of Italy (2025/91) 1933-0901 Leonard A. Cole* dentist/ political scientist/expert on bioterrorism and terror medicine - Paterson, NJ USA (2022/89) 1933-0903 Basil Butcher* Guyanese cricketer/the first person of Amerindian descent to represent the West Indies - Port Mourant, British Guiana (2019/) 1933-0904 Richard S. Castellano* actor - The Bronx, NY USA (1988/55) 1933-0908 Matti Pulli* ski jumping coach - Terijoki, Finland (2016/83) 1933-0910 Karl Lagerfeld* fashion designer/ creative director (Chanel) - Hamburg, Germany (2019/85) 1933-0914 Ingo Swann* psychic/remote viewer - Telluride, CO USA (2013/79) 1933-0915 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos* conductor/composer - Burgos, Spain (2014/80) 1933-0915 Petra Schürmann* Miss World 1956/TV announcer/actress - Mönchengladbach, Germany (2010/76) 1933-0918 Robert Blake* actor (Baretta) - Nutley, NJ USA (2023/89) 1933-0918 Fred Willard* actor/ comedian/writer - Shaker Heights, OH USA (2020/86) 1933-0919 David McCallum* actor - Glasgow, Scotland (2023/90) 1933-0920 1933-0927 Will Sampson* Muscogee painter/rodeo performer/actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) - Okmulgee, OK USA (1987/53) 1933-0928 B. Wayne Hughes* billionaire businessman/founder of Public Storage - Gotebo, OK USA (2021/87) 1933-0930 1933-1001 1933-1002 Pedro Cervantes* sculptor - Mexico City, Mexico (2020/87) 1933-1009 Peter Mansfield* physicist/N - Lambeth, London, England (2017/83) 1933-1010 Gloria Coates* (b Kannenberg) composer/painter/active in Munich - Wausau, WI USA (2023/89) 1933-1010 Carl Kabat* priest/ known for his nonviolent protests against nuclear weapons - Scheller, IL USA (2022/88) 1933-1010 David Snell* golfer - Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England (2021/87) 1933-1013 Mark Zakharov* film director/screeenwriter - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (2019/85) 1933-1017 William Anders* American astronaut (Apollo 8) - British Hong Kong (2024/90) 1933-1020 1933-1024 Reginald “Reggie” Kray* with his twin brother, perpetrator of organised crime - Haggerston, London, England (2000/66) 1933-1024 Ronald “Ronnie” Kray* notorious perpetrator of organised crime - Haggerston, London, England (1995/61) 1933-1025 Jack Haley Jr.* film director/ producer/writer - Los Angeles, CA USA (2001/67) 1933-1030 Mary Freeman* swimmer/ coach - Bangor, ME USA **** 1933-1030 Warith Deen Mohammed* theologian/ Muslim leader/son of Elijah Muhammad - Hamtramck, MI USA (2008/74) 1933-1031 1933-1101 1933-1103 Michael Dukakis* lawyer/politician/cousin of Olympia Dukakis - Brookline, MA USA **** 1933-1104 Charles K. Kao* electrical engineer/physicist/N - Shanghai, Republic of China (2018/84) 1933-1106 Else Ackermann* physician/ pharmacologist/ politician - Berlin, Nazi Germany (2019/85) 1933-1106 Ada Bello* Cuban-American medical laboratory researcher/LGBT rights activist - Havana, Cuba (2023/89) 1933-1108 Kyllikki Tapola* (b Marjamäki) entrepreneur (mustamakkara) - Kankaanpää, Finland (2018/84) 1933-1109 Egil Danielsen* athlete (javelin/OG) - Hamar, Norway (2019/85) 1933-1110 1933-110x Betty A.** - Georgetown, British Guyana 1933-1119 Maiju Ehrola* (b Härkönen) twin of Siiri - Pattijoki, Finland  (26.3.2025/91) IS- 1933-1119 Siiri Heiska* (b Härkönen) twin of Maiju - Pattijoki, Finland  (26.3.2025/91) 1933-1119 Larry King* television and radio host - Brooklyn, NY USA (2021/87) 1933-1120 1933-1126 Jay Barbree* correspondent for NBC News/focus on space travel - Blakely, GA USA (2021/87) 1933-1129 John Mayall* musician/blues singer/ producer -  Maccĺesfield, England (2024/90) 1933-1130 Laura Balbo* sociologist/ politician - Padua, Italy **** 1933-1130 Sam Gilliam* color field painter/lyrical abstractionist artist - Tupelo, MS USA (2022/88) 1933-1201 1933-1203 Paul J. Crutzen* meteorologist/ atmospheric chemist/N - Amsterdam, Netherlands (2021/87) 1933-1205 Adolph Caesar* actor/theater director/choreographer - Harlem, NY USA (1986/52) 1933-1208 Flip Wilson* actor/ comedian - Jersey City, NJ USA (1998/64) 1933-1210 Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky* jazz saxophonist/composer/author - Güstrow, Nazi Germany (2023/89) 1933-1211 Rock Demers* film producer - Sainte-Cécile-de-Lévrard, QC Canada (2021/87) 1933-1215 Tim Conway* actor/voice actor/ director - Willoughby, OH USA (2019/85) 1933-1216 Gloria Romero* (b Borrego Galla) American-Philipino actress - Denver, CO USA (2025/91) 1933-1220 1933-1222 Ray Pennington* country music singer/ songwriter/record producer - Clay County, KY USA (2020/86) 1933-1223 Akihito* Emperor of Japan - Tokyo Imperial Palace, Japan **** 1933-1226 Caroll Spinney* puppeteer (Sesame Street) - Waltham, MA USA (2019/85) 1933-0 1933-0 1933-0 Updated 2025-0512 Helsinki-Stockholm Search for another year here