1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of 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 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.^[1]
• 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

Births

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