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August 2019 1933 1933 border:none;b 3/3 Bundesarchiv Bild 102-14439, Rede Adolf Hitlers zum Ermächtigungsgesetz.jpg USS Akron disaster.jpg After End of Prohibition New York Times 1933 3.jpg 1933 Long Beach earthquake damage 1.jpg Kansas City Union Station Massacre.jpg King Kong 1933 Promotional Image.png 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The Enabling Act of 1933 grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers following the Reichstag fire, allowing the Nazis to suppress opposition; The USS Akron disaster kills 73 off the New Jersey coast, becoming one of the deadliest airship accidents; The Repeal of Prohibition in the United States ends the nationwide alcohol ban, restoring legal liquor sales after 13 years; The 1933 Long Beach earthquake strikes Southern California, killing 120 and prompting stricter building codes; The Kansas City massacre shocks the nation as gangsters ambush law enforcement, killing four; The release of King Kong captivates audiences with groundbreaking effects and iconic storytelling. 1933 1933 2 Events January January 1933 thumb|140px|right| January 5: Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins. thumb|140px|right|January 17: Vote on Philippines independence. January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.M. Epstein The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1935 https://books.google.com/books?id=EkvODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA640 December 28, 2016 Springer 978-0-230-27064-0 640 January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?, in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls "Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement.Choudhary RahmatʻAli Pakistan: The Fatherland of the Pak Nation https://books.google.com/books?id=lPkJAQAAIAAJ 1978 Book Traders 24 January 30 Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. Shirer William L. William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Simon & Schuster New York 1960 60-6729 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 184 Édouard Daladier forms a government in Francehttp://www.lepoint.fr/histoire/personnages/daladier-edouard-1884-1970-26-08-2013-1717267_1617.php Édouard Daladier, un résistant entre paix et guerre Le Point 2013-10-30 2019-02-18 in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February February 1933 thumb|240px|right|February 27: Reichstag fire February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the German People" in Berlin.A Year in History: 1933 Timeline https://www.historic-newspapers.com/en-au/blogs/article/1933-timeline 2025-08-05 Historic Newspapers en February 3 – Adolf Hitler gives a secret speech to his military leaders, outlining his plans to rearm Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles and to adopt a policy of Lebensraum in eastern Europe.Peter Hoffmann Peter Hoffmann (historian) German resistance to Hitler https://archive.org/details/germanresistance00pete registration Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass 1988 15–16 February 5 – A mutiny starts on the Royal Netherlands Navy coastal defence ship De Zeven Provinciën in the Dutch East Indies. After 6 days, it is bombed by a Dutch aircraft, killing 23 men, and the remaining mutineers surrender. February 6–7 – Officers on the USS Ramapo record a 34-meter high sea wave in the Pacific Ocean.Queensland c=AU; o=The State of Frequently asked questions Wave monitoring https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/coasts-waterways/beach/monitoring/waves-faq 2025-09-21 www.qld.gov.au en February 9 – The King and Country debate: The Oxford Union student debating society in England passes a resolution stating, "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and country."Ceadel Martin The King and Country Debate, 1933: Student Politics, Pacifism and the Dictators The Historical Journal 22 2 1979 397–422 10.1017/s0018246x00016885 153490642 February 10 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.February 10, 1983 The Singing Telegram at 50: Singing Telegrams are Catching On The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/10/business/the-singing-telegram-at-50.html June 14, 2021 February 15 – In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds the Mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak. Zangara is executed on March 20 by the electric chair. February 17 – Repeal of Prohibition in the United States: The Blaine Act passes the United States Senate, submitting the proposed Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. The amendment is ratified on December 5, ending prohibition in the United States. February 23 – The Imperial Japanese Army invades Rehe province in northern China. February 25 – Arminda de Jesus is burned for witchcraft in Soalhães, Portugal.Hutchinson Joshua 2025-03-08 International Women's Day Stories: The 1933 Burning of Arminda de Jesus for Witchcraft in Soalhaes, Portugal https://witchhuntshow.com/2025/03/07/international-womens-day-stories-the-1933-burning-of-arminda-de-jesus-for-witchcraft-in-soalhaes-portugal/ 2025-03-11 Witch Hunt: The Podcast of Witch Trials and Harmful Practices Related to Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks en-US February 27 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag building, is set on fire under controversial circumstances.Holborn Hajo https://books.google.com/books?id=lYn-quXf_9cC Republic to Reich: The Making of the Nazi Revolution; Ten Essays 1972 Pantheon Books 978-0-394-47122-8 182 en The following day, the Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in response to the Reichstag fire, nullifying many German civil liberties. February 28 – English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33: The England cricket team wins The Ashes using the controversial bodyline tactic.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will 510–512 March March 1933 March 2 – King Kong: The original King Kong film, starring Fay Wray and directed by Merian C. Cooper, debuts in New York City.Lasky Betty RKO, the biggest little major of them all 1984 Prentice-Hall 978-0-13-781451-0 Englewood Cliffs, N.J March 3 – 1933 Sanriku earthquake: A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honshū, Japan, killing approximately 3,000 people. March 4 The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure; Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree, an origin of Austrofascism. Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as the 32nd president of the United States. March 5 The Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "Bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on March 13). March 1933 German federal election: The Nazi Party gains 43.9% of the votes. March 10 – The 6.4 w Long Beach earthquake shakes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 115 people. March 15 The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises from 53.84 to 62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains the largest 1-day percentage gain for the index. Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship. March 20 – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed in Germany (it opens March 22 to hold political prisoners). March 22 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Cullen–Harrison Act, an amendment to the Volstead Act, allowing the manufacture and sale from April 7 of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines,"Roosevelt Authorizes Beer Sale By Signing Bill For 3.2 Brew". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette March 23, 1933, p.1. 8 months before the full repeal of Prohibition in the United States in December.Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA213 2019 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-64143-316-7 213 March 23 – Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler effectively the dictator of Germany.Frank McDonough 1933: death of a democracy History Today 70 2 February 2020 70–83 March 27 – Japan announces it will leave the League of Nations (due to a cancellation period of exactly two years, the egression becomes effective March 27, 1935).http://www.zaoerv.de/04_1934/4_1934_1_b_148_151_1.pdf https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.zaoerv.de/04_1934/4_1934_1_b_148_151_1.pdf 2022-10-09 live pdf March 29 – Welsh journalist Gareth Jones makes the first report in the West of the Holodomor famine genocide in Ukraine. March 31 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established in the United States as an unemployment relief program. April April 1933 April 1 – The recently elected Nazis (under Julius Streicher) organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.Alfred A. Häsler The Lifeboat is Full: Switzerland and the Refugees, 1933-1945 https://books.google.com/books?id=d4BCAAAAIAAJ 1969 Funk & Wagnalls 55 April 2 – As a member of the English cricket team touring New Zealand, 1933, batsman Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs in a test match at Eden Park, Auckland. April 3 An anti-monarchist rebellion occurs in Siam (Thailand). The first flight over Mount Everest is made by the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.Watson Davis The Advance of Science https://books.google.com/books?id=EItCAQAAIAAJ 1934 Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated 25639966 124 April 4 – American airship Akron crashes off the coast of New Jersey, killing 73 of its 76 crewmen. It is the worst aviation accident in history up to this date (and until 1950). April 5 The International Court of Justice in The Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark, and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland. Norway submits to the decision. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a national emergency and issues Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for U.S. citizens to own substantial amounts of monetary gold or bullion. April 7 – In Germany, the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service is passed, the first law of the new regime directed against Jews (as well as political opponents).Diemut Majer "Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945 https://books.google.com/books?id=J_BCNrHG9K8C&pg=RA4-PA85 2003 JHU Press 978-0-8018-6493-3 4 April 11 – Aviator Bill Lancaster takes off from Lympne in England, in an attempt to make a speed record to the Cape of Good Hope, but vanishes (his body is not found in the Sahara Desert until 1962).Flight International https://books.google.com/books?id=6QDWifwN0igC 1975 Illiffe Transport Publications 509 April 13 – The Children and Young Persons Act is passed in the United Kingdom. This raises the age of criminal responsibility from 7 to 8, raises the minimum age for capital punishment to 18, places restrictions on the identification in the press of persons under 18 appearing in court, sets a minimum full-time working age of 14 and makes it illegal to sell tobacco products to under-16s.Halsbury's Statutes of England https://books.google.com/books?id=n4NQAQAAIAAJ 1970 438 April 21 – Nazi Germany outlaws the kosher ritual shechita. April 24 – In Nazi Germany: Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses begins with the seizure of the Bible Students' office in Magdeburg. Jewish physicians are excluded from official insurance schemes, forcing many to give up their practices.Margarete Limberg Hubert Rübsaat Germans No More: Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933–1938 Berghahn Books 2006 17–8 April 26 – The Gestapo secret police is established in Nazi Germany by Hermann Göring. April 27 – The Stahlhelm veterans' organization joins the Nazi party in Germany. May May 1933 May 2 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler prohibits trade unions. May 3 In the Irish Free State, Dáil Éireann abolishes the oath of allegiance to the British Crown. Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to be named director of the United States Mint. May 5 – The detection by Karl Jansky of radio waves from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is reported in The New York Times. The discovery leads to the birth of radio astronomy. May 8 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes in India. May 10 – Chaco War: Paraguay formally declares war on Bolivia.2023-06-05 Chaco War Bolivia, Paraguay & Causes [1932–1935] Britannica https://www.britannica.com/event/Chaco-War 2023-07-30 www.britannica.com en May 17 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form the Nasjonal Samling (the National Gathering Party) of Norway. May 18 – New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority. May 26 – The Nazi Party in Germany introduces a law to legalize eugenic sterilization. May 27 New Deal in the United States: The Federal Securities Act is signed into law, requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago. June June 1933 June – The Holodomor famine-genocide in Ukraine reaches its peak, with 30,000 deaths from human-made starvation each day.https://holodomorct.org/holodomor-facts-and-history/ Holodomor Facts and History: chronology of events surrounding the famine The average life expectancy for a Ukrainian male born this year is 7.3 years.Vallin Jacques Meslé France Adamets Serguei Pyrozhkov Serhii A New Estimate of Ukrainian Population Losses during the Crises of the 1930s and 1940s http://ncua.inform-decisions.com/eng/files/VallinNewEstimate.pdf https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ncua.inform-decisions.com/eng/files/VallinNewEstimate.pdf 2022-10-09 live Population Studies 56 3 2002 249–264 10.1080/00324720215934 12553326 21128795 June 5 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States use of the gold standard, by enacting a joint resolution48 Stat. 112. nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. June 6 – The first drive-in movie theater is opened in Pennsauken Township, near Camden, New Jersey, by Richard Hollingshead, according to his patent granted May 16.1909537http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/82_years_ago_first_drive-in_theatre_opened_in_nj.html 82 years ago today, first U.S. drive-in theater opened in N.J. June 2015 NJ.com 2017-10-16 June 12 – The London Economic Conference is held. June 17 – Kansas City massacre: At the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, gangsters kill four law enforcement officers and detained fugitive bank robber Frank Nash. June 22 – Nazi Germany outlaws the Social-Democratic Party (SPD).Evans Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich Penguin Press New York 2003 359 978-0-143-03469-8 June 25 – Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany. July July 1933 July 1 The London Passenger Transport Board begins operation. Business Plot: Smedley Butler becomes involved in a coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against the President of the United States 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. The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring is enacted,Coming into force January 1934. IBM and the Holocaust Edwin Black Edwin Black 2001 Crown / Random House 93 allowing compulsory sterilization of citizens suffering from a list of alleged genetic disorders. July 15 The Four-Power Pact is signed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy. 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 15596 mi km on in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes. August August 1933 August 2 – The White Sea–Baltic Canal, Stalin's 227 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 – British politician Winston Churchill makes his first speech publicly warning of the dangers of German rearmament.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 376–377 0-7126-5616-2 August 14 – Loggers cause a 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 acre 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 1933 September 12 Alejandro Lerroux forms a new government in Spain. Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury (London), conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. September 26 – 1933 Tampico hurricane: A hurricane destroys the town of Tampico, Mexico. October October 1933 October 1 – Engelbert Dollfuss, leader of the 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. October 10 – 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. October 12 – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on 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 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 from Europe 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 November 1933 November 5 – Spanish Basque people 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 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. November 22 – The Fujian People's Government is declared in Fujian Province, China. December December 1933 December 5 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, repealing Prohibition in the United States, making production and sale of alcohol legal in the U.S. 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. December 23 – Lagny-Pomponne rail accident: A train collision near Lagny-sur-Marne in France kills 204. December 26 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States is signed by participants in the 7th International Conference of American States; it is significant in the development of the declarative theory of statehood.https://uia.org/s/or/en/1100005689 Convention on Rights and Duties of State 2024 UIA Global Civil Society Database uia.org Union of International Associations Yearbook of International Organizations Online Brussels 2025-01-12 The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan. FM radio is patented. December 29 – Members of the Iron Guard assassinate Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of Romania. Date unknown 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 Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery is created by the League of Nations.Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 216 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. Births births January thumb|100px|Dalida thumb|100px|Bill Hayden thumb|100px|Corazon Aquino January 1 – Joe Orton, English playwright (d. 1967)Orton, John Kingsley [Joe] (1933–1967), playwright Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/35334 free 9780198614128 January 2 – On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist (d. 2014) January 6 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003) January 8 – Supriya Devi, Indian Bengali actress (d. 2018) January 12 – Liliana Cavani, Italian film director and screenwriter January 13 – Tom Gola, American basketball player (d. 2014)Eskenazi Gerald Tom Gola, a Philadelphia Hero, Dies at 81 The New York Times January 27, 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/sports/basketball/tom-gola-philadelphia-basketball-star-who-led-la-salle-dies-at-81.html?_r=0 January 14 – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003) 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)https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/12/david-bellamy-obituary David Bellamy obituary Wilkinson Pete 12 December 2019 The Guardian 17 December 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 (d. 2023) Chita Rivera, American actress, dancer (d. 2024)https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jan/31/chita-rivera-obituary Chita Rivera obituary 31 January 2024 Michael Coveney Guardian 5 June 2026 January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009) February 100px|thumbnail|right|Paul Biya 100px|thumbnail|right|Yoko Ono 100px|thumbnail|right|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) 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)Brown Mark French fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro dies aged 86 https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/dec/22/french-fashion-designer-emanuel-ungaro-dies-aged-86 29 December 2019 The Guardian 22 December 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 artist and musician, 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 – Nina Simone, African-American singer (d. 2003)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nina-simone-730232.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090223155110/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nina-simone-730232.html February 23, 2009 London, UK The Independent Nina Simone obituary dead April 23, 2003 February 22 Katharine, Duchess of Kent, British royal, musician and patron of the arts (d. 2025)https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/05/the-duchess-of-kent-obituary The Duchess of Kent obituary The Guardian Stephen Bates 5 September 2025 16 September 2025 Christopher Ondaatje, Ceylonese-born travel writer, biographer and philanthropistCharles Whately Parker Charles Wolcott Parker Barnet M. Greene Who's who in Canada https://books.google.com/books?id=rnxmAAAAMAAJ 2000 International Press 978-0-7715-7726-0 433 February 26 – Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian Catholic bishop (d. 2017) February 28 – Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (d. 2018) March thumb|100px|Michael Caine thumb|100px|Quincy Jones thumb|100px|Philip Roth March 3 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)https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jackie-blanchflower-1195817.html Obituary The Independent September 3, 1998 UK 1 January 2022 March 12 – Jesús Gil, Spanish right-wing politician, construction businessman and football team owner (d. 2004) March 13 – Mike Stoller, American songwriter March 14 Sir Michael Caine, English actor and author René Felber, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 2020) Quincy Jones, African-American music producer, composer (d. 2024) March 15 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2020)Ruth Bader Ginsburg https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/ruth-bader-ginsburg Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers 27 July 2021 en 25 March 2020 March 18 – Unita Blackwell, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2019) March 19 – Philip Roth, American novelist (d. 2018)Sanford Pinsker The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=Oh7Ya84bjtcC&pg=PA145 1991 SIU Press 978-0-8093-1581-9 145 March 22 – Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st President of Iran (d. 2021) April thumb|100px|Jean-Paul Belmondo thumb|100px|Elizabeth Montgomery thumb|100px|Montserrat Caballé thumb|100px|Jayne Mansfield thumb|100px|Willie Nelson April 1 Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996)June 2026 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist and Nobel laureate 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)June 2026 April 9 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (d. 2021) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/obituaries/jean-paul-belmondo-magnetic-star-of-the-french-new-wave-dies-at-88.html Jean-Paul Belmondo, Magnetic Star of the French New Wave, Dies at 88 The New York Times 6 September 2021 6 September 2021 Lyman RickFrodon Jean-Michel 6 September 2021 Jean-Paul Belmondo est mort fr Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2021/09/06/la-mort-de-jean-paul-belmondo-star-populaire-du-cinema-francais_6093607_3382.html 6 September 2021 Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (d. 1994) April 12 Montserrat Caballé, Catalan operatic soprano (d. 2018) Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American politician (d. 2025)June 2026 April 14 – Yuri Oganessian, Russian nuclear physicist April 15 Roy Clark, American country musician (d. 2018) Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (Bewitched) (d. 1995) April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967) April 25 – Jerry Leiber, American composer (d. 2011) April 26 Carol Burnett, American actress, singer and comedian Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2024)Hafner Katie Katie Hafner January 22, 2024 Arno A. 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Cavafy, Greek-Egyptian poet (b. 1863)Kunitz Stanley Haycraft Howard Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature 1942 https://books.google.com/books?id=Sb1kAAAAMAAJ&q=kavafis+april+29 April 30 – Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, 77th Prime Minister of Peru, 48th President of Peru (assassinated) (b. 1889) May thumb|120px|Li Ching-Yuen 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, Scottish-born German anarchist writer and philosopher (b. 1864)https://books.google.com/books?id=0masjfeO6isC&pg=PA600 Kräm – Marp 9783110220490 Kühlmann Wilhelm 29 September 2010 Walter de Gruyter May 22 – Sándor Ferenczi, Hungarian psychoanalyst (b. 1873) May 24 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) Morris A.J.A. Bottomley, Horatio William http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31981 January 2011 10.1093/ref:odnb/31981 16 June 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143354/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31981?docPos=1 14 July 2014 live Jimmie Rodgers, American country singer (b. 1897) June 120px|thumbnail|right|Hipólito Yrigoyen June 2 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878) June 7 – Cyrus H. K. Curtis, American publisher (b. 1850) June 15 – Hildegard Burjan, German Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1883) June 18 – Harry Sweet, American actor and director (b. 1901) 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 120px|thumbnail|right|Sulejman Delvina 120px|thumbnail|right|Hasan Prishtina 120px|thumbnail|right|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) Joseph De Piro, Maltese 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)22 September 1933 Dr. Annie Besant 12 Sydney Morning Herald https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LvVUAAAAIBAJ&pg=7137%2C2455951 Google News Archive 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)Ring Lardner Dies; Noted as Writer https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0306.html 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) October 120px|thumbnail|right|Ismael Montes 120px|thumbnail|right|Paul Painlevé 120px|thumbnail|right|Andrey Lyapchev 120px|thumbnail|right|King Mohammad Nadir Shah thumb|120px|right|Yamamoto Gonnohyoe October 1 – Joseph Hofmeister, Czech American bandleader, composer and musical educator (b. 1867) October 4 – Edward Lyon Buchwalter, American Union captain and businessman (b. 1841) October 5 – Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898) October 7 – Jo Labadie, American labor organizer (b. 1850) October 16 – Ismael Montes, Bolivian general and political figure, 26th President of Bolivia (b. 1861) October 27 – Emily Murphy, Canadian woman's rights activist (b. 1868)https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/emily-murphy Emily Murphy | Historica Canada www.historicacanada.ca October 29 George Luks, American painter (b. 1867) Albert Calmette, French bacteriologist, immunologist (b. 1863) Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and statesman, 62nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1863) November November 2 – Gao Qifeng, Chinese painter (b. 1889)Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference rmzxb.com.cn 高奇峰《松猿图》：画海横舟 劈波至勇 Gao Qifeng's "Pine and Monkey": Painting a Boat Crossing the Sea and Bravely Cutting through the Waves zh https://www.rmzxb.com.cn/c/2017-07-31/1690816.shtml Zhu Wanzhang Zhu Wanzhang (朱万章) 31 July 2017 17 September 2024 16 March 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210316190429/https://www.rmzxb.com.cn/c/2017-07-31/1690816.shtml November 3 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician (b. 1853) November 5 – Texas Guinan, American actress, producer and entrepreneur (b. 1884) November 6 – Andrey Lyapchev, 22nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1866) November 8 Pietro Albertoni, Italian psychologist, politician (b. 1849) Mohammad Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1883) November 16 – Kyrillos III of Cyprus, archbishop of the Cypriot Orthodox Church (b. 1859) November 18 – Francisco Javier Gaxiola, Mexican diplomat, lawyer and politician (b. 1870) November 20 – Augustine Birrell, English politician and author (b. 1850) November 21 – Inez Clough, American actress (b. 1873) November 23 Eusebio Hernández Pérez, Cuban eugenicist, obstetrician, and guerrilla (b. 1853) François Albert, French journalist (b. 1874) November 30 – Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875) December December 2 Clarence Burton, American actor (b. 1882) Émile Meyerson, Polish-French epistemologist, chemist and philosopher (b. 1859) December 4 – Stefan George, German poet (b. 1868) December 6 – Auguste Chapuis, French composer (b. 1858) December 8 Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, Imperial Japanese army officer, 8th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852) Karl Jatho, German airplane pioneer (b. 1873) John Joly, Irish physicist (b. 1857) December 10 – János Hadik, 19th prime minister of Hungary (b. 1863) December 16 – Robert W. Chambers, American writer (b. 1865) Robert Chambers, Novelist, Is Dead December 17, 1933 New York Times 36 December 17 Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876) Oskar Potiorek, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1853) December 18 – Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (b. 1852) December 19 George Jackson Churchward, English Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer (b. 1857) Friedrich von Ingenohl, German admiral (b. 1857) December 21 Dora Montefiore, English suffragist and socialist (b. 1851) Knud Rasmussen, Danish polar explorer and anthropologist (b. 1879) Tod Sloan, American jockey (b. 1874) December 24 – Prince Aribert of Anhalt (b. 1866) December 25 – Francesc Macià, President of the Generalitat (autonomous government of Catalonia) (b. 1859) December 26 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary (b. 1875) December 29 – Ion G. Duca, 35th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1879) Nobel Prizes right|100px Physics – Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Chemistry – not awarded Physiology or Medicine – Thomas Hunt Morgan Literature – Ivan Bunin Peace – Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) References External links The 1930s Timeline: 1933 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia