* Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, a British military aeroplane manufactured ( 1927 – 1933 )

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1933 – Roy Goode, British lawyer

* 1933 – Eduardo Malapit, American politician ( d. 2007 )

* 1933 – Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano

* 1933 – Dickie Davies, English television presenter

* 1933 – Willie Nelson, American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and activist

* 1933 – Jenő Hámori, Hungarian fencer

* 1933 – Joke Smit, Dutch activist and politician ( d. 1981 )

* 1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer ( d. 1987 )

* 1933 – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese actress and author

* 1851 – Felix Adler, German-American religious leader and social reformer ( d. 1933 )

* 1933 – Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States

* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

* 1933 – Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician

* 1933 – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.

The party's leader Antonin Svehla ( 1873 – 1933 ) was prime minister several times.

* 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian ( d. 2009 )

* 1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player

* 1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian ( d. 2007 )

* 1933 – Pierluigi Vigna, Italian magistrate ( d. 2012 )

* 1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer ( d. 2009 )

* 1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer ( b. 1933 )

* 2008 – Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter ( The Tarriers and The Rooftop Singers ) ( b. 1933 )

* 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.

* 1990 – Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter ( b. 1933 )

* July 23 – Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress ( b. 1933 )

The chapel in the form of a Greek cross was dedicated by the college's founder Edward Stuart Talbot, in January 1933.

His publications include: Introduction to Greek Epigraphy ( 1887 ); Ancient Athens ( 1902 ); Handbook of Greek Sculpture ( 1905 ); Six Greek Sculptors ( 1910 ); " Poet and Artist in Greece: With Illustrations " ( 1933 ; Keiji Kokubu's Japanese translation available, Sogensha Press, 1944 ).

* Ancient Greek Literature ( 1933 )

** Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet ( died 1933 )

Costa-Gavras ( short for Constantinos Gavras or Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς ; born 12 February 1933 ), is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z ( 1969 ).

A fragment of a vase collected by Mihail Dimitriu at the site of Poiana, Galaţi ( Piroboridava ), Romania illustrating the use of Greek and Latin letters by a Dacian potter ( source: Dacia ( journal ) | Dacia journal, 1933 )

* Akis Panou, ( 1933 – 2000 ): Greek folk musician and composer

Robert Fagles ( September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008 ) was an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer.

On November 2, 1933 the Greek government, in conjunction with the Hellenic Aerial Communications Company, issued its own set of airmail stamps for general use.

It had been banned by the Soviet linguistic reform of 1933 as being " non-Ukrainian " ( possibly because the Ukrainian letter followed more closely the model of the Gamma letter of the Greek Alphabet, by not adopting the very distinctive letterform of the Russian letter " Ghe " used in cursive and italic styles ).

Later, he worked extensively on the Greek dialects, publishing: The Greek dialects ; grammar, selected inscriptions, glossary ( 1910 ), Comparative grammar of Greek and Latin ( 1933 ); and on more general Indo-European issues.

Other investigators include in 1948 the German archaeologist G. Karo ; in 1950 Professor Robert Demangel, who was from 1933 to 1948 the director of the French School of Archaeology in Athens ; in 1950 Alfred Philippson, German geologist and geographer ; in 1952 Spiros Dontas, Greek writer and member of the Academy of Athens ; in 1954 Aristos Stauropoulos, a Greek writer who published the History of the city of Aegeion ; in 1956 the Greek Professor N. P. Moutsopoulos ; in 1967 Spiros Marinatos, a Greek archaeologist who wrote the Research about Helike and in 1968 Helike-Thira-Thieves ; in 1962 George K. Georgalas, the Greek writer ; and in 1967 Nikos Papahatzis, a Greek archaeologist who published Pausanias ’ Description of Greece.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

* 1933 – Bapu, Indian cartoonist, designer and film director

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

Again echoing Winchell, Sullivan took on yet another medium in 1933 by writing and starring in the film Mr. Broadway, which has him guiding the audience around New York nightspots to meet entertainers and celebrities.

Most obviously, the musical film was born ; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer / director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street, 1933, Dames, 1934 ).

In 1933, RKO released Merian C. Cooper's classic " giant monster " film King Kong.

Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".

After leaving Paramount, she signed deals with various film companies, being cast in her first horror film roles among many other types of roles, including in The Bowery ( 1933 ) and Viva Villa ( 1934 ), both huge productions starring Wallace Beery.

For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she starred in the film with which she is most identified, King Kong ( 1933 ).

Faye Wray in the 1933 feature film King Kong ( 1933 film ) | King Kong

* 1887 – Pat Sullivan, Australian cartoonist, pioneer animator and film producer ( Felix the Cat ) ( d. 1933 )

Capra's final theatrical film was with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, named Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), a remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day.

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

In 1933 Hawks signed a three-picture deal at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and his first film was there Today We Live in 1933, starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper.

The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war ( In the Days of the Comet ( 1906 )), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, Things to Come ).

* 1933 – Elliott Kastner, American film producer ( d. 2010 )

* 1933 – Jean-Marie Straub, French film director

He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed such classics as Frankenstein ( 1931 ), The Old Dark House ( 1932 ), The Invisible Man ( 1933 ) and Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ).

Whale's next film was The Kiss Before the Mirror ( 1933 ), a critical success but a box office failure.