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Akihito
Akihito (born 23 December 1933) is a member of the Imperial House of Japan who reigned as the 125th emperor of Japan from 7 January 1989 until his abdication on 30 April 2019. The era of his rule was named the Heisei era, Heisei being an expression of achieving peace worldwide.
Roman Polanski
French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)
Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 130 films over a career that spanned eight decades and is considered a British cultural icon. He has received numerous awards including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. As of 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Caine is one of only five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in five different decades. In 2000, he received a BAFTA Fellowship and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Jean-Paul Belmondo
French actor (1933–2021)
Corazon Aquino
President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
Gene Wilder
American actor (1933–2016)
James Brown
American musician (1933–2006)
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, activist, and filmmaker. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Philip Roth
American novelist (1933–2018)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American lawyer and jurist (1933–2020)
Joan Rivers
American comedian, actress, and television host (1933–2014)
Montserrat Caballé
Spanish operatic soprano (1933–2018)
Larry King
American television and radio host (1933–2021)
Karl Lagerfeld
German fashion designer (1933–2019)
Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
Nina Simone
American singer, songwriter and pianist and civil rights activist (1933–2003)
Garrincha
Manuel Francisco dos Santos (28 October 1933 – 20 January 1983), nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha (, "Southern house wren"), was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, and by many, one of the greatest dribblers ever.
Paul Biya
Cameroonian politician
Dalida
Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida (, ; ), was an Italian naturalized French singer and actress. Throughout her international career, Dalida sold more than 140 million records worldwide. Some of her best known songs include "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", and "" featuring spoken word by film star Alain Delon.
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Soviet and Russian poet (1933–2017)
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
Quincy Jones
American record producer and composer (1933–2024)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist (1933-)
Jalal Talabani
Iraqi politician (1933-2017)
Jayne Mansfield
American actress and Playboy Playmate (1933–1967)
Abolhassan Banisadr
Iranian politician and economist, and Iran's first President (1933–2021)
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933–2014)
Samora Moisés Machel
1st President of Mozambique (1933–1986)
Willie Nelson
American country musician (born 1933)
Richard Ernst
Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate (1933–2021)
Bobby Robson
English association football player and manager (1933-2009)
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer and conductor (1933–2020)
Kim Novak
American actress
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
Iranian Prime Minister and President of Iran (1933-1981)
Ilia II of Georgia
Patriarch of Georgia (1933–2026)
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
Mathieu Kérékou
politician (1933-2015)
John Gurdon
British developmental biologist (1933–2025)
Just Fontaine
French football player and manager (1933-2023)
Robert Curl
American chemist (1933–2022)
John Barry
British composer and conductor (1933–2011)
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle was an Indian playback singer, businesswoman, actress and television personality who predominantly worked in Indian cinema. Known for her versatility, she was described in the media as one of the greatest and most influential singers in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over eight decades, she recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and won several accolades including two National Film Awards, four BFJA Awards, eighteen Maharashtra State Film Awards, nine Filmfare Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award and a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer, in addition to two Grammy nominations. In 2000, she was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 2008, she was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honour of the country. The Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged her in 2011 as the most recorded artist in music history.
Tim Conway
American actor and comedian (1933–2019)
Peter Mansfield
English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging
Edmund Phelps
American economist
Lina Medina
Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth to her son Gerardo on 14 May 1939 when she was five years, seven months, and 21 days of age. Based on the medical assessments of her pregnancy, she was four years old when she became pregnant, which was biologically possible due to precocious puberty.
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
John Hopfield
American scientist (born 1933)
Bill Anders
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–2024)
Ali Shariati
Iranian writer, scholar of Islam, and political activist(1933-1977)
Madhubala
Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi (14 February 1933 – 23 February 1969), known professionally as Madhubala (), was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films. She is regarded to have been one of the greatest and finest actresses in the history of Indian cinema. One of the country's highest-paid stars in the 1950s, Madhubala appeared in over 70 filmsranging from slapstick comedies to historical dramasin a two decade-long career. Long after her death, she remains a Bollywood icon, particularly noted for her beauty and unconventional screen persona. Media outlets often refer to her as "The Venus of Ind
Carol Burnett
American actress, comedian and singer (born 1933)
Waichiro Omura
Japanese association football player (1933–2003)
Than Shwe
Burmese senior general and head of state of Myanmar of Myanmar from 1992 to 2011
Isao Iwabuchi
Japanese association football player (1933–2003)
Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist (1933–1984)