Curated category
1933 births
- Michael CaineMaurice Joseph Micklewhite was born on the 14th of March 1933 at St Olave's Hospital in Rotherhithe, a working-class district of London, the son of a fish…
- Roman PolanskiRoman Polanski was born on the 18th of August 1933 in interbellum Paris, the child of two agnostics from very different worlds.
- Stuart RoosaStuart Allen Roosa orbited the Moon 34 times, alone, while his two crewmates walked on the surface below. No one was watching him through a television camera.
- James BrownJames Brown was supposed to be named Joseph James Brown. A clerk reversed his first and middle names on his birth certificate, and the mistake stuck.
- Fred HaiseFred Wallace Haise Jr. came within days of becoming the sixth person to walk on the Moon. Born on the 14th of November 1933, in Biloxi, Mississippi, he…
- Yoko OnoYoko Ono walked into the Indica Gallery in London on the 7th of November 1966 carrying a ladder painted white. At the top of the ladder hung a magnifying…
- William AndersWilliam Anders took what many consider the most consequential photograph in human history, and he did it almost by accident.
- Imre PozsgayImre Pozsgay stood before his country on the 28th of January 1989 and said what no ruling Communist official had dared to say: the events of 1956 were not a…
- Ronald Evans (astronaut)Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. is the last human being to orbit the Moon alone. On the 14th of December 1972, while his crewmates Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt…
- GarrinchaGarrincha was born with one leg six centimetres shorter than the other, with his left leg turning outwards and his right turning inwards.
- Just FontaineJust Fontaine scored thirteen goals at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. Not across a tournament run that stretched years or multiple competitions.
- John BoormanJohn Boorman was born on the 18th of January 1933 in Shepperton, Middlesex, the son of a pub landlord whose own father had made and lost several fortunes as…
- Rob InglisRobert Keith Inglis entered the world on the 9th of March 1933 in Australia. He lived there until he moved to England in 1955.
- Elinor OstromElinor Ostrom was born in Los Angeles in 1933, and she died on the 12th of June 2012, the same day her last article was published.