1933 in the United States

Federal government

• President:

Herbert Hoover (R-California) (until March 4)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York) (starting March 4)

• Vice President:

Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) (until March 4)

John Nance Garner (D-Texas) (starting March 4)

• Chief Justice: Charles Evans Hughes (New York)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:

John Nance Garner (D-Texas) (until March 4)

Henry Thomas Rainey (D-Illinois) (starting March 9)

• Senate Majority Leader:

James Eli Watson (R-Indiana) (until March 4)

Joseph Taylor Robinson (D-Arkansas) (starting March 4)

• Congress: 72nd (until March 4), 73rd (starting March 4)

January–March

• January 5
  • Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
  • Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the U.S. (1923–1929) dies of coronary thrombosis in Northampton, Massachusetts.
• January 17 – The U.S. Congress votes favorably for Philippines independence, against the view of President Herbert Hoover.
• January 23 – The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20, coming into effect on February 6.
• January 30 – The Lone Ranger debuts on American radio.
• February 6–7 – Officers on the USS Ramapo record a 34-meter high sea-wave in the Pacific Ocean.
• February 10 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
• February 15 – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wound on March 6. Zangara is executed on March 20 by the electric chair.
• February 17
  • Repeal of Prohibition in the United States: The Blaine Act passes the Senate, submitting the proposed Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification to end prohibition in the United States.
  • News-Week magazine is published for the first time, in New York City.
• February 25 – USS Ranger (CV-4), the first ship of the United States Navy designed as an aircraft carrier, is launched at Newport News, Virginia.
• March 2 – The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray and directed by Merian C. Cooper, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City.
• March 3 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.
• March 4
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as the 32nd president of the United States, who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" in his inauguration speech. He is sworn in by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, beginning the first 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. Roosevelt's paralytic illness is never publicly acknowledged during what will be the four terms of his Presidency, during which he rejects socialism and government ownership of industry. This is the last time Inauguration Day in the U.S. occurs on this date. John Nance Garner is sworn in as the 32nd vice president.
  • Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, and the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
• March 5 – 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 7 – The real-estate trading board game Monopoly is developed.
• March 9 – Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
• March 10 – The 6.4 M_w  Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 115–120 people dead, and causing an estimated $40 million in damage.
• March 12 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States, in the first of his "Fireside Chats" by radio.
• 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 to date as the largest 1-day percentage gain for the index.
• March 22 – President 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,^[1] 8 months before the full repeal of Prohibition in December.^[2]
• March 31 – Civilian Conservation Corps established as an unemployment relief program by voice vote in Congress, followed on April 5 by Executive Order 6101.^[3]
• March – John Andrew Rice and other staff are dismissed (or resign) from Rollins College in a dispute over academic tenure, going on to found Black Mountain College.^[4]

April–June

• April 4 – The U.S. airship Akron crashes off the coast of New Jersey, leaving 73 dead.
• April 5 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a national emergency and issues Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold.
• April 15 – The Indiana State Police begins operations.
• April 19 – The United States officially goes off the gold standard.
• April 26 – Editors of the Harvard Lampoon steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House (it is returned two days later).
• May 3 – 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 12 – Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted in the U.S.
• May 18 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• May 27
  • New Deal: 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.
  • Walt Disney's classic Silly Symphony cartoon The Three Little Pigs is first released.
• June 5 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 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 chemical company executive Richard Hollingshead, according to his patent granted May 16.^[5][6]
• June 15 – National Guard Bureau founded.
• 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 26
  • The American Totalisator Company unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine at the Arlington Park Racetrack near Chicago.
  • Founding of Twentieth Century Pictures as a motion picture production company by Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck in Hollywood.

July–September

• July 1 – Business Plot: Smedley Butler becomes involved in a secret coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt which fails (according to his own testimony in 1934).
• July 6 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
• July 22
  • "Machine-Gun" Kelly and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200,000 ransom.
  • Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, landing at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, after traveling eastbound 15,596 mi (25,099 km) in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes.
• July 24
  • Several members of the Barrow Gang are injured or captured during a running battle with local police near Dexter, Iowa.
  • In one of his radio Fireside chats, "On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program", President Roosevelt introduces the term "first 100 days".^[7]
• August 1 – The Blue Eagle emblem of the National Recovery Administration is displayed publicly for the first time.
• August 10
  • Division of Investigation founded.
  • Shipping Board Bureau and Emergency Fleet Corporation founded.
• 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 acres (971 km²).
• September 18 – Tennessee Valley Authority is established.

October–December

• October 7 – The New York Giants (baseball) defeat the Washington Senators, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series title.
• October 10 – United Air Lines Flight 23: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by the mid-air explosion of a bomb on a transcontinental flight 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 federal penitentiary.
• October 16 – Parricides committed by Victor Licata lead to calls for the legal prohibition of cannabis.
• October 17 – Albert Einstein arrives 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 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 strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands (one of a series of disastrous dust storms this year).
• November 13 – Jasper McLevy becomes mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first Socialist mayor in New England; he serves until 1957.
• 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 17 – The Marx Brothers' anarchic comedy film Duck Soup is released in the U.S.
• December 5 – Repeal of Prohibition in the United States: The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, repealing Prohibition, is fully ratified and comes into effect.
• December 6 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
• December 17 – The first NFL Championship Game in American football is played. The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 23–21.

Undated

• 15 million unemployed in the U.S.
• The first doughnut store under the Krispy Kreme name opens on Charlotte Pike in Nashville, Tennessee.^[8]

Ongoing

• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)^[9]
• Prohibition (1920–1933)^[10]
• Great Depression (1929–1933)
• Dust Bowl (1930–1936)
• New Deal (1933–1939)^[11]

January

• January 1 – Ford Konno, American swimmer
• January 2
  • Dan Duncan, businessman, oil company executive and billionaire (d. 2010)
  • Richard Riley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 6th United States Secretary of Education
• January 5 – Leonard Marsh, American businessman, co-founder of Snapple (d. 2013)
• January 6
  • Lenny Green, American baseball player (d. 2019)
  • Fred L. Turner, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
• January 7 – Phil Mulkey, American decathlete and coach (d. 2022)
• January 8
  • Charles Osgood, American journalist, commentator (d. 2024)
  • Nolan Miller, American fashion and jewelry designer (d. 2012)
  • Willie Tasby, American baseball player (d. 2022)
• January 9 – Robert García, American politician (d. 2017)
• January 13 – Tom Gola, American basketball player (d. 2014)
• January 14 – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
• January 15 – Ernest J. Gaines, American author (d. 2019)
• January 16 – Susan Sontag, American author (d. 2004)
• January 17 – Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998)
• January 22 – Lennie Rosenbluth, American basketball player (d. 2022)
• January 23 – Chita Rivera, American actress and dancer (d. 2024)
• January 24 – Bob Beattie, American skiing coach (d. 2018)
• January 25 – Barbara Owen, American organist (d. 2024)
• January 27 – Tony Windis, American basketball player (d. 2024)
• January 29
  • Paul Sally, American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
  • Ronald Townson, American singer (d. 2001)
• January 30 – Swede Halbrook, American basketball player (d. 1988)
• January 31 – Barbara Jakobson, American art collector (d. 2025)

February

• February 1 – Wendell R. Anderson, American politician (d. 2016)
• February 2 – M'el Dowd, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
• February 3 – Paul Sarbanes, American politician (d. 2020)
• February 4 – Shirley Burkovich, American baseball player (d. 2022)
• February 6 – Walter E. Fauntroy, African-American civil rights activist
• February 10 – Billy O'Dell, American baseball player (d. 2018)
• February 13
  • John H. Beyer, American architect (d. 2026)
  • Kim Novak, American actress
  • Peter L. Pond, American clergyman and philanthropist (d. 2000)
• February 16 – Ron Faber, American actor (d. 2023)
• February 17
  • Larry Jennings, American magician and author (d. 1997)
  • Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
• February 20 – Frederick Crews, American literary critic (d. 2024)
• February 21
  • Bob Rafelson, American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2022)
  • Nina Simone, African-American singer (d. 2003)
• February 23 – Donna J. Stone, poet and philanthropist (d. 1994)
• February 26 – Godfrey Cambridge, actor and comedian (d. 1976)
• February 27 – Raymond Berry, American football player
• February 28 – Charles Vinci, weightlifter (d. 2018)

March

• March 3 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite (d. 2019)
• March 5 – Marlene Riding In Mameah, American silversmith (d. 2018)
• March 6 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• March 9 – Lloyd Price, African-American R&B singer (d. 2021)^[12]
• March 12
  • Myrna Fahey, American actress (d. 1973)
  • Barbara Feldon, American actress, model (Get Smart)
• March 13
  • Mike Stoller, American songwriter (d. 2011)
  • Gloria McMillan, American former actress, teacher (d. 2022)
  • Donald Henry Gaskins, American serial killer (d. 1991)
• March 14
  • Jake Godbold, American politician (d. 2020)
  • Quincy Jones, African-American music producer and composer (d. 2024)
• March 15 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 (d. 2020)^[13]
• March 16 – Sanford I. Weill, American financier and philanthropist
• March 17 – Jessie Dalman, American politician.^[14]
• March 18
  • Unita Blackwell, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2019)
  • Win Wilfong, American basketball player (d. 1985)
• March 19 – Philip Roth, American novelist (d. 2018)
• March 23
  • Hayes Alan Jenkins, American figure skater
  • Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist (d. 2024)
• March 24 – William Smith, actor (d. 2021)
• March 25
  • Dick Duckett, basketball player (d. 2021)
  • William O'Neil, stockbroker and writer (d. 2023)^[15]
• March 28 – Frank Murkowski, politician
• March 29 – Bob Schafer, basketball player (d. 2005)
• March 30 – Joe Ruby, animator (d. 2020)^[16]
• March 31 – Anita Carter, singer (d. 1999)

April

• April 1
  • Stanley Weston, American inventor and licensing agent (d. 2017)
  • Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996)
• April 3
  • Renae Youngberg, American professional baseball player (d. 2015)
  • Bob Dornan, American politician
• April 5
  • Larry Felser, American sports columnist (d. 2013)
  • Frank Gorshin, American actor (Batman) (d. 2005)
• April 7 – Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2015)
• April 11 – Med Park, American basketball player (d. 1998)
• April 12 – Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American politician
• April 14 – Morton Subotnick, American electronic composer
• April 15
  • Roy Clark, American country singer, musician, TV host (Hee Haw) (d. 2018)
  • Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
• April 17 – Ron W. Miller, American president and CEO (The Walt Disney Company) (d. 2019)
• April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
• April 21 – Chuck Mencel, American basketball player
• April 24
  • Patricia Bosworth, American actress, journalist and author (d. 2020)
  • Freddie Scott, American singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
• April 25
  • Jerry Leiber, American popular music composer (d. 2011)
  • Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player (AAGPBL) (d. 1992)
  • Lawrence F. Scalise, American politician, attorney (d. 2015)
• April 26 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer and comedian
• April 27 – Calvin Newborn, American jazz guitarist (d. 2018)
• April 29 – Ed Charles, American basketball player (d. 2018)
• April 30
  • Rod McKuen, American singer, songwriter and poet (d. 2015)
  • Willie Nelson, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, producer, author, poet and activist
  • Helen Vendler, American literary critic (d. 2024)

May

• May 3
  • James Brown, African-American soul musician (d. 2006)
  • Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
• May 5 – Joe McClain, American baseball player
• May 7
  • Roger Perry, American actor (d. 2018)
  • Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002)
• May 11
  • Louis Farrakhan, African-American Muslim leader
  • Anna Marguerite McCann, first female American underwater archaeologist (d. 2017)
• May 15 – Carol Habben, American baseball player (d. 1997)
• May 16 – Terry O'Malley Seidler, American baseball team owner and executive (d. 2025)
• May 17 – Stefan Kanfer, American journalist, critic, editor and author (d. 2018)
• May 18 – Jack Stephens, American basketball player (d. 2011)
• May 20 – Dan Budnik, American photographer (d. 2020)
• May 26 – Edward Whittemore, American writer, CIA agent (d. 1995)

June

• June 1
  • Antony Ponzini, American actor (d. 2002)
  • Charlie Wilson, American naval officer and politician (d. 2010)
• June 2 – Jerry Lumpe, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• June 6 – Eli Broad, American entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2021)
• June 7
  • Gary Kent, American actor, stuntman and film director (d. 2023)
  • Herb Score, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2008)
  • Beverly Wills, American actress (d. 1963)
• June 8
  • Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach (d. 1998)
  • Jim Palmer, American basketball player (d. 2013)
  • Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress and television host (d. 2014)
• June 9 – Don Young, American politician (d. 2022)
• June 10 – F. Lee Bailey, American criminal defense attorney (d. 2021)
• June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)
• June 12 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 2004)
• June 17
  • Bob Armstrong, American basketball player (d. 2016)
  • Harry Browne, American writer, presidential candidate (d. 2006)
  • Rod Paige, American politician (d. 2025)
  • Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (d. 1970)
• June 20
  • Danny Aiello, American actor (d. 2019)
  • Lazy Lester, American musician (d. 2018)
• June 21 – Bernie Kopell, American actor, comedian
• June 22 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician (d. 2023)
• June 23 – Dave Bristol, American baseball manager
• June 24 – Sam Jones, American basketball player (d. 2021)
• June 25 – James Meredith, African-American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran
• June 26
  • Ralph Guglielmi, American football quarterback (d. 2017)
  • McNeil Moore, American football player (d. 2023)
  • Alan Trask, American politician (d. 2019)
• June 27
  • Louise Bishop, politician
  • Gary Crosby, actor, singer (d. 1995)
  • L. James Sullivan, firearms inventor (d. 2024)
• June 28 – Morris Hirsch, mathematician
• June 29
  • John Bradshaw, theologian, educator (d. 2016)
  • Bob Fass, radio personality (d. 2021)
  • Roy Harris, heavyweight boxer (d. 2023)
  • John D. Hawke, Jr., politician (d. 2022)
  • David Nething, politician (d. 2024)

July

• July 1 – Frank Baumann, American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 2020)
• July 4 – Miriam Stevenson, American television host, actress, previously model and beauty pageant winner
• July 5
  • Jonathan Baumbach, American author, academic and film critic (d. 2019)
  • Lisa Janti, American actress (d. 2023)
• July 6
  • Al Ferrari, American basketball player (d. 2016)
  • June Kenney, American actress (d. 2021)
• July 7
  • David McCullough, historian and author (d. 2022)
  • Richard Ravitch, politician and businessman (d. 2023)
• July 8
  • Bucky Bockhorn, American basketball player
  • Al Spangler, American baseball player
• July 9 – Ray Rippelmeyer, American baseball player and coach (d. 2022)^[17]
• July 10 – Richard G. Hatcher, first African-American politician (d. 2019)
• July 11 – Bob McGrath, American actor (Sesame Street)
• July 14 – Michael Cardenas, American businessman
• July 16 – Julian A. Brodsky, American businessman
• July 18 – Syd Mead, American industrial, conceptual designer (d. 2019)
• July 20
  • Buddy Knox, American singer (d. 1999)
  • Cormac McCarthy, American novelist (d. 2023)
• July 21 – John Gardner, American novelist (d. 1982)
• July 22 – Bertice Reading, African-American actress, singer (d. 1991)
• July 23 – Bert Convy, American game show host, actor and singer (d. 1991)
• July 24
  • John Aniston, American actor (d. 2022)
  • Doug Sanders, American golfer (d. 2020)
• July 25
  • Ed Fleming, American basketball player (d. 2002)
  • Ken Swofford, American actor (d. 2018)
• July 27 – Nick Reynolds, American folk singer (d. 2008)
• July 29
  • Lou Albano, American professional wrestler, actor (d. 2009)
  • Robert Fuller, American actor and rancher
• July 30 – Edd Byrnes, American actor, singer (77 Sunset Strip) (d. 2020)

August

• August 1
  • Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009)
  • Jack Patera, American football player, coach (d. 2018)
• August 3 – Vera Katz, American politician (d. 2017)
• August 7
  • Elinor Ostrom, American economist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
  • Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction writer (d. 2017)
• August 8 – Carmine Persico, American mobster and convicted racketeer (d. 2019)
• August 10
  • Doyle Brunson, American poker player (d. 2023)
  • Rocky Colavito, American baseball player (d. 2024)
• August 11 – Jerry Falwell Sr., American pastor, televangelist and activist (Moral Majority) (d. 2007)
• August 16
  • Julie Newmar, American actress, dancer and singer
  • Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (d. 1994)
  • Bill Shipp, American journalist (d. 2023)^[18]
• August 17 – Gene Kranz, American NASA Flight Director
• August 18 – Frank Salemme, American gangster and hitman (d. 2022)^[19]
• August 19 –
  • Bettina Cirone, American photographer, model
  • Debra Paget, actress and entertainer
• August 20
  • Sihugo Green, American basketball player (d. 1980)
  • George J. Mitchell, American politician^[20]
• August 21 – Jules Wright, American businessman and politician from Alaska (d. 2022)^[21]
• August 22 – Robert Hale, American opera singer (d. 2023)^[22]
• August 23
  • Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)^[23]
  • Pete Wilson, American politician
• August 24 – Ham Richardson, tennis player (d. 2006)
• August 25
  • Wayne Shorter, jazz saxophonist (d. 2023)^[24]
  • Tom Skerritt, actor
• August 26 – Robert Chartoff, film producer (d. 2015)
• August 28 – Jean Weaver, baseball player (d. 2008)
• August 29 – Dickie Hemric, basketball player (d. 2017)
• August 30 – Walter LaFeber, historian (d. 2021)

September

• September 1
  • Leonard A. Cole, political scientist (d. 2022)
  • Conway Twitty, country music artist (d. 1993)
• September 2
  • Ed Conlin, basketball player (d. 2012)
  • Hootie Ingram, American football coach (d. 2024)^[25]
• September 3 – Tompall Glaser, singer (d. 2013)
• September 5 – Robert Mnuchin, investment banker and art dealer (d. 2025)
• September 9
  • Ed Dwight, sculptor, author and astronaut
  • Michael Novak, philosopher, author (d. 2017)
• September 11 – William Luther Pierce, author, activist (d. 2002)
• September 12
  • Phil Jordon, basketball player (d. 1965)
  • Denny Stolz, American football coach (d. 2023)^[26]
• September 13 – Eileen Fulton, actress
• September 15 – Henry Darrow, Puerto-Rican American actor (d. 2021)
• September 17
  • Chuck Grassley, politician
  • Evelyn Kawamoto, competition swimmer (d. 2017)
• September 18
  • Bob Bennett, politician (d. 2016)
  • Robert Blake, actor (d. 2023)
• September 21 – Dick Simon, racing driver
• September 24 – Mel Taylor, drummer (The Ventures) (d. 1996)
• September 25 – Hubie Brown, basketball coach and broadcaster
• September 26 – Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, philanthropist and socialite(d. 2021)^[27]
• September 27
  • Greg Morris, African-American actor (Mission: Impossible) (d. 1996)
  • Kathleen Nolan, American actress, first female president of the Screen Actors Guild
  • Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
• September 30 – Cissy Houston, African-American singer (d. 2024)

October

• October 4 – John Noble Wilford, American author and journalist (d. 2025)
• October 5 – Billy Lee Riley, American rockabilly musician (d. 2009)
• October 9
  • Joan Berger, American female professional baseball player (d. 2021)
  • Melvin Sokolsky, American fashion photographer (d. 2022)
• October 10
  • Carl Kabat, American Catholic priest and anti-nuclear activist (d. 2022)
  • Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (d. 1969)
• October 12 – Clayton Jacobson II, American inventor of the Jet Ski (d. 2022)
• October 17 – William Anders, American astronaut (d. 2024)
• October 21 – Rich Eichhorst, American basketball player
• October 23 – Lois Youngen, American professional baseball player
• October 24 – Norman Rush, American writer
• October 27 – Theodosius (Lazor), primate (bishop) of the Orthodox Church in America (d. 2020)
• October 30 – Warith Deen Mohammed, American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher and revivalist (d. 2008)

November

• November 1 – Thomas Atcitty, American politician (d. 2020)
• November 3
  • Ken Berry, American actor, dancer and singer (d. 2018)
  • Aneta Corsaut, American actress (d. 1995)
  • Michael Dukakis, American politician
• November 7 – Jackie Joseph, American actress
• November 9
  • Jim Perry, American game show host (d. 2015)
  • Ed Corney, American bodybuilder (d. 2019)
• November 10
  • Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
  • Mack Rice, American singer and songwriter (d. 2016)
• November 11 – Kay Arthur, American Bible teacher, speaker and author (d. 2025)
• November 14 – Fred Haise, American astronaut
• November 15 – Jack Burns, American comic performer (d. 2020)
• November 19 – Larry King, American television and radio host (d. 2021)
• November 21 – Jean Shepard, American country singer, songwriter (d. 2016)
• November 24 – Marie Wilcox, native America, last speaker of Wukchumni (d. 2021)^[28]
• November 25 – Kathryn Crosby, American actress (d. 2024)
• November 26
  • Jay Barbree, American space travel journalist (d. 2021)
  • Robert Goulet, American entertainer (d. 2007)
  • Tony Verna, American inventor of instant replay (d. 2015)
• November 28
  • Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
  • Joe Knollenberg, American politician (d. 2018)
• November 29 – James Rosenquist, American painter (d. 2017)
• November 30 – Sam Gilliam, American artist (d. 2022).^[29]

December

• December 1 – Lou Rawls, African-American singer (d. 2006)
• December 2
  • P. J. Cowan, American author
  • Mike Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
• December 4
  • Wink Martindale, American game show host, disc jockey (d. 2025).
  • Dick Ricketts, American basketball player (d. 1988)
  • Ronnie Shavlik, American basketball player (d. 1983)
• December 6 – Boris Nachamkin, American basketball player (d. 2018)
• December 8 – Johnny Green, American basketball player (d. 2023)
• December 9 – Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008)
• December 11 – Charlie Bryan, American labor leader (d. 2013)
• December 13 – Lou Adler, American film and record producer
• December 15 – Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
• December 16 – Billy Kinard, American football player and coach (d. 2018)
• December 17
  • Shirley Abrahamson, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (d. 2020)
  • Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (d. 2006)
• December 18 – Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 2017)
• December 20
  • Brad Dye, American politician (d. 2018)
  • Jean Carnahan, American politician (d. 2024)
• December 21 – Robert Worcester, pollster
• December 26 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (d. 2019)
• December 28 – John Y. Brown Jr., American politician and businessman (d. 2022)