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September 25, 1933

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Notable Births

Hubie Brown

1933Hubie Brown, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster[†]

Hubert Jude Brown is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and analyst. Brown is a two-time NBA Coach of the Year, the honors separated by 26 years. Brown was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005.

Ian Tyson

1933Ian Tyson, Canadian folk singer-songwriter and musician (died 2022)[†]

Ian Dawson Tyson was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote several folk songs, including "Four Strong Winds" and "Someday Soon", and performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia.

Notable Deaths

Ring Lardner

1933Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (born 1885)[†]

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him.