December 3, 1933

1933Nicolas Coster, British-American actor (died 2023)^[†]

Nicolas Dwynn Coster was an American actor, most known for his work in daytime drama and as a character actor with his role on series Santa Barbara and daytimes Another World as Robert Delaney and on nighttime television series, such as Wonder Woman, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, T. J. Hooker, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

1933Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)^[†]

Paul Jozef Crutzen was a Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric chemist. In 1995, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Mario Molina and Frank Sherwood Rowland for their work on atmospheric chemistry and specifically for his efforts in studying the formation and decomposition of atmospheric ozone. In addition to studying the ozone layer and climate change, he popularized the term Anthropocene to describe a proposed new epoch in the Quaternary period when human actions have a drastic effect on the Earth. He was also amongst the first few scientists to introduce the idea of a nuclear winter to describe the potential climatic effects stemming from large-scale atmospheric pollution including smoke from forest fires, industrial exhausts, and other sources like oil fires.