Born in 1935
People born in 1935 turn 91 in 2026. A dollar in 1935 buys what $24.55 buys in September 2026, and about 2.18 billion people were alive. Every figure below links to the source it came from.
Your birthday in 1935
1935
What things cost in 1935
| U.S. average | 1935 | in today’s dollars | latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| One dollar | $1.00 | $24.55 | CPI-U |
1935 figures are annual averages of the published monthly (or quarterly) values. “Today’s dollars” uses the Consumer Price Index for September 2026; “latest” is the most recent published price. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, via FRED. Average retail prices are only published from 1976 on; 1935 has the CPI alone.
Who was in charge in 1935
- United States
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (President)
- United Kingdom
- George V (King); Ramsay MacDonald, then Stanley Baldwin (Prime minister)
- Soviet Union
- Joseph Stalin (General Secretary); Mikhail Kalinin (Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets); Vyacheslav Molotov (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars)
- Republic of China (1916–1949)
- Wang Jingwei, then Chiang Kai-shek (Premier)
- French Third Republic
- Albert François Lebrun (President); Pierre-Étienne Flandin, then Fernand Bouisson, then Pierre Laval (President of the Council of ministers)
- Nazi Germany
- Adolf Hitler (Führer); Adolf Hitler (Chancellor)
- Empire of Japan
- Hirohito (Emperor); Keisuke Okada (Prime minister)
From Wikipedia’s List of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) (revision 1377869146), each name checked against Wikidata. Every country in 1935 →
Famous people born in 1935
- November 8 – Alain Delon, French actor (died 2024) source
- July 6 — Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama source
- July 13 – Jack Kemp, American football player, U.S. vice presidential candidate (died 2009) source
- January 16 – A. J. Foyt, American race car driver source
- January 3 – Millard Fuller, American lawyer, founder of Habitat for Humanity (died 2009) source
- 8 December – Dharmendra, actor (died 2025). source
- March 24 – Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer (died 2025) source
- January 6 – Margarita Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Spanish-born Bulgarian monarch source
- December 30 – Sandy Koufax, American baseball player source
- November 22 – Ludmila Belousova, Russian figure skater (d.2017) source
- 22 November – Hugh C. Rae, novelist (died 2014) source
- January 4 – Floyd Patterson, African-American boxer (died 2006) source
- 4 January — Walter Mahlendorf, German sprinter source
- March 16 – Sergei Yursky, Soviet and Russian actor (died 2019) source
- 13 March — Hilmar Kopper, German banker (died 2021) source
What happened in 1935
- January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. source
- January 8 - Battle of Khalkhyn Temple source
- January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 mi. source
- 4 January – The British open the Mosul–Haifa oil pipeline, a major oil pipeline between the Mosul oil fields in Iraq and the Mediterranean port of Haifa in Palestine. source
- 27 April to 6 November – Brussels International Exposition (1935) held in Heysel, near Brussels. source
- 28 July – Tour de France ends, won by Romain Maes of Belgium source
- 1 February – Hagia Sophia is converted into a museum. source
- January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. source