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Year '''1934''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXXXIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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== Events of 1934 ==
===January===
[[Image:Alcatraz Island.jpg|thumb|150px|right| [[January 1]]: [[Alcatraz]] becomes a prison.]]
*[[January 1]]
**[[Alcatraz]] becomes a prison.
**[[Nazi Germany]] passes the "[[Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring]]."
**New [[Constitution]] of [[Estonia]] enters into force.
*[[January 7]] - The first [[Flash Gordon]] [[comic strip]] is published.
*[[January 10]] - Execution of [[Marinus van der Lubbe]].
*[[January 13]] - The [[Candidate of Science]] degree is established in the [[Soviet Union|USSR]].
*[[January 24]] - [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] visits the [[White House]]
*[[January 26]]
**The [[Apollo Theater]] opens in [[Harlem]], New York City.
**The 10 year [[German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact]] is signed by
[[Germany]] and the [[Second Polish Republic]].
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[[Image:TheApolloMarquee.jpg|thumb|110px|left| [[January 26]]: [[Apollo Theater|Apollo]] opens.]]
===February===
[[Image:Flash gordoncomic.jpg|thumb|125px|right| [[January 7|Jan. 7]]: first [[Flash Gordon]] comic.]]
*[[February 6]] - [[February 6, 1934 crisis|February 6, 1934 French political crisis]]. The French [[far right]] leagues rally in front of the [[Palais Bourbon]], an attempted [[coup d'état|coup]] against the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]]
*[[February 9]] - [[Gaston Doumergue]] forms a new government in France
*[[February 12]] - The [[Export-Import Bank]] is incorporated.
*[[February 12]] to [[February 16]] - [[Austrian Civil War]]
*[[February 16]] - [[Commission of Government]] sworn in as form of direct rule for the [[Dominion of Newfoundland]].
*[[February 22]] - [[Frank Capra]]'s ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' , starring [[Clark Gable]] and [[Claudette Colbert]], is released. It becomes a smash hit and the first of Capra's great screen classics. It will become the first film to win all five of the major [[Academy Awards]] - [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]], [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], Best Screenplay, [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], and [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]. Gable and Colbert will receive their only Oscars for this film.
*[[February 23]] - [[Léopold III of Belgium|Léopold III]] becomes King of [[Belgium]].
===March===
*[[March 1]] - [[Manchuria]] becomes [[Manchukuo]] following an invasion by the Japanese
*[[March 3]] - [[John Dillinger]] escapes from jail in [[Crown Point, Indiana]], using a wooden pistol
*[[March 8]] - [[Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland|Prince Sigvard of Sweden]] loses his titles because of his marriage.
*[[March 12]] - A coup in [[Estonia]] by [[Konstantin Päts]] and general [[Johan Laidoner]]. All parties are banned.
*[[March 13]] - [[John Dillinger]], [[Baby Face Nelson]] and their gang rob the First National Bank in [[Mason City, Iowa]].
*[[March 20]] - All the police forces in Germany come under command of [[Heinrich Himmler]]
===April===
*[[April 1]] - [[Clyde Barrow]] and [[Bonnie Parker]] kill two young highway patrolmen near [[Grapevine, Texas]].
*[[April 6]] - [[Rudyard Kipling]] and [[William Butler Yeats]] are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
*[[April 14]] - [[Black Sunday]], where twenty of the worst dust storms within the [[Dust Bowl]]
*[[April 19]] - [[surgery|Surgeon]] R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a [[photograph]] of the [[Loch Ness Monster]].
*[[April 22]] - [[John Dillinger]] and two others shoot their way out of an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] [[ambush]] in northern [[Wisconsin]]
===May===
[[Image:Dust Storm Texas 1935.jpg|thumb|150px|right| [[May 11]]: [[dust storm]] in [[Great Plains]].]]
*[[May 7]] - [[Pearl of Lao Tzu]], 24 x 14 cm, is found in a [[giant clam]] off [[Palawan]], [[Philippines]].
*[[May 11]] - [[Dust Bowl]]: A strong two-day [[dust storm]] removes massive amounts of [[Great Plains]] [[topsoil]] in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl.
* [[May 15]]
**The [[United States Department of Justice]] offers a $25,000 reward for [[John Dillinger]].
**[[Kārlis Ulmanis]] establishes an authoritarian government in [[Latvia]].
*[[May 23]] - A team of police officers, led by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, ambush bank robbers [[Bonnie Parker]] and [[Clyde Barrow]] near their hide-out in [[Black Lake, Louisiana]], killing them both.
*[[May 24]]
**[[Tomáš Masaryk]] re-elected president of [[Czechoslovakia]].
**The five-day "Battle of Toledo" occurs during the [[Auto-Lite strike]] in [[Toledo, Ohio]].
*[[May 28]] - Near [[Callander, Ontario]], the [[Dionne quintuplets]] are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first [[quintuplet]]s to survive [[infancy]].
* [[May 29]] - [[May 31]] - The Confessional Synod of the [[German Evangelical Church]] met in [[Barmen]], Germany to write the [[Barmen Declaration]].
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===June===
*[[June 6]] - [[New Deal]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] signs the [[Securities Exchange Act]] into law, establishing the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]].
*[[June 9]] - Release of the animated short ''[[The Wise Little Hen]]'', directed by [[Bert Gillett]] for the [[Silly Symphonies]] series, featuring the debut of [[Donald Duck]].
*[[June 10]] - [[Italy national football team|Italy]] beat [[Czechoslovakia national football team|Czechoslovakia]] 2-1 after extra time to win the [[1934 FIFA World Cup|1934 World Cup]].
*[[June 12]] - Political parties banned in [[Bulgaria]]
*[[June 14]] - [[Max Baer (boxer)|Max Baer]] defeats champion [[Primo Carnera]] for the world heavyweight [[boxing]] title.
*[[June 18]] - [[Indian Reorganization Act]] was enacted.
*[[June 27]] - [[Emir]] of [[Yemen]] and ibn Saud of [[Saudi Arabia]] conclude a peace treaty
*[[June 30]]
**The Nazi [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] camp [[Oranienburg]] becomes national camp, taken over by the [[SS]].
**[[Night of the Long Knives]] - [[Nazism|Nazis]] purge the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]]
===July===
*[[July 1]]
**The world famous [[Brookfield Zoo]] opens.
**The [[Production Code|Hays Office]] censorship code for motion pictures goes into full effect in the [[United States]].
*[[July 10]] - German [[social democrat]] and author [[Erich Mühsam]] killed in [[Oranienburg]] [[concentration camp]]
*[[July 17]] - Supreme court of [[North Dakota]] declares lieutenant governor of the state, [[Ole H. Olson]], the legitimate governor and tells [[William Langer]] to resign. Langer proceeds to declare North Dakota independent. He revokes the declaration after the Supreme Court justices meet him.
*[[July 22]] - Outside [[Chicago]]'s Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" [[John Dillinger]] is mortally wounded by [[FBI]] agents.
*[[July 25]]
**Austrian [[Nazism|Nazis]] assassinate chancellor [[Engelbert Dollfuss]] during a failed coup attempt.
**Birth of Luang Por [[Sumedho]] in [[Seattle, Washington]].
===August===
*[[August 2]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] becomes ''[[Führer]]'' of [[Germany]], becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.
*[[August 8]] - The [[Wehrmacht]] swears a personal oath of loyalty to [[Adolf Hitler]].
*[[August 13]] - The [[comic strip]] ''[[Lil' Abner]]'' is first published.
*[[August 19]] - The first All-American [[Soap Box Derby]] is held in [[Dayton, Ohio]].
*[[August 25]] - Anti-union vigilantes seize the town of [[McGuffey, Ohio]], during the [[Hardin County onion pickers strike]].
===September===
*[[September 8]] - Off the [[New Jersey]] coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner ''[[SS Morro Castle|Morro Castle]]'' kills 134 people.
*[[September 19]]
**[[Soviet Union]] joins the [[League of Nations]]
**[[Bruno Richard Hauptmann]] arrested in connection with the [[Lindbergh kidnapping]] case.
*[[September 21]] - [[Tropical cyclone|Typhoon]] in [[Honshū]], [[Japan]] - 3036 reported killed. Mainly destroy temple, schools, and other buildings at [[Osaka]].
*[[September 22]] - A gas explosion took place at [[Gresford]] Colliery in [[Wrexham]], north-east [[Wales]] which led to the death of 266 miners and rescuers. This was one of the worst tragedies in Welsh mining history.
* [[September 28]]
**[[Afghanistan]] joins the [[League of Nations]]
**Trial for the custody of young [[Gloria Vanderbilt]] begins. It lasts seven weeks and ends with a compromise.
*[[September 29]] - [[Stanley Matthews]] makes his [[England national football team|England]] debut, beginning a record 23-year international career
===October===
*[[October 2]] - [[Tornado]] in [[Osaka]] and [[Kyoto]] destroys the rice harvest - 1660 [[dead]], 5400 [[injured]]
*[[October 5]] - Asturian miners rebel. ([[Asturias]], [[Spain]]).
*[[October 6]] - [[Catalonia]]n [[separatism|separatists]] rebel
*[[October 9]] - King [[Alexander of Yugoslavia]] and French foreign minister [[Louis Barthou]] are assassinated during the king's state visit in [[Marseilles]].
*[[October 16]] - The [[Long March]] of [[Chinese communists]] begins.
*[[October 22]] - Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio.
===November===
*[[November 13]] - Italian government decreed that teachers must use a military or party uniform in a class.
*[[November 21]]
**[[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] makes an ultimately controversial decision to alter the [[Leg before wicket|lbw]] rule so a batsman can be lbw to a ball pitching outside off stump. The change is later blamed for many problems developing during the 1950s - primarily negative bowling outside leg stump to a field of short-leg fieldsmen.
**[[Cole Porter]]'s musical ''[[Anything Goes]]'', starring [[Ethel Merman]], premieres in [[New York City]].
*[[November 23]] - An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the [[Ogaden]] discovers an Italian garrison at [[Walwal]], which lay well within [[Ethiopia]]n territory. This encounter leads to the [[Abyssinia Crisis]].
*[[November 26]] - [[Universal Pictures]] releases the first film version of [[Fannie Hurst]]'s novel, ''[[Imitation of Life]]'', starring [[Claudette Colbert]] and [[Louise Beavers]]. It gives Beavers, who was usually featured in small roles as a maid, her best screen role, and features the largest supporting role played by a black person in a [[Hollywood]] film up till then. Its storyline is extremely daring for a 1934 film - part of it revolves around a young [[mulatto]] girl rejecting her mother and trying to "pass for white". It is the first Hollywood film to seriously deal with this subject. The [[1936]] film version of ''[[Show Boat]]'', also from Universal, will deal with a similar storyline.
*[[November 27]] - A running gun battle between [[FBI]] agents and bank robber [[Baby Face Nelson]] results in the death of one FBI agent and the mortal wounding of special agent Sam Cowley, who is still able to mortally wound Nelson.
===December===
*[[December 1]] - In the [[Soviet Union]], [[Politburo]] member [[Sergei Kirov]] is shot dead at the [[Communist Party]] headquarters in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] by [[Leonid Nikolaev]] (it is widely thought that Soviet leader [[Joseph Stalin]] ordered this murder). In [[Mexico]], [[Lázaro Cárdenas]] is inaugurated as President of that country.
*[[December 5]] - [[Abyssinia Crisis]]: Ethiopian and Italian troops exchange gunfire. Reported casualties for the Ethiopians are 150, and for the Italians 50.
*[[December 18]] - Low-key [[fascism|fascist]] conference in [[Moreaux]]
*[[December 24]] - Actor [[Lionel Barrymore]] begins what will become an annual tradition of the [[Golden Age of Radio]] - playing the role of [[Ebenezer Scrooge]] in dramatizations of [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. Barrymore will continue playing Scrooge on radio until shortly before his death in [[1954]]. He will also make a 78-RPM record album of the classic story, which will later be released on [[LP album|LP]].
*[[December 26]] - [[American Airlines]] [[aircraft]] crashes in [[Adirondack Mountains]]
*[[December 27]] - [[Iran|Persia]] becomes [[Iran]]
*[[December 29]] - [[Japan]] renounces the [[Washington Naval Treaty]] of 1922 and the [[London Naval Treaty]] of 1930.
===Undated===
*The [[sonoluminescence]] effect is discovered.
*The [[Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie|GPU]] becomes the [[NKVD]].
*[[Abidjan]] becomes the capital of the [[France|French]] colony of [[Côte d'Ivoire]].
===Ongoing===
*Rise of the [[Nazi Party]].
==Births==
{{Year in other calendars}}
===January-February===
*[[January 7]] - [[Charlie Jenkins]], American runner
*[[January 9]] - [[Bart Starr]], American football player
*[[January 11]] - [[Jean Chrétien]], [[Prime Minister of Canada]]
*[[January 16]] - [[Marilyn Horne]], American mezzo-soprano
*[[January 18]] - [[Raymond Briggs]], British writer and illustrator
*[[January 20]] - [[Tom Baker]], British actor
*[[January 22]] - [[Bill Bixby]], American television actor (d. [[1993]])
*[[January 24]] - [[Stanisław Grochowiak]], Polish poet and dramatist (d. [[1976]])
*[[February 5]] - [[Hank Aaron]], American baseball player
*[[February 7]] - [[Earl King]], American musician (d. [[2003]])
*[[February 10]] - [[Fleur Adcock]], New Zealand poet
*[[February 11]]
**[[Tina Louise]], American actress
**[[Mary Quant]], British fashion designer
**[[John Surtees]], British race car driver
*[[February 12]]
**[[Anne O. Krueger|Anne Krueger]], American economist
**[[Bill Russell (basketball)|Bill Russell]], American basketball player
*[[February 13]] - [[George Segal]], American actor
*[[February 14]]
**[[Michel Corboz]], Swiss conductor
**[[Florence Henderson]], American actress
*[[February 15]] - [[Niklaus Wirth]], Swiss computer scientist
*[[February 17]]
**[[Alan Bates]], British actor (d. [[2003]])
**[[Barry Humphries]], Australian actor and comedian
*[[February 20]] - [[Bobby Unser]], American race car driver
*[[February 21]] - [[Rue McClanahan]], American actress
*[[February 22]]
**[[Sparky Anderson]], baseball manager
**[[Van Williams]], American actor
*[[February 24]]
**[[Bettino Craxi]], [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (d. [[2000]])
**[[Renata Scotto]], Italian soprano
*[[February 27]]
**[[Vincent Fourcade]], French-born interior designer and socialite (d. [[1992]])
**[[Ralph Nader]], American consumer activist
===March-April===
*[[March 1]]
**[[Jean-Michel Folon]], Belgian sculptor (d. [[2005]])
**[[Joan Hackett]], American actress (d. [[1983]])
*[[March 4]]
**[[Mario Davidovsky]], Argentinian composer
**[[John Duffey]], bluegrass musician (d. [[1996]])
**[[Anne Haney]], American actress (d. [[2001]])
**[[Barbara McNair]], American singer and actress (d. [[2007]])
**[[Janez Strnad]], Slovenian physicist
*[[March 5]] - [[Daniel Kahneman]], Israeli economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[March 7]]
**[[Franklin Clarke]], American football player
**[[Willard Scott]], American television broadcaster
*[[March 9]]
**[[Yuri Gagarin]], Russian cosmonaut, first man in space (d. [[1968]])
**[[Del Close]], American actor, improviser, writer, and teacher (d. [[1999]])
*[[March 11]] - [[Sam Donaldson]], American reporter
*[[March 13]] - [[Barry Hughart]], American author
*[[March 14]]
**[[Eleanor Bron]], British actress
**[[Paul Rader]], General of The Salvation Army
*[[March 16]] - [[Richard Layard, Baron Layard]], British economist
*[[March 16]] - [[Ray Hnatyshyn]], [[Governor-General of Canada]] (d. [[2002]])
*[[March 20]] - [[Willie Lewis Brown, Jr.|Willie Brown]], Mayor of San Francisco, California
*[[March 22]]
**[[Orrin Hatch]], U.S. Senator from Utah
**[[Larry Martyn]], comedy actor (d. [[1994]])
*[[March 23]] - [[Mark Rydell]], American actor and director
*[[March 25]] - [[Gloria Steinem]], American feminist
*[[March 26]] - [[Alan Arkin]], American actor
*[[March 31]] - [[Shirley Jones]], American singer and actress
*[[March 31]] - [[Carlo Rubbia]], Italian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[April 1]]
**[[Rod Kanehl]], baseball player (d. [[2004]])
**[[Vladimir Posner]], Russian journalist
*[[April 2]]
**[[Paul Joseph Cohen]], American mathematician
**[[Brian Glover]], British actor and wrestler (d. [[1997]])
*[[April 3]] - [[Jane Goodall]], British zoologist
*[[April 9]] - [[Bill Birch]], New Zealand politician
*[[April 11]] - [[Mark Strand]], Canadian-born American poet
*[[April 24]]
**[[Shirley MacLaine]], American actress
**[[Jayakanthan]], Tamil writer
*[[April 25]] - [[Peter McParland]], Irish footballer
*[[April 29]] - [[Otis Rush]], American musician
===May-June===
*[[May 3]] - [[Henry Cooper (boxer)|Henry Cooper]], British boxer
*[[May 9]] - [[Alan Bennett]], British actor and writer
*[[May 13]] - [[Leon Wagner]], baseball player (d. [[2004]])
*[[May 14]] - [[Sian Phillips|Siân Phillips]], Welsh actress
*[[May 15]] - [[George Roper]], British comedian (d. [[2003]])
*[[May 19]] - [[Jim Lehrer]], American television journalist
*[[May 21]] - [[Bengt I. Samuelsson]], Swedish biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[May 22]] - [[Peter Nero]], American pianist
*[[May 23]] - [[Robert Moog]], American inventor of the synthesizer
*[[May 24]] - [[Barry Rose]], British choir director and organist
*[[May 27]] - [[Harlan Ellison]], American writer
*[[May 28]] - [[Dionne quintuplets]], Canadian quintuplets
*[[May 30]] - [[Aleksei Leonov]], Russian cosmonaut
*[[June 3]] - [[Rolland D. McCune]], American theologian
*[[June 5]] - [[Bill Moyers]], American journalist
*[[June 6]] - King [[Albert II of Belgium]]
*[[June 16]] - [[William Forsyth Sharpe]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[June 26]] - [[Jeremy Wolfenden]], British journalist (d. [[1965]])
*[[June 28]] - [[Carl Levin]], United States Senator
*[[June 30]] - [[Harry Blackstone Jr.]], American magician (d. [[1997]])
===July-August===
*[[July 1]]
**[[Jean Marsh]], British actress
**[[Sydney Pollack]], American film director (d. [[2008]])
*[[July 10]] - [[Jerry Nelson]], American puppeteer
*[[July 11]] - [[Giorgio Armani]], Italian fashion designer
*[[July 12]] - [[Van Cliburn]], American pianist
*[[July 13]]
**[[Wole Soyinka]], Nigerian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
**[[Aleksei Yeliseyev]], cosmonaut
*[[July 14]] - [[John Tyndall (politician)|John Tyndall]], British politician (d. [[2005]])
*[[July 15]] - [[Harrison Birtwistle]], British composer
*[[July 30]] - [[Bud Selig]], current [[Major League Baseball]] commissioner
*[[August 2]] - [[Valery Bykovsky]], Russian cosmonaut and prostitute
*[[August 3]] - [[Jonas Savimbi]], Angolan political and rebel leader (d. [[2002]])
*[[August 4]] - [[Dallas Green]], American baseball manager and executive
*[[August 5]] - [[Wendell Berry]], American novelist, essayist, poet
*[[August 15]] - [[Nino Ferrer]], French singer (d. [[1998]])
*[[August 18]] - [[Vincent Bugliosi]], American prosecutor and author
*[[August 18]] - [[Roberto Clemente]], Puerto Rican [[Major League Baseball]] player (d. [[1972]])
*[[August 19]] - [[Renée Richards]], American transsexual physician and tennis player
*[[August 22]] - [[Norman Schwarzkopf]], U.S. Army general
*[[August 23]]
**[[Sonny Jurgensen]], American football player
**[[Barbara Eden]], American actress
*[[August 25]] - [[Eddie Ilarde]], Filipino broadcaster and politician
*[[August 26]] - [[Tom Heinsohn]], American baseketball player, coach, and broadcaster
*[[August 30]] - [[Anatoli Solonitsyn]], Russian actor (d. [[1982]])
===September-October===
*[[September 2]] - [[Dominic Chianese]], American actor
*[[September 4]] - [[Clive Granger]], Welsh-born economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[September 7]] - [[Little Milton]], American musician
*[[September 8]] - [[Peter Maxwell Davies]], English composer
*[[September 10]] - [[Charles Kuralt]], American journalist (d. [[1997]])
*[[September 15]] - [[Fred Nile]], Australian Christian politician
*[[September 16]] - [[Elgin Baylor]], American basketball player and executive
*[[September 17]] - [[Maureen Connolly]], American tennis player (d. [[1969]])
*[[September 19]] - [[Brian Epstein]], English manager of [[the Beatles]] (d. [[1967]])
*[[September 20]] - [[Sophia Loren]], Italian actress
*[[September 21]] - [[Leonard Cohen]], Canadian poet, novelist and singer/songwriter
*[[September 22]] - [[Lute Olson]], American basketball coach
*[[September 23]] - [[Ahmad Shah Khan]], Crown Prince of Afghanistan
*[[September 24]] - [[Tommy Anderson (footballer)|Tommy Anderson]], Scottish footballer
*[[September 27]] - [[Wilford Brimley]], diabetic actor.
*[[September 28]] - [[Brigitte Bardot]], French actress, sex symbol of the 1950s and 60's, and animal rights activist
*[[September 30]] - [[Anna Kashfi]], Welsh actress
*[[October 1]] - [[Chuck Hiller]], baseball player (d. [[2004]])
* [[October 1]]- [[Shakeb Jalali]] famous URDU [[poet]](d. [[1966]])
*[[October 2]] - [[Earl Wilson]], baseball player (d. [[2005]])
*[[October 4]] - [[Sam Huff]], American football player
*[[October 9]] - [[Jill Ker Conway]], Australian-born author
*[[October 13]] - [[Nana Mouskouri]], Greek singer
*[[October 17]] - [[Rico Rodriguez]], Jamaican trombonist
*[[October 18]] - [[Chuck Swindoll]], American evangelist
*[[October 20]] - [[Michael Dunn]], a.k.a. Gary Neil Miller, dwarf American actor and singer (d. [[1973]])
*[[October 30]] - [[Frans Brüggen]], Dutch flutist, recorder player, and conductor
===November-December===
*[[November 1]] - [[Umberto Agnelli]], Swiss-born automobile executive (d. [[2004]])
*[[November 6]] - [[Barton Myers]], American/Canadian architect
*[[November 9]] - [[Carl Sagan]], American astronomer (d. [[1996]])
*[[November 12]] - [[Charles Manson]], American criminal
*[[November 13]] - [[John Gowans]], General of The Salvation Army
*[[November 24]] - [[Alfred Schnittke]], Volga German composer (d. [[1998]])
*[[November 27]] - [[Ammo Baba]], Assyrian soccer legend
*[[December 2]] - [[Andre Rodgers]], American baseball player (d. [[2004]])
*[[December 3]] - [[Viktor Gorbatko]], Russian cosmonaut
*[[December 4]] - [[Wink Martindale]], American game show host and disc jockey
*[[December 5]] - [[Joan Didion]], American writer
*[[December 9]]
**[[Judi Dench]], British actress
**[[Junior Wells]], American harmonica player (d. [[1998]])
*[[December 10]] - [[Howard Martin Temin]], American geneticist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1994]])
*[[December 18]] - [[Boris Volynov]], Russian cosmonaut
*[[December 19]]
**[[Aki Aleong]], Trinidad and Tobago actor
**[[Al Kaline]], baseball player
*[[December 27]] - [[Larissa Latynina]], Russian gymnast
*[[December 28]]
**[[Maggie Smith]], British actress
**[[Yujiro Ishihara]], Japanese actor (d. [[1987]])
*[[December 30]]
**[[Joseph P. Hoar]], U.S. Marine commander
**[[John N. Bahcall|John Norris Bahcall]], American astrophysicist (d. [[2005]])
**[[Del Shannon]], American singer (d. [[1990]])
==Deaths==
=== January - March ===
*[[January 6]] - [[Herbert Chapman]], English football manager (b. [[1878]])
*[[January 10]] - [[Marinus van der Lubbe]], Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (b. [[1909]])
*[[January 29]] - [[Fritz Haber]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1868]])
*[[February 17]] - King [[Albert I of Belgium]] (b. [[1875]])
*[[February 23]] - [[Edward Elgar]], English composer (b. [[1857]])
*[[March 15]] - [[Davidson Black]], Canadian-born paleoanthropologist (b.[[1884]])
*[[March 20]] - [[Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont]], Dutch Queen and regent (b.[[1858]])
*[[March 29]] - [[Otto Hermann Kahn]], German-born philanthropist (b. [[1867]])
=== April - June ===
*[[May 23]]
**[[Clyde Barrow]], American outlaw (shot) (b. [[1910]])
**[[Bonnie Parker]], American outlaw (shot) (b. [[1910]])
*[[May 25]] - [[Gustav Holst]], English composer (b. [[1874]])
*[[May 30]] - [[Togo Heihachiro]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1848]])
*[[June 10]] - [[Frederick Delius]], English composer (b. [[1862]])
*[[June 11]] - [[Lev Vygotsky]], Russian developmental psychologist (b. [[1896]])
*[[June 20]] - [[Andrew Jackson Zilker]], American philanthropist (b. [[1858]])
*[[June 30]] - [[Kurt von Schleicher]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1882]])
=== July - September ===
*[[July 4]] - [[Marie Curie]], Polish-born scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|physics]] (b. [[1867]])
*[[July 8]] - [[Benjamin Baillaud]], French astronomer (b. [[1848]])
*[[July 13]] - [[Kate Sheppard]] , New Zealand Women's suffrage for voting (b. [[1848]])
*[[July 22]] - [[John Dillinger]], American criminal (b. [[1903]])
*[[July 25]]
**[[François Coty]], French perfume manufacturer (b. [[1874]])
**[[Englebert Dolfuss]], [[Chancellor of Austria]] (assassinated) (b. [[1892]])
*[[July 25]] - [[Nestor Makhno]], Ukrainian anarchist (b. [[1889]])
*[[July 26]] - [[Winsor McCay]], American comic creator and animator (b. [[1871]])
*[[July 27]] - [[Hubert Lyautey]], Marshal of France (b. [[1854]])
*[[July 28]] - [[Marie Dressler]], Canadian actress (b. [[1868]])
*[[August 2]] - [[Paul von Hindenburg]], German general and politician (b. [[1847]])
*[[August 17]] - [[Charlotte Gilman]], Noted poet and play write and in National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York (b. [[1860]])
*[[September 2]] - [[Alcide Nunez]], American musician (b. [[1884]])
=== October - December ===
*[[October 17]] - [[Santiago Ramón y Cajal]], Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1852]])
*[[November 2]] - [[Edmond James de Rothschild]], French philanthropist (b. [[1845]])
*[[November 16]] - [[Alice Liddell]], English schoolgirl, inspiration for ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (b. [[1852]])
*[[November 22]] - [[Harry Steppe]], American vaudeville performer (b. [[1888]])
*[[November 30]] - [[Hélène Boucher]], French aviatrix (b. [[1908]])
*[[December 1]] - [[Sergei Kirov]], Soviet leader (b. [[1886]])
*[[December 6]] - [[Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg]], head of the [[House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (b. [[1863]])
==Nobel prizes==
*[[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - not awarded
*[[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Harold Clayton Urey]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[George Hoyt Whipple]], [[George Richards Minot]], [[William Parry Murphy]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Luigi Pirandello]]
*[[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Arthur Henderson]]
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1934/1934fr.html The 1930s Timeline: 1934] — from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
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[[bn:১৯৩৪]]
[[zh-min-nan:1934 nî]]
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[[bh:१९३४]]
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