1934 34981 224872865 2008-07-10T20:02:40Z 208.255.84.5 /* January */ {{year nav|1934}} {{C20YearInTopicX}} Year '''1934''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXXXIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. {{C20YearTOC}} == 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]]. {{-}} [[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]]. {{-}} ===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== {{Reflist}} {{commonscat}} ==External links== *[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1934/1934fr.html The 1930s Timeline: 1934] — from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia ==Table of Contents== __TOC__ [[Category:1934| ]] [[af:1934]] [[am:1934 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ar:1934]] [[an:1934]] [[frp:1934]] [[ast:1934]] [[av:1934]] [[az:1934]] [[bn:১৯৩৪]] [[zh-min-nan:1934 nî]] [[map-bms:1934]] [[be:1934]] [[be-x-old:1934]] [[bh:१९३४]] [[bs:1934]] [[br:1934]] [[bg:1934]] [[ca:1934]] [[cv:1934]] [[cs:1934]] [[co:1934]] [[cy:1934]] [[da:1934]] [[de:1934]] [[et:1934]] [[el:1934]] [[es:1934]] [[eo:1934]] [[eu:1934]] [[fa:۱۹۳۴ (میلادی)]] [[fo:1934]] [[hif:1934]] [[fr:1934]] [[fy:1934]] [[ga:1934]] [[gan:1934年]] [[gv:1934]] [[gd:1934]] [[gl:1934]] [[ko:1934년]] [[hy:1934]] [[hi:1934]] [[hr:1934.]] [[io:1934]] [[bpy:মারি ১৯৩৪]] [[id:1934]] [[ia:1934]] [[os:1934]] [[is:1934]] [[it:1934]] [[he:1934]] [[jv:1934]] [[pam:1934]] [[kn:೧೯೩೪]] [[ka:1934]] [[csb:1934]] [[kk:1934]] [[kw:1934]] [[sw:1934]] [[ht:1934 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[ku:1934]] [[la:1934]] [[lv:1934]] [[lb:1934]] [[lt:1934 m.]] [[lij:1934]] [[lmo:1934]] [[hu:1934]] [[mk:1934]] [[mi:1934]] [[mr:इ.स. १९३४]] [[ms:1934]] [[nah:1934]] [[nl:1934]] [[new:ई सं १९३४]] [[ja:1934年]] [[nap:1934]] [[no:1934]] [[nn:1934]] [[nrm:1934]] [[nov:1934]] [[oc:1934]] [[uz:1934]] [[pa:1934]] [[pi:१९३४]] [[nds:1934]] [[pl:1934]] [[pt:1934]] [[ty:1934]] [[ksh:Joohr 1934]] [[ro:1934]] [[ru:1934 год]] [[se:1934]] [[sq:1934]] [[scn:1934]] [[simple:1934]] [[sk:1934]] [[sl:1934]] [[so:1934]] [[sr:1934]] [[sh:1934]] [[su:1934]] [[fi:1934]] [[sv:1934]] [[tl:1934]] [[ta:1934]] [[tt:1934]] [[te:1934]] [[tet:1934]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2477]] [[vi:1934]] [[tg:1934]] [[tr:1934]] [[uk:1934]] [[vec:1934]] [[wa:1934]] [[vls:1934]] [[yo:1934]] [[zh-yue:1934年]] [[cbk-zam:1934]] [[bat-smg:1934]] [[zh:1934年]]