Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. [edit] Events of 1934 [edit] January
[edit] February - May 5 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
- May 7 – The Pearl of Lao Tzu, 24 x 14 cm, is found in a giant clam off Palawan, Philippines.
- May 11 – Dust Bowl: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl.
- May 15
- May 23 – A team of police officers, led by Texas Ranger Cordell Walker, ambush bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow near their hide-out in Black Lake, Louisiana, killing them both.
- May 24
- May 28 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
- May 29 – May 31 – The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.
[edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November - November 13 – The Italian government decrees that teachers must use a military or party uniform in a class.
- November 21
- The MCC makes an ultimately controversial decision to alter the 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 lays well within Ethiopian 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, 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 birth of Thomas Nelson Crawford in Larne, Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland - dedicated primary teacher,sportsman, loving and caring husband and father.
- 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 Samuel P. Cowley, who was still able to mortally wound Nelson.
- November 27 – Bolivian President Daniel Salamanca deposed.
[edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 7 – Charlie Jenkins, American runner
- January 9 – Bart Starr, American football player
- January 11 – Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada
- January 12 – Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer
- January 16 – Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano
- January 18 – Raymond Briggs, British writer and illustrator
- January 20 – Tom Baker, British actor (Doctor Who)
- January 22 – Bill Bixby, American actor and director (The Courtship of Eddie's Father and The Incredible Hulk) (d. 1993)
- January 24 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (d. 1976)
- February 5 – Hank Aaron, African-American baseball player
- February 7 – Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
- February 10 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
- February 11
- February 12
- February 13 – George Segal, American actor (The Hot Rock)
- February 14
- February 15 – Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist
- February 17
- February 20 – Bobby Unser, American race car driver
- February 21 – Rue McClanahan, American actress
- February 22
- February 24
- February 27
[edit] March–April - March 1
- March 4
- March 5 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 7
- March 9
- March 11 – Sam Donaldson, American reporter (ABC News)
- March 13 – Barry Hughart, American author
- March 14
- March 16 – Richard Layard, Baron Layard, British economist
- March 16 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
- March 20 – Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco, California
- March 22
- March 23 – Mark Rydell, American actor and director
- March 25 – Gloria Steinem, American feminist
- March 26 – Alan Arkin, American actor
- March 31
- April 1
- April 2
- April 3 – Jane Goodall, British zoologist
- April 5 – Roman Herzog, former President of Germany
- April 6 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (d. 1996)
- April 9 – Bill Birch, New Zealand politician
- April 11 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet
- April 24
- April 25 – Peter McParland, Irish footballer
- April 29 – Otis Rush, American musician
[edit] May–June - May 3 – Henry Cooper, British boxer
- May 9 – Alan Bennett, British actor and writer
- May 13 – Leon Wagner, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- May 14 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
- May 15 – George Roper, British comedian (d. 2003)
- May 19 – Jim Lehrer, American television journalist (MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour)
- 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 – Eileen Atkins, British actress
- June 16 – William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 25 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (d. 2006)
- June 26 – Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
- June 28 – Carl Levin, United States Senator
- June 30 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (d. 1997)
[edit] July–August - July 1
- July 10 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
- July 11 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
- July 12 – Van Cliburn, American pianist
- July 13
- July 14 – John Tyndall, British politician (d. 2005)
- July 15 – Harrison Birtwistle, British composer
- July 21 – Jonathan Miller, British theatre director
- July 25 – Luang Por Sumedho, Theravada Buddhist representative in the West
- July 30 – Bud Selig, American 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 6 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league footballer
- August 15 – Nino Ferrer, French singer (d. 1998)
- August 18 – Vincent Bugliosi, American prosecutor and author (Helter Skelter)
- 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
- 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)
[edit] September–October - September 2 – Dominic Chianese, American actor
- September 2 – Grady Nutt, American humorist (d. 1982)
- September 4 – Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
- September 7 – Little Milton, American musician
- September 8 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer
- September 10 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (On The Road) (d. 1997)
- September 15 – Fred Nile, Australian Christian politician
- September 16 – Elgin Baylor, American basketball player and executive
- September 17 – Binoy Majumdar, Indian Hungryalist Poet.
- 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 20 – Soke Kubota Takayuki(宗家 窪田 孝行),Grand Master 10 Dan, founder of the Gosoku-ryu style of karate,founder and president of the International Karate Association
- 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, Scottish footballer
- September 27 – Wilford Brimley, American 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 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 (The Wild Wild West) (d. 1973)
- October 30 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch flutist, recorder player, and conductor
[edit] 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 and television host (Cosmos) (d. 1996)
- November 11 – Jim Perry, American game show host ($ale of the Century)
- November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and 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 (Tic Tac Dough)
- December 5 – Joan Didion, American writer
- December 6 – Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler
- December 9
- 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
- December 27 – Larissa Latynina, Russian gymnast
- December 28
- December 30
- Unknown Birth dates
[edit] Deaths [edit] 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 laureate (b. 1868)
- February 13 – József Pusztai slovene writer, poet, journalist in Hungary (b. 1864)
- February 17 – King Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
- February 23 – Edward Elgar, English composer (Pomp and Circumstance) (b. 1857)
- February 25 – John McGraw, American baseball player (b. 1873)
- March 15 – Davidson Black, Canadian-born paleoanthropologist (b.1884)
- March 20 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Dutch Queen and regent (b.1858)
- March 21 – Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1896)
- March 29 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born philanthropist (b. 1867)
[edit] April–June - April 11 – Gerald du Maurier, British actor (b. 1873)
- April 15 – Karl Dane, Danish actor (b. 1886)
- May 17 – Cass Gilbert, American architect (b. 1859)
- May 21 – Lew Cody, American actor (b. 1884)
- May 23
- May 25 – Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets) (b. 1874)
- May 30 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
- June 8 – Dorothy Dell, American actress (b. 1915)
- 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 – Murdered during the Night of the Long Knives:
[edit] July–September - July 2 – Ernst Röhm, Nazi SA Leader (b. 1887)
- July 4 – Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 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 15 – Louis F. Gottschalk, American composer (b. 1864)
- July 22 – John Dillinger, American criminal (b. 1903)
- July 25
- 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
- August 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (b. 1847)
- August 10 – George W. Hill, American director (b. 1895)
- August 13 – Mary Hunter Austin, American writer of fiction and non-fiction (b. 1868)
- August 14 – Raymond Hood, American architect (b. 1881)
- August 17 – Charlotte Gilman, noted American poet and playwright (b. 1860)
- September 2
- September 9 – Roger Fry, British artist (b. 1866)
[edit] October–December - October 5 – Jean Vigo, French film director (b. 1905)
- October 9 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia (b. 1888)
- October 15 – Raymond Poincaré, French President (b. 1860)
- October 17 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
- October 22 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American bank robber (b. 1904)
- October 29 – Lou Tellegen, Dutch actor (b. 1881)
- 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 27 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
- November 30 – Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
- December 1 – Sergei Kirov, Soviet politician (b. 1886)
- December 6 – Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
- December 22 – Wallace Thurman, American writer (b. 1902)
- December 28 – Lowell Sherman, American actor and director (b. 1885)
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