Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1934
January
January 1: Alcatraz becomes a prison.
Germany and the Second Polish Republic.

January 26:
Apollo opens.
February

Jan. 7: first
Flash Gordon comic.
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 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
- March 20 - 1934 Great Hakodate fire, 4,170 square kilometers has lost, caused fire. Japanese authority estimated 2,165 killed, injured 9,485, 145,500 homeless. The great urban fire has worst disaster, except air bomb, earthquake fire in Japanese history.
April
May
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
- 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
- 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 met in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.
June
July
August
September
October
November
- November 13 - Italian government decreed that teachers must use a military or party uniform in a class.
- November 21
- 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 lay 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, 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
Undated
Ongoing
Births
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
- February 12
- February 13 - George Segal, American actor
- 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
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
- March 13 - Barry Hughart, American author
- March 14
- March 16 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
- March 20 - Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco, California
- March 22
- 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 laureate
- April 1
- April 2
- April 3 - Jane Goodall, British zoologist
- 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
May-June
- May 3 - Henry Cooper, British boxer
- May 9 - Alan Bennett, British actor and writer
- May 13 - Leon Wagner, 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
- 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, American 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 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
- 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
- August 2 - Valery Bykovsky, Russian cosmonaut
- 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 - Renee Richards, American transsexual physician and tennis player
- August 22 - Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army general
- August 23
- 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 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 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 23 - Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
- September 24 - 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 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
- 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
Deaths
January - March
April - June
July - September
- 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 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 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
- August 2 - Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (b. 1847)
- September 2 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
October - December
Nobel prizes
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