1934 in the Netherlands

Events in the year 1934 in the Netherlands.

← 1933 1932 1931 1934 in the Netherlands → 1935 1936 1937
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1934 History of the Netherlands

Incumbents

• Monarch: Wilhelmina
• Prime Minister: Hendrikus Colijn

Events

• 1 September – The Netherlands education minister, Henri Marchant, accepts the "Kollewijn" proposals for standardizing the spelling of the Dutch language.^[1]
• unknown date – The Netherlands Antilles national football team (as Curaçao) plays its first international match, against Suriname

Films

• Bleeke Bet, directed by Alex Benno and Richard Oswald
• Op Hoop van Zegen, directed by Alex Benno and based on a play by Herman Heijermans

Births

Piet Dankert

• 5 January – Eddy Pieters Graafland, football goalkeeper (d. 2020)
• 8 January – Piet Dankert, politician (d. 2003)
• 16 August – Ed van Thijn, politician (d. 2021)
• 25 October – Simon Groot, agronomist (d. 2025)
• 28 October – Martin van der Borgh, cyclist (d. 2018)
• 30 October – Frans Brüggen, musician (d. 2014)
• 19 December – Rudi Carrell, singer and entertainer (d. 2006)

Deaths

• 10 January – Marinus van der Lubbe, communist convicted of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (b. 1909)^[2]
• 20 March – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, former queen consort and regent (b. 1858)
• 12 August – Hendrik Petrus Berlage, architect (b. 1856)^[3]
• 29 October – Lou Tellegen, actor (b. 1881)
• 20 November – Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1872)