1934

1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar.

1934 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1934 MCMXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2687
Armenian calendar	1383 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԳ
Assyrian calendar	6684
Bahá'í calendar	90–91
Balinese saka calendar	1855–1856
Bengali calendar	1341
Berber calendar	2884
British Regnal year	24 Geo. 5 – 25 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2478
Burmese calendar	1296
Byzantine calendar	7442–7443
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4630 or 4570     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4631 or 4571
Coptic calendar	1650–1651
Discordian calendar	3100
Ethiopian calendar	1926–1927
Hebrew calendar	5694–5695
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1990–1991
- Shaka Samvat	1855–1856
- Kali Yuga	5034–5035
Holocene calendar	11934
Igbo calendar	934–935
Iranian calendar	1312–1313
Islamic calendar	1352–1353
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 9 (昭和９年)
Javanese calendar	1864–1865
Juche calendar	23
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4267
Minguo calendar	ROC 23 民國23年
Nanakshahi calendar	466
Thai solar calendar	2476–2477
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 2060 or 1679 or 907     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 2061 or 1680 or 908

Events

• January 1 – Alcatraz becomes a federal prison.
• January 1 – Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring."
• January 7 – First Flash Gordon comic strip is published.
• January 10 – Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe
• January 24 – Albert Einstein visits the White House
• January 26 – The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
• February 9 – Gaston Boumerque forms a new government in France
• February 12 – The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
• February 12 to February 16 – Austrian Civil War
• February 23 – Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
• March 1 – Manchuria becomes Manchukuo
• 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 20 – All the police forces in Germany come under command of Heinrich Himmler
• April 1 – Clyde Barrow and Henry Methvin kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
• April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
• April 19 – 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 the FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin
• May 23 - American outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed by law officers on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Births

• January 13 - Nick Clooney, American journalist (father of George Clooney)
• January 20 – Tom Baker, British actor
• February 10 – Barrie Ingham, English actor
• May 2 - László-Arsenije Mert
• May 11 – Sarah Chester Beatty, English socialite and former fashion model
• May 28 – Dionne Quintuplets
• July 1 – Jamie Farr
• September 21 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian folk musician (d. 2016)
• October 19 - William Frates, American war veteran and radiologist
• November 9 – Carl Sagan (d. 1996)
• November 13 – Garry Marshall (d. 2016)
• December 9 - Judi Dench, English actress
• December 28 - Maggie Smith, British actress (d. 2024)

Deaths

• January 10 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (born 1909)
• January 29 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
• February 17 – Albert I of Belgium (born 1875)
• February 23 – Edward Elgar, English composer (born 1857)
• March 29 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born millionaire philanthropist (born 1867)
• May 23 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (shot) (born 1909)
• May 23 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (shot) (born 1910)
• May 25 – Gustav Holst, English composer (born 1874)
• May 30 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (born 1848)
• June 10 – Frederick Delius, English composer (born 1862)
• June 11 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian developmental psychologist (born 1896)
• July 4 – Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics (born 1867)
• July 8 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (born 1848)
• July 22 – John Dillinger, American criminal (born 1903)
• July 25 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (born 1874)
• July 25 – Englebert Dolfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (born 1892)
• July 25 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (born 1889)
• July 26 – Winsor McCay, American comic creator and animator (born 1871)
• July 28 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (born 1868)
• August 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)
• September 2 – Alcide Nunez, American musician (born 1884)
• October 9 – King Alexander of Yugoslavia (born 1888)
• November 2 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist (born 1845)
• November 16 – Alice Liddell, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (born 1852)
• November 27 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (born 1908)
• December 1 – Sergei Kirov, Soviet leader (born 1886)

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by George Whipple, American doctor, George Minot and William Parry for their discoveries about liver therapy in cases of anaemia.

Hit songs

• "The Continental" – by Herb Magidson and Con Conrad, from the movie Gay Divorce, won the Academy Award for best song.
• "Down Yonder" – by L.Wolfe Gilbert, and recorded by a hillbilly group, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, sold more than a million copies.