Year (''' MCMXXXIV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
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- May 7 - Pearl Of Lao Tzu , 24 x 14 cm, is found in a Giant Clam off Palawan , Philippines .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- November 12 - Muderer Charles Manson is born.
- 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 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 shoot Nelson.
- 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 Krueger , American economist
- --- 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 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 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 - Ray Hnatyshyn , Governor-General Of Canada (d. 2002 )
- March 20 - Willie Brown , Mayor of San Francisco, California
- March 22
- --- Orrin Hatch , U.S. Senator from Utah
- --- Larry Martyn , comedy actor (d. 1994 )
- 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 - Rod Kanehl , baseball player (d. 2004 )
- 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 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 1
- --- Jean Marsh , British actress
- --- Sydney Pollack , American film director
- 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 laureate
- --- Aleksei Yeliseyev , cosmonaut
- 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 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
- --- Sonny Jurgensen , American football player
- --- Barbara Eden , American actress
- August 26 - Tom Heinsohn , American baseketball player, coach, and broadcaster
- August 30 - Anatoli Solonitsyn , Russian actor (d. 1982 )
- September 20 - Sophia Loren , Italian actress
- September 21 - Leonard Cohen , Canadian poet, novelist and singer/songwriter
- September 24 - Tommy Anderson , Scottish footballer
- September 27 - Wilford Brimley , diabeetic 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 30 - Frans Brüggen , Dutch flutist, recorder player, and conductor
- November 1 - Umberto Agnelli , Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004 )
- November 9 - Carl Sagan , American astronomer (d. 1996 )
- November 6 - Barton Myers , American/Canadian architect
- 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 Norris Bahcall , American astrophysicist (d. 2005 )
- --- Del Shannon , American singer (d. 1990 )
- 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 Womans sufferage 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 )
- September 2 - Alcide Nunez , American musician (b. 1884 )
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