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1934
1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-April
May-June
July-September
October-December
unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January
February
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February 5 - Hank Aaron, Baseball Hall of Famer
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February 11 - Tina Louise, actress
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February 11 - Francesco Pennisi , composer
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February 11 - Mary Quant, fashion designer
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February 11 - Patrick Holmes Sellors , ophthalmologist
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February 11 - John Surtees, British race car driver
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February 12 - Bill Russell, basketball star
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February 13 - George Segal, actor
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February 14 - Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
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February 14 - Florence Henderson, American television actress
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February 15 - Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist
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February 17 - Alan Bates, actor
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February 17 - Barry Humphries (aka "Dame Edna Everage"), actor, comedian
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February 18 - Paco Rabanne , fashion designer
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February 20 - Bobby Unser, automobile racer
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February 21 - Rue McClanahan, actress
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February 22 - Sparky Anderson, Baseball Hall of Fame manager
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February 24 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2000)
- February 24 - Renata Scotto, Italian soprano
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February 27 - Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
March-April
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March 1 - Joan Hackett, US actress
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March 4 - Janez Strnad, Slovene physicist
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March 7 - Willard Scott, television broadcaster
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March 9 - Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut, first human in space (d. 1968)
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March 11 - Sam Donaldson, reporter
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March 13 - Barry Hughart, fantasy author
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March 16 - Ray Hnatyshyn, former Canadian Governor-General
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March 20 - Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco, California
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March 22 - Orrin Hatch, US senator
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March 26 - Alan Arkin, actor
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March 31 - Shirley Jones, singer, actress
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April 1 - Rod Kanehl, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
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April 2 - Paul Joseph Cohen, mathematician
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April 2 - Brian Glover, British actor, wrestler (d. 1997)
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April 3 - Jane Goodall, zoologist
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April 29 - Otis Rush, blues musician
May-August
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May 3 - Henry Cooper, British boxer
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May 13 - Adolf Muschg , author
- May 13 - Leon Wagner, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
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May 14 - Siân Phillips, actress
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May 15 - Alvin F. Poussaint , physicist, psychiatrist, and educator
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May 19 - Jim Lehrer, journalist, co-anchor
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May 22 - Peter Nero , American pianist
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May 23 - Dr. Robert Moog, inventor of the synthesizer
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May 27 - Harlan Ellison, American writer
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May 28 - Dionne quintuplets, world's first surviving quintuplets
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May 30 - Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut and first person to walk in space
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June 3 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian, Fundamentalist
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June 6 - Albert II of Belgium
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June 26 - Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
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July 11 - Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
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July 12 - Van Cliburn, American pianist
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July 13 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
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July 15 - Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
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August 2 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
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August 18 - Roberto Clemente, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1972)
September-December
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September 2 - Dominic Chianese, actor
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September 7 - Little Milton , blues musician
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September 8 - Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
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September 17 - Maureen Connolly, tennis star (d. 1969)
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September 20 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
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October 15 - John Bigelow, pilot
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October 17 - Rico Rodriguez, Jamaican trombonist
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October 18 - Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
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October 30 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch flutist, recorder player, and conductor
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November 9 - Carl Sagan, US astronomer (d. 1996)
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November 24 - Alfred Schnittke Russian classical composer (d. 1998)
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December 2 - Andre Rodgers, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
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December 3 - Viktor Gorbatko, cosmonaut
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December 4 - Wink Martindale, game show host and disc jockey.
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December 9 - Junior Wells
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December 16 - Elgin Baylor, basketball great
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December 18 - Boris Volynov, cosmonaut
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December 19 - Al Kaline, Baseball Hall of Fame
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December 27 - Larissa Latynina, USSR gymnast
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December 30 - Joseph P. Hoar, former commander of U.S. Central Command
unknown dates
Deaths
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January 10 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (b. 1909)
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February 17 - Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
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February 23 - Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
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March 29 - Otto Hermann Kahn, millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)
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May 23 - Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, outlaws
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May 25 - Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
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July 4 - Marie Sklodowska-Curie, co-discoverer of radium and polonium
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July 22 - John Dillinger, American criminal
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July 25 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
- July 25 - Englebert Dolfuss, Austrian Chancellor (assassinated)
- July 25 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist
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July 26 - Winsor McCay, United States comic creator and animator
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July 28 - Marie Dressler, Academy Award winning actress
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August 2 - Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician
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September 2 - Alcide Nunez, jazz musician (b. 1884)
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November 2 - Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist
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November 16 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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December 1 - Sergei Kirov, Soviet leader
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