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* ] – The first '']'' ] is published. | |||
* ] – ] is executed in ]. | * ] – ] is executed in ]. | ||
* ] – The ] degree is established in the ]. | * ] – The ] degree is established in the ]. | ||
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** The new ] of ] enters into force. | ** The new ] of ] enters into force. | ||
** ] visits the ]. | |||
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** The '']'' opens in ], New York City. | |||
** The 10 year ] is signed by ] and the ]. | ** The 10 year ] is signed by ] and the ]. | ||
** The ] abolishes the ] by decree.<ref>{{cite book | title= A World View of Criminal Justice | series= International and Comparative Criminal Justice | first= Richard | last= Vogler | year= 2005 | pages=237–238 | isbn= 978-0-7546-2467-7 | url= http://books.google.com/books?id=rN90FSGhr-cC&pg=PA237 | ref= harv}}</ref> | ** The ] abolishes the ] by decree.<ref>{{cite book | title= A World View of Criminal Justice | series= International and Comparative Criminal Justice | first= Richard | last= Vogler | year= 2005 | pages=237–238 | isbn= 978-0-7546-2467-7 | url= http://books.google.com/books?id=rN90FSGhr-cC&pg=PA237 | ref= harv}}</ref> | ||
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** ], ], ] and ] have formed the ]. | ** ], ], ] and ] have formed the ]. | ||
** ] forms a new government in France. | ** ] forms a new government in France. | ||
* ] – The ] is incorporated. | |||
* ]–] – ] | * ]–] – ] | ||
* ] – ] sworn in as form of direct rule for the ]. | * ] – ] sworn in as form of direct rule for the ]. | ||
* ] – ] is assassinated in ] by the ]. | * ] – ] is assassinated in ] by the ]. | ||
* ] – ]'s '']'', starring ] and ], is released. It becomes a smash hit and the first of Capra's great screen classics. It becomes the first film to win all 5 of the major ] – ], ], Best Screenplay, ], and ]. Gable and Colbert receive their only Oscars for this film. | |||
* ] – ] becomes King of ]. | * ] – ] becomes King of ]. | ||
=== March === | === March === | ||
* ] – ] becomes ], following an invasion by the Japanese. | * ] – ] becomes ], following an invasion by the Japanese. | ||
* ] | |||
** ] escapes from jail in ], using a wooden pistol. | |||
** Erich Franke invents the wire bearing (today wire race bearing) and files a patent application. | |||
* ] – ] loses his titles because of his marriage. | * ] – ] loses his titles because of his marriage. | ||
* ] – ] and general ] stage a coup in ], and ban all political parties. | * ] – ] and general ] stage a coup in ], and ban all political parties. | ||
* ] – ], ] and their gang rob the First National Bank in ]. | |||
* ] | * ] | ||
** All the police forces in Germany come under the command of ]. | ** All the police forces in Germany come under the command of ]. | ||
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* ] – ] and ] kill 2 young highway patrolmen near ]. | |||
* ] – ] and ] are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry. | * ] – ] and ] are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry. | ||
* ] | * ] | ||
** U.S. publication of the novel '']'' by ] | |||
** The world's largest ever recorded surface wind speed of 231 miles per hour was recorded on the summit of ]. | |||
* ] – ] R.K. Wilson allegedly ]s the ]. | * ] – ] R.K. Wilson allegedly ]s the ]. | ||
* ] – ] and two others shoot their way out of an ] ] in northern ]. | |||
* ] – ]: ] beat ] 2 – 1 at Wembley Stadium | |||
* ] – The first S-train line in Copenhagen is opened. The Line started in Klampenborg and ended in Frederiksberg. | * ] – The first S-train line in Copenhagen is opened. The Line started in Klampenborg and ended in Frederiksberg. | ||
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* ] – The ] heralds the beginning of the ] ] | * ] – The ] heralds the beginning of the ] ] | ||
* ] – The first ] short, '']'', is released. | |||
* ] – The ], 24 x 14 cm, is found in a ] off ], ]. | * ] – The ], 24 x 14 cm, is found in a ] off ], ]. | ||
* ] – ]: A strong 2-day ] removes massive amounts of ] ] in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl. | * ] – ]: A strong 2-day ] removes massive amounts of ] ] in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl. | ||
* ] | * ] | ||
** The ] offers a $25,000 reward for ]. | |||
** ] establishes an authoritarian government in ]. | ** ] establishes an authoritarian government in ]. | ||
* ] – ] stages a ] in Bulgaria. | * ] – ] stages a ] in Bulgaria. | ||
* ] – A team of police officers, led by former Texas Ranger ], ambush bank robbers ] and ] near ], killing them both. | |||
* ] | * ] | ||
** ] is re-elected president of ]. | ** ] is re-elected president of ]. | ||
** The 5-day "Battle of Toledo" starts during the ] in ]. | ** The 5-day "Battle of Toledo" starts during the ] in ]. | ||
* ] – Near ], the ] are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first ]s to survive ]. | |||
* ] – ] – The Confessional Synod of the ] meets in ], Germany to write the ] | * ] – ] – The Confessional Synod of the ] meets in ], Germany to write the ] | ||
=== June === | === June === | ||
* ] – ]: U.S. President ] signs the ] into law, establishing the ]. | * ] – ]: U.S. President ] signs the ] into law, establishing the ]. | ||
* ] – The animated short '']'', directed by Bert Gillett for the '']'' series, and featuring the debut of ], is released. | |||
* ] – ] beats ] 2–1 after extra time to win the ]. | * ] – ] beats ] 2–1 after extra time to win the ]. | ||
* ] – Political parties are banned in ]. | * ] – Political parties are banned in ]. | ||
* ] – ] defeats champion ] for the world heavyweight ] title. | |||
* ] – The ] is enacted. | * ] – The ] is enacted. | ||
* ] | * ] | ||
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=== July === | === July === | ||
* ] | * ] | ||
** ] under ]. | |||
** The world famous ] opens in Brookfield, ]. | |||
** The ] censorship code for motion pictures goes into full effect in the ]. | ** The ] censorship code for motion pictures goes into full effect in the ]. | ||
* ] – German ] and author ] is killed in ] ]. | * ] – German ] and author ] is killed in ] ]. | ||
* ] – The ] Supreme Court declares Lieutenant Governor ] the legitimate governor and tells ] to resign. Langer proceeds to declare North Dakota independent. He revokes the declaration after the Supreme Court justices meet him. | * ] – The ] Supreme Court declares Lieutenant Governor ] the legitimate governor and tells ] to resign. Langer proceeds to declare North Dakota independent. He revokes the declaration after the Supreme Court justices meet him. | ||
* ] – 41 squadrons added to the Royal Air Force as part of a new air defence program | |||
* ] – Outside ]'s Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" ] is mortally wounded by ] agents. | * ] – Outside ]'s Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" ] is mortally wounded by ] agents. | ||
* ] – Austrian ] assassinate chancellor ] during a failed coup attempt. | * ] – Austrian ] assassinate chancellor ] during a failed coup attempt. | ||
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* ] – ] becomes '']'' of ], becoming head of state as well as Chancellor. | * ] – ] becomes '']'' of ], becoming head of state as well as Chancellor. | ||
* ] – The ] swears a personal oath of loyalty to ]. | * ] – The ] swears a personal oath of loyalty to ]. | ||
⚫ | * ] – In a referendum, 90% of the German population approves of Hitler's assumption of ] as ]. | ||
* ] – The ] '']'' is first published in US newspapers. | |||
* ] | |||
** The first All-American ] is held in ]. | |||
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* ] – Anti-union vigilantes seize the town of ], during the ]. | * ] – Anti-union vigilantes seize the town of ], during the ]. | ||
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** The ] joins the ]. | ** The ] joins the ]. | ||
** ] is arrested in connection with the ] case. | |||
* ] – A ] in ], ] kills 3,036 people, and destroys the temple, schools, and other buildings in ]. | * ] – A ] in ], ] kills 3,036 people, and destroys the temple, schools, and other buildings in ]. | ||
* ] – A ] at ] Colliery in ], north-east ] kills 266 miners and rescuers, one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters. | * ] – A ] at ] Colliery in ], north-east ] kills 266 miners and rescuers, one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters. | ||
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** ] joins the ]. | ** ] joins the ]. | ||
** A trial for the custody of young ] begins; it lasts seven weeks and ends with a compromise. | ** A trial for the custody of young ] begins; it lasts seven weeks and ends with a compromise. | ||
* ] – ] makes his ] debut, beginning a record 23-year international career. | |||
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* ] – King ] and French foreign minister ] are assassinated during the king's state visit in ]. | * ] – King ] and French foreign minister ] are assassinated during the king's state visit in ]. | ||
* ] – The ] of the ] begins. | * ] – The ] of the ] begins. | ||
* ] – ] is shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio. | |||
=== November === | === November === | ||
* ] – The Italian government decrees that teachers must wear a military or party uniform in a class. | * ] – The Italian government decrees that teachers must wear a military or party uniform in a class. | ||
* ] | |||
** The ] makes an ultimately controversial decision to alter the ] 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. | |||
** ]'s musical '']'', starring ], premieres in ]. | |||
* ] – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the ] discovers an Italian garrison at ], which lays well within ]n territory. This encounter leads to the ]. | * ] – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the ] discovers an Italian garrison at ], which lays well within ]n territory. This encounter leads to the ]. | ||
* ] – ] releases the first film version of ]'s novel, '']'', starring ] and ]. It gives Beavers, 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 ] film up until then. Its storyline partially revolves around a young ] girl rejecting her mother and trying to "pass for white". It is the first Hollywood film to seriously deal with this subject. | |||
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** A running gun battle between ] agents and bank robber ] results in the deaths of Nelson, and FBI agents ] and ]. | |||
** Bolivian President ] deposed. | ** Bolivian President ] deposed. | ||
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* ] – ]: Ethiopian and Italian troops exchange gunfire. Reported casualties for the Ethiopians are 150, and for the Italians 50. | * ] – ]: Ethiopian and Italian troops exchange gunfire. Reported casualties for the Ethiopians are 150, and for the Italians 50. | ||
* ] – A low-key ] conference is held in ]. | * ] – A low-key ] conference is held in ]. | ||
* ] – Actor ] begins what will become an annual tradition of the ] – playing the role of ] in dramatizations of ]'s '']''. Barrymore continues playing Scrooge on radio until shortly before his death in ]. He will also make a 78-RPM record album of the classic story, which will later be released on ]. | |||
* ] – An ] ] crashes in the ]. | |||
* ] – ] becomes ]. | * ] – ] becomes ]. | ||
* ] – ] renounces the ] of 1922 and the ] of 1930. | * ] – ] renounces the ] of 1922 and the ] of 1930. | ||
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* The ] leave ]. | * The ] leave ]. | ||
* ] makes the ] a self-governing commonwealth and schedules independence for ]. Sugar imports are reduced and immigration is limited to 50 ] per year. | * ] makes the ] a self-governing commonwealth and schedules independence for ]. Sugar imports are reduced and immigration is limited to 50 ] per year. | ||
* The house ] in southwestern ] is designed by ]. | |||
* The ] is established and produced two of the most famous ] instrumental icons ] and ]. | * The ] is established and produced two of the most famous ] instrumental icons ] and ]. | ||
* This year is the hottest year in the United States on record.<ref>http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/08/1934-and-all-that/</ref> | |||
== Births == | == Births == |
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Lists of leaders |
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Gregorian calendar | 1934 MCMXXXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2687 |
Armenian calendar | 1383 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6684 |
Baháʼí calendar | 90–91 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1855–1856 |
Bengali calendar | 1340–1341 |
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) 4631 or 4424 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4632 or 4425 |
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 | 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 2060 or 1679 or 907 — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 2061 or 1680 or 908 |
Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
- January 1
- Alcatraz becomes a prison.
- International Telecommunication Union.
- Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring".
- January 10 – Marinus van der Lubbe is executed in Germany.
- January 13 – The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
- January 20 – The Japanese company Fuji Photo Film is established.
- January 24
- The new Constitution of Estonia enters into force.
- January 26
- The 10 year German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed by Germany and the Second Polish Republic.
- The Republic of Austria abolishes the jury trial by decree.
February
- February 6 – French political crisis: The French far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, in an attempted coup against the Third Republic.
- February 9
- Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia have formed the Balkan Pact.
- Gaston Doumergue forms a new government in France.
- February 12–February 16 – Austrian Civil War
- February 16 – Commission of Government sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland.
- February 21 – Augusto César Sandino is assassinated in Managua by the National Guard.
- February 23 – Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
March
- March 1 – Manchuria becomes Manchukuo, following an invasion by the Japanese.
- March 8 – Prince Sigvard of Sweden loses his titles because of his marriage.
- March 12 – Konstantin Päts and general Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
- March 20
- All the police forces in Germany come under the command of Heinrich Himmler.
- The Great Hakodate fire kills at least 2,166 people in southern Hokkaido, Japan.
- March 24 – The Philippine Commonwealth becomes established allowing for more self-government from the United States.
April
- April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
- April 12
- April 19 – Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly photographs the Loch Ness Monster.
- April 30 – The first S-train line in Copenhagen is opened. The Line started in Klampenborg and ended in Frederiksberg.
May
- May 1 – The May Constitution of 1934 heralds the beginning of the Austrofascist Federal State of Austria
- May 7 – The Pearl of Lao Tzu, 24 x 14 cm, is found in a giant clam off Palawan, Philippines.
- May 11 – Dust Bowl: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl.
- May 15
- Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
- May 19 – Kimon Georgiev stages a coup d'etat in Bulgaria.
- May 24
- Tomáš Masaryk is re-elected president of Czechoslovakia.
- The 5-day "Battle of Toledo" starts during the Auto-Lite strike in Toledo, Ohio.
- May 29 – May 31 – The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration
June
- June 6 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- June 10 – Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2–1 after extra time to win the 1934 World Cup.
- June 12 – Political parties are banned in Bulgaria.
- June 18 – The Indian Reorganization Act is enacted.
- June 27
- The Emir of Yemen and ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia conclude a peace treaty.
- The Canberra Times documents the attack of an unknown spider species upon the Chilean town of Antofagasta.
- June 28 – Division of Grazing created within the Department of the Interior.
- June 30
- The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes a national camp, taken over by the SS.
- Night of the Long Knives: Nazis purge the SA.
July
- July 1
- The Hays Office censorship code for motion pictures goes into full effect in the United States.
- July 10 – German Social Democrat and author Erich Mühsam is killed in Oranienburg concentration camp.
- July 17 – The North Dakota Supreme Court declares Lieutenant Governor Ole H. Olson the legitimate governor and tells William Langer to resign. Langer proceeds to declare North Dakota independent. He revokes the declaration after the Supreme Court justices meet him.
- July 19 – 41 squadrons added to the Royal Air Force as part of a new air defence program
- July 22 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
- July 25 – Austrian Nazis assassinate chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss during a failed coup attempt.
August
- August 2 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.
- August 8 – The Wehrmacht swears a personal oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler.
- August 19 – In a referendum, 90% of the German population approves of Hitler's assumption of presidential powers as Führer and Reichskanzler.
- August 25 – Anti-union vigilantes seize the town of McGuffey, Ohio, during the Hardin County onion pickers strike.
September
- September 5–10 – 8th Nuremberg Rally
- September 8 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner Morro Castle kills 134 people.
- September 19
- The Soviet Union joins the League of Nations.
- September 21 – A typhoon in Honshū, Japan kills 3,036 people, and destroys the temple, schools, and other buildings in Osaka.
- September 22 – A gas explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north-east Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers, one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters.
- September 28
- Afghanistan joins the League of Nations.
- A trial for the custody of young Gloria Vanderbilt begins; it lasts seven weeks and ends with a compromise.
October
- October 2 – A tornado in Osaka and Kyoto kills 1,660, injures 5,400, and destroys the rice harvest.
- October 5 – Miners rebel in Asturias, Spain (see Asturian miners' strike of 1934).
- October 6 – Catalonian separatists rebel in Spain.
- October 9 – King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseilles.
- October 16 – The Long March of the Chinese Communists begins.
November
- November 13 – The Italian government decrees that teachers must wear a military or party uniform in a class.
- November 23 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lays well within Ethiopian territory. This encounter leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- Bolivian President Daniel Salamanca deposed.
December
- December 1
- In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot and killed at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolaev (it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder).
- In Mexico, Lázaro Cárdenas is inaugurated as President of that country.
- December 5 – Abyssinia Crisis: Ethiopian and Italian troops exchange gunfire. Reported casualties for the Ethiopians are 150, and for the Italians 50.
- December 18 – A low-key fascist conference is held in Moreaux.
- December 27 – Persia becomes Iran.
- December 29 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
Date unknown
- International Union of National Tourist Propaganda Organizations (IUNTPO).
- The "British Committee for Relations with Other Countries", which will become the British Council, is set up to foster cultural relations.
- The sonoluminescence effect is discovered.
- The GPU becomes the NKVD.
- Abidjan becomes the capital of the French colony of Côte d'Ivoire.
- The U.S. Marines leave Haiti.
- US Congress makes the Philippines a self-governing commonwealth and schedules independence for 1944. Sugar imports are reduced and immigration is limited to 50 Filipino people per year.
- The Quintette du Hot Club de France is established and produced two of the most famous Jazz instrumental icons Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt.
Births
January–February
- January 1 – George D. Behrakis, Greek American philanthropist
- January 5 – Eddy Pieters Graafland, Dutch football goalkeeper
- January 7 – Charles Jenkins, American sprinter
- January 8 – Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (d. 2003)
- January 9 – Bart Starr, American football player
- January 11 – Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada
- January 12 – Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer
- January 13 – Rip Taylor, American comedian
- January 16 – Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano
- January 18 – Raymond Briggs, British writer and illustrator
- January 20
- January 22
- Bill Bixby, American actor and director (d. 1993)
- Graham Kerr, British television personality
- Nolan Strong, Detroit doo-wop singer with The Diablos
- January 23 – Lou Antonio, American actor and director
- January 24 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (d. 1976)
- January 30 – Tammy Grimes, American actress
- February 5 – Hank Aaron, African-American baseball player
- February 7 – Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
- February 10 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
- February 11
- Tina Louise, American actress (Gilligan's Island)
- Mary Quant, British fashion designer
- John Surtees, British race car driver
- February 12
- Anne Krueger, American economist
- Bill Russell, African-American basketball player
- February 13 – George Segal, American actor (The Hot Rock)
- February 14
- Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
- Florence Henderson, American actress (The Brady Bunch)
- February 15 – Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist
- February 16 – Harold "Hal" & Herbert "Herbie" Kalin, American singers (The Kalin Twins) (d. 2005 and 2006, respectively)
- February 17
- Sir Alan Bates, British actor (d. 2003)
- Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian
- February 18 – Ronald F. Marryott, American admiral (d. 2005)
- February 20 – Bobby Unser, American race car driver
- February 21 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010)
- February 22
- Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (d. 2010)
- Van Williams, American actor (The Green Hornet)
- February 23 – Augusto Algueró, Spanish composer (d. 2011)
- 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 and presidential candidate
March–April
- March 1
- Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian sculptor (d. 2005)
- Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
- March 4
- Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer
- John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
- Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
- Barbara McNair, African-American singer and actress (d. 2007)
- Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
- March 5
- Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Nicholas Smith, English actor
- March 7
- Franklin Clarke, American football player
- Willard Scott, American television weather reporter (Today Show)
- March 9
- Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer, and teacher (d. 1999)
- Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, first man in space (d. 1968)
- Joyce Van Patten, American actress
- March 11 – Sam Donaldson, American reporter (ABC News)
- March 13 – Barry Hughart, American author
- March 14
- Eugene Cernan, American astronaut
- Paul Rader, General of The Salvation Army
- March 16
- Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
- Richard Layard, Baron Layard, British economist
- March 20 – Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco, California
- March 22
- Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senator from Utah
- Larry Martyn, British comedy actor (Are You Being Served?) (d. 1994)
- March 23 – Mark Rydell, American actor and director
- March 25 – Gloria Steinem, American feminist
- March 26 – Alan Arkin, American actor
- March 31
- Richard Chamberlain, American actor (Dr. Kildare)
- Shirley Jones, American singer and actress (The Partridge Family)
- Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Orion Samuelson, American television personality
- April 1
- Don Hastings, American actor
- Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
- April 2
- Paul Avery, American journalist (d. 2000)
- Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician
- Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler (d. 1997)
- April 3 – Jane Goodall, British zoologist
- April 5 – Roman Herzog, former President of Germany
- April 6 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (d. 1996)
- April 6 – Anton Geesink, Dutch 10th-dan judoka (d. 2010)
- April 9 – Bill Birch, New Zealand politician
- April 11 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet
- April 18 – James Drury, American actor (The Virginian)
- April 24
- Jayakanthan, Tamil writer
- Shirley MacLaine, American actress, dancer, writer
- April 25
- Peter McParland, Irish footballer
- Denny Miller, American actor (Wagon Train)
- April 29
- Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, President of Cape Verde
- Otis Rush, American musician
- Akira Takarada, Japanese actor
May–June
- May 3 – Henry Cooper, British boxer
- May 6 – Richard Shelby, U. S. senator from Alabama
- May 9 – Alan Bennett, British actor and writer
- May 13 – Leon Wagner, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- May 15 – George Roper, British comedian (d. 2003)
- May 18 – Dwayne Hickman, American actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis)
- May 19 – Jim Lehrer, American television journalist for PBS (MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour)
- 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 (d. 2005)
- May 24 – Barry Rose, British choir director and organist
- May 27 – Harlan Ellison, American writer
- May 28 – Dionne quintuplets, Canadian quintuplets
- May 30 – Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut
- June 1
- Pat Boone, American actor and singer
- Ken Rex McElroy, American murder victim (d. 1981)
- June 3 – Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
- June 4
- Dame Monica Dacon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines schoolteacher, educator and politician
- Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Kenyan conservationist and author
- June 5 – Bill Moyers, American journalist
- June 6 – King Albert II of Belgium
- June 16
- Dame Eileen Atkins, British actress
- William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 20 – Samuel Zoll, Massachusetts jurist (d. 2011)
- June 25 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (d. 2006)
- 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
- Jamie Farr, American actor (best known as Klinger on M*A*S*H)
- Jean Marsh,actress
- Sydney Pollack, American film director (d. 2008)
- July 10 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (d. 2012)
- July 11 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
- July 12 – Van Cliburn, American pianist
- July 13
- Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian cosmonaut
- July 14 – John Tyndall, British politician (d. 2005)
- July 15 – Harrison Birtwistle, British composer
- July 21 – Jonathan Miller, British theatre director
- July 25 – Luang Por Sumedho, Theravada Buddhist representative in the West
- July 28 – Bud Luckey, an American voice actor and Pixar animator
- July 30 – Bud Selig, American Major League Baseball commissioner
- 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
- Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster
- August 6 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league footballer
- August 15 – Nino Ferrer, French singer (d. 1998)
- August 16
- Donnie Dunagan, American actor
- Ed van Thijn, Dutch politician
- Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (d. 2011)
- August 18
- Vincent Bugliosi, American prosecutor and author (Helter Skelter)
- Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player (d. 1972)
- August 19 – Renée Richards, American transsexual physician and tennis player
- August 20
- Armi Kuusela, Miss Universe 1952
- Tom Mangold, British journalist and author
- August 22 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army general
- August 23
- Barbara Eden, American actress (I Dream of Jeannie)
- Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
- August 25
- Eddie Ilarde, Filipino broadcaster and politician
- Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran
- August 26 – Tom Heinsohn, American baseketball player, coach, and broadcaster
- August 30
- Helen Craig, English children's author, illustrator (Angelina Ballerina)
- Anatoli Solonitsyn, Russian actor (d. 1982)
September–October
- September 2
- Dominic Chianese, American actor
- Grady Nutt, American humorist (d. 1982)
- September 4
- Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
- Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer ("Trololo") (d. 2012)
- September 7 – Little Milton, American musician
- September 8 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer
- September 10 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (On The Road) (d. 1997)
- September 15 – Fred Nile, Australian Christian politician
- September 16
- Elgin Baylor, American basketball player and executive
- Ronnie Drew, Irish Dubliner Band Singer (d. 2008)
- September 17
- Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
- Binoy Majumdar, Indian Hungryalist Poet.
- September 19 – Brian Epstein, English manager of the Beatles (d. 1967)
- September 20
- Takayuki Kubota, martial artist and founder of the Gosoku-ryu style of karate
- Sophia Loren, Italian actress
- September 21 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist and singer/songwriter
- September 22 – Lute Olson, American basketball coach
- September 23 – Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
- September 24
- Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
- Robert Lang, English actor of stage and television (d. 2004)
- September 27
- Beverly Armstrong, American female professional baseball player
- Wilford Brimley, American actor
- September 28 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress, animal rights activist
- September 30
- Alan A'Court, English footballer (d. 2009)
- Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
- October 1
- Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- Shakeb Jalali, Urdu poet (d. 1966)
- October 2 – Earl Wilson, baseball player (d. 2005)
- October 3 – Harold Henning, South African golfer (d. 2004)
- 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 (The Wild Wild West) (d. 1973)
- Charles S. Liebman American-Israeli political scientist and author (d. 2003)
- October 30
- Frans Brüggen, Dutch flutist, recorder player, and conductor
- Hamilton Camp, English-American actor (d. 2005)
November–December
- November 1 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
- November 6 – Barton Myers, American/Canadian architect
- November 7 – Jackie Joseph, American actress
- November 9 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and television host (Cosmos) (d. 1996)
- November 10 – Joanna Moore, American actress (d. 1997)
- November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and criminal
- November 13 – John Gowans, General of The Salvation Army
- November 15 – Irén Pavlics, Slovene authoress in Hungary
- November 17 – Jim Inhofe, United States Senator
- November 21 – Laurence Luckinbill, American actor
- November 24 – Alfred Schnittke, Volga German composer (d. 1998)
- November 27
- Ammo Baba, Assyrian soccer player
- Gilbert Strang, American mathematician
- November 30 – Lansana Conte, President of Guinea (d. 2008)
- 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 (Tic Tac Dough)
- Victor French, American actor and director (d. 1989)
- December 5 – Joan Didion, American writer
- December 6 – Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler
- 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, American baseball player
- Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer and entertainer (d. 2006)
- Pratibha Patil, President of India
- December 24 – Stjepan Mesic, former President of Croatia
- December 27 – Larisa Latynina, Russian gymnast
- December 28
- Maggie Smith, British actress (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
- Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
- December 29 – Ed Flanders, American actor (St. Elsewhere) (d. 1995)
- December 30
- John Norris Bahcall, American astrophysicist (d. 2005)
- Joseph P. Hoar, U.S. Marine commander
- Del Shannon, American singer (Runaway) (d. 1990)
- Russ Tamblyn, American actor (West Side Story); father of actress Amber Tamblyn
Deaths
January–March
- January 6 – Herbert Chapman, English football manager (b. 1878)
- January 10 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (b. 1909)
- January 29 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
- February 13 – József Pusztai slovene writer, poet, journalist in Hungary (b. 1864)
- February 17 – King Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
- February 23 – Edward Elgar, English composer (Pomp and Circumstance) (b. 1857)
- February 25 – John McGraw, American baseball player (b. 1873)
- March 1 – Charles Webster Leadbeater, English author and Theosophist (b.1854)
- March 15 – Davidson Black, Canadian-born paleoanthropologist (b.1884)
- March 20
- Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Dutch Queen and regent (b.1858)
- Sydney Deane, Australian cricketer and actor (b. 1863)
- March 21 – Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1896)
- March 28 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
- March 29 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born philanthropist (b. 1867)
- March 30 – Ronald Munro Ferguson, Scottish politician, former Governor-General of Australia (b. 1860)
April–June
- April 11 – Gerald du Maurier, British actor (b. 1873)
- April 15 – Karl Dane, Danish actor (b. 1886)
- May 17 – Cass Gilbert, American architect (b. 1859)
- May 21 – Lew Cody, American actor (b. 1884)
- May 23
- Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (shot) (b. 1910)
- Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (shot) (b. 1910)
- May 25 – Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets) (b. 1874)
- May 30 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
- June 8 – Dorothy Dell, American actress (b. 1915)
- June 10 – Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
- June 11 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian developmental psychologist (b. 1896)
- June 20 – Andrew Jackson Zilker, American philanthropist (b. 1858)
- June 30 – Murdered during the Night of the Long Knives:
- Fritz Gerlich, German journalist (b. 1883)
- Gustav von Kahr, German politician (b. 1862)
- Karl Ernst, Nazi SA leader in Berlin (b. 1904)
- Edmund Heines, Deputy SA leader (b. 1897)
- Gregor Strasser, German politician, early Nazi leader (b. 1892)
- Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
July–September
- July 2 – Ernst Röhm, Nazi SA Leader (b. 1887)
- July 4
- Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics (b. 1867)
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik The Israel's national poet (b. 1873)
- July 8 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
- July 13 – Kate Sheppard, New Zealand Women's suffrage for voting (b. 1848)
- July 15 – Louis F. Gottschalk, American composer (b. 1864)
- 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)
- 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)
- Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
- Edith Yorke, English actress (b. 1867)
- August 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (b. 1847)
- August 9 – Alfred Steux, Belgian road racing cyclist (b. 1892)
- August 10 – George W. Hill, American director (b. 1895)
- August 13 – Mary Hunter Austin, American writer of fiction and non-fiction (b. 1868)
- August 14 – Raymond Hood, American architect (b. 1881)
- August 17 – Charlotte Gilman, noted American poet and playwright (b. 1860)
- September 2
- Russ Columbo, American singer and actor (b. 1908)
- Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
- September 9 – Roger Fry, British artist (b. 1866)
October–December
- October 5 – Jean Vigo, French film director (b. 1905)
- October 9 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia (b. 1888)
- October 12 – Willy Clarkson, English costume designer and wigmaker (b. 1861)
- October 15 – Raymond Poincaré, French President (b. 1860)
- October 17 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
- October 22 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American bank robber (b. 1904)
- October 29 – Lou Tellegen, Dutch actor (b. 1881)
- November 2 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist (b. 1845)
- November 10 – Ion Farris, American politician, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives (b. 1878)
- November 16 – Alice Liddell, English schoolgirl, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (b. 1852)
- November 22 – Harry Steppe, American vaudeville performer (b. 1888)
- November 27 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
- November 30 – Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
- December 1 – Sergei Kirov, Soviet politician (b. 1886)
- December 6 – Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
- December 22 – Wallace Thurman, American writer (b. 1902)
- December 28 – Lowell Sherman, American actor and director (b. 1885)
Nobel Prizes
- Physics – Not awarded this year
- Chemistry – Harold Clayton Urey
- Physiology or Medicine – George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy
- Literature – Luigi Pirandello
- Peace – Arthur Henderson
References
- Vogler, Richard (2005). A World View of Criminal Justice. International and Comparative Criminal Justice. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-0-7546-2467-7.
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