Events
January–February
*
January 1 – The
International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the
League of Nations, is established.
*
January 15
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
* 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
– The 8.0
Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes
Nepal and
Bihar with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
*
January 26 – A 10-year
German–Polish declaration of non-aggression is signed by
Nazi Germany and the
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of ...
.
*
January 30
Events Pre-1600
*1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
*1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1601–1900
*1607 – An estimated ...
** In
Nazi Germany, the political power of federal states such as
Prussia is substantially abolished, by the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" (''Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reiches'').
**
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States, signs the
Gold Reserve Act: all gold held in the
Federal Reserve is to be surrendered to the
United States Department of the Treasury; immediately following, the President raises the statutory gold price from US$20.67 per ounce to $35.
*
February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
–
French political crisis: The French
far-right leagues rally in front of the
Palais Bourbon, in an attempted
coup d'état against the
Third Republic.
*
February 9
**
Gaston Doumergue forms a new government in
France.
**
Greece,
Romania,
Turkey and
Yugoslavia form the
Balkan Pact.
*
February 12 –
16 –
Austrian Civil War
The Austrian Civil War (german: Österreichischer Bürgerkrieg), also known as the February Uprising (german: Februarkämpfe), was a few days of skirmishes between Austrian government and socialist forces between 12 and 16 February 1934, in Aust ...
: The
Fatherland Front consolidates its power, in a series of clashes across the country.
*
February 16 – The
Commission of Government is sworn in, as a form of direct rule for the
Dominion of Newfoundland
Newfoundland was a British dominion in eastern North America, today the modern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was established on 26 September 1907, and confirmed by the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westmi ...
.
*
February 21 –
Augusto César Sandino is assassinated in
Managua, by the
National Guard.
*
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
– King
Leopold III of Belgium
Leopold III (3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983) was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951. At the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality, but after the German invasi ...
succeeds to the throne, following the death (February 17) of his father King
Albert I Albert I may refer to:
People Born before 1300
* Albert I, Count of Vermandois (917–987)
*Albert I, Count of Namur ()
*Albert I of Moha
*Albert I of Brandenburg (), first margrave of Brandenburg
*Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (1158–1195)
*Alber ...
.
March–April
*
March 1 –
Manchuria becomes
Manchukuo
Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...
, following an invasion by the Japanese.
*
March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
– Prime Minister
Konstantin Päts stages a
self-coup by declaring a state of emergency in
Estonia, with the approval of the
parliament.
*
March 13 –
John Dillinger and his gang rob the First National Bank in
Mason City, Iowa, United States, stealing $52,000.
*
March 20 – The
Great Hakodate Fire
The Great Fire of Hakodate () is a fire that broke out in Hakodate, Hokkaido in Japan on March 21, 1934. It is one of the worst city fires in Japan.
Overview
On March 21, 1934 a fire was started in a house located within the Sumiyoshi area, Hak ...
kills at least 2,166 people in southern
Hokkaido, Japan.
*
March 24 – The
Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed, allowing the
Philippines a greater degree of
self-government from the United States.
*
April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– The "surgeon's photograph" of the
Loch Ness Monster, taken in Scotland by London gynaecologist Robert Kenneth Wilson and in 1994 admitted to be a
hoax
A hoax is a widely publicized falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into pu ...
, is published in the ''
Daily Mail
The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news websitePeter Wilb"Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain", ''New Statesman'', 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) publish ...
'' London national newspaper.
May–June
*
May 1 – The
May Constitution of 1934 heralds the beginning of the
Austrofascist
The Federal State of Austria ( de-AT, Bundesstaat Österreich; colloquially known as the , "Corporate State") was a continuation of the First Austrian Republic between 1934 and 1938 when it was a one-party state led by the clerical fascist Fa ...
Federal State of Austria.
*
May 15 –
Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
.
*
May 19 –
Kimon Georgiev stages a
coup d'état in Bulgaria.
*
May 23 – American outlaws
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut (Champion) Barrow (March 24, 1909May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. The co ...
are ambushed and killed by police in
Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
*
May 28 – Near
Callander, Ontario, Canada, the
Dionne quintuplets
The Dionne quintuplets (; born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil. All five survived to adulthood.
The Dionn ...
are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first
quintuplets to survive infancy.
*
June 10 –
Italy beats
Czechoslovakia 2–1 after extra time, to win the
1934 World Cup
The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the second edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It took place in Italy from 27 May to 10 June 1934.
The 1934 World Cup was the first in ...
, staged in Italy.
*
June 14 –
Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...
meet for the first time, at the
Venice Biennale.
*
June 18 – The
Indian Reorganization Act
The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler–Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of American Indians in the United States. It was the centerpiece of what has been often called the "Indian ...
is enacted.
*
June 27 – The
Emir of
Yemen and Ibn Saud of
Saudi Arabia conclude a peace treaty.
*
June 30 –
July 2 –
Night of the Long Knives in Germany:
Nazis
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...
purge the ''
Sturmabteilung
The (; SA; literally "Storm Detachment") was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi ral ...
'' (SA), the left-wing
Strasserist faction of the
Nazi Party, and prominent conservative anti-Nazis, in a series of political murders.
*
June 30 – The
Nazi Party SA camp
Oranienburg becomes a national camp, taken over by the ''
Schutzstaffel'' (SS).
July–August
*
July 13 – Hitler gives a speech to the
Reichstag, justifying his purge.
*
July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
–
July Putsch: Austrian
Nazis
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...
assassinate chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss, during a failed coup attempt.
*
August 2
Events Pre-1600
*338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
*216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...
–
Adolf Hitler becomes ''
Führer'' of Germany, or head of state combined with that of Chancellor, following the death of President
Paul von Hindenburg.
*
August 8 – The
Wehrmacht swears a personal oath of loyalty to
Adolf Hitler.
*
August 15 – The
United States Marine Corps leaves
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
.
*
August 19
Events Pre-1600
*295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
*43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later know ...
–
1934 German referendum
A referendum on merging the posts of Chancellor and President was held in Nazi Germany on 19 August 1934, Dieter Nohlen and Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook'', p. 762, . seventeen days after the death of President Paul ...
: In a referendum, 90% of the German population approves of Hitler's assumption of
presidential powers, as
Führer and
Reichskanzler.
September–October
*
September 4 –
Evelyn Waugh's novel ''
A Handful of Dust'' was first published in full.
*
September 5 –
10 – The 6th
Nuremberg Rally
The Nuremberg Rallies (officially ', meaning ''Reich Party Congress'') refer to a series of celebratory events coordinated by the Nazi Party in Germany. The first rally held took place in 1923. This rally was not particularly large or impactful; ...
is staged by the German
Nazi Party.
*
September 8 – Off the
New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner kills 134 people.
*
September 15
Events Pre-1600
* 994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
*1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by ...
–
1934 Australian federal election
The 1934 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 15 September 1934. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent United Australia Party led by Prime Minister ...
:
Joseph Lyons
Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939) was an Australian politician who served as the List of prime ministers of Australia by time in office, 10th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1932 until his death in 1939. He ...
'
UAP Government is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the
Labor Party, led by former
Prime Minister James Scullin. Consequently, Lyons is forced to resume the
Coalition
A coalition is a group formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political or economical spaces.
Formation
According to ''A Gui ...
with the
Country Party, and include them in his government. Scullin steps down from the Labor leadership shortly after; he is
replaced by future Prime Minister
John Curtin.
*
September 19
** The
Soviet Union joins the
League of Nations.
**
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is arrested in connection with the
Lindbergh kidnapping case in the U.S.
*
September 21 – The
Muroto typhoon
In September 1934, a violent typhoon caused tremendous devastation in Japan, leaving more than 3,000 people dead in its wake. Dubbed the , the system was first identified on September 13 over the western Federated States of Microne ...
in
Honshū
, historically called , is the largest and most populous island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island separa ...
, Japan kills 3,036 people, and destroys the temple, schools, and other buildings in
Osaka.
*
September 22
Events Pre-1600
* 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
* 1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of th ...
– A
gas explosion at
Gresford Colliery
Gresford Colliery was a coal mine located a mile from the North Wales village of Gresford, near Wrexham.
History
Sinking
The North Wales Coalfield, of which Gresford was part, runs from Point of Ayr, on the Flintshire coast to the Shropshire b ...
in
Wrexham, north-east Wales, kills 266 miners and rescuers.
*
September 28
Events Pre-1600
*48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.
* 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...
–
Afghanistan joins the
League of Nations.
*
October 2
Events Pre-1600
* 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
* 939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and ot ...
– A
typhoon in
Osaka and
Kyoto, Japan, kills 1,660, injures 5,400, and destroys the rice harvest.
*
October 6 –
Events of October the 6th: the President of
Catalonia,
Lluís Companys
Lluís Companys i Jover (; 21 June 1882 – 15 October 1940) was a Catalan politician who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War.
Companys was a lawyer close to labour movement and one of the most prominent l ...
, declares the
Catalan State of the Spanish Federal Republic, but Spanish troops swiftly crush the Catalan forces, and arrest him and the members of the Catalan government. The autonomy of Catalonia is suspended until
1936
Events
January–February
* January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
.
*
October 9 – King
Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister
Louis Barthou
Jean Louis Barthou (; 25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913. In social policy, his time as prime minister saw the introduction (in Jul ...
are assassinated, during the king's state visit in
Marseille.
*
October 16 – The
Long March of the
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...
of the
Chinese Communist Party begins.
*
October 20 –
November 3 –
Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native
Brisbane, Australia, to
San Francisco, in the
Lockheed Altair ''
Lady Southern Cross
The ''Lady Southern Cross'' was a Lockheed Altair monoplane owned by Australian pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.
In this aircraft, Kingsford Smith made the first eastward trans-Pacific flight from Australia to the United States, i ...
''. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.
*
October 20 –
November 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
* 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Br ...
– The
MacRobertson Air Race
The MacRobertson Trophy Air Race (also known as the London to Melbourne Air Race) took place in October 1934 as part of the Melbourne Centenary celebrations. The race was devised by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Sir Harold Gengoult Smith, and th ...
is flown from
RAF Mildenhall in England to
Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate the centenary of the state of
Victoria. The overall winner is the British
de Havilland DH.88 Comet
The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to participate in the 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race from the United Kingdom to A ...
G-ACSS ''Grosvenor House'', flown by
C. W. A. Scott
Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, AFC (13 February 1903 – 15 April 1946Dunnell ''Aeroplane'', November 2019, p. 46.) was an English aviator. He won the MacRobertson Air Race, a race from London to Melbourne, in 1934, in a tim ...
and
Tom Campbell Black.
November–December
*
November 23 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the
Ogaden
Ogaden (pronounced and often spelled ''Ogadēn''; so, Ogaadeen, am, ውጋዴ/ውጋዴን) is one of the historical names given to the modern Somali Region, the territory comprising the eastern portion of Ethiopia formerly part of the Harargh ...
discovers an Italian garrison at
Walwal
Welwel (, also transliterated Walwaal; ), is a town in eastern Ethiopia known as the Ogaden. Located in the Werder Zone of the Somali Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of with an elevation of 570 meters above sea level. Welwel has a ...
, which lies well within
Ethiopian territory. This encounter leads to the
Abyssinia Crisis.
*
November 27
Events Pre-1600
*AD 25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
* 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of " Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the ...
–
Daniel Salamanca Urey,
President of Bolivia, is deposed in a military coup, and replaced by
José Luis Tejada Sorzano.
*
December 2 – The
continental jazz
Continental jazz was a genre of music that included early jazz dance bands of Europe in the swing medium, to the exclusion of Great Britain. The genre was generally practiced until the conclusion of World War II. By the time bebop
Bebop or b ...
group
Quintette du Hot Club de France
The Quintette du Hot Club de France ("The Quintet of the Hot Club of France"), often abbreviated "QdHCdF" or "QHCF", was a jazz group founded in France in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli and active in one form ...
first performs in Paris, led by guitarist
Django Reinhardt, with violinist
Stéphane Grappelli.
*
December 5 –
Abyssinia Crisis: Ethiopian and Italian troops exchange gunfire. Reported casualties for the Ethiopians are 150, and for the Italians 50.
*
December 21 – ''
Lieutenant Kijé
Lieutenant Kijé or Kizhe (russian: Пору́чик Киже́, translit. Poruchik Kizhe), originally Kizh (Киж), is a fictional character in an anecdote about the reign of Emperor Paul I of Russia, in which the cover up of a transcript ...
'', one of
Sergei Prokofiev's best-known works, premiered.
*
December 27 – Persia becomes
Iran.
*
December 29 – Japan renounces the
Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, and the
London Naval Treaty
The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States that was signed on 22 April 1930. Seeking to address is ...
of 1930.
Date unknown
* Winter –
Tadj ol-Molouk, Empress consort of
Iran, and her daughters appear publicly in
Tehran without a
veil, leading to its abolition in the country.
*
Abidjan becomes the capital of the French colony of
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
.
* The
sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence is the emission of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.
History
The sonoluminescence effect was first discovered at the University of Cologne in 1934 as a result of work on sonar. Hermann Frenzel and ...
effect is discovered, at the
University of Cologne.
* The
Australian frontier wars end, after 146 years.
* The
Yomiuri Giants, a successful professional baseball club in Japan, is founded in
Tokyo.
Births
January
*
January 4
Events Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
* 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1601–1900
*1649 – Engli ...
–
Rudolf Schuster, 2nd
President of Slovakia
The president of the Slovak Republic ( sk, Prezident Slovenskej republiky) is the head of state of Slovakia and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. The president is directly elected by the people for five years, and can be elected for ...
*
January 5 –
Eddy Pieters Graafland
Eduard Laurens "Eddy" Pieters Graafland (5 January 193428 April 2020) was a Dutch professional football player and coach. As a player, he was the goalkeeper of Ajax, Feyenoord and the Netherlands. In 1970, his last season as a professional, he w ...
, Dutch football goalkeeper (d.
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
)
*
January 7
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
* 1325 – Alfonso IV ...
**
Charles Jenkins, American sprinter
**
Tassos Papadopoulos
Efstathios "Tassos" Nikolaou Papadopoulos ( el, Ευστάθιος (Τάσσος) Νικολάου Παπαδόπουλος; 7 January 1934 – 12 December 2008) was a Cypriot politician and barrister who served as the fifth president of Cyp ...
, Cypriot politician, 5th
President of Cyprus (d.
2008
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)
*
January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
–
Jacques Anquetil, French road cyclist (d.
1987
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)
*
January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
–
Leonid Kravchuk,
President of Ukraine (d.
2022
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)
*
January 11 –
Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (; born January 11, 1934) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.
Born and raised in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, Chrétien is a law graduate from Uni ...
, 20th
Prime Minister of Canada
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
*1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
*1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
**
Richard Briers, English actor (d.
2013
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)
**
Pierre Darmon
Pierre Darmon (born 14 January 1934) is a French former tennis player. He was ranked No.8 in the world in 1963, and also reached the top ten in 1958 and 1964.
Early life
Darmon was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He moved to France at 17 years of age.
...
, French tennis player
*
January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
–
Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano
*
January 17 –
Cedar Walton
Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, before establishing a long career as a bandleader and com ...
, American jazz pianist (d.
2013
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)
*
January 18 –
Raymond Briggs, British writer and illustrator (d.
2022
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)
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
* 1156 &ndas ...
–
Tom Baker, British actor
*
January 21 –
Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (d.
2017
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)
*
January 22
Events Pre-1600
* 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
* 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...
–
Bill Bixby
Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) professionally known as Bill Bixby, was an American actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panellist.
Bixby's career spanned more than three decades, includi ...
, American actor and director (d.
1993
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)
*
January 24 –
Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (d.
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
)
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
–
Édith Cresson,
Prime Minister of France
The prime minister of France (french: link=no, Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
The prime minister ...
*
January 30
Events Pre-1600
*1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
*1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1601–1900
*1607 – An estimated ...
–
Tammy Grimes, American actress (d.
2016
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)
*
January 31 –
Eva Mozes Kor
Eva Mozes Kor (January 31, 1934 – July 4, 2019) was a Romanian-born American survivor of the Holocaust. Along with her twin sister Miriam, Kor was subjected to human experimentation under the direction of SS Doctor Josef Mengele at the Ausch ...
, Romanian Holocaust survivor and author (d.
2019
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)
February
*
February 7
**
Eddie Fenech Adami, 10th
Prime Minister of Malta and 7th
President of Malta
**
King Curtis, African-American saxophonist (d.
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
Ja ...
)
*
February 10 –
Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
*
February 11
Events Pre-1600
*660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
* 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...
**
Manuel Noriega, Panamanian military dictator (d.
2017
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)
**
John Surtees, British racing driver (d.
2017
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)
*
February 12 –
Anne Krueger, American economist
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
–
George Segal
George Segal Jr. (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American actor. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as ''Ship o ...
, American actor (d.
2021
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)
*
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
–
Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (d.
2016
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)
*
February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
–
Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist
*
February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
** Sir
Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story '' Whistle Down the Wind'' to the " kitchen sink" dram ...
, British actor (d.
2003
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)
**
Barry Humphries, Australian actor, comedian
*
February 18
**
Anna Maria Ferrero, Italian actress (d.
2018
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)
**
Paco Rabanne
Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo (born 18 February 1934), more commonly known under the pseudonym of Paco Rabanne (; ), is a Spanish fashion designer who became known as an ''enfant terrible'' of the 1960s French fashion world.
Early life and educati ...
, Spanish fashion designer
*
February 21 –
Rue McClanahan, American actress (d.
2010
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)
*
February 24
Events Pre-1600
* 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
* 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
* 13 ...
**
Bettino Craxi
Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi ( , , ; 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI membe ...
,
Prime Minister of Italy (d.
2000
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)
**
Renata Scotto, Italian soprano
**
Bingu wa Mutharika
Bingu wa Mutharika (; born Brightson Webster Ryson Thom; 24 February 1934 – 5 April 2012) was a Malawian politician and economist who was President of Malawi from May 2004 until his death in April 2012. He was also President of the Democ ...
, Malawian President, economist (d.
2012
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)
*
February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
–
Ralph Nader, American consumer activist and presidential candidate
March
*
March 1 –
Joan Hackett, American actress (d.
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
)
*
March 3 –
Bobby Locke, American baseball player (d.
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
)
*
March 4
**
Anne Haney
Anne Ryan Haney ( Thomas; March 4, 1934 – May 26, 2001) was an American stage and screen actress. She was best known for her roles in ''Mrs. Doubtfire'' and ''Liar Liar'', as well as Alberta Meechum on the sitcom ''Mama's Family''.
Early yea ...
, American actress (d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
**
Gia Scala
Gia Scala (born Josephine Grace Johanna Scoglio; March 3, 1934 – April 30, 1972) was a British-American actress.
Early life
Scala was born March 3, 1934, in Liverpool, England, to Sicilian father Pietro Scoglio, and Irish mother Eileen O'S ...
, British actress (d.
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
)
*
March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
* 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
–
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...
, Israeli economist and
Nobel
Nobel often refers to:
*Nobel Prize, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel
Nobel may also refer to:
Companies
*AkzoNobel, the result of the merger between Akzo and Nobel Industries in 1994
*Branobel, or ...
laureate
*
March 6 –
Milton Diamond, American sexologist and professor of anatomy and reproductive biology
*
March 9
**
Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, first human in space (d.
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
)
**
Joyce Van Patten, American actress
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
**
Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (d.
2017
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)
**
Dionigi Tettamanzi
Dionigi Tettamanzi (14 March 1934 – 5 August 2017) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who was named a cardinal in 1998. He was Archbishop of Genoa from 1995 to 2004 and Archbishop of Milan from 2004 to 2011.
Early years
Tett ...
, Italian cardinal (d.
2017
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)
*
March 16 –
Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian statesman, 24th
Governor-General of Canada (d.
2002
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)
*
March 18 –
Charley Pride, American country musician (d.
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
)
*
March 20 –
David Malouf, Australian writer
*
March 23 –
Ludvig Faddeev, Russian physicist and mathematician (d.
2017
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)
*
March 25
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
* 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
**
Johnny Burnette, American
rockabilly singer, songwriter and musician (d.
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
)
**
Gloria Steinem, American feminist
*
March 26 –
Alan Arkin, American actor
*
March 30 –
Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer (d.
2014
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)
*
March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
**
Richard Chamberlain, American actor
**
Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
**
John D. Loudermilk
John Dee Loudermilk Jr. (March 31, 1934 – September 21, 2016) was an American singer and songwriter. Although he had his own recording career during the 1950s and 1960s, he was primarily known as a songwriter.
His best-known songs include "I ...
, American singer-songwriter (d.
2016
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)
**
Carlo Rubbia, Italian Nobel physicist
April
*
April 1
**
Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
**
, 10th prime minister of Madagascar (d.
2010
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)
*
April 2 –
Paul Cohen, American mathematician (d.
2007
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)
*
April 3
**
Pina Pellicer
Josefina Yolanda Pellicer López de Llergo (3 April 1934 – 4 December 1964), known professionally as Pina Pellicer, was a Mexican actress known in her country for portraying the female lead in '' Macario'' (1960), and in the United States as ...
, Mexican actress (d.
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
)
**
Jane Goodall, British zoologist
*
April 5
Events Pre-1600
* 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
* 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
–
Roman Herzog
Roman Herzog (; 5 April 1934 – 10 January 2017) was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as the president of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the first president to be elec ...
, 9th
President of Germany (d.
2017
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)
*
April 6 –
Anton Geesink
Antonius Johannes Geesink (6 April 1934 – 27 August 2010) was a Dutch people, Dutch List of judoka#Highest grades, 10th dan judoka. He was the first non-Japanese judoka to win gold at the World Judo Championship, a feat he accomplished in 1961 ...
, Dutch 10th-dan judoka (d.
2010
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)
*
April 16 –
Victor "Vicar" José Arriagada Ríos, Spanish cartoonist (d.
2012
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)
*
April 11 –
Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet (d.
2014
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)
*
April 18 –
James Drury
James Child Drury Jr. (April 18, 1934 – April 6, 2020) was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series '' The Virginian'', which was broadcast on NBC from 1962 to ...
, American actor (d.
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
)
*
April 20 –
John Malecela
John Samuel Malecela (born 19 April 1934 in Bugiri Dodoma) was Prime Minister of Tanzania from November 1990 to December 1994. He served as the vice-chairman of the CCM from 1995 to 2007, and a member of the CCM Central Committee to date.
Pri ...
, 6th prime minister of Tanzania
*
April 24
**
Jayakanthan, Tamil writer (d.
2015
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)
**
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty, April 24, 1934) is an American actress, author, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, strong-willed and eccentric women, MacLaine has received numerous accolades over her seven-dec ...
, American actress, dancer, writer
*
April 29 –
Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires,
President of Cape Verde
May
*
May 3
**
Henry Cooper
Sir Henry Cooper (3 May 19341 May 2011) was a British heavyweight boxer, best remembered internationally for a 1963 fight in which he knocked down a young Cassius Clay before the fight was stopped because of a cut eye from Clay's punches. Coo ...
, British boxer (d.
2011
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)
**
Frankie Valli
Francesco Stephen Castelluccio (born May 3, 1934), better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer, known as the frontman of the Four Seasons beginning in 1960. He is known for his unusually powerful lead falsetto voice.
...
, American musician (''
The Four Seasons'')
*
May 4 –
Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d.
2014
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)
*
May 9
**
Alan Bennett, British playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author
**
Lee Hong-koo
Lee Hong-Koo (born May 9, 1934; Hangul: 이홍구; Hanja: 李洪九) is a former Korean academic, politician, and think tank leader who served as a former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, former South Korean Ambassador to the United Kingd ...
, South Korean politician, 26th
Prime Minister of South Korea
*
May 21 –
Bengt I. Samuelsson
Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born 21 May 1934) is a Swedish biochemist. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances.
Education a ...
, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
May 23 –
Robert Moog, American inventor of the synthesizer (d.
2005
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)
*
May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
–
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. Robert Bloch, the author of '' Psycho'' ...
, American writer (d.
2018
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)
*
May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
–
Alexei Leonov
Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov. (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during th ...
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2019
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)
*
May 31
**
Bhagwatikumar Sharma
Bhagwatikumar Sharma (31 May 1934 – 5 September 2018) was an Indian author and journalist who wrote in Gujarati. Born in Surat and educated in languages, he edited a daily for several years. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry, essays and c ...
, Indian author and journalist (d.
2018
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)
**
Jim Hutton American actor (d.
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
)
June
*
June 1 –
Pat Boone, American actor and singer
*
June 4 – Dame
Daphne Sheldrick
Dame Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick, (née Jenkins; 4 June 1934 – 12 April 2018) was a Kenyan of British descent, author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry, particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the w ...
, Kenyan conservationist and author (d.
2018
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)
*
June 5
Events Pre-1600
*1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
–
Chennupati Vidya, Indian politician and social worker (d.
2018
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)
*
June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
– King
Albert II of Belgium
* June 7 – Koloa Talake, 7th prime minister of Tuvalu (d.
2008
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)
* June 9 – Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
* June 11 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born consort of the Danish monarch (d.
2018
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)
* June 15
** Rubén Aguirre, Mexican actor and comedian (d.
2016
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)
** Stefan Kwoczała, Polish motorcycle speedway rider (d.
2019
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)
* June 16
** Dame Eileen Atkins, British actress
** William F. Sharpe, American economist and
Nobel
Nobel often refers to:
*Nobel Prize, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel
Nobel may also refer to:
Companies
*AkzoNobel, the result of the merger between Akzo and Nobel Industries in 1994
*Branobel, or ...
laureate
* June 19 – Désiré Rakotoarijaona, 4th prime minister of Madagascar
* June 23 – Virbhadra Singh, Indian politician (d.
2021
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)
* June 26 – Dave Grusin, American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist
*
June 27 – Ed Hobaugh, American Major League Baseball player
* June 28
** Asker Abiyev, Azerbaijani mathematician
** Michael Artin, American mathematician
* June 29 – Susan George (political scientist), Susan George, American and French political, social scientist, activist and writer
*
June 30
** C. N. R. Rao, Indian chemist
** Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Brazilian economist and social scientist
July
* July 1
** Alicia Terzian, Argentine conductor, musicologist and composer
** Ilselil Larsen, Danish actress
** Sydney Pollack, American film director (d.
2008
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)
* July 3 – Stefan Abadzhiev, Bulgarian football player
* July 5 – Adriana Roel, Mexican actress
* July 7
** Raphael Owor, Ugandan physician, pathologist, academic and medical researcher
** Kedarnath Singh, Indian poet (d.
2018
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)
* July 8
** Fred Stewart (Alberta politician), Fred Stewart, Canadian politician
** Ole Lund, Norwegian barrister and industrial leader
** Marty Feldman, English comedy writer, comedian and actor (d. 1982)
* July 9
** Pierre Perret, French singer and composer
** Michael Graves, American architect (d.
2015
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)
* July 10 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (d.
2012
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)
* July 11
** Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
* July 12
** Van Cliburn, American pianist (d.
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
)
** Ulf Schmidt, Swedish tennis player
*
July 13
** Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel laureate
** Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian cosmonaut
* July 14 – Ángel del Pozo, Spanish actor
* July 15 – Harrison Birtwistle, British composer (d.
2022
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)
* July 16 – George Hilton (actor), George Hilton, Uruguayan-Italian actor (d.
2019
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)
* July 19 – Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
* July 22
** Louise Fletcher, American actress (d.
2022
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)
** Leon Rotman, Romanian sprint canoeist
** Oluyemi Adeniji, Nigerian career diplomat, politician (d.
2017
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)
* July 24 – P. S. Soosaithasan, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (d.
2017
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)
* July 28 – Bud Luckey, American voice actor, Pixar animator (d.
2018
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)
August
*
August 2
Events Pre-1600
*338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
*216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...
– Valery Bykovsky, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2019
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)
* August 3 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political and rebel leader (d.
2002
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)
* August 5 – Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster (d.
2019
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)
* August 6
** Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Italian–Brazilian actor, lyricist, poet and playwright (d. 2006)
** Edmond Simeoni, Corsican politician and nationalist (d.
2018
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)
*
August 8 – Cláudio Hummes, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal
* August 11 – Viktor Tolmachev, Russian engineer (d.
2018
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)
* August 13 – Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (d.
2019
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)
*
August 15
** Nino Ferrer, French singer (d. 1998)
** André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, Congolese politician (d.
2018
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)
* August 16 – Angela Buxton, British tennis player (d.
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
)
* August 17 – Ben Humphreys, Australian politician (d.
2019
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)
* August 18
** Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer (d.
2015
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)
** Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player (d.
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
)
** Gulzar, Indian film director, lyricist and poet
*
August 19
Events Pre-1600
*295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
*43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later know ...
– Renée Richards, American ophthalmologist and tennis player
* August 20 – Armi Kuusela, Miss Universe 1952 from Finland
* August 22 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army general (d.
2012
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)
* August 24 – Kenny Baker (English actor), Kenny Baker, English actor (d.
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
)
* August 25
** Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician, aid worker (d.
2010
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)
** Hsiao Teng-tzang, Taiwanese politician (d.
2017
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)
** Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (d.
2017
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)
* August 28 – Zeng Shiqiang, Taiwanese sinologist, scholar, and writer (d.
2018
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)
* August 30 – Anatoly Solonitsyn, Russian actor (d. 1982)
September
* September 1 – Léon Mébiame, Gabonese politician (d.
2015
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)
*
September 4
** Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
** Juraj Herz, Slovak film director, actor, and scenic designer (d.
2018
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)
** Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer ("Eduard Khil, Trololo") (d.
2012
File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
)
** Zaid ibn Shaker, 3-time prime minister of Jordan (d.
2002
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)
** Jan Švankmajer, Czech filmmaker, artist
* September 6 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and writer (d.
2015
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)
* September 7
** Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian author and poet (d.
2012
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)
** Omar Karami, 29th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.
2015
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)
*
September 8 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer (d.
2016
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)
* September 9
** Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer, politician, and 6th List of Presidents of Dominica, President of Dominica (d.
2015
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)
** Waldo Machado, Brazilian footballer (d.
2019
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)
* September 13 – Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (d. 2009)
* September 16
** Elgin Baylor, American basketball player and executive (d.
2021
File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...
)
** Ronnie Drew, Irish singer with The Dubliners band (d.
2008
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)
* September 17 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
*
September 19 – Brian Epstein, British manager of the Beatles, co-founder of Northern Songs (d. 1967)
* September 20
** Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, veteran columnist and political activist (d.
2015
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)
** Sophia Loren, Italian actress
** Takayuki Kubota, Japanese martial artist, founder of the Gosoku-ryu style of karate
*
September 21
** Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist, singer and songwriter (d.
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
)
** David J. Thouless, Scottish-born condensed-matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d.
2019
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)
** María Rubio, Mexican actress (d.
2018
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)
* September 23 – Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
* September 27 – Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (d.
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
)
*
September 28
Events Pre-1600
*48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.
* 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...
– Brigitte Bardot, French actress, animal rights activist
* September 29 – Idowu Sofola, Nigerian jurist (d.
2018
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)
* September 30 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss composer, popular music singer (d.
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
)
October
* October 4 – Joe Williams (Cook Islands politician), Joe Williams, Cook Islands politician (d.
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
)
* October 7 – Amiri Baraka, African-American poet, playwright and activist (d.
2014
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)
*
October 9
** Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1996)
** Harald Grønningen, Norwegian cross-country skier (d.
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
)
** Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
* October 12 – Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani, Prime Minister of Yemen (d.
2015
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)
* October 13 – Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer
* October 17 – Rico Rodriguez (musician), Rico Rodriguez, Cuban-British musician (d.
2015
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)
* October 18 – Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
* October 19
** Glória Menezes, Brazilian actress
** Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian politician
*
October 20
** Empress Michiko, Empress consort of Japan
* October 28 – Martin van der Borgh, Dutch cyclist (d.
2018
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)
* October 29 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (d.
2017
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)
* October 30 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician (d.
2014
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)
* October 31 – Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, Princess of Sweden
November
* November 1 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
* November 2 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis champion
*
November 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
* 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Br ...
– Kira Muratova, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress (d.
2018
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)
* November 9
** Ingvar Carlsson, twice prime minister of Sweden
** Hamilton Green, 4th prime minister of Guyana
** Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer, and TV presenter (d. 1996)
**Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (d.
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
)
* November 11 – Elżbieta Krzesińska, Polish athlete (d.
2015
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)
* November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and murderer (d.
2017
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)
* November 13 – Garry Marshall, American film producer, director and actor (d.
2016
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)
* November 21 – Carl-Henning Wijkmark, Swedish novelist and translator (d.
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
)
*
November 23 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis champion (d. 1994)
* November 24 – Alfred Schnittke, Soviet (Volga German) composer (d. 1998)
* November 30 – Lansana Conté, President of Guinea (d.
2008
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)
December
* December 1 – Billy Paul, African-American singer (d.
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
)
* December 3
**Abimael Guzmán, Peruvian politician, leader of Shining Path (d.
2021
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)
**Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2017
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)
*
December 5 – Joan Didion, American novelist (d.
2021
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)
* December 8 – Alisa Freindlich, Soviet and Russian actress
* December 9
** Judi Dench, English 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 11 – Radha Viswanathan, Indian vocalist, classical dancer (d.
2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
)
* December 12 – Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd president of Mexico (d.
2012
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)
* December 13 – Richard D. Zanuck, American producer (d.
2012
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)
* December 14 – Shyam Benegal, Indian film director and screenwriter
* December 15 – Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 6th president of Somalia (d.
2012
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)
* December 16 – Meng Zhizhong, Chinese engineer (d.
2019
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)
* December 17 – Shan Tianfang, Chinese pingshu performer (d.
2018
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)
* December 18
** Marc Rich, Belgian-born commodities trader (d.
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
)
** Boris Volynov, Russian cosmonaut
* December 19
** Aki Aleong, Trinidad and Tobago-born American actor
** Pratibha Patil, President of India
* December 24 – Stjepan Mesić, 2nd President of Croatia
* December 25 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d.
2018
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)
*
December 27– Larisa Latynina, Ukrainian gymnast
* December 28
** Alasdair Gray, Scottish fiction writer and artist (d.
2019
File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
)
** Maggie Smith, English actress
** Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d.
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
)
* December 30
** Del Shannon, American singer (''Runaway (Del Shannon song), Runaway'') (d. 1990)
** Russ Tamblyn, American film and television actor
Deaths
January
*
January 1 – Jakob Wassermann, German writer (b. 1873)
* January 6 – Herbert Chapman, English football manager (b. 1878)
*
January 7
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
* 1325 – Alfonso IV ...
– Augustin Dubail, French general (b. 1851)
*
January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
*
January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
– Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (b. 1909)
*
January 11 – Helen Zimmern, German-born British writer and translator (b. 1846)
*
January 15
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
* 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
– Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer and playwright (b. 1863)
*
January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
– Henry Walter Barnett, Australian photographer and filmmaker (b. 1862)
*
January 21 – Aref Qazvini, Iranian poet, lyricist and musician (b. 1882)
*
January 22
Events Pre-1600
* 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
* 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...
– Robert Brady (criminal), Robert Brady, American criminal (b. 1904)
* January 23 – Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, Scottish politician and jurist (b. 1850)
* January 29 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
February
* February 2 – Maria Domenica Mantovani, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1862)
* February 3 – Eleonora de Cisneros, American opera singer (b. 1878)
* February 5 – William Morris Davis, American geographer (b. 1850)
*
February 9 – Claudio Williman, 20th President of Uruguay (b. 1861)
*
February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
– King Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
*February 19 - Caleb Bradham, American pharmacist, inventor of Pepsi (b. 1867)
*
February 21 –
Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary and rebel (murdered) (b. 1895)
*
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
** Edward Elgar, Sir Edward Elgar, British composer (b. 1857)
** Geevarghese Dionysius of Vattasseril, Indian Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1858)
* February 25 – John McGraw, American baseball manager and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1873)
March
*
March 1
**Wilhelm Diegelmann, German actor (b. 1861)
**Charles Webster Leadbeater, British author and Theosophist (b. 1854)
* March 2 - John Smith Archibald, Canadian architect (b. 1872)
* March 7 - John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Scottish politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1847)
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
** João do Canto e Castro, Portuguese army officer, 67th Prime Minister of Portugal and 5th President of Portugal (b. 1862)
** Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (b. 1886)
* March 15 – Davidson Black, Canadian-born paleoanthropologist (b. 1884)
* March 19 – Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, British army general (b. 1857)
*
March 20
** Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Dutch Queen and regent (b.1858)
** Sydney Deane, Australian cricketer and actor (b. 1863)
* March 21
** Nicanor Abelardo, Filipino composer (b. 1873)
** Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1896)
* March 27 – Francis William Reitz, 5th president of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
* March 28 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
* March 29 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born philanthropist (b. 1867)
*
March 30
** Paul Cazeneuve, French politician (b. 1852)
** Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, Scottish politician, 8th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1860)
April
* April 7
** Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild, French socialite (b. 1864)
** Karl von Einem, German general (b. 1853)
* April 9 – Safvet-beg Basagic, Yugoslav writer (b. 1870)
*
April 11
** Gerald du Maurier, British actor (b. 1873)
** John Collier (painter), John Collier, British painter (b. 1850)
* April 15 – Karl Dane, Danish actor (b. 1886)
*
April 18 – Raffaele Garofalo, Italian criminologist and jurist (b. 1851)
*
April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
- Carsten Borchgrevink, Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer (b. 1864)
* April 26
** Arturs Alberings, 6th Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
** John Hamilton (gangster), John Hamilton, Canadian gangster (b. 1899)
* April 27 – Joe Vila, American sportswriter (b. 1866)
* April 28 – Charley Patton, American Delta blues musician
* April 30 – Hugh L. Scott, Major General of the US Army (b. 1853)
May
* May 12 - Gertrude Abbott Australian abbott (b. 1846)
* May 17 – Cass Gilbert, American architect (b. 1859)
*
May 19 – Edward William Nelson, American naturalist (b. 1855)
*
May 21 – James Durkin (actor), James Durkin, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1879)
*
May 23
** Clyde Barrow, American outlaw, member of Barrow Gang (b. 1909)
** Bonnie Parker, American outlaw, member of Barrow Gang (b. 1910)
* May 24 – Brand Whitlock, American journalist and politician (b. 1869)
* May 25 – Gustav Holst, British composer (b. 1874)
* May 26 – Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta (b. 1841)
* May 29 – Eugenie Besserer, American silent film actress (b. 1868)
*
May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
** Tōgō Heihachirō, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
** Julia Lopes de Almeida, Brazilian advocate and writer (b. 1862)
*
May 31 – Lew Cody, American actor (b. 1884)
June
* June 8
** Dorothy Dell, American actress (b. 1915)
* June 9 – Medeiros e Albuquerque, Brazilian poet and politician (b. 1867)
*
June 10 – Frederick Delius, British composer (b. 1862)
* June 11 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian developmental psychologist (b. 1896)
* June 19 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe (1872-1934), Prince Bernhard of Lippe (b. 1872)
*
June 27 – Francesco Buhagiar, 2nd
Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1876)
*
June 30 – Murdered during the
Night of the Long Knives:
** Karl Ernst, Nazi SA leader in Berlin (b. 1904)
**Fritz Gerlich, German journalist (b. 1883)
** Edmund Heines, Deputy SA leader (b. 1897)
**Gustav von Kahr, German politician (b. 1862)
** Kurt von Schleicher, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
** Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician (b. 1892)
July
* July 1
** Ernst Röhm, German politician, Nazi
SA Leader (assassinated) (b. 1887)
** Edgar Jung, German lawyer and political activist (assassinated) (b. 1894)
* July 3
** Emma Irene Åström, Finnish teacher, Finland's first female university graduate (b. 1847)
** Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Dutch prince consort (b. 1876)
* July 4
** Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics, physics (b. 1867)
** Hayim Nahman Bialik, Russian-born Jewish poet, considered Israel's national poet (b. 1873)
* July 5 – Ahmad Zaki Pasha, Egyptian philologist (b. 1867)
* July 6
**Alec B. Francis, English actor (b. 1867)
**Prince Pedro Augusto of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1866)
* July 8 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
* July 10 – Erich Mühsam, German author (b. 1878)
*
July 13
** Kate Sheppard, New Zealand women's suffragist (b. 1848)
** Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1891)
* July 15
** Louis F. Gottschalk, American composer (b. 1864)
** Jules Renkin, Belgian politician and 28th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1862)
* July 16 – Carlo Bergamini (sculptor), Carlo Bergamini, Italian sculptor (b. 1868)
* July 20 – Padre Cicero, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and reverend (b. 1844)
* July 21 – Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France (b. 1854)
* July 22 –
John Dillinger, American gangster (b. 1903)
* July 23 – María Pilar López de Maturana Ortiz de Zárate, Spanish Roman Catholic religious blessed and blessed (b. 1884)
* July 24 – Hans Hahn (mathematician), Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (b. 1879)
*
July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
** François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
**
Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian statesman and 10th Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)
** Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1888)
* July 26 – Winsor McCay, American comic creator and animator (b. 1869)
* July 27 – Hubert Lyautey, French general and colonial administrator. (b. 1854)
* July 28
** Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
** Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
** Edith Yorke, British actress (b. 1867)
* July 30 – Henry Norris (businessman), Sir Henry Norris, British politician and businessman (b. 1865)
August
*
August 2
Events Pre-1600
*338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
*216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...
–
Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician, 2nd
President of Germany (b. 1847)
* August 7 – Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1860)
*
August 8 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball manager and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1863)
* August 9 – Alfred Steux, Belgian road racing cyclist (b. 1892)
* August 10 – George Hill (director), George 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 23 – Homer Van Meter, American criminal and bank robber (b. 1905)
* August 27 – Linda Agostini, British-born Australian homicide victim (b. 1905)
* August 28 – Edgeworth David, Sir Edgeworth David, British-born Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
September
* September 1 – Fanny Davies, British pianist (b. 1861)
* September 2 – Russ Columbo, American singer and actor (b. 1908)
* September 9 – Roger Fry, British artist (b. 1866)
* September 10 – George Henschel, Sir George Henschel, English musician (b. 1850)
* September 13 – Serafina Astafieva, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1876)
*
September 21 – Genevieve Stebbins, American author and teacher (b. 1857)
*
September 22
Events Pre-1600
* 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
* 1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of th ...
– Charles Makley, American criminal (b. 1889)
*September 27 – Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (b. 1858)
October
* October 5 – Jean Vigo, French film director (b. 1905)
*
October 9
** King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (b. 1888) (assassinated)
** Vlado Chernozemski, Bulgarian revolutionary leader (b. 1897)
** Saint Innocencio of Mary Immaculate, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1887)
* October 12 – Willy Clarkson, British costume designer and wigmaker (b. 1861)
* October 14
** Mikhail Matyushin, Russian painter and composer (b. 1861)
** Arthur Schuster, Sir Arthur Schuster, German-born British physicist (b. 1851)
* October 15 – Raymond Poincaré, 58th
Prime Minister of France
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and 10th President of France during World War I (b. 1860)
* October 17 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
* October 19 – Alexander von Kluck, German general (b. 1846)
* October 22 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American bank robber (shot by law officers) (b. 1904)
* October 24 – Giacomo Montalto, Italian socialist leader and politician (b. 1864)
* October 29 – Lou Tellegen, Dutch actor (b. 1881)
November
* November 2 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist (b. 1845)
*
November 3 – Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, Sir Robert McAlpine, Scottish builder (b. 1847)
* November 8 – James Mark Baldwin, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1861)
* November 16
** Alice Liddell, English inspiration for ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (b. 1852)
** Carl von Linde, German scientist and engineer (b. 1842)
**Georgi Todorov (general), Georgi Todorov, Bulgarian general (b. 1858)
* November 20 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1872)
* November 22 – Harry Steppe, American vaudeville performer (b. 1888)
* November 24 – Jirō Tamon, Japanese general (b. 1878)
*
November 27
Events Pre-1600
*AD 25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
* 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of " Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the ...
– Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
* November 30 – Hélène Boucher, French aviator (b. 1908)
December
* December 1
** Sergey Kirov, Soviet politician (b. 1886)
** Blind Blake, American blues singer (b. 1896)
*December 4 - Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian explorer (b. 1866)
*
December 5 – Oskar von Hutier, German general (b. 1857)
* December 6 – Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
*December 7 – Mary Baker McQuesten, Canadian letter writer and missionary (b. 1849)
* December 9 – Alceste De Ambris, Italian syndicalist (b. 1874)
* December 26 – Wallace Thurman, American writer (b. 1902)
* December 28
** Lowell Sherman, American actor and director (b. 1885)
** Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1881)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Not awarded this year
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Harold Clayton Urey
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Luigi Pirandello
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Arthur Henderson
References
External links
The 1930s Timeline: 1934– from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
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