1934 in the United States

Events from the year 1934 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

* President: Franklin D. Roosevelt ( D- New York)
* Vice President: John Nance Garner ( D-Texas)
* Chief Justice: Charles Evans Hughes ( New York)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Thomas Rainey ( D-Illinois) (until August 19)
* Senate Majority Leader: Joseph Taylor Robinson ( D-Arkansas)
* Congress: 73rd

Events

January

* January 26 – The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
* January 27 – Albert Einstein visits the White House.
* January 30 – Gold Reserve Act: All gold held in the Federal Reserve to be surrendered to the Department of the Treasury; immediately following, President Roosevelt raises the statutory gold price from $20.67 per ounce to $35.

February

* February 22 – Frank Capra's ''It Happened One Night'', starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, 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 Academy Awards – Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Gable and Colbert receive their only Oscars for this film.

March

* March 3 – John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol.
* March 12 – The 6.5 Hansel Valley earthquake affects a sparsely populated area of northern Utah with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), causing light damage and two deaths.
* March 13 – John Dillinger and his gang rob the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa.
* March 16 – The 6th Academy Awards, hosted by Will Rogers, are presented at Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, with Frank Lloyd's ''Cavalcade'' winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also receives the most awards with three, including Best Director for Lloyd, and is among three films (the others being Frank Borzage's '' A Farewell to Arms'' and Frank Capra's ''Lady for a Day'') to each receive the most nominations with four. It is the final awards season until 2021 to accommodate two calendar years.
* March 24 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act comes into effect, establishing the Philippine Commonwealth which allows greater self-government of the Philippines, and scheduling full independence from the U.S. for 1944. Sugar imports are reduced and immigration is limited to 50 Filipino people per year.

April

* April 1 – Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker kill 2 young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
* April 12
**U.S. publication of the novel ''Tender Is the Night'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
**The world's highest ever recorded surface wind speed of was recorded on the summit of Mount Washington (New Hampshire).
* April 22 – John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of an FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin.

May

* May 9 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: A general strike is engaged in San Francisco.
* 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 – The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger.
* May 16 – Teamsters in Minneapolis begin a strike that lasts until a settlement proposal is accepted on August 21.
* May 23
** A team of police officers, led by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, ambush bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow near their hide-out in Black Lake, Louisiana, killing them both.
** The "Battle of Toledo" begins during the Auto-Lite strike in Toledo, Ohio, continuing until May 27.
* May 30 – Everglades National Park is established.

June

* June 4 – USS ''Ranger'' is commissioned.
* 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 15 – Great Smoky Mountains National Park is established.
* June 18 – expands the crime of making false statements to remove the requirement of an intent to defraud and expands the coverage to "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government.

July

* July 1
**The world-famous Brookfield Zoo opens in Brookfield, Illinois.
**The Hays Office censorship code for motion pictures goes into full effect.
* July 5 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: Police in San Francisco open fire on a crowd of striking longshoremen, killing two.
* 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 22 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

August

* August 15 – The United States occupation of Haiti ends as the last Marines depart.
* August 19 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
* August 25 – Anti-union vigilantes seize the town of McGuffey, Ohio, during the Hardin County onion pickers strike.

September

* September 8 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner '' Morro Castle'' kills 134 people.
* September 29–October – Folk song collector John Lomax makes the first recordings of "Rock Island Line" at prison farms in Arkansas.

October

* October 9 – The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, to win their third World Series Title.
* October 22 – "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio.

November

* November 5 – Kelayres massacre: An election-eve rally by Democrats in the coal-mining village of Kelayres, Pennsylvania is fired on as it passes the home of a leading local Republican family, resulting in 5 deaths.
* November 20–21 – Business Plot: An alleged coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt is investigated by the McCormack–Dickstein Committee and is reported by the '' Philadelphia Record''.
* November 21 – Cole Porter's musical ''Anything Goes'', starring Ethel Merman, premieres in New York City.
* November 26 – Universal Pictures releases the first film version of Fannie Hurst's novel, '' Imitation of Life'', starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers. It gives Beavers, usually featured in small roles as a maid, her best screen role, and features the largest supporting role played by a black person in a Hollywood film up until then. Its storyline is extremely daring for a 1934 film – part of it revolves around a young mulatto girl rejecting her mother and trying to "pass for white". It is the first Hollywood film to seriously deal with this subject. The 1936 film version of ''Show Boat'', also from Universal, will deal with a similar storyline.
* November 27 – A running gun battle between FBI agents and bank robber Baby Face Nelson results in the death of one FBI agent and the mortal wounding of special agent Samuel P. Cowley, who was still able to mortally wound Nelson.

December

* December 26 – An American Airlines aircraft crashes in the Adirondack Mountains.
* December 29 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

Undated

* National Archives established.
* National Union for Social Justice (organization) founded.

Ongoing

* Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
* U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
* Dust Bowl (1930–1936)
* New Deal (1933–1938)

Sport

*April 10 - Chicago Black Hawks win their First Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 3 games to 1. The deciding game was played at Chicago Stadium

Births

January

* January 1
** George D. Behrakis, Greek-American philanthropist
** Alan Berg, Jewish talk show host (d. 1984)
* January 7
** Jack D. Forbes, Native American writer, scholar, and political activist (d. 2011)
** Charles Jenkins Sr., American sprinter
** Joseph Naso, American serial killer
* January 9 – Bart Starr, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
* January 10 – Leonard Boswell, American politician (d. 2018)
* January 16 – Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano
* January 17 – Cedar Walton, American jazz pianist (d. 2013)
* January 19 – Phil Rollins, American basketball player
* January 20 – Dave Hull, American former radio personality
* January 21 – Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (d. 2017)
* January 22 – Bill Bixby, American actor and television director (d. 1993)
* January 23
** Lou Antonio, American actor, director
** Carmine Caridi, American actor (d. 2019)
* January 24 – Stanley Falkow, American microbiologist (d. 2018)
* January 26 – Bob Uecker, American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian and actor
* January 30 – Tammy Grimes, American actress (d. 2016)
* January 31 – Stephen H. Sachs, American lawyer and politician (d. 2022)

February

* February 1 – Bob Shane, American folk singer and guitarist (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2020)
* February 5 – Hank Aaron, African-American baseball player (d. 2021)
* February 7
** Frank Clarke, American football player, sportscaster (d. 2018)
** Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
* February 9 – John Ziegler Jr., American lawyer, ice hockey executive (d. 2018)
* February 11
** Tina Louise, American actress ('' Gilligan's Island'')
** Mel Carnahan, American politician (d. 2000)
* February 12
** Anne Osborn Krueger, American economist
** Bill Russell, African-American basketball player and coach
* February 13 – George Segal, American actor (d. 2021)
* February 14 – Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (d. 2016)
* February 15 – William Newsom, American judge (d. 2018)
* February 16
** Harold "Hal" Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (d. 2005)
** Herbert "Herbie" Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (d. 2006)
* February 18 – Ronald F. Marryott, American admiral (d. 2005)
* February 19 – Michael Tree, American violist (d. 2018)
* 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 (d. 2016)
* February 26 – Joe Holup, American basketball player (d. 1998)
* February 27
** Ralph Nader, American consumer activist, presidential candidate
** Van Williams, American actor (d. 2016)

March

* March 1 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
* March 4
** John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
** Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
** Barbara McNair, African-American singer, actress (d. 2007)
* March 5 – Bob Skoronski, American football player (d. 2018)
* March 6
** Milton Diamond, American sexologist and professor of anatomy and reproductive biology
** Red Simpson, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
* March 7
** Gray Morrow, American comic book artist, book illustrator (d. 2001)
** Willard Scott, American television weather reporter (''The Today Show'')
* March 9
** Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer and teacher (d. 1999)
** Joyce Van Patten, American actress
* March 11 – Sam Donaldson, American reporter
* March 13 – Barry Hughart, American author and screenwriter (d. 2019)
* March 14
**Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (d. 2017)
**Paul Rader, General of The Salvation Army
* March 17 – Frederick T. Mackenzie, American sedimentary, global biogeochemist
* March 18 – Charley Pride, African-American baseball player and country musician (d. 2020)
* March 20 – Willie Brown, African-American Mayor of San Francisco
* March 22 – Orrin Hatch, American politician
* March 25
** Johnny Burnette, American rockabilly singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1964)
** Gloria Steinem, American feminist
* March 26 – Alan Arkin, American actor, director, and screenwriter
* March 27 – Arthur Mitchell, African-American ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2018)
* March 28 – Lester R. Brown, American environmentalist
* March 31
** Richard Chamberlain, American actor
** Shirley Jones, American singer, actress and first wife of Jack Cassidy
** John D. Loudermilk, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
** Orion Samuelson, American television personality

April

* April 1
** Jim Ed Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
** Don Hastings, American actor
** Rod Kanehl, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
* April 2
** Paul Avery, American journalist (d. 2000)
** Paul Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)
** Carl Kasell, American radio personality (d. 2018)
* April 7
** David T. Kennedy, American attorney, politician (d. 2014)
** Jerold Ottley, American music director and conductor (d. 2021)
* April 13 – Nancy Kissinger, American philanthropist
* April 18
**James Drury, American actor (d. 2020)
** Pedro Tenorio, Northern Mariana Islander politician (d. 2018)
* April 20 – Robert G. Wilmers, American billionaire banker (d. 2017)
* April 24 – Shirley MacLaine (Beaty), American actress and activist
* April 25
** Johnny McCarthy, American basketball player
** Denny Miller, American actor (''Wagon Train'') (d. 2014)
* April 29
** Norman Edge, American jazz musician (d. 2018)
** Otis Rush, African-American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 2018)

May

* May 3 – Frankie Valli, American musician ('' The Four Seasons'')
* May 5
** Ace Cannon, American saxophonist (d. 2018)
** Johnnie Taylor, American singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
* May 6 – Richard Shelby, American politician
* May 9 – Nathan Dean, American soldier and politician (d. 2013)
* May 10 – Gary Owens, American disc jockey, voice actor and announcer (''Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'') (d. 2015)
* May 11
** Jim Jeffords, American politician (d. 2014)
** Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* May 12 – John Amirante, American singer (d. 2018)
* May 13 – Leon Wagner, American baseball player (d. 2004)
* May 18 – Dwayne Hickman, American actor
* May 19 – Jim Lehrer, American television journalist (d. 2020)
* May 22 – Peter Nero, American pianist
* May 23 – Robert Moog, American inventor of the synthesizer (d. 2005)
* May 24
** Charlie Dick, American record promoter (d. 2015)
** William R. Ratchford, American politician (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* May 27
** Harlan Ellison, American writer (d. 2018)
** Franklin A. Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2021)
* May 28
** Chuck Missler, American author (d. 2018)
** Betty Shabazz, Betty X, African-American educator, civil rights advocate (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)

June

* June 1
** Pat Boone, American actor, pop singer
** Peter Masterson, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 2018)
** Ken McElroy, American criminal (d. 1981 in the United States, 1981)
* June 3
** Jim Gentile, American baseball player and manager
** Rolland D. McCune, American minister and theologian (d. 2019)
* June 5 – Bill Moyers, American journalist
* June 6 – Roy Innis, American activist and politician (d. 2017)
* June 7 – Wynn Stewart, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985 in the United States, 1985)
* June 9 – Jackie Wilson, African-American singer (d. 1984)
* June 13 – Marianne Means, née Hansen, American political journalist (d. 2017)
* June 16
** Bill Cobbs, African-American actor
** William F. Sharpe, American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate
* June 19 – Herbert Kleber, American psychiatrist (d. 2018)
* June 22
** Ray Mantilla, American jazz percussionist (d. 2020)
** Russ Snyder, American Major League Baseball player
** Nancy R. Stocksdale, American politician
* June 23
** Marino Casem, American football coach, athletic administrator (d. 2020)
** Jesse White (politician), Jesse White, American athlete, educator and politician
* June 25 – Jack Hayford, American evangelist, author, and minister
* June 26
** Dave Grusin, American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist
** John V. Tunney, American politician (d. 2018)
* June 27 – Ed Hobaugh, American baseball player
* June 28
** Carl Levin, American politician
** Bette Greene, American author
** Michael Artin, American mathematician
* June 29
** Bob Burrow, American basketball player (d. 2019)
** Susan George (political scientist), Susan George, American and French political, social scientist, activist and writer
** Chuck Schaden, American television presenter
** Duane Wilson, American baseball player
* June 30 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)

July

* July 1
** Jamie Farr, American actor (''M*A*S*H'')
** Sydney Pollack, American film director, and actor (d. 2008 in the United States, 2008)
* July 2 – Tom Springfield, American musician
* July 6 – LaFarr Stuart, American computer music pioneer, computer engineer
* July 8
** Rodney Stark, American sociologist
** Edward D. DiPrete, American politician
* July 9 – Michael Graves, American architect (d. 2015)
* July 10 – Jerry Nelson, puppeteer with The Muppets (''Sesame Street'', ''Fraggle Rock'') (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* July 11
** Jim Ridlon, American football safety
** Woody Sauldsberry, American basketball player (d. 2007)
** Dick Treleaven, American politician
* July 12 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (d. 2013)
* July 13 – Phillip Crosby, American actor, singer (d. 2004)
* July 14 – Lee Elder, American professional golfer
* July 16
** Bill Gunter, American politician
** Katherine D. Ortega, 38th Treasurer of the United States
** George Perles, American football player and coach (d. 2020)
* July 18 – Joan Evans (actress), Joan Evans, American actress
* July 19 – Bobby Bradford, American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer
* July 21 – Edolphus Towns, American politician
* July 22 – Louise Fletcher, American actress (''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'')
* July 27 – Ajahn Sumedho, American Theravada Buddhist representative in the West
* July 28
** Jacques d'Amboise (dancer), Jacques d'Amboise, American ballet dancer (d. 2021)
** Bud Luckey, American voice actor, Pixar animator (d. 2018)
* July 30 – Bud Selig, American Major League Baseball commissioner

August

* August 4 – Dallas Green (baseball), Dallas Green, American baseball player, manager, executive (d. 2017)
* August 5
** Wendell Berry, American novelist, essayist, poet
** Vern Gosdin, American country music singer (d. 2009 in the United States, 2009)
** Cammie King, American child actor (d. 2010)
* August 10 – James Tenney, American experimental composer (d. 2006)
* August 16
** Donnie Dunagan, American child actor and U.S. Marine Corps major
** Ketty Lester, American singer and actress
* August 18
** Vincent Bugliosi, American prosecutor, author (d. 2015)
** Rafer Johnson, American decathlete and actor (d. 2020)
* August 19
** David Durenberger, American politician
** Renée Richards, American transsexual physician, tennis player
* August 22 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army general (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* August 26 – Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (d. 2020)
* August 27 – Dave Piontek, American basketball player (d. 2004)
* August 29 – David Pryor, American politician

September

* September 2
** Chuck McCann, American actor (d. 2018)
** Grady Nutt, American humorist (d. 1982 in the United States, 1982)
* September 7 – Little Milton, American musician (d. 2005)
* September 10
** Charles Kuralt, American journalist (''CBS Sunday Morning'') (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* September 10 – Mr. Wrestling II, American professional wrestler (d. 2020)
* September 14 – Kate Millett, American sculptor and feminist activist (d. 2017)
* September 15 - Tomie dePaola, children's author and illustrator (d. 2020)
* September 16 – Elgin Baylor, American basketball player, executive (d. 2021)
* September 17 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969 in the United States, 1969)
* September 19 – Lloyd Haynes, American actor and television writer (d. 1987 in the United States, 1987)
* September 20
** Jeff Morris (actor), Jeff Morris, American actor (d. 2004)
** Tony Alamo (evangelist), Tony Alamo, American religious cult leader, convicted criminal
* September 21 – Ron Sobieszczyk, American basketball player (d. 2009 in the United States, 2009)
* September 22 – Lute Olson, American basketball coach
* September 27
** Beverly Armstrong, American female professional baseball player
** Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (d. 2020)

October

* October 1 – Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (d. 2004)
* October 2 – Earl Wilson (baseball), Earl Wilson, African-American baseball player (d. 2005)
* October 4
** Sam Huff, American football player (d. 2021)
** Gwen Margolis, politician (d. 2020)
* October 6 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist, writer (d. 2015)
* October 7
** Amiri Baraka, African-American poet, playwright and activist (d. 2014)
** Willie Naulls, American basketball player (d. 2018)
* October 15 – John Coleman (meteorologist), John Coleman, American meteorologist (d. 2018)
* October 16 – Robert M. O'Neil, American educator (d. 2018)
* October 18 – Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
* October 20
** Michael Dunn (actor), Michael Dunn, a.k.a. Gary Neil Miller, dwarf American actor and singer (d. 1973 in the United States, 1973)
** Eddie Harris, African-American jazz musician (d. 1996)
** Charles Liebman, American-born Israeli political scientist and author on Jewish life and Israel (d. 2003 in Israel)
* October 26 – Hot Rod Hundley, American basketball player (d. 2015)

November

* November 3 – Bob Hopkins, American basketball player (d. 2015)
* November 6 – Barton Myers, American/Canadian architect
* November 9 – Carl Sagan, American cosmologist (d. 1996)
* November 10 – Joanna Moore, American actress (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and criminal (d. 2017)
* November 13 – Garry Marshall, American film producer, director and actor (d. 2016)
* November 17 – Jim Inhofe, American politician
* November 21 – Laurence Luckinbill, American actor
* November 23 – Michael Wayne, American film producer and actor (d. 2003)
* November 27
** Curtis S. Person Jr., American politician (d. 2020)
** Gilbert Strang, American mathematician
* November 28 – Margaret Farrow, American politician (d. 2022)
* November 29 – Willie Morris, American writer (d. 1999)
* November 30 – Steve Hamilton, American basketball and baseball player (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)

December

* December 1 – Billy Paul, African-American singer (d. 2016)
* December 2 – Andre Rodgers, American baseball player (d. 2004)
* December 4 – Victor French, American actor, director (d. 1989 in the United States, 1989)
* December 5 – Joan Didion, American novelist (d. 2021)
* December 6 – Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler (d. 2015)
* December 7 – Joey Powers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
* December 9
** Henry McNamara, American politician (d. 2018)
** Junior Wells, American harmonica player (d. 1998)
* December 10 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (d. 1994 in the United States, 1994)
* December 13 – Richard D. Zanuck, American producer (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* December 16 – Pete Schrum, American actor (d. 2003)
* December 19 – Al Kaline, American baseball player (d. 2020)
* December 22 – David Pearson (racing driver), David Pearson, American race car driver (d. 2018)
* December 23 – Dan Swartz, American basketball player (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* December 25 – Bob Martinez, American politician, 40th Governor of Florida
* December 26 – Mari Hulman George, American motorsport executive (d. 2018)
* December 29 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995 in the United States, 1995)
* December 30
** John N. Bahcall, John Norris Bahcall, American astrophysicist (d. 2005)
** Joseph P. Hoar, U.S. Marine commander
** Willie Hobbs Moore, African-American engineer (d. 1994 in the United States, 1994)
** Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990 in the United States, 1990)
** Russ Tamblyn, American dancer, singer and actor

Deaths

* February 25
** Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, botanist (born 1858 in the United States, 1858)
** John McGraw, baseball manager (born 1873 in the United States, 1873)
* March 21 – Lilyan Tashman, vaudeville, Broadway and film actress (born 1896 in the United States, 1896)
* April 27 – Joe Vila, sportswriter (born 1866 in the United States, 1866)
* May 17 – Cass Gilbert, architect (born 1859 in the United States, 1859)
* May 23
** Clyde Barrow, outlaw (shot) (born 1909 in the United States, 1909)
** Bonnie Parker, outlaw (shot) (born 1910 in the United States, 1910)
* May 24 – Brand Whitlock, journalist and politician (born 1869 in the United States, 1869)
* May 31 – Lew Cody, film actor (born 1884 in the United States, 1884)
* June 8 – Dorothy Dell, film actress (automobile accident) (born 1915 in the United States, 1915)
* June 20 – Andrew Jackson Zilker, philanthropist (born 1858 in the United States, 1858)
* June 21 – Thorne Smith, humorist and fantasy author (heart attack) (born 1892 in the United States, 1892)
* June 24 – Charles S. Thomas, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1913 to 1921 (born 1849 in the United States, 1849)
* July 15 – Louis F. Gottschalk, composer (born 1864 in the United States, 1869)
* July 18 – Sy Sanborn, sportswriter (born 1866 in the United States, 1866)
* July 21 – Julian Hawthorne, journalist and novelist (born 1846 in the United States, 1846)
* July 22 – John Dillinger, criminal (shot) (born 1903 in the United States, 1903)
* July 26 – Winsor McCay, comic creator and animator (born 1871 in the United States, 1871)
* August 8 – Wilbert Robinson, baseball manager (born 1863 in the United States, 1863)
* August 10 – George Hill (director), George W. Hill, film director (born 1895 in the United States, 1895)
* August 13 – Mary Hunter Austin, travel writer (born 1868 in the United States, 1868)
* August 14 – Raymond Hood, architect (born 1881 in the United States, 1881)
* September 2
** Russ Columbo, singer and actor (shot) (born 1908 in the United States, 1908)
** Alcide Nunez, jazz clarinetist (born 1884 in the United States, 1884)
* October 6 – James Taliaferro, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1899 to 1911 (born 1847 in the United States, 1847)
* October 20 – Josephine White Bates, Canadian-born American author (born 1862 in Canada, 1862)
* October 22 – Pretty Boy Floyd, bank robber (shot) (born 1904 in the United States, 1904)
* November 10 – Ion Farris, politician, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives (born 1878 in the United States, 1878)
* November 22 – Harry Steppe, vaudeville performer (born 1888 in the United States, 1888)
* November 27 – Baby Face Nelson, gangster (shot) (born 1908 in the United States, 1908)
* December 10 – Theobald Smith, bacteriologist (born 1859 in the United States, 1859)
* December 26 – Wallace Thurman, African American novelist (TB) (born 1902 in the United States, 1902)
* December 28 – Lowell Sherman, film actor and director (born 1885 in the United States, 1885)
* December 29 – Elnora Monroe Babcock, suffragist (born 1852 in the United States, 1852)
* December 31 – Cornelia Clapp, marine biologist (born 1849 in the United States, 1859)

See also

* List of American films of 1934
* Timeline of United States history (1930–1949)

References

External links

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