Hitler and Mussolini in Venice in 1934
In the year 1934, Alcatraz becomes a prison (Jan 1, and remained so until 1963), Fuji Photo Film is founded (Jan 20), the outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed by police in Louisiana (May 23), Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for the first time, in Venice (Jun 14), Night of the Long Knifes in Germany increases Nazi power (Jun 30), Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany (Aug 2), the Soviet Union joins the League of Nations (Sep 19), Persia becomes Iran (Dec 27) - and all these fine people were born:
1934-xxxx Antigone Costanda* model/Miss World 1954/designer - Alexandria, Egypt ****
1934-xxxx Paul Czysz* Air Force engineer/ufologist - St. Louis, MO USA (2013/)
1934-xxxx Tim Giago* (b Nanwica Kciji) Lakota journalist/publisher - Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD USA (2022/88)
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1934-0104 Rudolf Schuster* politician/P of Slovakia - Košice, Czechoslovakia ****
1934-0104 Zurab Tsereteli* painter/ sculptor/architect - Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet Union (2025/91)
1934-0106 Peter Miller* photographer/ writer/publisher - Manhattan, NY USA (2013/79)
1934-0107 Charles Jenkins Sr.* athlete (sprinter/OG) - New York City, NY USA ****
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1934-0111 Peter Badcoe* (b Badcock) military officer - Malvern, South Australia (1967/33)
1934-0111 Sven Wollter* actor - Göteborg, Sweden (2020/86)
1934-0118 Raymond Briggs* illustrator/ cartoonist/author (The Snowman) - Wimbledon, Surrey, England (2022/88)
1934-0120 Tom Baker* actor (Doctor Who)/writer - Liverpool, Merseyside, England ****
1934-0122 Tunku Abdul Aziz* Malaysian corporate figure/activist/politician - Alor Setar, Kedah, British Malaya (2023/89)
1934-0122 Bill Bixby* actor/ director/producer - San Francisco, CA USA (1993/59)
1934-0124 Galina Pisarenko* opera singer - Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union (2022/88)
1934-0126 Bob Uecker* baseball player/actor/broadcaster - Milwaukee, WI USA (2025/90)
1934-0131 James Franciscus* actor - Clayton, MO USA (1991/57)
1934-0131 Stephen H. Sachs* lawyer/ politician - Baltimore, MD USA (2022/87)
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1934-0205 Hank Aaron* baseball player - Mobile, AL USA (2021/86)
1934-0205 Don Cherry* hockey player/coach/commentator - Kingston, ON Canada ****
1934-0206 Roger Becker* tennis player - Croydon, England (2017/83)
1934-0210
1934-0211 Tina Louise* actress (Gilligan’s Island) - New York City, NY USA ****
1934-0211 Manuel Noriega* politician/military dictator - Panama City, Panama (2017/83)
1934-0211 John Surtees* racing driver/WG - Tatsfield, Surrey, England (2017/83)
1934-0212 Bill Russell* basketbal player/11 NBA championships - Monroe, LA USA (2022/88)
1934-0213 George Segal* actor/ musician - Great Neck, NY USA (2021/87)
1934-0214 Neil Davis* war photographer - Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (1985/51)
1934-0214 May-Louise Flodin* Miss World 1952/hotel manager - Eskilstuna, Sweden (2011/76)
1934-0217 Alan Bates* actor - Derby, Derbyshire, England (2003/69)
1934-0218 Paco Rabanne* (b Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo) Spanish-French fashion designer - Pasaia, Spain (2023/88)
1934-0220
1934-0221 Rue McClanahan* actress/ comedian (The Golden Girls) - Healdton, OK USA (2010/76)
1934-0222
1934-0224 Renata Scotto* opera singer/voice teacher - Savona, Kingdom of Italy (2023/89)
1934-0225 Hasjim Djalal* Indonesian diplomat - Ampek Angkek, Dutch East Indies (2025/90)
1934-0225 Judith Stamm* lawyer/ politician - Schaffhausen, Switzerland (2022/88)
1934-0226 Stig Engström* Swedish graphic designer/suspected of the murder of Olof Palme/to Sweden at age 12 - Bombay, British India (2000/66)
1934-0228
1934-0301 Joan Hackett* actress/married to Richard Mulligan - East Harlem, NY USA (1983/49)
1934-0303 Gia Scala* (b Josephine Scoglio) actress/to U.S. at age 16 - Liverpool, England (1972/38)
1934-0305
1934-0309 Yuri Gagarin* cosmonaut/the first human to journey into outer space (1961) - Klushino, Russia, Soviet Union (1968/34)
1934-0309 Joyce Van Patten* actress/ sister of Dick Van Patten - New York City, NY USA ****
1934-0310 Gergely Kulcsár* athlete (javelin/OS)/coach - Nagyhalász, Kingdom of Hungary (2020/86)
1934-0314 Eugene Cernan* astronaut/11Moon1972 - Chicago, IL USA (2017/82)
1934-0320
1934-0321
1934-0325 Jytte Abildstrøm* actress/ mother of Peter Mygind - Copenhagen, Denmark (2025/90)
1934-0325 Gloria Steinem* feminist/journalist/ activist - Toledo, OH USA ****
1934-0326 Alan Arkin* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA (2023/89)
1934-0327 Jutta Limbach* (b Ryneck) jurist/politician - Berlin, Nazi Germany (2016/82)
1934-0327 Arthur Mitchell* ballet dancer/choreographer - Harlem, New York City, NY USA (2018/84)
1934-0331 Richard Chamberlain* actor - Beverly Hills, CA USA ****
1934-0402 Carl Kasell* radio personality/NPR - Goldsboro, NC (2018/84)
1934-0403 Jane Goodall* primatologist/ anthropologist - London, England ****
1934-0407 Jerold Ottley* music director/choral conductor - Murray, UT USA (2021/86)
1934-0408 Vartan Gregorian* Iranian-American academic/educator/ historian - Tabriz, Persia (2021/87)
1934-0410
1934-0411 Tom Cornell* journalist/ peace activist - Brdigeport, CT USA (2022/88)
1934-0411 Russell Targ* physicist/remote viewer - Chicago, IL USA ****
1934-0413 Siegfried Matthus* composer/ conductor/festival founder - Mallenuppen, Prussia, Nazi Germany (2021/87)
1934-0418 James Drury* actor (Bonanza) - New York, NY USA (2020/85)
1934-0424 Shirley MacLaine* (b Shirley MacLean Beaty) actress/dancer/author - Richmond, VA USA ****
1934-0430 Annikki Kivi** (b Hakoniemi) jeweller’s saleslady - Ilmajoki, Finland (2022/87)
1934-0430 Anssi Kukkonen* awarded sports reporter - Jääski, Finland
1934-0430 Mario Segale* businessman/real estate developer/Super Mario named after him - Seattle, WA USA (2018/84)
1934-0503 Bob McCallister* golf player - Toledo, OH USA (2021/86)
1934-0506 Larry Gogan* radio broadcaster - Dublin, Ireland (2020/85)
1934-0507 Ronald DeWolf* “Nibs” Hubbard/son of L. Ron Hubbard - Encinitas, CA USA (1991/57)
1934-0508 Anastasiya Kobzarenko* writer/librarian/director - Raiozero, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2022/88)
1934-0512 Sixtus Lanner* farmer/ engineer/politician - Wildschönau, Tyrol, Austria (2022/88)
1934-0512 Suthep Wongkamhaeng* สุเทพ วงศ์กำแหง singer - Sung Noen, Thailand (2020/85)
1934-0515
1934-0516 Ronnie Govender* playwright/director/activist known for his community theatre efforts - Durban, Natal, Union of South Africa (2021/86)
1934-0516 Leela “Sumangala” Nambudiripad* writer of children’s literature - Palakkad, Kerala, British India (2021/86)
1934-0519 Jim Lehrer* journalist/ novelist/playwright - Wichita, KS USA (2020/85)
1934-0520 Gerald Ridsdale* laicised Catholic priest/sex offender - St Arnaud, VIC Australia (2025/90)
1934-0521 Karin Nyman* (b Lindgren) translator/ writer/ daughter of Astrid Lindgren - Stockholm, Sweden ****
1934-0523 Robert Moog* engineer/inventor of synthesizer - New York, NY USA (2005/71)
1934-0525 Kenji Yonekura* 米倉 健司 boxer - Nōgata, Fukuoka, Empire of Japan (2023/88)
1934-0527 Harlan Ellison* profilic writer/editor - Cleveland, OH USA (2018/84)
1934-0528 Yvonne Dionne* sculptor/ librarian/oldest of the Dionne quintuplets - Corbeil, ON Canada (2001/67)
1934-0528 Annette Dionne* mother of three - Corbeil, ON Canada
1934-0528 Cécile Dionne* mother of five - Corbeil, ON Canada
1934-0528 Émilie Dionne* nun - Corbeil, ON Canada (1954/20)
1934-0528 Marie Dionne* mother of two/youngest of the Dionne quintuplets - Callander, ON Canada (1970/35)
1934-0528 Betty Shabazz* (b Sanders) educator/ civil rights advocate/wife of Malcolm X - Pinehurst, GA or Detroit, MI USA (1997/63)
1934-0529 Francis “Grandma Lee” Strong* (b Myers) stand-up comedian - Oklaholma City, OK USA (2020/85)
1934-0530 Alexey Leonov* cosmonaut/first human to conduct a spacewalk/ writer - Listvyanka, Russia, Soviet Union (2019/85)
1934-0601 Pat Boone* singer/ actor - Jacksonville, FL USA ****
1934-0604 Daphne Sheldrick* (b Jenkins) author/ conservationist/of British descent - Kenya (2018/83)
1934-0609 Jackie Wilson* singer/ performer - Detroit, MI USA (1984/49)
1934-0610
1934-0611 Prince Henrik* of Denmark - Talence, Gironde, France (2018/83)
1934-0616 Eileen Atkins* actress - London, England ****
1934-0616 William F. Sharpe* economist/N - Boston, MA USA ****
1934-0620 Cornel Țăranu* composer/ conductor/cultural manager - Cluj, Kingdom of Romania (2023/88)
1934-0629 Susan George* social scientist/activist - Akron, OH USA ****
1934-0629 Erkki K.** - Helsinki, Finland (2008/74)
1934-0630
1934-0701 Jamie Farr* (b Farah) actor (M*A*S*H) - Toledo, OH USA ****
1934-0701 Sydney Pollack* film director - Lafayette, IN USA (2008/73)
1934-0702 Tom Springfield* (b Dionysius O’Brien) musician/songwriter/record producer/brother of Dusty Springfield - Hampstead, London, England (2022/88)
1934-0705
1934-0710 Barry Sussman* editor/ author/public opinion analyst - Brooklyn, NY USA (2022/87)
1934-0713 Dennis Crosby* occasional actor - Los Angeles County, CA USA (1991/56)
1934-0713 Wole Soyinka* author/poet/ playwright/N - Abeokuta, Nigeria Protectorate ****
1934-0714
1934-0715 Harrison Birtwistle* composer (The Triumph of Time) - Accrington, Lancashire, England (2022/87)
1934-0715 Risto Jarva* film director - Helsinki, Finland (1977/43)
1934-0720
1934-0722 Louise Fletcher* actress - Birmingham, AL USA (2022/88)
1934-0728 Bud Luckey* animator/voice actor - Billings, MT USA (2018/83)
1934-0729 Stanton T. Friedman* nuclear physicist/ ufologist - Elizabeth, NJ USA (2019/84)
1934-0802 Valery Bykovsky* cosmonaut - Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union (2019/84)
1934-0805 Gay Byrne* radio and television presenter and host - Dublin, Ireland (2019/85)
1934-0811 Viktor Tolmachev* engineer/airplane designer- Soviet Union (2018/83)
1934-0815 Bobby Byrd* singer/ producer/talent scout - Toccoa, GA USA (2007/73)
1934-0816 Angela Buxton* tennis player - Liverpool, England (2020/85)
1934-0820 Armi Kuusela* Finnish-American model/beauty queen/charity worker - Muhos, Finland ****
1934-0821 Joel Daly* news anchor - Great Falls, MT USA (2020/86)
1934-0822 Ayla Erduran* violinist - Istanbul, Turkey (2025/90)
1934-0822 Ralph Mellanby* sportscaster /television producer (Hockey Night in Canada) - Hamilton, ON Canada (2022/87)
1934-0822 Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.* US army general - Trenton, NJ USA (2012/78)
1934-0824 Kenny Baker* actor (R2-D2)/musician - Birmingham, England (2016/81)
1934-0825 Zilda Arns* pediatrician/ aid worker - Forquilhinha, Santa Catarina, Brazil (2010/75)
1934-0831
1934-0901 Johnny Calkins* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA (2003/69)
1934-0902 Chuck McCann* actor/ puppeteer/television host - Brooklyn, NY USA (2018/83)
1934-0907 Mary Bauermeister* artist - Frankfurt am Main, Nazi Germany (2023/88)
1934-0911 Kallistos* (b Timothy Ware) bishop/ theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church - Bath, Somerset, England (2022/87)
1934-0914 Kate Millett* feminist writer/artist/activist - St. Paul, MN USA (2017/82)
1934-0916 George Chakiris* actor - Norwood, OH USA ****
1934-0917 Maureen Connolly* tennis player - San Diego, CA USA (1969/34)
1934-0919 Brian Epstein* manager of the Beatles - Liverpool, England (1967/32)
1934-0919 Austin Mitchell* journalist/politician/MP - Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (2021/86)
1934-0920 Don Luce* aid worker/ anti-war activist - East Calais, VT USA (2022/87)
1934-0921 Leonard Cohen* poet/singer-songwriter/novelist - Montreal, QC Canada (2016/82)
1934-0921 David J. Thouless* physicist/N - Bearsden, Scotland (2019/84)
1934-0922 Aarre Elo* journalist/television personality/father of Maria Jungner - Helsinki, Finland (2022/87)
1934-0925
1934-0927 Wilford Brimley* actor/singer - Salt Lake City, UT USA (2020/85)
1934-0927 Claude Jarman Jr.* actor/ businessman/executive director - Nashville, TN USA (2025/90)
1934-0928 Brigitte Bardot* actress/model/ animal rights activist - Paris, France ****
1934-0929 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi* Hungarian-American psychologist/ recognised and named the psychological concept of flow - Fiume, Kingdom of Italy (2021/87)
1934-1001 Ángela Abós Ballarín* writer/ politician - Benasque, Aragon, Spain (2022/87)
1934-1001 Neil Castles* race car driver - Marion, NC USA (2022/87)
1934-1005
1934-1009 Abdullah Ibrahim* (b Adolph Johannes Brand) pianist/composer - Cape Town, South Africa ****
1934-1013 Nana Mouskouri* singer - Chania, Crete, Greece ****
1934-1015 John Coleman* meteorologist/co-founder of the Weather Channel - Alpine, TX USA (2018/83)
1934-1016
1934-1018 Berit Lindholm* (b Jonsson) opera singer - Stockholm, Sweden (2023/88)
1934-1019 Eva-Maria Hagen* (b Buchholz) actress/singer - Költschen, Prussia, Nazi Germany (2022/87)
1934-1020 Maureen Cleave* British journalist - Delhi, British India (2021/87)
1934-1023 Peter Fazer* Olympic sailor/grandson of Karl Fazer/CEO of Fazer - Helsinki, Finland (1998/64)
1934-1024 Beege S.** homemaker/care assistant - Georgetown, Guyana (2019/85)
1934-1025
1934-1026 Ferenc Rados* pianist - Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (2025/90)
1934-1027 David Barclay* billionaire businessman - Hammersmith, London, England (2021/86)
1934-1027 Frederick Barclay* billionaire businessman/David’s twin brother - Hammersmith, London, England
1934-1030
1934-1102 Birutė Kalėdienė* (b Zalogaitytė) athlete (javelin/OB)/coach/masters athele - Baltrušiai, Lithuania, Soviet Union ****
1934-1105 Rashid Byramji* horse trainer - Bombay, British India (2022/87)
1934-1109 Ingvar Carlsson* politician - Borås, Sweden ****
1934-1109 Carl Sagan* astronomer/ science popularizer - Brooklyn, NY USA (1996/62)
1934-1110
1934-1111 Seth Cardew* studio potter/pottery teacher/musician - Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England (2016/81)
1934-1111 Pertti Palo* actor/ son of Tauno Palo/m to Ritva Valkama - Helsinki, Finland (2010/75)
1934-1111 Willi Tokarev* Russian-American singer-songwriter - Chernyshov, Soviet Union (2019/84)
1934-1112 Charles Manson* criminal cult leader - Cincinnati, OH USA (2017/83)
1934-1112 Jeong Su-il* Chinese-Korean historian - Yanbian, Jilin, Manchukuo (2025/90)
1934-1121 Jack Kehoe* actor - New York City, NY USA (2020/85)
1934-1123 Michael Wayne* actor/producer/son of John Wayne - Los Angeles, CA USA (2003/68)
1934-1124 Sven-Bertil Taube* singer/actor - Stockholm, Sweden (2022/87)
1934-1127 Matti Rinne* journalist/non-fiction writer - Lammi, Finland (2020/85)
1934-1128 Jaakko Pakkasvirta* actor/film director/m to Anneli Sauli - Simpele, Finland (2018/83)
1934-1129 Günter Wewel* opera singer/television presenter - Arnsberg, Nazi Germany (2023/88)
1934-1130
1934-1201
1934-1204 Victor French* actor/director - Santa Barbara, CA USA (1989/54)
1934-1205 Ingvar Hirdwall* actor - Stockholm, Sweden (2023/88)
1934-1209 Judi Dench* actress - York, North Yorkshire England ****
1934-1210 Howard Martin Temin* virologist/N - Philadelphia, PA USA (1994/59)
1934-1215 Hans-Peter Lehmann* opera and artistic director - Kassel, Nazi Germany (2025/90)
1934-1220 Søren Mygind* /father of Peter Mygind - Copenhagen, Denmark (2020/85)
1934-1221 Tarmo Oja* astronomer/active in Sweden - Tallinn, Estonia (2024/89)
1934-1222 David Pearson* race car driver - Spartanburg, SC USA (2018/83)
1934-1225 Bob Martinez* politician/ Governor of Florida - Tampa, FL USA ****
1934-1227 Larisa Latynina* (b Diriy) artistic gymnast - Kherson, Ukraina, Soviet Union ****
1934-1228 Maggie Smith* actress - Ilford, Essex, England (2024/89)
1934-1229 Ed Flanders* actor - Minneapolis, MN USA (1995/60)
1934-1230 Lily Safra* Brazilian-Monegasque socialite/billionaire - Porto Alegre, Brazil (2022/87)
1934-1230 Del Shannon* country musician/ singer/songwriter - Grand Rapids, MI USA (1990/55)
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