Decades: 1880s - 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s
Years: 1929 - 1930 - 1931 - 1932 - 1933 - 1934 - 1935 - 1936 - 1937 - 1938 - 1939
Events
- January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison
- January 26 - The Apollo Theatre opens in Harlem, New York City.
- February 12 - The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
- February 23 - Leopold III becomes King of Belgium
- April 1 - Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
- August 2 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
- December 29 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
- Discovery of the sonoluminescence effect.
- First Flash Gordon comic strip published
- First Jay Gordon record
- 1934 in film
- January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finally purchased the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum for $40,000.00.
- It Happened One Night
- Cleopatra
- The Thin Man
- 1934 in literature
- 1934 in music
- 1934 in sports
- Italy wins Football World Cup on home ground.
- British Empire Games held in London, United Kingdom.
- December 29 - The first college basketball game is played, between Notre Dame University and New York University at Madison Square Garden in New York City
- 1934 in television
- December - Philo Farnsworth demonstrates a non mechanical television system
- January 8 - Bart Starr, American football star
- January 11 - Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada
- January 22 - Bill Bixby, television actor (+ 1993)
- February 5 - Hank Aaron, Baseball Hall of Famer
- February 11 - Francesco Pennisi, composer.
- February 11 - John Surtees, British race car driver.
- February 11 - Patrick Holmes Sellors, ophthalmologist.
- February 11 - Mary Quant, fashion designer.
- February 11 - Tina Louise, actress.
- February 12 - Bill Russell, basketball star
- February 13 - George Segal, actor
- February 14 - Florence Henderson, actress
- February 17 - Alan Bates, actor
- February 17 - Barry Humphries (aka "Dame Edna Everage"), actor, comedian
- February 18 - Paco Rabanne, fashion designer
- February 20 - Bobby Unser, automobile racer
- February 24 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (+ 2000)
- February 27 - Ralph Nader, consumer activist
- March 4 - Janez Strnad, Slovene physicist.
- March 9 - Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut, first human in space (+ 1968)
- March 11 - Sam Donaldson, reporter
- March 16 - Ray Hnatyshyn, former Canadian Governor-General
- March 20 - Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco, California
- March 22 - Orrin Hatch, politician (Senator from Utah)
- March 26 - Alan Arkin, actor
- March 31 - Shirley Jones, singer, actress
- April 2 - Brian Glover, British actor, wrestler (+ 1997)
- April 2 - Paul Joseph Cohen, mathematician.
- April 3 - Jane Goodall, zoologist
- April 26 - Alan Akrin, actor
- May 30 - Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut and first person to walk in space
- June 6 - Albert II of Belgium.
- July 13 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
- July 15 - Harrison Birtwistle, composer
- August 2 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
- August 18 - Roberto Clemente, Baseball Hall of Famer.
- September 20 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress.
- November 9 - Carl Sagan, US astronomer.
- December 3- Viktor Gorbatko, cosmonaut
- December 18 - Boris Volynov, cosmonaut
- December 27 - Larissa Latynina, USSR gymnast.
- Harlan Ellison, US science-fiction writer.
- February 17 - Albert I of Belgium.
- February 23 - Edward Elgar, composer
- July 4 - Marie Curie
- July 28 - Marie Dressler, Academy Award winning actress (+ 1934)
- August 2 - Paul von Hindenburg.
- Physics - not awarded.
- Chemistry - Harold Clayton Urey.
- Medicine - George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy.
- Literature - Luigi Pirandello.
- Peace - Arthur Henderson.