* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )

* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

* 1934 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor ( d. 1996 )

* 1934 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka ( d. 2010 )

* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist and photographer ( d. 2008 )

* 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

* 1934 – The U. S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6, 000 strikers and picketers.

* 1934 – Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer

* 1934 – Don McKenney, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1934 – Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter and composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1934 – Piers Anthony, English writer

* 1934 – Chris Bonington, English mountaineer

* 1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby player

* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )

England then achieved their first Ashes win at Lord's since 1934 to go 1 – 0 up.

* 1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

* 1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, ( d. 1934 )

* 1934 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet astronaut

* 2012 – Ekrem Bora, Turkish actor ( b. 1934 )

* 2012 – Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican politician, President of Mexico ( b. 1934 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Ralph Rumney ( 5 June 1934 – 6 March 2002 ) was an English artist, born in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Ralph Nader ( b. 1934 ), noted political activist and consumer advocate, was born in Winchester.

He met Ruth Emerson, a great-grandniece of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1933, and they married on 24 August 1934.

* Ralph Rumney ( 1934 – 2002 )

In 1934, Ralph Ojemann investigated the reading skills of adults, the factors which most directly affect reading ease, and the causes of each level of difficulty.

The revival was part of a wider national movement in the period around the First World War, and contributed to the creation of a " national " or " pastoral " school of classical music which incorporated traditional songs or motifs, as can be seen in the compositions of Percy Grainger ( 1882 – 1961 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 1872 – 1951 ), George Butterworth ( 1885 – 1916 ), Gustav Holst ( 1874 – 1934 ) and Frederick Delius ( 1862 – 1934 ).

In 1934 the anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald started to examine the area.

Currie remained at Harvard until 1934 as a lecturer and assistant to, successively, Ralph Hawtrey, John H. Williams, and Joseph Schumpeter.

Ralph E. Griswold ( 19 May 1934, Modesto, CA – 4 October 2006, Tucson, AZ ) was a computer scientist known for his research into high-level programming languages and symbolic computation.

His sister Audrey and brother Ralph were also notable athletes, Audrey winning a silver in 4x100 m relay at the 1936 Olympics and Ralph won the British AAA championships title in hurdles in 1934.

* Ralph Griswold ( 1934 – 2006 ), U. S. computer scientist

There was Ralph Evinrude, who had succeeded to the company presidency after his father's death in 1934.

* Sir Ralph Anstruther, 6th Baronet 29 March 1923 – 30 September 1934

The library's Special Collections include the papers of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1934 to 1938 ; David O. McKay, ninth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ; Leonidas Ralph Mecham, Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts from 1985 to 2006 ; and Wallace Stegner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972.

* 1934 J B Priestley joined the management of the theatre, producing his own play Eden End with Ralph Richardson.

* 1934 – William Calhoun, American wrestler ( d. 1989 )

* 1934 – Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer ( The Famous Flames ) ( d. 2007 )

* 1934 – Donnie Dunagan, American actor

* 1934 – Ketty Lester, American singer and actress

* 1934 – David Durenberger, American politician

* 1934 – Renée Richards, American physician

* 1934 – Barbara Eden, American actress and singer

* 1934 – Sonny Jurgensen, American football player

* 1934 – Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician ( d. 2007 )

* 1934 – Carl Kasell, American newscaster

* 1934 – James Drury, American actor

* 1934 – George Shirley, American tenor

* 1934 – Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and theorist

* 1934 – Don Kirshner, American composer ( d. 2011 )

* 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American music producer ( d. 1989 )

* 1934 – Dallas Green, American baseball player

* 1934 – Shirley MacLaine, American actor and author

* 1873 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1934 )

* 2004 – Victor Argo, American actor ( b. 1934 )

The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934 in eight North American newspapers — including the New York Mirror — and was an immediate success.

Wilfred Bailey Everett “ Bill ” Bixby III ( January 22, 1934 − November 21, 1993 ) was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist.

In 1934, Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to manage and operate, were established between 1936 and 1943 under Theodore von Kármán.

The Cahill Center for Astronomy and AstrophysicsCaltech was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934 and remains a research university with " very high " research activity, primarily in STEM fields.

In 1934, the philosopher Paul Weiss called Peirce " the most original and versatile of American philosophers and America's greatest logician ".