* 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 ).

* 2012 – Yvonne B. Miller, American politician ( b. 1934 )

* 1934 – Yvonne B. Miller, American politician ( d. 2012 )

Roebuck " Pops " Staples ( 1914 – 2000 ), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha ( b. 1934 ), Pervis ( b. 1935 ), Yvonne ( b. 1936 ), and Mavis ( b. 1939 ).

Their only child, a daughter named Yvonne Marie Nicolle Calment ( 1898 – 1934 ), produced a grandson, Frédéric Billiot ( 1926 – 1963 ), in 1926.

Yvonne died at age 35 in 1934 from pneumonia, after which Calment raised Frédéric herself.

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

He appeared in more than sixty films, eight of which were with Yvonne Printemps, with whom he lived since 1934.

Yvonne Rainer ( born November 24, 1934, San Francisco ) is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental.

* 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne ; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

* 1934 – Annette Dionne, Canadian quintuplet

* 1934 – Cecile Dionne, Canadian quintuplet

* 1934 – Emilie Dionne, Canadian quintuplet ( d. 1954 )

* 1934 – Marie Dionne, Canadian quintuplet ( d. 1970 )

The Dionne Quintuplets ( born May 28, 1934 ) are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy.

* August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets ( b. 1934 )

* February 27-Marie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets ( b. 1934 )

* June 23-Yvonne Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets ( born 1934 )

On 28 May 1934 he assisted in the multiple births of the Dionne family, that saw the survival of the mother and all the children.

Pierre Berton, in The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama ( 1978 ), offers this example of a Little Audrey joke as was in fashion around the time of the Dionne Quintuplets birth in 1934:

* The Dionne Quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets ( born May 28, 1934 ) who rose to international fame at the height of the Great Depression.