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

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

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

* The Lemon Drop Kid ( 1934, Lee Tracy ) — remade in 1951 with Bob Hope ( and I Love Lucy co-star William Frawley as a racetrack tout ), it introduced the Christmas song " Silver Bells ".

The field-effect transistor was first patented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925 and by Oskar Heil in 1934, but practical semi-conducting devices ( the JFET ) were only developed much later after the transistor effect was observed and explained by the team of William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947.

Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy " for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia.

Henry Ford's siblings include Margaret Ford ( 1867 – 1938 ); Jane Ford ( c. 1868 – 1945 ); William Ford ( 1871 – 1917 ) and Robert Ford ( 1873 – 1934 ).

* 1934 – William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, 5th State President of the Orange Free State ( b. 1844 )

* 1934 – William Mathias, British composer ( d. 1992 )

* William Morris Davis ( 1850 – 1934 ), father of American geography, founder of Geomorphology and developer of the geographical cycle theory.

* October 5 – Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State ( d. 1934 )

* February 12 – William Morris Davis, American geographer ( d. 1934 )

James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of Eleanor Gertrude ( Strom ) ( July 18, 1870 – January 10, 1958 ) and John William Thurmond ( May 1, 1862 – June 17, 1934 ), a lawyer.

In Cleopatra ( 1934 ), she played the title role opposite Warren William.

The novel was adapted for the stage in 1934 by Sidney Howard and filmed in 1936 by William Wyler.

Then came The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) as Norma Shearer's character's malevolent father ( although Laughton was only three years older than Shearer ); Les Misérables ( 1935 ) as Inspector Javert ; one of his most famous screen roles in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) as Captain William Bligh, co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian ; and Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 ) as the very English butler transported to early 1900s America.

* The Case of the Howling Dog ( 1934 ), with Warren William as Perry Mason and Helen Trenholme as Della Street

William Morris Davis ( February 12, 1850-February 5, 1934 ) was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the " father of American geography ".

* William Benjamin Smith ( 1850 – 1934 ), professor of mathematics at Tulane University

William Cameron Townsend co-founded Wycliffe in 1934, and as the organization grew, he saw the need for airplanes and radio to reach remote areas around the world, to provide safe access to language groups.

The city was founded in 1934, and named for resident William Crouch.

The Hamilton County Historical Society placed a marker on the site of the William Conner farm in 1927 and Eli Lilly, purchased William Conner's farm in 1934 and began restoring the farm.

* Edward William Nelson ( 1855 – 1934 ), U. S. American naturalist

When " Light breaks where no sun shines " appeared in The Listener in 1934, it caught the attention of three senior figures in literary London, T. S. Eliot, Geoffrey Grigson and Stephen Spender.

Between 1922 and 1934, Armstrong found himself embroiled in a patent war, between himself, RCA, and Westinghouse on one side, and De Forest and AT & T on the other.

* Gould, R. T., The Loch Ness Monster and Others, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1934 and paperback, Lyle Stuart, 1976, ISBN 0-8065-0555-9

Between 1921 and 1934, the ICC approved 271 of the 274 purchase requests of AT & T.

With the creation of the Federal Communications Commission in 1934, the government regulated the rates charged by AT & T.

The Communications Act of 1934 is argued by some to have created monopolies, such as the case of AT & T case.

FCC recognized AT & T as a " natural monopoly " during the 1930s in the Communications Act of 1934.

Frye became president of T & WA in 1934 and Richter became Vice President.

In 1934 T. C. Mitchell and the Marfa State Bank acquired the old structure and donated it to the county as a historic site.

Having broken with the Old Regulars and T. Semmes Walmsley in the fall of 1933, Long inserted himself into the New Orleans mayoral election of 1934 and began a dramatic public feud with the city's government that lasted for two years.

They are Junius Edgar West, Delegate ( 1910 – 1912 ) and Senator ( 1912 – 1918 ); Thomas H. Howerton, Delegate ( 1912 – 1914 ); William O. Rogers, Senator ( 1924 – 1934 ); Garland Gray, Senator ( 1942 – 1945 and 1948 – 1971 ); and Elmon T. Gray, Senator ( 1971 – 1992 ).

* The Mighty Barnum ( 1934 ; as P. T.

While the exact dates of Cheng's study with Yang are not clear, one of Yang's top students, scholar Chen Weiming wrote that Cheng studied six years with Yang .. Cheng, according to Yang's son Zhenji, ghostwrote Yang's second book Essence and Applications of Taijiquan or The Substance and Application of T ' ai Chi Ch ' uan ( Taijiquan tiyong quanshu, 1934 ), for which Cheng also wrote a preface and most likely arranged for the calligraphic dedications.

When the Raleigh Bicycle Company decided to discontinue the manufacture of their 3-wheeled vehicles in 1934, their Works Manager Mr T. L. Williams and a colleague Mr E. S. Thompson, felt that the days of lightweight three wheelers were far from over.

In 1934, D. T. Suzuki published an edition based on the Mogao Cave text, but incorporating corrections from the Tsungpao edition.

Though the Bell System divestiture of 1984 dissolved the monopoly that inspired the term ( though SBC, one of the Baby Bells created then, ultimately bought AT & T and assumed its name ), universal service remained official U. S. telecommunications policy under the 1934 Act, even as the FCC began to abandon rate regulation.

* Huffard, G. T. My Poetry Book Winston 1934

Carnap ( 1934 ) was the first to prove that for any formula ψ in a theory T satisfying certain conditions, there exists a formula φ such that φ ↔ ψ (< u >#( φ )</ u >) is provable in T. Carnap's work was phrased in alternate language, as the concept of computable functions was not yet developed in 1934.

" On 7 December 1934, in a letter to Ezra Pound, T. E. Lawrence expresses sadness at the death of A. R. Orage.

* William T. Cooper ( born 1934 ), Australian natural history illustrator

Although the translation was not published at that date, the letter that Aurel A. Mureşianu edited later in the Gazette of books, no 1, in 1934 is still considered „ the first publishing attempt “ of T. Maiorescu and it was republished under the same title.