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

* 1934 – Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler ( d. 1997 )

* Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington ( 1849 – 1934 ), British soldier

He was promoted to full colonel in 1934 He attended and was then recommended to become an instructor at the Indian Army Staff College ( now the Pakistan Army Staff College ) in Quetta, British India.

One of these was the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ) where a Muslim army loyal to the Kuomintang massacred 4, 500 Uyghurs, and killed several British at the British consulate in Kashgar.

He arrived in British Guiana in August 1934, and returned to the United States in October 1955.

Sir James Jeans addressing the British Association in 1934.

* 1934 – Sir C. A. R. Hoare, British computer scientist

* 1934 – Alfred Rawlinson, British soldier and polo player ( b. 1867 )

* 1850 – John Collier, British writer and painter ( d. 1934 )

* 1867 – Alfred Rawlinson, British soldier and sportsman ( d. 1934 )

In the years 1931 to 1934 Kenyon worked simultaneously at Samaria, then under the administration of the British Mandate for Palestine, with John Crowfoot and Grace Crowfoot.

* 1934 – John Noakes, British television presenter

* 2010 – Tony Richards, British footballer ( b. 1934 )

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

* 1892 – Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist ( d. 1934 )

* 1934 – Peter Ashdown, British racing driver

The most famous British phrenologist of the 20th century was the London psychiatrist Bernard Hollander ( 1864 – 1934 ).

A 1934 treaty granted more extensive British protection.

The Air Ministry asked British scientists in 1934 to investigate the possibility of propagating electromagnetic energy and the likely effect.

Excavations from 1922 to 1934 were funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania and led by the archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.

* Arnold J. Toynbee, British ; A Study of History ( 1934 – 61 ); see especially A Study of History.

* September 20 – Roy Kinnear, British actor ( b. 1934 )

From 1902 until its abrogation in 1934, the Platt Amendment authorized the US to use military force to preserve Cuba's independence.

With help from foreign military advisers, Chiang's Fifth Campaign finally surrounded the Chinese Red Army in 1934.

In 1934 the Japanese government issued a military specification for the shin guntō ( new army sword ), the first version of which was the Type 94 Katana, and many machine-and hand-crafted swords used in World War II conformed to this and later shin guntō specifications.

Imports of Soviet goods to Germany fell to 223 million Reichsmarks in 1934 as the more isolationist Stalinist regime asserted power and the abandonment of post – World War I Treaty of Versailles military controls decreased Germany's reliance on Soviet imports.

This heavyweight of Irish origins and army boxing champion from 1934 to 1937 was sentenced in 1938 by a military court to 14 years of forced labour after hitting an officer.

The company was founded in Taganrog in the 1934 as OKB-49 by Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev ( born February 13, 1903 ), and since that time has designed and produced more than 20 different models of aircraft for civilian and military purposes, as well as customized models.

General Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid () ( December 15, 1934 – August 1, 1996 ) was a controversial Somali military leader, often described as a warlord.

In the coup on 19 May 1934, the Zveno military organisation established a dictatorship and abolished the political parties in Bulgaria.

Although Adolf Hitler discussed with Ferdinand Porsche the possibility of military application of the Volkswagen as early as April 1934, it was not until January 1938, that high-ranking Third Reich army officials formally approached Porsche about designing an inexpensive, light-weight military transport vehicle that could be operated reliably both on-and off-road in even the most extreme conditions, suggesting that the Beetle could provide the basis for such a vehicle.

In 1934 The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association in Great Britain began operation, although their first permanent trainer was a Russian military officer, Captain Nikolai Liakhoff, who moved to the UK in 1933.

On 11 April 1934, Hitler met with German military leaders on the ship Deutschland.

* Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 ( 1934 ), general military history ; British perspective

Rudolf Maister ( Vojanov ) ( 29 March 1874 – 26 July 1934 ) was a Slovene military officer, poet and political activist.

Major Moody earned his military wings in 1930 and flew U. S. airmail as a member of the United States Army Air Corps in 1934.

* On 7 December 1934 at least two SABENA aircraft were destroyed in a hangar fire at Evere as a result of a crash of a military Fairey Fox biplane.

In 1934, he commanded a military zone of the controversial Army Air Corps Mail Operation, with a temporary headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, but his pilots performed well and his own reputation was untouched by the fiasco.

* Georgi Zinovyev ( 1887 – 1934 ), a Soviet military leader

Things changed considerably, however, when President Salamanca was suddenly deposed by the Bolivian military on November 27, 1934, as a result of long-festering differences with the High Command regarding the conduct of the war.

After his military service in Stryj, Galicia, Gierek went to Belgium in 1934, where he joined the Communist Party of Belgium while working in the coal mines of Waterschei.

In 1934 Negros Oriental became a corregimiento, a separate military district.

Jonas Malheiro Savimbi ( August 3, 1934 – February 22, 2002 ) was an Angolan political and military leader.

* Meir Har-Zion ( born 1934 ), military commando

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan, OBE, FRSL ( 15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012 ) was a British military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist.