Today in History for Year 1934

Months in Year 1934: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 332

Jan 1st - Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
Jan 1st - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective
Jan 1st - International Telecommunication Union established
Jan 1st - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
Jan 2nd - 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
Jan 2nd - Bradman scores 253 NSW v Queensland, 204 mins, 29 fours 4 sixes
Jan 4th - 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres
Jan 5th - Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also)
Jan 5th - National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
Jan 7th - "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
Jan 8th - Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
Jan 13th - The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
Jan 15th - 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
Jan 15th - Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
Jan 17th - Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the NY Giants
Jan 17th - Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated
Jan 17th - NY Giants reward MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with $18,000 contract
Jan 18th - Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC
Jan 19th - Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement
Baseball Great Babe Ruth Jan 20th - Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
Jan 22nd - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad
Jan 26th - Bradman scores 128 NSW v Victoria, 96 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes
Jan 26th - Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years
Jan 26th - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
Jan 26th - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
Jan 27th - 27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61)
Jan 27th - French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair)
Jan 27th - VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe
Jan 28th - 1st US ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont)
Jan 30th - 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC
Jan 30th - Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days
Jan 30th - Hitler proclamation on German unified states
Jan 31st - FDR devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
Feb 1st - Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his
Feb 2nd - Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism
Feb 6th - Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500
Feb 6th - Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
Feb 7th - 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
Feb 8th - Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC
Feb 8th - Gaston Doumergue forms new French government
Feb 9th - -14.3°F (-25.7°C), coldest day in New York City
Feb 9th - -51°F (-46°C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
Feb 9th - Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
Feb 10th - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
Feb 10th - Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
Feb 10th - Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in NYC
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin Feb 10th - Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
Feb 10th - Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in NYC
Feb 12th - Export-Import Bank incorporates
Feb 12th - France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
Feb 12th - The Austrian Civil War begins.
Feb 13th - Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party
Feb 13th - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
Feb 14th - NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
Feb 16th - Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
Feb 16th - Commission of Government is sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland.
Feb 17th - 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
Feb 19th - US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 mos
Feb 20th - Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
Feb 21st - Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard
Feb 22nd - "It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
Feb 23rd - Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
Feb 23rd - Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
Mar 1st - Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
Mar 1st - Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 2nd - Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
Mar 3rd - John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
Mar 4th - Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated
Mar 5th - Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Tx)
Mar 6th - Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket," premieres in NYC
Astronomer Edwin Hubble Mar 8th - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
Mar 10th - Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
Mar 10th - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
Mar 10th - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
Mar 11th - Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer
Mar 12th - Acting Pres Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
Mar 12th - Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
Mar 12th - Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin
Mar 15th - US Information Service opens
Mar 16th - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
Mar 17th - Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
Mar 20th - Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany
Mar 20th - Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany
Mar 20th - Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Phila A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers
Mar 21st - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
Mar 21st - Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play
Mar 22nd - 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Ga
Mar 22nd - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
Mar 23rd - US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945
Mar 24th - U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines after a period of 10 years
Mar 25th - 1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284
Mar 26th - Driving tests introduced in Britain
Mar 29th - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
Mar 31st - Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
Apr 1st - Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers
Apr 6th - 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi Apr 7th - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
Apr 10th - Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1
Apr 12th - Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, NH, 231 mph
Apr 12th - The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 709

Jan 3rd - Bryan George Kelly, composer
Jan 3rd - Carla Hills, politician (US Pres Commission on Housing-1982)
Jan 4th - Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia
Jan 5th - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (d. 1971)
Jan 6th - Bobby Lord, Sanford Fla, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
Jan 6th - Harry M. Miller, Australian entrepreneur
Jan 6th - Tassos Papadopoulos, president of the Republic of Cyprus
Jan 7th - Charles Lamont Jenkins, NYC, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1956)
Jan 7th - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
Jan 8th - Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer (5-time winner)
Jan 8th - Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist
Jan 8th - Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (PvdA)
Jan 8th - Roy Kinnear, Lancashire England, actor (TW3, Help!, The 3 Musketeers)
Jan 8th - Gene Freese, American baseball player
Jan 8th - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
Jan 9th - Bart Starr, NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
Jan 9th - Julian B Coco, Antilles, guitarist/tutor (Princess Christina)
Jan 10th - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
Jan 11th - Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Computer scientist
Jan 12th - Burdette Haldorson, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
Jan 12th - Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer
Jan 13th - Rip Taylor, Washington, D.C., American actor and comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show)
Jan 14th - Richard Briers, English actor, (d. 2013)
Jan 16th - Bill Alexander, (Rep-D-AR, 1969- )
Jan 16th - Marilyn Horne, Bradford, Pa, mezzo-soprano
Jan 16th - Richard Wernick, Boston Mass, composer
Jan 17th - Donald Cammell, film director
Jan 17th - Shari Lewis, Bronx NY, ventriloquist/puppeteer (Lamb Chop)
Jan 17th - Sydney Phillip Hodkinson, composer
Jan 20th - Tom Baker, British actor (Angels Die Hard, Vault of Horror)
Jan 21st - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
Jan 22nd - Bill Bixby, SF California, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)
Jan 22nd - Graham Kerr, chef (Galloping Gourmet)
Jan 23rd - Lou Antonio, Oklahoma City, actor (Barney-Snoop Sisters, Makin' It)
Jan 23rd - Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
Jan 24th - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)
Jan 25th - Elizabeth Allen, Jersey City NJ, actress (Laura-Bracken's World)
Jan 26th - Huey "Piano" Smith, pianist (Having a Good Time)
Jan 26th - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
Jan 27th - Donald Spiers, controller (Aircraft MoD)
Jan 27th - Edithe Cresson, premier of France (1991-92)
Jan 27th - Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Barcelona Spain, UNESCO director (1987- )
Jan 27th - Julian Ogilvie Thompson, CEO (De Beers)
Jan 28th - BR White, principal (Regent's Park College-Oxford)
Jan 28th - Bill White, US, 1st baseman (Cards)/announcer (Yanks)/pres (NL)
Jan 28th - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
Jan 29th - Paul Gutama Soegijo, composer
Jan 30th - Tammy Grimes, Lynn Mass, actress (Can't Stop the Music)
Jan 31st - Brian Bolus, cricketer (England opening batsman early 60's)
Jan 31st - James Franciscus, Clayton Mo, actor (Mr Novak, Longstreet, Hunter)
Jan 31st - Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist
Feb 1st - Bob Shane, vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
Feb 3rd - Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor (Winds of War)
Feb 4th - Jouko Sakari Linjama, composer
Baseball Player Hank Aaron (Feb 5th) Feb 5th - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP)
Feb 5th - Don Cherry, Canadian hockey commentator
Feb 6th - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
Feb 7th - Earl King, [Solomon Johnson], rocker
Feb 7th - King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US vocalist (Memphis Soul Stew)
Feb 7th - Piet Bukman, Dutch minister for Development Aid (CDA)
Feb 7th - Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
Feb 7th - Eddie Fenech Adami, President of Malta
Feb 8th - Galina Bystrova, USSR, pentathelete (1957, 58)
Feb 8th - Nick Nolte, Omaha Nebr, actor (Teachers, 48 Hrs, Rich Man Poor Man)
Feb 9th - John A Ziegler Jr, Grosse Pointe Mich, 4th NHL pres (1977-92)
Feb 10th - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
Feb 11th - Francesco Pennisi, composer
Feb 11th - John Surtees, British race car driver
Feb 11th - Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look)
Feb 11th - Patrick Holmes Sellors, ophthalmologist
Feb 11th - Tina Louise, NYC, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas)
Feb 11th - Mel Carnahan, American politician (d. 2000)
Feb 12th - Annette Crosbie, British(?) actress
Basketball Player Bill Russell (Feb 12th) Feb 12th - Bill Russell, Monroe La, NBAer (Boston Celtics, Oly-gold-56)
Feb 12th - Anne Krueger, American economist
Feb 13th - George Segal, actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane)
Feb 14th - Florence Henderson, Dale Ind, actress/singer (Carol-Brady Bunch)
Feb 14th - Marlene Matthews, Australia, sprinter (Oly-2 bronze-1956)
Feb 14th - Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
Feb 15th - Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor (PASCAL)
Feb 15th - Graham Kennedy, Australian actor (d. 2005)
Feb 16th - Austin "Ted" Taylor, US gospel/R&B-singer (Be Ever Wonderful)
Feb 16th - Marlene Bauer Hagge, Eureka SD, LPGA golfer (1950 Woman Athlete)
Feb 17th - Alan Bates, Allestree Engld, actor (Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman)
Feb 17th - Barry Humphries, Australia TV host (Dame Edna Everage)
Feb 17th - Buddy Ryan, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Phoenix Cardinals)
Feb 18th - [Clyde] Skip Battin, LA California, rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn), (d. 2003)
Feb 18th - Aldo Ceccato, Milan Italy, conductor (Detroit Symph Orch 1973-77)
Feb 19th - David Hugh Jones, Poole Dorset England, director (Betrayal)
Feb 19th - Julian Belfrage, theatre Agent
Feb 19th - Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
Feb 20th - Bobby Unser, auto racer (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500)
Feb 20th - Lady Wharton
Feb 21st - Rue McClanahan, Healdton Oklahoma, actress (Maude, Golden Girls)
Feb 22nd - George "Sparky" Anderson, SD, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
Feb 22nd - Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
Feb 23rd - Lady Digby
Feb 24th - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
Feb 24th - Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
Feb 24th - Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 8 of 8

Jan 7th - Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
Feb 10th - British born actor "North by Northwest" Cary Grant (30) weds "City Lights" actress Virginia Cherrill (26)
Feb 19th - Bob & Dolores Hope marry
Jul 29th - "Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (24) weds screenwriter Arthur Sheekman (33)
Sep 29th - Rondo Hatton weds Mabel Housh
Nov 13th - Actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (23) weds "All Quiet on the Western Front" actor Lew Ayres (25)
Nov 17th - Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
Nov 29th - Prince George, Duke of Kent weds princess Marina of Greece and Denmark

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 124

Jan 1st - Jakob Wassermann, writer, dies at 60
Jan 6th - Herbert Chapman , Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town (b. 1878)
Jan 8th - Alexandre Stavisky, French swindler, dies
Jan 8th - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
Jan 10th - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24
Jan 12th - Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)
Jan 13th - Jean-Baptiste Marchand, soldier/explorer (Sudan), dies at 70
Jan 15th - Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
Jan 15th - Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
Jan 16th - Annie Patterson, composer, dies at 65
Jan 19th - Armand Parent, composer, dies at 70
Jan 29th - Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65
Jan 30th - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
Feb 2nd - Ernesto Nazareth, composer, dies at 70
Feb 16th - Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzjubin], Russ poet/journalist, dies at 38
Feb 17th - Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34), dies at 58
Feb 17th - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)
Feb 22nd - Willem Kes, violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 78
Feb 23rd - Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard
Feb 23rd - Edward William Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at 76
Feb 25th - Daniel Protheroe, composer, dies at 67
Feb 25th - John J McGraw, manager (NY Giants), dies at 60
Mar 3rd - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer, dies at 58
Mar 13th - Fritz Cortolezis, composer, dies at 56
Mar 19th - Anthony J Block, lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at 66
Mar 20th - A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen (& regent), dies at 76
Mar 21st - Franz Schreker, composer, dies at 55
Mar 21st - Lilyan Tashman, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 34
Mar 22nd - Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
Mar 26th - Grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51
Mar 27th - Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
Mar 29th - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)
Mar 31st - Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at 88
Apr 4th - Braulio Dueno Colon, composer, dies at 80
Apr 5th - Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer, dies at 74
Apr 7th - William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston
Apr 14th - Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies
Apr 14th - Karl Dane, dies at 57
Apr 30th - William Henry Welch, dies at 75
May 1st - Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35
May 7th - Edward Naylor, composer, dies at 67
May 11th - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
May 14th - Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
American Outlaw Bonnie Parker (May 23rd) May 23rd - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush at 23
May 23rd - Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
May 25th - Gustav Theodore Holst, English composer (Ode to Death), dies at 59
May 27th - Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam street hawker, dies
May 29th - Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65
May 30th - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
Jun 6th - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
Jun 10th - Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72
Jun 11th - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
Jun 15th - Alfred Bruneau, composer, dies at 77
Jun 18th - Francisco Lacerda, composer, dies at 65
Jun 21st - [James] Thorne Smith, US, sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout)
Jun 27th - Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56
Jun 30th - Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46
Jun 30th - Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42
Bank Robber Clyde Barrow (May 23rd) Jun 30th - Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered
Jun 30th - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52
Jun 30th - Night of the Long Knives mur
Jun 30th - Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1862)
Jun 30th - Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
Jul 3rd - Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies
Jul 4th - Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies
Jul 4th - Marie Curie, French-Polish Physicist/Chemist, dies at 66
Jul 6th - Warden Uncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish landlord/writer, dies at 73
Jul 7th - Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies
Jul 8th - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
Jul 9th - Otakar Zich, composer, dies at 55
Jul 12th - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
Jul 15th - Jules Renkin, Belgian PM (1931-32), dies
Jul 22nd - John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33
Discoverer of Radium Marie Curie (Jul 4th) Jul 25th - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis
Jul 25th - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
Jul 25th - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
Jul 27th - Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79
Jul 28th - Louis Tancred, cricketer (fourteen Tests batting for South Africa 1905-14), dies
Jul 28th - Marie Dressler, actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie), dies at 64
Jul 29th - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
Aug 1st - Piotr Maszynski, composer, dies at 79
Aug 2nd - Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86
Aug 3rd - Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928)
Aug 5th - Neville Quinn, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa), dies at 26
Aug 8th - Wilbert Robinson, baseball manager (Bkln Dodgers), dies
Aug 10th - John Kane, Scotish/US miner/painter, dies at 73
Aug 12th - Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78
Aug 18th - Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 61
Aug 30th - Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (That tolle Komtess), dies at 79
Aug 31st - Johan H A Schaper, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies
Sep 2nd - Ruggiero de Rudolpho "Russ" Columbo, US singer/violist, dies at 26
Sep 2nd - Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
Sep 2nd - James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black (b. 1860)
Sep 10th - George Henschel, composer, dies at 84
Sep 12th - Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies
Sep 15th - David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61
Sep 17th - Edmund van der Straeten, composer, dies at 79
Sep 18th - Marie Shotwell, actress (Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 54
Sep 24th - Edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69
Oct 5th - Jean Vigo, French filmer, dies