Curated playlist
1934 deaths
- Charles R. MacauleyCartoonist Charles R. Macauley won a Pulitzer in 1930, and he also made films backing Woodrow Wilson.
- Edward ElgarA 1901 London concert crowd demanded a double encore for Elgar's first Pomp and Circumstance march.
- Lev VygotskyLev Vygotsky's work was banned in the Soviet Union after he died at 37. His ideas on learning still spread worldwide.
- Marie CurieMarie Curie's cookbooks are still highly radioactive. They are sealed in lead-lined boxes.
- John DillingerJohn Dillinger stepped out of the Biograph Theater in Chicago on the evening of the 22nd of July 1934. He had just watched Manhattan Melodrama, a crime drama starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and William Powell. Within minutes he was dead.…
- Alice Clark (historian)Historian Alice Clark argued that capitalism pushed women backward.
- Andrei BelyIn Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg, a young man is assigned to kill his own father. The target is a government official.
- Paul von HindenburgPaul von Hindenburg left retirement in 1914 and destroyed a Russian army. The battle became known as Tannenberg.
- Bonnie and ClydeBonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, together known as Bonnie and Clyde, died on the 23rd of May 1934 on Louisiana Highway 154 in Bienville Parish. Six lawmen crouched in the roadside bushes as a car came toward them at high speed. They fired…
- Fritz HaberFritz Haber, the German chemist born in 1868, devised a method that now underpins roughly a third of the world's annual food production. The method turns nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas into ammonia, the raw material for both fertilizers and…
- John Charles DollmanJohn Charles Dollman painted Lawrence Oates walking out of a tent in Antarctica to die. It was commissioned in 1913.
- Santiago Ramón y CajalAt eleven, Santiago Ramón y Cajal was jailed for destroying a neighbor's gate with a homemade cannon.