Events in the year 1934 in the Netherlands.
Incumbents
Events
- 1 September – The Netherlands education minister, Henri Marchant, accepts the "Kollewijn" proposals for standardizing the spelling of the Dutch language.[1]
- unknown date – The Netherlands Antilles national football team (as Curaçao) plays its first international match, against Suriname
Films
- Bleeke Bet, directed by Alex Benno and Richard Oswald
- Op Hoop van Zegen, directed by Alex Benno and based on a play by Herman Heijermans
Births
- 5 January – Eddy Pieters Graafland, football goalkeeper (d. 2020)
- 8 January – Piet Dankert, politician (d. 2003)
- 16 August – Ed van Thijn, politician
- 28 October – Martin van der Borgh, cyclist (d. 2018)
- 30 October – Frans Brüggen, musician (d. 2014)
- 19 December – Rudi Carrell, singer and entertainer (d. 2006)
Deaths
- 10 January – Marinus van der Lubbe, communist convicted of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (b. 1909)[2]
- 20 March – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, former queen consort and regent (b. 1858)
- 12 August – Hendrik Petrus Berlage, architect (b. 1856)[3]
- 29 October – Lou Tellegen, actor (b. 1881)
- 20 November – Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1872)
References
- ^ Roy Temple House (1936). Books Abroad. University of Oklahoma. p. 228.
- ^ World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism (1969). The Reichstag Fire Trial: The Second Brown Book of the Hitler Terror. H. Fertig. p. 360.
- ^ Heijden, Marien van der (5 February 2003). "Berlage, Hendrik Petrus". Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland. International Institute of Social History. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
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