1934 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1934 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Undated 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition

[edit] Events

• 3 April - Percy Shaw patents the cat's eye road-safety device.
• 6 April - Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
• 19 April - Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
• 4–11 August - 1934 British Empire Games held in London.
• 22 September - Gresford Disaster: A gas explosion took place at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north-east Wales which led to the death of 266 miners and rescuers. This was one of the worst tragedies in Welsh mining history.

[edit] Undated

• Arthur Henderson wins the Nobel Peace Prize.^[1]
• The British Graham Land Expedition sets out to explore Graham Land in Antarctica.

[edit] Births

• 14 January - Richard Briers, actor
• 18 January - Raymond Briggs, writer and illustrator
• 20 January - Tom Baker, actor
• 11 February - Mary Quant, fashion designer
• 11 February - John Surtees, race car driver
• 17 February - Alan Bates, actor (d. 2003)
• 2 April - Brian Glover, actor and wrestler (d. 1997)
• 3 April - Jane Goodall, zoologist
• 7 April - Ian Richardson, actor (d. 2007)
• 3 May - Henry Cooper, boxer
• 9 May - Alan Bennett, actor and writer
• 14 May - Siân Phillips, actress
• 15 May - George Roper, comedian (d. 2003)
• 24 May - Barry Rose, choir director and organist
• 26 May - Michael Rawson, track and field athlete
• 21 June - Kenneth Matthews, race walker
• 26 June - Jeremy Wolfenden, journalist (d. 1965)
• 1 July - Jean Marsh, actress
• 5 July - Philip Madoc, actor
• 8 July - Marty Feldman, writer, comedian and actor (d. 1982)
• 14 July - John Tyndall, politician (d. 2005)
• 15 July - Harrison Birtwistle, composer
• 19 August - Ronald Jones, track and field athlete
• 4 September - Clive Granger, economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 8 September - Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
• 19 September - Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles (d. 1967)
• 24 September - Tommy Anderson, footballer
• 9 December - Judi Dench, actress
• 28 December - Maggie Smith, actress

[edit] Deaths

• 6 January - Herbert Chapman, football manager (b. 1878)
• 23 January - Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, politician and jurist (b. 1850)
• 23 February - Edward Elgar, composer (b. 1857)
• 11 April - John Collier, writer and painer (b. 1850)
• 25 May - Gustav Holst, composer (b. 1874)
• 10 June - Frederick Delius, composer (b. 1862)
• 10 September - George Henschel, musician (b. 1850)
• 16 November - Alice Liddell, the schoolgirl who was the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (b. 1852)

[edit] References