About the day » Friday May 18, 1934Calender converter

• Harmke Kruize, Nederland († 2018)
• Harro Adolf Schramm, Hamburg, Deutschland († 2010)
• Han Van Wezel, Indonesia († 1992)
• Gerritje Brouwer († 1990)
• Gloria L Choates, Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Henri Spreeuwers, Opglabbeek, Provincie Limburg, België († 2012)
• Hilda Hager, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2005)
• Catharina Maria Dijkman Dulkes, Haarlem, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1982)
• Anny Hendrix, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland
• Emile Mennens, Sittard,, Limburg, Nederland († 2004)

• Albert Zoer (17), Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antje Nammens Schat (73), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Alida Pronk (31), Scheveningen
• Arthur Emanuel Fichardt (62), Bloemfontein (SA)
• catharina wilhelmina Falter (0), den haag
• Aribo van Ortenburg (26), Kiel, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland
• Andries Boogaard (82), Grijpskerke, Walcheren, NL
• Anna Maria Margaretha Hoff (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aalzen Postma (24), Drachten
• Aribo van Sponheim Graaf van Ortenburg (26), Kiel, Sleeswijk-Holstein

• 1931 » Don Martin, American cartoonist († 2000)
• 1931 » Kalju Pitksaar, Estonian chess player († 1995)
• 1931 » Robert Morse, American actor
• 1933 » Bernadette Chirac, French politician, First Lady of France
• 1933 » Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer († 1985)
• 1933 » H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian farmer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
• 1934 » Dwayne Hickman, American actor and director
• 1936 » Leon Ashley, American singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1936 » Michael Sandle, English sculptor and academic
• 1936 » Türker İnanoğlu, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)
• 1947 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
• 1956 » Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1958 » Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Wilhelmus
12. Gerardus
13. Antonius
14. Jacob
15. Johan
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Margaretha
13. Grietje
14. Helena
15. Geertruida
16. Aaltje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
• January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
• February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
• May 19 » Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
• August 19 » The German referendum of 1934 approves Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer.
• October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
• November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.

The temperature on May 18, 1934 was between 0.4 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.