About the day » Sunday August 5, 1934Calender converter

• Aafke de Vries, Fochteloo, Ooststellingwerf († 2023)
• Evert Elias Hijmering, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Frederic Lee Hare, Bakersfield, California, VS († 2007)
• Adrianus Gerardus de Laat, Boxtel († 2021)
• Franciscus Antonetta Martens, Alphen en Riel († 2011)
• de Vries, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 1934)
• Ageda Ouwehand, Katwijk († 1996)
• Betty Jane Creps († 2019)
• Anna Helena van Ingen († 2010)
• Eddie Lee Gage, Blackton Phillips, Arkansas († 2007)

• Adrianus Johannes de Kort (37), Baarle-Nassau
• de Vries (0), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis Alphonsus Maria Philipsen (0), Tilburg
• Alijda Hoefsloot (73), Hoogland
• Antonius Bogers (66), Roosendaal,Nispen
• Arien Gerrits Roggen (81), Hull, Sioux County, Iowa
• Cornelis Andreas Claassen (35), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andrew Kloosterman (54), Kent County (Michigan)
• August ROELS (59), Sinaai,9112,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anna Elisabeth Keiser (87), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1932 » Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch pianist and composer († 1996)
• 1932 » Vladimir Fedoseyev, Russian conductor
• 1934 » Gay Byrne, Irish radio and television host († 2019)
• 1934 » Karl Johan Åström, Swedish engineer and theorist
• 1934 » Wendell Berry, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
• 1935 » Michael Ballhaus, German director and cinematographer († 2017)
• 1935 » Peter Inge, Baron Inge, English field marshal
• 1935 » Roy Benavidez, American Master Sergeant and Medal of Honor Winner († 1998)
• 1936 » John Saxon, American actor († 2020)
• 1936 » Nikolai Baturin, Estonian author and playwright

• 1916 » George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
• 1929 » Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
• 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 » David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
• 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
• 1946 » Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1948 » Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)

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.
• June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
• July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
• September 18 » The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
• December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
• December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.

The temperature on August 5, 1934 was between 8.9 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.