About the day » Wednesday October 3, 1934Calender converter

• Fred L. FIET, Fulton, IL († 2016)
• Peters († 1934)
• Hendrik Luypaerts, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2006)
• Carmen Nicolette Lim-Apo, Paramaribo, Suriname († 2011)
• Adrianus van Beelen, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Cornelis de Graaff, Willeskop, Nederland († 1988)
• Charles Kenneth Hahn Jr, Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Harry Dean Kannegieter, Clark County, South Dakota († 2018)
• Clarence Sjaardema, Buena Vista Jasper Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Hanneke de Nooij († 2002)

• Alphonse Joseph COLLIE (60), Houthem,7781,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique,Belgique
• Annie Kirk (79), Fishertown, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
• Alida de Lange (0), Nederland ((Steenwijkerwold)
• Bernardus Geul (18), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Coenraad Johannes Hermannus de Loos (55), Bandung
• Aaltje Andries Teijema (74), Spannum, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Christina Maria Johanna Everdina Massa (46), Amersfoort
• Alexander Wilson (50)
• Aagje Elzinga (90), Lioessens
• Aaltje Nieuwenhuis (75), Zutphen

• 1931 » Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1932 » Terence English, South African-English surgeon and academic
• 1933 » Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
• 1934 » Benjamin Boretz, American composer and theorist
• 1934 » Harold Henning, South African golfer († 2004)
• 1934 » Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Colombian-Dutch painter and illustrator († 2015)
• 1934 » Simon Nicholson, English sculptor and painter († 1990)
• 1935 » Charles Duke, American general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1936 » Steve Reich, American composer
• 1938 » Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor († 1960)

• 1907 » Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)
• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)

• 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.
• February 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
• March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
• June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
• July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
• August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
• December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.

The temperature on October 3, 1934 was between 11.2 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.