About the day » Saturday February 3, 1934Calender converter

• DIRK HALD († 2018)
• Christiaan Leonard Verhagen, Helmond († 2010)
• George Howard Tyson, Jennings, Florida, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Elisabeth Wijten, Bergen op Zoom († 2010)
• Eleanor Hasselman, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2024)
• David Hugh CONNER, Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, United States of America († 1999)
• Dirk Martinus Nicolaas Van Wensveen, Hillegersberg,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Froukje van Daalen, Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Donald Lee Blom, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2017)
• Afke Slump, Nederland († 1992)

• Antonius Johannes van Houdt (0), Mill en Sint Hubert
• Adriaan Van kampen (67), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Jacoba Voorrips (79), Rotterdam
• Arij Johannes Middendorp (68), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Visser (66), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Allegonda Wagenaars (68), Sint-Michielsgestel
• Arie Goudswaard (42), Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Hartman (67), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Vervuren (64), Utrecht
• Adriana Willemina van 't Hoff (70), Vianen, Vijfheerenlanden, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1933 » Paul Sarbanes, American lawyer and politician
• 1934 » Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1935 » Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American blues, soul, and funk singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1996)
• 1936 » Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1936 » Elizabeth Peer, American journalist († 1984)
• 1937 » Billy Meier, Swiss author and photographer
• 1938 » Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer († 2013)
• 1938 » Victor Buono, American actor († 1982)
• 1939 » Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1940 » Fran Tarkenton, American football player and sportscaster

• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Vasily Blokhin, Russian general (b. 1895)
• 1956 » Émile Borel, French mathematician and academic (b. 1871)

• 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 15 » The 8.0 M_w  Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
• January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
• May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
• June 15 » The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
• July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
• 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 February 3, 1934 was between -8.0 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.