1934 in the Netherlands

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See also:	Other events of 1934 History of the Netherlands

Events in the year 1934 in the Netherlands .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Wilhelmina
• Prime Minister: Hendrikus Colijn

Events

• 1 September – The Netherlands education minister, Henri Marchant, accepts the "Kollewijn" proposals for standardizing the spelling of the Dutch language. ^[1]
• unknown date – The Netherlands Antilles national football team (as Curaçao) plays its first international match, against Suriname

Films

• Bleeke Bet , directed by Alex Benno and Richard Oswald
• Op Hoop van Zegen , directed by Alex Benno and based on a play by Herman Heijermans

Births

Piet Dankert

• 5 January – Eddy Pieters Graafland, football goalkeeper (d. 2020)
• 8 January – Piet Dankert, politician (d. 2003)
• 16 August – Ed van Thijn, politician (d. 2021)
• 25 October – Simon Groot, agronomist (d. 2025)
• 28 October – Martin van der Borgh, cyclist (d. 2018)
• 30 October – Frans Brüggen, musician (d. 2014)
• 19 December – Rudi Carrell, singer and entertainer (d. 2006)

Deaths

• 10 January – Marinus van der Lubbe, communist convicted of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (b. 1909) ^[2]
• 20 March – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, former queen consort and regent (b. 1858)
• 12 August – Hendrik Petrus Berlage, architect (b. 1856) ^[3]
• 29 October – Lou Tellegen, actor (b. 1881)
• 20 November – Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1872)

References

1. Roy Temple House (1936). Books Abroad. University of Oklahoma. p. 228.
2. World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism (1969). The Reichstag Fire Trial: The Second Brown Book of the Hitler Terror. H. Fertig. p. 360.
3. Heijden, Marien van der (5 February 2003). "Berlage, Hendrik Petrus". Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland. International Institute of Social History . Retrieved 15 February 2020.