List of Famous people who died in 1934

Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination was used as a pretext to launch the first Great Purge.

Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely, was a Russian novelist, Symbolist poet, theorist and literary critic. He was a committed antroposophist and follower of Rudolf Steiner. His novel Petersburg was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as the third-greatest masterpiece of the 20th century.

Augusto C. Sandino, full name Augusto Nicolás Calderón de Sandino y José de María Sandino, was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the United States occupation of Nicaragua. Despite being referred to as a "bandit" by the United States government, his exploits made him a hero throughout much of Latin America, where he became a symbol of resistance to American imperialism. Sandino drew units of the United States Marine Corps into an undeclared guerrilla war. The United States troops withdrew from the country in 1933 after overseeing the election and inauguration of President Juan Bautista Sacasa, who had returned from exile.

Reginald Walter Maudslay was a British car manufacturer and founder of the Standard Motor Company. Born in Paddington, London, Maudslay was the son of Athol Edward Maudslay, "gentleman", and Kate, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucas, founder of a large firm of building contractors.

Lowell J. Sherman was an American actor and film director. In an unusual practice for the time, he served as both actor and director on several films in the early 1930s. He later turned exclusively to directing. Having scored huge successes directing the films She Done Him Wrong and Morning Glory, he was at the height of his career when he died after a brief illness.

Otto Hermann Kahn was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.

Jan Stuyt was a Dutch architect.

Sir Stephen Montagu Burrows CIE was a British amateur historian, author and Ceylonese civil servant.