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.
• unknown date – The Netherlands Antilles national football team 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

• 5 January – Eddy Pieters Graafland, football goalkeeper
• 8 January – Piet Dankert, politician
• 16 August – Ed van Thijn, politician
• 25 October – Simon Groot, agronomist
• 28 October – Martin van der Borgh, cyclist
• 30 October – Frans Brüggen, musician
• 19 December – Rudi Carrell, singer and entertainer

Deaths

• 10 January – Marinus van der Lubbe, communist convicted of setting fire to the Reichstag
• 20 March – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, former queen consort and regent
• 12 August – Hendrik Petrus Berlage, architect
• 29 October – Lou Tellegen, actor
• 20 November – Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist and astronomer