(b. 1849) December 9 – Alceste De Ambris, Italian syndicalist (b. 1874) December 26 – Wallace Thurman, American writer (b. 1902) December 28 Lowell Sherman, American actor and director (b. 1885) Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1881) Nobel Prizes Physics – Not awarded this year Chemistry – Harold Clayton Urey Physiology or Medicine – George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy Literature – Luigi Pirandello Peace – Arthur Henderson References External links The 1930s Timeline: 1934 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia