1935

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940

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Events

• Mao Zedong assumes the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

Births

• January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer

• February 11 - Sergio Mendes -- an alternative source gives 1941.

• February 11 - Gerry Goffin.

• February 11 - Bent Lorentzen, composer.

• February 11 - Gene Vincent, American rock guitarist/vocalist -- an alternative source gives 1943.

• October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer

• December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director

Deaths

• December 24 - Alban Berg, aged 50, Austrian composer

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - James Chadwick

• Chemistry - Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie

• Medicine - Hans Spemann

• Literature - not awarded

• Peace - Carl Von Ossietzky