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December 31, 1934

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Notable Births

Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan

1934Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian author, poet, and scholar (died 2017)[†]

Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan was an Islamic scholar and spiritual leader of the Naqshbandia Owaisiah order of Sufism. He belonged to Awan tribe. As a mufassir, he authored four exegeses (tafsir) of the Qur'an, including Asrar at-Tanzeel. Awan was dean of the Siqarah Education System and patron of the magazine Al-Murshid and of the Al-Falah Foundation.

1934Maria Krushelnytska, Ukrainian pianist (died 2025)[†]

Maria Tarasivna Krushelnytska was a Ukrainian pianist.

Notable Deaths

Cornelia Clapp

1934Cornelia Clapp, American marine biologist (born 1849)[†]

Cornelia Maria Clapp was an American educator and zoologist, specializing in marine biology. She earned the first Ph.D. in biology awarded to a woman in the United States from Syracuse University in 1889, and she would earn a second doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1896. Clapp was the first female researcher employed at the Marine Biological Laboratory, as well as its only female trustee during the first half of the 20th century. She was rated one of the top 150 zoologists in the United States in 1903, and her name was starred in the first five editions of American Men of Science.