--- description: Married. Barbara Kent, youngest daughter of Artist Rockwell Kent; and Alan Carter, Manhattan musician; at "Asgaard," Artist Kent's home near Ausable Forks, N. Y. Birthday— John Davison... title: Milestones, Jul. 16, 1934 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Milestones, Jul. 16, 1934 by [TIME](/author/time/) Jul 16, 1934 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jul 16, 1934 4:00 AM CUT Married. Barbara Kent, youngest daughter of Artist Rockwell Kent; and Alan Carter, Manhattan musician; at “Asgaard,” Artist Kent’s home near Ausable Forks, N. Y. Birthday— John Davison Rockefeller, 95. Died— Evelyn Butler, circa 60, professor of English at Butler University (Indianapolis), onetime (1923-30) Dean of Women, daughter of the University’s onetime President Scot Butler, granddaughter of Benefactor Ovid Butler, for whom the University was named: after long illness; in Indianapolis. Died. Chaim Nachman Bialik, 61, Hebrew poet, “Wordsworth of Hebrew literature.” critic, journalist, Yiddish-Hebrew translator; of a heart attack following an operation; in Vienna. An English translation of his poems was published in 1926\. Died. Alec B. Francis, 63, oldtime stage actor, film actor since 1910; after an operation; in Hollywood. British-born, he deserted the law for which he had been educated, played in stock companies, served as a nurse in the Spanish-American War, tried farming in the Midwest, drifted into the early cinema. A pious churchman in private life, he played wise, kind, whimsical oldsters (Outward Bound, Arrowsmith, The Case of Sergeant Grischa). Died. Marie Sklodowska Curie. 66, co-discoverer of radium; of a lung ailment and pernicious anemia; near Sallanches, France (see p. 22). Died. Wilbur Morris Stine, 70, physicist, poet, educator; of apoplexy; at Penfield, Pa. Dr. Stine claimed that he was first (1892) to get an x-ray shadow picture, the first (1897) to suggest the remedial use of x-rays.\* Born. To Wilhelm II, 75, onetime Emperor of Germany: a great-grand-daughter, first child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son of the onetime Crown Prince, and of Dorothea von Salviati, a commoner whom Prince Wilhelm married in June 1933\. Died. Ellen MacRorie, 90, Scottish-born childhood nurse of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; in Hamilton, Ont. Died. Franklin MacVeagh, 94, onetime (1909-13) Secretary of the Treasury, longtime wholesale grocer, great-uncle of U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Farm-born, Yale-bred, he entered politics as a Democrat, could not stomach the Bryan Silver Policy, turned Republican, later disturbed Republicans by urging lower tariffs. In 1928 he supported the Smith candidacy. \*Acknowledged discoverer of x-rays, in 1895, was Wilhelm Konrad von Rentgen (1845—1923). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6778830/milestones-jul-16-1934/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6778830/milestones-jul-16-1934/"},"headline":"Milestones, Jul. 16, 1934","datePublished":"1934-07-16T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T15:08:43.753Z","description":"Married. Barbara Kent, youngest daughter of Artist Rockwell Kent; and Alan Carter, Manhattan musician; at \"Asgaard,\" Artist Kent's home near Ausable Forks, N. Y. Birthday— John Davison...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6778830/milestones-jul-16-1934/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6778830/milestones-jul-16-1934/","name":"Milestones, Jul. 16, 1934"}}]}] ```