1929
Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. By January 1 of this year, every state in the entire world had adopted the Gregorian calendar, having abandoned the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1926 1927 1928 – 1929 – 1930 1931 1932 |
Events
- February 20 – American Samoa becomes organized as a territory of the United States
- July 16 – The first Oscar-event
- August 8 to August 29 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin makes a round-the-world flight. It was 49.000 km.
- October 24 – The Black Friday
- October 29 – The Black Tuesday
Births
January
- January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1968)
- January 31 – Jean Simmons, British actress (d. 2010)
- January 31 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist (d. 2011)
February
- February 21 - Chespirito, Mexican actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
March
April
- April 1 – Milan Kundera, Czech writer
- April 6 – André Previn, German-born American musician (d. 2019)
- April 22 – Michael Atiyah, British mathematician (b. 2019)
May
- May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993)
- May 25 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
June
- June 12 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
July
August
- August 2 – K.M. Peyton, English writer
- August 24 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)
September
- September 28 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, composer and politician (d. 2022)
October
- October 22 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)
November
- November 12 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
- November 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
December
- December 13 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (d. 2021)
Deaths
- February 8 – Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain
- March 20 – Marshall Ferdinand Foch, (French)
- April 4 – Karl Benz, German automobile pioneer
- October 1 – Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
Nobel Prize winners
- Physics – Louis-Victor de Broglie, French physicist
- Chemistry – Arthur Harden and Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
- Medicine – Christiaan Eijkman (Dutch physicist) and Frederick Gowland Hopkins
- Literature – Thomas Mann, German writer
- Peace – Frank Billings Kellogg
Hit songs
- "Am I Blue?" by Ethel Waters
- "Button Up Your Overcoat" by Helen Kane
- "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by Rudy Vallee
- "I Want To Be Bad" by Annette Hanshaw
- "I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by Aileen Stanley
- "I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
- "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
- "Louise" by Maurice Chevalier
- "Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys, featuring Bing Crosby
- "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor
- "Maybe, Who Knows?" by Kate Smith
- "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith
- "Piccolo Pete" by Ted Weems & His Orchestra
- "Singin' In The Rain" by Cliff Edwards
- "Stardust" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
- "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
- "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by Rudy Vallee