1929

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

Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade. By January 1 of this year, every state in the entire world had adopted the Gregorian calendar, having abandoned the Julian calendar.

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

March 22 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer and composer (d. 1973)

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

July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)

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

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