1929
year
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.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s |
Years: | 1926 1927 1928 – 1929 – 1930 1931 1932 |
Events change
- 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 change
January change
- 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 change
- February 21 - Chespirito, Mexican actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
March change
April change
- 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 change
- May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993)
- May 25 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
June change
- June 12 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
July change
August change
- August 2 – K.M. Peyton, English writer
- August 24 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)
September change
- September 28 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, composer and politician (d. 2022)
October change
- October 22 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)
November change
- November 12 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
- November 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
December change
- December 13 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (d. 2021)
Deaths change
- 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 change
- 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 change
- "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