1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1929 MCMXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2682 |
| Armenian calendar | 1378 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6679 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 85–86 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1850–1851 |
| Bengali calendar | 1336 |
| Berber calendar | 2879 |
| British Regnal year | 19 Geo. 5 – 20 Geo. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2473 |
| Burmese calendar | 1291 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7437–7438 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4625 or 4565 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4626 or 4566 |
| Coptic calendar | 1645–1646 |
| Discordian calendar | 3095 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1921–1922 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5689–5690 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1985–1986 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1850–1851 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5029–5030 |
| Holocene calendar | 11929 |
| Igbo calendar | 929–930 |
| Iranian calendar | 1307–1308 |
| Islamic calendar | 1347–1348 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 4 (昭和４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1859–1860 |
| Juche calendar | 18 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4262 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 18 民國18年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 461 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2471–2472 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 2055 or 1674 or 902 — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 2056 or 1675 or 903 |
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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
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- 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
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April
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- 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
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- May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993)
- May 25 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
June
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- June 12 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
July
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August
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- August 2 – K.M. Peyton, English writer
- August 24 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)
September
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- September 28 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, composer and politician (d. 2022)
October
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- October 22 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)
November
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- November 12 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
- November 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
- November 15 - Ed Asner, American actor (d. 2021)
December
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- December 11 – Owain Owain Welsh novelist and poet (d. 1993)
- 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