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 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader
• January 31 - Jean Simmons, actress
• February 21 - Roberto Gómez Bolaños, actor, screenwriter, director, producer and comedian
• April 1 – Milan Kundera, writer
• April 6 – André Previn, composer, conductor
• May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, actress
• May 25 - Beverly Sills, American soprano
• June 12 – Anne Frank, Dutch diarist of Jewish descent
• June 18 - Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner
• June 20 - Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman
• July 25 - Manuel Olivencia, Spanish lawyer and economist
• July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States, 1961-63
• August 2 – K.M. Peyton, English writer
• August 24 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority
• November 12 - Grace Kelly, actress and later Princess of Monaco
• November 14 – McLean Stevenson, actor
• December 13 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian-American actor

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