1929
year
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, 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.
| 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 |
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)
December
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- 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