1929

1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

1929 in other calendars

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	ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 2055 or 1674 or 902     — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 2056 or 1675 or 903

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Jean Simmons

Rudolf Mössbauer

• 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

P. Ramlee

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

April

Milan Kundera

André Previn

Michael Atiyah

• 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

Audrey Hepburn

Beverly Sills

• May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993)
• May 25 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)

June

Anne Frank

• June 12 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)

July

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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

August

Yasser Arafat

• August 2 – K.M. Peyton, English writer
• August 24 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)

September

Lata Mangeshkar

• September 28 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, composer and politician (d. 2022)

October

Lev Yashin

• October 22 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)

November

Grace Kelly

• 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

Christopher Plummer

• December 11 – Owain Owain Welsh novelist and poet (d. 1993)
• 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