1929

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century–20th century–21st century
Decades:	1890s1900s1910s–1920s–1930s1940s1950s
Years:	192619271928–1929–193019311932

1929 in othercalendars

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	19Geo. 5– 20Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2473
Burmese calendar	1291
Byzantine calendar	7437–7438
Chinese calendar	Mậu thầnNiên(EarthDragon) 4625 or 4565 — to — Kỷ tị niên(EarthSnake) 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	Shōwa4 ( chiêu hòa ４ niên )
Javanese calendar	1859–1860
Juche calendar	18
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4262
Minguo calendar	ROC18 Dân quốc 18 niên
Nanakshahi calendar	461
Thai solar calendar	2471–2472
Tibetan calendar	Dương thổ long niên (male Earth-Dragon) 2055 or 1674 or 902 — to — Âm thổ xà niên (female Earth-Snake) 2056 or 1675 or 903

1929(MCMXXIX) was acommon yearstarting on Tuesdayof theGregorian calendar,the 1929th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 929th year of the2nd millennium,the 29th year of the20th century,and the 10th and last year of the1920sdecade.

Events

• February 20–American Samoabecomes organized as a territory of theUnited States
• July 16– The firstOscar-event
• August 8toAugust 29– The German airshipGraf Zeppelinmakes a round-the-world flight. It was 49.000 km.
• October 24– TheBlack Friday
• October 29– TheBlack 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,Malaysianactor,director,producerandcomposer(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 thePalestinian 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 ofMonaco(d.1982)
• November 14–McLean Stevenson,American actor (d.1996)

December

Christopher Plummer

• December 13-Christopher Plummer,Canadian actor (d.2021)

Deaths

• February 8–Maria Christina,QueenRegent ofSpain
• March 20– MarshallFerdinand Foch,(French)
• April 4–Karl Benz,German automobile pioneer
• October 1–Antoine Bourdelle,sculptor

Nobel Prizewinners

• Physics–Louis-Victor de Broglie,French physicist
• Chemistry–Arthur HardenandHans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
• Medicine–Christiaan Eijkman(Dutch physicist) andFrederick Gowland Hopkins
• Literature–Thomas Mann,German writer
• Peace–Frank Billings Kellogg

Hit songs

• "Am I Blue?" byEthel Waters
• "Button Up Your Overcoat" byHelen Kane
• "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" byRudy Vallee
• "I Want To Be Bad" byAnnette Hanshaw
• "I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" byAileen Stanley
• "I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" byTed Lewis& His Jazz Band
• "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" byJohnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
• "Louise" byMaurice Chevalier
• "Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" byPaul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys,featuringBing Crosby
• "Makin' Whoopie" byEddie Cantor
• "Maybe, Who Knows?" byKate Smith
• "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" byBessie Smith
• "Piccolo Pete" byTed Weems& His Orchestra
• "Singin' In The Rain"byCliff Edwards
• "Stardust"byIsham Jones& His Orchestra
• "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" byLouis Armstrong& His Orchestra
• "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" byRudy Vallee