# 2029 in public domain

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works is not uniform. The following lists include creators whose works entered the public domain in 2029 under the most common copyright regimes.

## Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

Except for Belarus (Life + 50 years) and Spain (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988), a work enters the public domain in Europe 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime. In addition, several other countries have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.
| Names | Country | Birth | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
| Eleanor Hallowell Abbott | United States | 22 September 1872 | 4 June 1958 | novelist, poet, short story writer. | Molly Make-Believe, But Once A Year: Christmas Stories |
| James Branch Cabell | United States | 14 April 1879 | 5 May 1958 | fantasy writer. | Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice, Biography of the Life of Manuel |
| Virginia Brindis de Salas | Uruguay | 18 September 1908 | 6 April 1958 | Poet | Pregón de Marimorena |
| Harry Cohn | United States | 23 July 1891 | 27 February 1958 | Filmmaker | |
| E. Everett Evans | United States | 30 November 1893 | 2 December 1958 | Science fiction author | |
| Margiad Evans | United Kingdom | 17 March 1909 | 17 March 1958 | illustrator, novelist, poet. | Country Dance, Autobiography, A Ray of Darkness, The Nightingale Silenced |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher | United States | 17 February 1879 | 9 November 1958 | literary critic, memoirist, novelist, short story writer, translator. | Understood Betsy |
| Marjorie Flack | United States | 22 October 1897 | 29 August 1958 | children's writer, illustrator. | writer of The Story About Ping, illustrator of The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes |
| Lion Feuchtwanger | Germany | 7 July 1884 | 21 December 1958 | writer, journalist, novelist and playwright | author of Jud Süß (Süss, the Jew) |
| Angelina Weld Grimké | United States | 27 February 1880 | 10 June 1958 | playwright, poet. | Rachel |
| Michael Joseph | United Kingdom | 26 September 1897 | 15 March 1958 | Writer, publisher. | How to Write Serial Fiction, Puss in Books: A collection of stories about cats, The Sword in the Scabbard |
| Maxim Kopf | Austria-Hungary Czechoslovakia United States | 18 January 1892 | 6 July 1958 | Painter, graphic artist and sculptor. | paintings from Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands |
| Cyril M. Kornbluth | United States | 2 July 1923 | 21 March 1958 | science fiction writer | The Little Black Bag, The Marching Morons |
| Henry Kuttner | United States | 7 April 1915 | 3 February 1958 | Writer of fantasy, horror fiction, and science fiction. | The Graveyard Rats, Mimsy Were the Borogoves |
| Rose Macaulay | United Kingdom | 1 August 1881 | 30 October 1958 | biographer, novelist, travel writer. | The World My Wilderness, The Towers of Trebizond |
| Johnston McCulley | United States | 2 February 1883 | 23 November 1958 | Author | Zorro |
| G. E. Moore | United Kingdom | 4 November 1873 | 24 October 1958 | journal editor, philosopher. | Principia Ethica, A Defence of Common Sense |
| Charles Langbridge Morgan | United Kingdom | 22 January 1894 | 6 February 1958 | novelist, playwright. | The Burning Glass |
| Alfred Noyes | United Kingdom | 16 September 1880 | 25 June 1958 | playwright, poet, short story writer. | The Highwayman, Shakespeare's Kingdom |
| Seumas O'Sullivan | Ireland | 17 July 1879 | 24 March 1958 | magazine editor, poet. | Twilight People, Verses Sacred and Profane |
| Elliot Paul | United States | 10 February 1891 | 7 April 1958 | journalist, novelist, screenwriter. | Life and Death of a Spanish Town, Linden on the Saugus Branch |
| H. G. Peter | United States | 8 March 1880 | 2 January 1958 | Cartoonist | Wonder Woman |
| Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen | Romania | 24 August 1881 | 8 December 1958 | social scientist. | Accidente profesionale (Work-related Accidents), Câteva considerațiuni asupra socialismului și asupra roadelor sale (Some Musings on Socialism and Its Results |
| Rudolph Rocker | Germany United Kingdom United States | 25 March 1873 | 19 September 1958 | anarchist publisher and activist | Nationalism and Culture |
| Peig Sayers | Ireland | 1873 | 8 December 1958 | seanchaí (traditional Gaelic storyteller and historian) | Peig, Machnamh Seanmhná (An Old Woman's Reflections) |
| Robert W. Service | Canada | 16 January 1874 | 11 September 1958 | poet. | The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Cremation of Sam McGee |
| J. C. Squire | United Kingdom | 2 April 1884 | 20 December 1958 | historian, literary critic, magazine editor, poet. | Robin Hood: a farcical romantic pastoral , Shakespeare as a Dramatist |
| Ethel Turner | Australia | 24 January 1870 | 8 April 1958 | children's writer, novelist. | Seven Little Australians |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | United Kingdom | 12 October 1872 | 26 August 1958 | Composer | A London Symphony |
| Geoffrey Willans | United Kingdom | 4 February 1911 | 6 August 1958 | children's writer, humorist, novelist, screenwriter. | Down with Skool! A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their Parents, Whizz for Atomms: A Guide to Survival in the 20th Century for Fellow Pupils, their Doting Maters, Pompous Paters and Any Others who are Interested |

## Countries with life + 60 years

In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.
| Names | Country | Birth | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
| Peter Arno | United States | 8 January 1904 | 22 February 1968 | Cartoonist | |
| Karl Barth | Switzerland | 10 May 1886 | 10 December 1968 | Theologian | Church Dogmatics |
| Enid Blyton | United Kingdom | 11 August 1897 | 28 November 1968 | Writer | The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, Noddy |
| Hugo Butler | United States | 4 May 1914 | 7 January 1968 | Screenwriter | Lassie Come Home |
| Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | Italy | 3 April 1895 | 16 March 1968 | Composer | Les Guitares bien tempérées |
| Juan José Castro | Argentina | 7 March 1895 | 3 September 1968 | Composer | |
| Randolph Churchill | United Kingdom | 28 May 1911 | 6 June 1968 | Journalist, politician | Lord Derby: King of Lancashire |
| Carmelo de Arzadun | Uruguay | 16 July 1888 | 16 October 1968 | Painter | |
| Kees van Dongen | Netherlands | 26 January 1877 | 28 May 1968 | Painter | Woman with Large Hat |
| Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark | 3 February 1889 | 20 March 1968 | Film Director | Michael |
| Marcel Duchamp | France | 28 July 1887 | 2 October 1968 | Artist, writer | Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Fountain |
| Margaret Duley | Canada | 27 September 1894 | 22 March 1968 | Novelist | §Works |
| Edna Ferber | United States | 15 August 1885 | 15 April 1968 | Novelist, playwright | So Big, Show Boat |
| Red Foley | United States | 17 June 1910 | 19 September 1968 | Singer-songwriter | Old Shep |
| Lucio Fontana | Italy | 19 February 1899 | 7 September 1968 | Painter, sculptor |
| Ruth France | New Zealand | 12 June 1913 | 19 August 1968 | Librarian, poet, novelist | The Race |
| George Gamow | Soviet Union United States | 4 March 1904 | 19 August 1968 | Physicist, Science writer | One Two Three... Infinity and Mr. Tompkins series |
| Alice Guy-Blaché | France | 1 July 1873 | 24 March 1968 | Filmmaker, screenwriter | La Fée aux Choux |
| Otto Hahn | Germany | 8 March 1879 | 28 July 1968 | Chemist | Applied Radiochemistry |
| John Heartfield | Germany | 19 June 1891 | 26 April 1968 | Artist | |
| Fannie Hurst | United States | 19 October 1885 | 23 February 1968 | Novelist | Imitation of Life, Lummox |
| Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi | Iran Iraq | 1889 | 4 April 1968 | Religious teacher, poet | Tā'liqāt fī mustafīḍah al-fiqh wa-al-uṣūl |
| W. E. Johns | United Kingdom | 5 February 1893 | 21 June 1968 | Writer, aviator | The Biggles series |
| Anna Kavan | United Kingdom | 10 April 1901 | 5 December 1968 | Writer | Ice |
| Helen Keller | United States | 27 June 1880 | 1 June 1968 | Author, activist | The Story of My Life |
| Robert F. Kennedy | United States | 20 November 1925 | 6 June 1968 | Politician, lawyer, author | The Enemy Within |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | United States | 15 January 1929 | 4 April 1968 | Civil rights leader, minister | Why We Can't Wait |
| Robert Z. Leonard | United States | 7 October 1889 | 27 August 1968 | Film Director, screenwriter | The Great Ziegfeld |
| Albert Lewin | United States | 23 September 1894 | 9 May 1968 | Director, screenwriter | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Trygve Lie | Norway | 16 July 1896 | 30 December 1968 | Politician, author | In the Cause of Peace: Seven Years With The United Nations |
| Howard Lindsay | United States | 29 March 1889 | 11 February 1968 | Playwright, librettist | State of the Union |
| Little Walter | United States | 1 May 1930 | 15 February 1968 | Blues musician | Juke |
| Dorothea Mackellar | Australia | 1 July 1885 | 14 January 1968 | Poet | My Country |
| Archie Mayo | United States | 29 January 1891 | 4 December 1968 | Film director, actor | Night After Night |
| Ramón Menéndez Pidal | Spain | 13 March 1869 | 14 November 1968 | Historian | La España del Cid |
| Thomas Merton | United States | 31 January 1915 | 10 December 1968 | Monk, author | The Seven Storey Mountain |
| José Monegal [es] | Uruguay | 25 July 1892 | 4 November 1968 | Writer, journalist | Memorias de Juan Pedro Camargo |
| Wes Montgomery | United States | 6 March 1923 | 15 June 1968 | Jazz guitarist | The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery |
| Elsie K. Morton | New Zealand | 5 October 1885 | 21 August 1968 | Journalist, writer | Along the Road: a book of New Zealand life and travel |
| Walter Nash | New Zealand | 12 February 1882 | 4 June 1968 | Politician | New Zealand: a working democracy |
| Edwin O'Connor | United States | 29 July 1918 | 23 March 1968 | Novelist, journalist | The Last Hurrah, The Edge of Sadness |
| Erwin Panofsky | United States | 30 March 1892 | 14 March 1968 | Art Historian | Early Netherlandish Painting |
| Mervyn Peake | United Kingdom | 9 July 1911 | 17 November 1968 | Writer | Gormenghast Trilogy |
| Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy | 20 August 1901 | 14 June 1968 | Writer | Giorno dopo giorno |
| Herbert Read | United Kingdom | 4 December 1893 | 12 June 1968 | Art Historian | To Hell With Culture |
| Conrad Richter | United States | 13 October 1890 | 30 October 1968 | Novelist | The Town |
| Nelle Scanlan | New Zealand | 15 January 1882 | 5 October 1968 | Novelist, journalist | The Pencarrow series |
| Upton Sinclair | United States | 20 September 1878 | 25 November 1968 | Writer | The Jungle |
| John Steinbeck | United States | 27 February 1902 | 20 December 1968 | Novelist | Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath |
| Tian Han | China | 12 March 1898 | 10 December 1968 | Playwright | Xie Yaohuan |
| Rose Wilder Lane | United States | 5 December 1886 | 30 October 1968 | Writer, Political Theorist | The Discovery of Freedom |
| Clare Winger Harris | United States | 18 January 1891 | October 1968 | Writer | Away From the Here and Now |
| Justino Zavala Muniz [es] | Uruguay | 16 July 1898 | 23 March 1968 | Writer, playwright, historian, journalist, politician | La cruz de los caminos, Alto Alegre |
| Karl Zuchardt | Germany | 10 February 1887 | 12 November 1968 | Novelist | Wie lange noch, Bonaparte? |

## Countries with life + 50 years

In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, New Zealand, Egypt, and Uruguay, a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death.
| Names | Country | Birth | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
| Leigh Brackett | United States | 7 December 1915 | 24 March 1978 | Writer, screenwriter | Shadow Over Mars |
| Edmund Crispin | United Kingdom | 2 October 1921 | 15 September 1978 | Writer, composer | Gervase Fen stories |
| Jane Lane | United Kingdom | 27 May 1905 | 6 January 1978 | Writer | He Stooped to Conquer |
| Amelia Reynolds Long | United States | 25 November 1904 | 26 March 1978 | Writer | Behind the Evidence |
| Margaret Mead | United States | 16 December 1901 | 15 November 1978 | Anthropologist | Coming of Age in Samoa |
| William Middleton | United Kingdom | 15 December 1891 | 12 August 1978 | Illustrator | The Railway Series |
| Ward Moore | United States | 10 August 1903 | 29 January 1978 | Writer | Bring the Jubilee |
| Carola Oman | United Kingdom | 11 May 1897 | 11 June 1978 | Writer | The Road Royal |
| Eric Frank Russell | United Kingdom | 6 January 1905 | 28 February 1978 | Writer | "Allamagoosa" |
| Jack L. Warner | United States | 2 August 1892 | 9 September 1978 | Filmmaker | |
| Armin T. Wegner | Germany | 16 October 1886 | 17 May 1978 | Writer, human rights activist | Five Fingers Over You |

## Countries with life + 80 years

Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea, a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.
| Names | Country | Birth | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
| Alexander Aaronsohn | Israel | 1888 | 1948 | Author | With the Turks in Palestine |
| Sabahattin Ali | Turkey | 25 February 1907 | 2 April 1948 | Novelist | §Works |
| Francisco Alonso | Spain | 9 May 1887 | 18 May 1948 | Composer | Las Leandras |
| Carl Thomas Anderson | United States | 14 February 1865 | 4 November 1948 | Cartoonist | Henry |
| Antonin Artaud | France | 4 September 1896 | 4 March 1948 | Dramatist | §Works |
| Kan'ichi Asakawa | Japan | 20 December 1873 | 10 August 1948 | Historian | The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues |
| Gertrude Atherton | United States | 30 October 1857 | 14 June 1948 | Novelist | §Works |
| Jatindramohan Bagchi | India | 27 November 1878 | 1 February 1948 | Poet | |
| Milan Begović | Croatia | 19 January 1876 | 13 May 1948 | Writer | Pustolov pred vratima |
| Hulusi Behçet | Turkey | 20 February 1889 | 8 March 1948 | Physician | Clinical and Practical Syphilis, Diagnosis and Related Dermatoses |
| Ruth Benedict | United States | 5 June 1887 | 17 September 1948 | Anthropologist | The Chrysanthemum and the Sword |
| Frank Benford | United States | 29 May 1883 | 4 December 1948 | Physicist | The law of anomalous numbers |
| Gertrude Barrows Bennett | United States | 18 July 1884 | 2 February 1948 | Writer of science fiction and fantasy | The Citadel of Fear, The Heads of Cerberus, Claimed |
| Nikolai Berdyaev | Russia | 18 March 1874 | 24 March 1948 | Philosopher | §Works |
| Folke Bernadotte | Sweden | 2 January 1895 | 17 September 1948 | Diplomat, nobleman | §Works |
| Georges Bernanos | France | 20 February 1888 | 5 July 1948 | Writer | The Diary of a Country Priest |
| Hendrik van der Bijl | South Africa | 23 November 1887 | 2 December 1948 | Engineer | Theory and Operating Characteristics of the Thermionic Amplifier |
| Nasib al-Bitar | Palestine | 13 June 1890 | 26 June 1948 | Jurist | Al-Fareeda Fi Hisab Al-Fareedhah |
| André Bloch | France | 20 November 1893 | 11 October 1948 | Mathematician | La conception actuelle de la theorie des fonctions entieres et meromorphes |
| Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller | Germany | 6 February 1862 | 19 December 1948 | Botanist | Beiträge zur Flora Mazedoniens |
| Gordon Bottomley | United Kingdom | 20 February 1874 | 25 August 1948 | Poet, playwright | The Crier By Night |
| Harry Brearley | United Kingdom | 18 February 1871 | 14 July 1948 | Metallurgist | Knotted String |
| Sophonisba Breckinridge | United States | 1 April 1866 | 30 July 1948 | Economist, social scientist | Marriage and the Civic Rights of Women |
| Robert Briffault | United Kingdom | 1876 | 11 December 1948 | Anthropologist, novelist | The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions |
| Abraham Brill | United States | 12 October 1874 | 2 March 1948 | Psychiatrist | Psychoanalysis: Its Theories and Practical Application |
| Alice Brown | United States | 5 December 1857 | 21 June 1948 | Writer | §Works |
| Subhadra Kumari Chauhan | India | 16 August 1904 | 15 February 1948 | Poet | Jhansi Ki Rani |
| Hiram Alfred Cody | Canada | 3 July 1872 | 9 February 1948 | Writer, Clergyman | The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon |
| Umberto Coromaldi | Italy | 21 September 1870 | 5 October 1948 | Painter | Happy Mother |
| Osamu Dazai | Japan | 19 June 1909 | 13 June 1948 | Author | The Setting Sun, No Longer Human |
| Mary Angela Dickens | United Kingdom | 31 October 1862 | 7 February 1948 | Writer | Cross Currents |
| Dildar | Iraq | 20 February 1918 | 12 October 1948 | Poet | Ey Reqîb |
| Janus Djurhuus | Faroe Islands | 26 February 1881 | 1 September 1948 | Poet | |
| Lawrence Donovan | United States | July 1866 | 11 March 1948 | Novelist and pulp fiction author | |
| Rheta Childe Dorr | United States | 2 November 1866 | 8 August 1948 | Journalist, Suffragist | What Eight Million Women Want |
| O. Douglas | United Kingdom | 24 March 1877 | 24 November 1948 | Author | Olivia in India |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Russia | 22 January 1898 | 11 February 1948 | Film Director | Battleship Potemkin |
| Pompeu Fabra | Spain | 20 February 1868 | 25 December 1948 | Grammarian | Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana |
| Ferdinand I of Bulgaria | Bulgaria | 26 February 1861 | 10 September 1948 | King of Bulgaria (1887–1918), author, botanist, entomologist | |
| Jacques Feyder | Belgium | 21 July 1885 | 24 May 1948 | Film Director, screenwriter, | Crainquebille |
| William Arms Fisher | United States | 27 April 1861 | 18 December 1948 | Composer, writer | |
| Zelda Fitzgerald | United States | 24 July 1900 | 10 March 1948 | Novelist | Save Me the Waltz |
| Gustaf Fjæstad | Sweden | 22 December 1868 | 17 July 1948 | Artist | |
| Karl Gebhardt | Germany | 23 November 1897 | 2 June 1948 | Doctor | Chirurgische krankengymnastik |
| Umberto Giordano | Italy | 28 August 1867 | 12 November 1948 | Composer | Andrea Chénier |
| Susan Glaspell | United States | 1 July 1876 | 28 July 1948 | Playwright, novelist | Trifles |
| Arshile Gorky | United States | 15 April 1904 | 21 July 1948 | Painter | The Liver is the Cock's Comb |
| D. W. Griffith | United States | 22 January 1875 | 23 July 1948 | Film director, producer | The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms |
| Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim | Ukraine | 6 March 1888 | 4 December 1948 | Botanist | |
| Frederick Philip Grove | Germany Canada | 14 February 1879 | 9 September 1948 | Writer, translator | Settlers of the Marsh |
| Uzeyir Hajibeyov | Azerbaijan | 18 September 1885 | 23 November 1948 | Composer | Leyli and Majnun |
| Thomas William Hanforth | United Kingdom | 6 March 1867 | 5 June 1948 | Composer | |
| Ernest George Henham | United Kingdom | 14 December 1870 | 3 April 1948 | Writer | Furze the Cruel |
| Ernst Herzfeld | Germany | 23 July 1879 | 21 January 1948 | Archaeologist | Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra |
| Johan Hjort | Norway | 18 February 1869 | 7 October 1948 | Marine Biologist | The Depths of the Ocean |
| Seth Hoffman | United States | 8 September 1895 | 2 August 1948 | Artist | |
| Vicente Huidobro | Chile | 10 January 1893 | 2 January 1948 | Poet | Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas |
| Victor Ido | Indonesia | 8 February 1869 | 20 May 1948 | Writer, journalist | De paupers |
| William Henry Irwin | United States | 14 September 1873 | 24 February 1948 | Journalist, writer | The House That Shadows Built |
| Susan Sutherland Isaacs | United Kingdom | 24 May 1885 | 12 October 1948 | Psychologist | Intellectual Growth in Young Children |
| Hédi Khayachi | Tunisia | 1882 | 1948 | Painter | |
| Kan Kikuchi | Japan | 26 December 1888 | 6 March 1948 | Novelist | Tōjūrō no Koi |
| Egon Kisch | Czech Republic | 29 April 1885 | 31 March 1948 | Journalist, writer | Schreib das auf, Kisch! |
| August Köhler | Germany | 4 March 1866 | 12 March 1948 | Physicist | Gedanken zu einem neuen Beleuchtungsverfahren für mikrophotographische Zwecke |
| Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein | Germany | 24 April 1870 | 16 October 1948 | General | Mit dem Turken zum Suezkanal |
| Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov | Russia | 23 May 1873 | 8 April 1948 | Entomologist | The Eurasian Arctic Fauna and Its Origin |
| Franz Lehár | Hungary | 30 April 1870 | 24 October 1948 | Composer | List of operas and operettas |
| Rudolf Franz Lehnert | Germany | 13 July 1878 | 16 January 1948 | Photographer | |
| Maximilian Lenz | Austria | 4 October 1860 | 19 May 1948 | Artist | A World, A Song of Spring |
| Monteiro Lobato | Brazil | 18 April 1882 | 4 July 1948 | Novelist, publisher | Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (novel series) |
| Ross Lockridge Jr. | United States | 25 April 1914 | 6 March 1948 | Novelist | Raintree County |
| Emil Ludwig | Germany | 25 January 1881 | 17 September 1948 | Biographer | Bismarck |
| Edith Balfour Lyttelton | United Kingdom | 4 April 1865 | 2 September 1948 | Writer, spiritualist | |
| Rikard Magnussen | Denmark | 2 April 1885 | 26 May 1948 | Sculptor | Ole Syversen Monument |
| Nikola Marinov | Bulgaria | 10 July 1879 | 16 December 1948 | Painter | |
| Jan Masaryk | Czech Republic | 14 September 1886 | 10 March 1948 | Politician | Speaking to My Country |
| Ilya Mashkov | Russia | 29 July 1881 | 20 March 1944 | Painter | |
| A. E. W. Mason | United Kingdom | 7 May 1865 | 22 November 1948 | Author, politician | The Four Feathers |
| Gerardo Matos Rodríguez | Uruguay | 28 March 1897 | 25 April 1948 | Composer | La cumparsita |
| Claude McKay | Jamaica | 15 September 1889 | 22 May 1948 | Writer | §Works |
| Ernest Merritt | United States | 28 April 1865 | 5 June 1948 | Physicist, educator | |
| Kerry Mills | United States | 1 February 1869 | 5 December 1948 | Composer | |
| Harry A. Millis | United States | 14 April 1873 | 25 June 1948 | Economist | |
| Wesley Clair Mitchell | United States | 5 August 1874 | 29 October 1948 | Economist | The Role of Money in Economic Theory |
| Thomas Mofolo | Lesotho | 22 December 1876 | 8 September 1948 | Writer | Chaka |
| Prosper Montagné | France | 14 November 1865 | 22 April 1948 | Chef, Gastronome | Larousse Gastronomique |
| Sylvanus Morley | United States | 7 June 1883 | 2 September 1948 | Archeologist | The Ancient Maya |
| Baldassarre Negroni | Italy | 21 January 1877 | 18 July 1948 | Film director | The Courier of Moncenisio |
| Fred Niblo | United States | 6 January 1877 | 7 November 1948 | Film Director, actor | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
| Alan Odle | United Kingdom | 1888 | 1948 | Illustrator | |
| Edith Olivier | United Kingdom | 31 December 1872 | 10 May 1948 | Writer | Alexander the Corrector: The Eccentric Life of Alexander Cruden |
| Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan | Ireland | 29 April 1874 | 18 June 1948 | Dramatist, novelist | Adam of Dublin |
| Margaret Pedler | United Kingdom | 1877 | 28 December 1948 | Romance Author | Barbarian Lover |
| John J. Pershing | United States | 19 March 1860 | 15 July 1948 | General | My Experiences in the World War |
| Albert Pollard | United Kingdom | 16 December 1869 | 3 August 1948 | Historian | The Evolution of Parliament |
| Manuel Ponce | Mexico | 8 December 1882 | 24 April 1948 | Composer | Estrellita |
| Abram Ranovich | Russia | 15 December 1885 | 29 May 1948 | Historian | On Early Christianity |
| Charles Herbert Reilly | United Kingdom | 4 March 1874 | 2 February 1948 | Architect | Representative British Architects of the Present Day |
| Charles Grant Robertson | United Kingdom | 1869 | 29 February 1948 | Historian, novelist | England under the Hanoverians |
| J.-H. Rosny jeune | Belgium France | 21 July 1859 | 21 July 1948 | Writer | |
| Sultanzade Sabahaddin | Turkey | 13 February 1879 | 30 June 1948 | Sociologist | The Witness |
| Husain Salaahuddin | Maldives | 14 April 1881 | 20 September 1948 | Writer | The Story of Thakurufaan the Great |
| Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira | Portugal | 26 May 1881 | 17 October 1948 | Writer, feminist | Problema Feminista |
| Kurt Schwitters | Germany | 20 June 1887 | 8 January 1948 | Artist | Das Undbild |
| Antonin Sertillanges | France | 16 November 1863 | 26 July 1948 | Priest, author | What Jesus Saw from the Cross |
| Lamed Shapiro | United States | 10 March 1878 | 1948 | Author | Di yidishe melukhe un andere zakhn |
| D. D. Sheehan | Ireland | 28 May 1873 | 28 November 1948 | Politician, author | Ireland since Parnell |
| David Shterenberg | Russia | 26 July 1881 | 1 May 1948 | Painter and graphic artist | §Works |
| Charles Silvestre | France | 2 February 1889 | 31 March 1948 | Novelist | §Works |
| Annie M. P. Smithson | Ireland | 26 September 1873 | 21 February 1948 | Author, nurse. | The Walk of a Queen |
| Marjory Stephenson | United Kingdom | 24 January 1885 | 12 December 1948 | Biochemist | |
| Montague Summers | United Kingdom | 10 April 1880 | 10 August 1948 | Author and clergyman | Malleus Maleficarum |
| Alexander du Toit | South Africa | 14 March 1878 | 25 February 1948 | Geologist | Our Wandering Continents; An Hypothesis of Continental Drifting |
| Richard C. Tolman | United States | 4 March 1881 | 5 September 1948 | Physicist | The Principles of Statistical Mechanics |
| Karl Valentin | Germany | 4 June 1882 | 9 February 1948 | Comedian | §Works |
| José Vianna da Motta | Portugal | 22 April 1868 | 1 June 1948 | Pianist, composer | §Works |
| Franco Vittadini | Italy | 9 April 1884 | 30 November 1948 | Composer | Anima Allegra |
| Augusto Weberbauer | Germany | 26 November 1871 | 16 January 1948 | Botanist | Die Pflanzenwelt der peruanischen Anden in ihren Grundzügen |
| Paul Wegener | Germany | 11 December 1874 | 13 September 1948 | Film Director, screenwriter | The Student of Prague |
| Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | Italy | 12 January 1876 | 21 January 1948 | Composer | Il segreto di Susanna |
| George MacKinnon Wrong | Canada | 25 June 1860 | 29 June 1948 | Historian | The Conquest of New France |
| Muhammad Amin Zaki | Iraq | 1880 | 1948 | Historian | A Short History of the Kurds and Kurdistan |
| Andrei Zhdanov | Russia | 26 February 1896 | 31 August 1948 | Politician | Советская литература, Стахановцы настоящие большевики производства |

## United States

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1933, films released in 1933, and other works published in 1933, will enter the public domain in 2029. Sound recordings published in 1928 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1958 will also enter the public domain.
Notable films entering the public domain in 2029 include the original King Kong and its sequel Son of Kong, Lloyd Bacon's musical films 42nd Street and Footlight Parade, Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The Invisible Man, Best Picture Academy Award-winner Cavalcade, Alfred E. Green's Baby Face with Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, George Cukor's adaptation of Little Women with Kathrine Hepburn, the Marx Brothers musical comedy Duck Soup, Ecstasy with Heddy Lamarr in her acting debut, the John Ford films Doctor Bull and Pilgrimage, Mervyn LeRoy's Tugboat Annie and Gold Diggers of 1933 (the latter of which he co-directed with Busby Berkeley), the Mae West films She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel, Frank Tuttle's Roman Scandals, Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (the first British film to win an Oscar), Lowell Sherman's Morning Glory, the original State Fair (which inspired the more famous 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical film), William J. Cowen's Oliver Twist, Cukor's Dinner at Eight, Frank Capra's Lady for a Day and The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Raoul Walsh's Going Hollywood with Marion Davies and Bing Crosby, Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct, Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs and the first animated Popeye cartoons.
Literary works entering the public domain include H. G. Wells's sci-fi novel The Shape of Things to Come, James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon introducing Shangri-La, Dashiell Hammett's novel The Thin Man introducing Nick and Nora Charles, George Orwell's first novel Down and Out in Paris and London, Virginia Woolf's novel Flush: A Biography, Ernest Hemingway's short story collection Winner Take Nothing, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery novel Lord Edgware Dies, Raymond Chandler's short story Blackmailers Don't Shoot, John Steinbeck's novel To a God Unknown and Dorothy Wall's children's novel Blinky Bill.
Artworks entering the public domain include Diego Rivera's destroyed mural Man at the Crossroads and his Detroit Industry Murals, René Magritte's painting The Human Condition, and Henri Cartier-Bresson's photograph Seville, Spain.
Among the better-known songs entering the public domain are "We're in the Money", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "I've Got the World on a String" and "42nd Street". Additionally, the entry of Little Women will also bring along the Max Steiner score track "Polka Medley", better known for its plagarised use in the video game Hotel Mario.