Title: 1929 Content: 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. == 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 === * 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 === === April === * 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 === * May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993) * May 25 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007) === June === * June 12 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945) === July === * July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994) === August === * August 2 – K.M. Peyton, English writer * August 24 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004) === September === * September 28 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, composer and politician (d. 2022) === October === * October 22 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990) === November === * November 12 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982) * November 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996) === December === * 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