1929

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