page_title: 1929 in the United States
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1929 in the United States / Births / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Vocalist Betty Carter performing at the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland, July 1978. Suomi: Jazzlaulaja Betty Carter Pori Jazzeissa heinäkuussa 1978.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1929 in the United States.
context_section_description: May 2 – Link Wray, rock and roll musician (d. 2005)
  May 3
  Denise Lor, popular music singer, actress (d. 2015)
  Emily Anne Staples, politician (d. 2018)
  May 4
  Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress and humanitarian (d. 1993 in Switzerland)
  Sydney Lamb, American linguist
  May 5 – Ilene Woods, American singer, actress (d. 2010)
  May 6 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007)
  May 7
  Sally L. Smith, educator (d. 2007)
  Dick Williams, American baseball player (d. 2011)
  May 8
  Ethel D. Allen, African-American Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and physician (d. 1981)
  John C. Bogle, American investor (d. 2019)
  Jane Roberts, American writer (d. 1984)
  May 10 – Betty Foss, American female professional baseball player (d. 1998)
  May 11 – Margaret Kerry, American actress
  May 15 – Frank Heart, American computer engineer (d. 2018)
  May 16
  Betty Carter, African-American jazz singer (d. 1998)
  John Conyers, African-American politician
  Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist (d. 2012)
  May 18 – Walter Pitman, American educator, politician (d. 2018)
  May 22 – Neave Brown, American-British architect (d. 2018)
  May 25 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano, director of the New York City Opera (d. 2007)
  May 27 – Thomas E. Brennan, American jurist (d. 2018)
  May 30 – Marshall Loeb, American business journalist (d. 2017)
caption: Betty Carter
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