page_title: 1929
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1929 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Filaret (Denysenko) at the US Embassy in Kyiv for the US independence day celebrations
context_page_description: 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.
  This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created.
  In Asia, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph Stalin expelled Leon Trotsky and adopted a policy of collectivization. The Grand Trunk Express began service in India.
context_section_description: January 1
  Joseph Lombardo, American mobster (d. 2019)
  Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor (d. 2017)
  Latif-ur-Rehman, Indian field hockey player
  January 2 – Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician and First Lady of Finland
  January 3
  Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
  Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
  Gordon Moore, American computing entrepreneur, benefactor
  January 4 – Günter Schabowski, official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (d. 2015)
  January 5
  Walter Brandmüller, German cardinal
  Robert K. Massie, American journalist and historian (d. 2019)
  January 7 – Terry Moore, American actress
  January 8
  Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-born actor (d. 2015)
  Erich Jantsch, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 1980)
  January 9 – Brian Friel, Irish dramatist (d. 2015)
  January 10 – Tony Soper, English naturalist, author and broadcaster
  January 11
  Nureddin al-Atassi, Syrian philatelist, 54th Prime Minister of Syria and 17th President of Syria (d. 1992)
  Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect
  Nicoletta Orsomando, Italian actress and television personality
  Wanda Wiłkomirska, Polish violinist, teacher (d. 2018)
  January 12
  Irena Homola-Skąpska, Polish historian (d. 2017)
  Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish philosopher
  Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher, logician (d. 2015)
  January 14 – Alex Treves, Italian-American Olympic fencer
  January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
  January 16 – Son Myung-soon, Former First Lady of South Korea
  January 17
  Tan Boon Teik, Attorney-General of Singapore (d. 2012)
  Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d. 1986)
  January 20
  Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
  Masaharu Kawakatsu, Japanese zoologist
  January 23
  Patriarch Filaret, former Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate
  John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
  January 25
  Benny Golson, American jazz musician
  Michael Michai Kitbunchu, Thai cardinal
  January 26
  Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and author
  Sumiteru Taniguchi, Japanese anti-nuclear weapons activist (d. 2017)
  January 27
  Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian business magnate
  Richard Ottinger, American politician
  January 28
  Acker Bilk, British clarinetist (d. 2014)
  Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist
  Ali Mirzaei, Iranian weightlifter (d. 2020)
  Claes Oldenburg, American artist Clothespin (Oldenburg)
  January 29
  Lila T. Abaunza, First Lady of Nicaragua (d. 2008)
  George Ross Anderson Jr., American judge
  January 30 – Isamu Akasaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate
  January 31
  Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
  Jean Simmons, English-American actress (d. 2010)
caption: Patriarch Filaret
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