page_title: 1929
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1929 / Births / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Jane Powell, 1952
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: April 1
  Barbara Bryne, English actress
  Jonathan Haze, American actor, producer and screenwriter
  Milan Kundera, Czech writer
  Jane Powell, American actress, dancer
  April 3 – Poul Schlüter, Danish politician
  April 4 – William F. Clinger Jr., American politician
  April 5
  Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws, Dutch Antillean politician (d. 2017)
  Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
  Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (d. 2001)
  Mahmoud Mollaghasemi, Iranian wrestler
  Joe Meek, English record producer, sound engineer, and songwriter (d. 1967)
  April 6
  André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2019)
  Christos Sartzetakis, Greek politician
  April 7 – Madavoor Vasudevan Nair, Indian Kathakali dancer (d. 2018)
  April 8
  Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (d. 1978)
  Morton B. Panish, American physical chemist
  April 9 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (d. 1993)
  April 10
  Duje Bonačić, Croatian rower (d. 2020)
  Mike Hawthorn, British racing driver (d. 1959)
  Liz Sheridan, American actress
  Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (d. 2020)
  April 11 – Jack Betts, American actor and playwright
  April 13 – Yvonne Clark, American engineer (d. 2019)
  April 14
  Gerry Anderson, English television, film producer, director and writer, (Thunderbirds) (d. 2012)
  Paavo Berglund, Finnish conductor, violinist (d. 2012)
  April 14 – Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (d. 2012)
  April 17 – James Last, German composer and bandleader (d. 2015)
  April 18 – Peter Hordern, English politician
  April 21
  Estrella Zeledón Lizano, Costa Rican politician, First Lady (d. 2019)
  Bevin Hough, New Zealand sportsman (d. 2019)
  April 22
  Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (d. 2019)
  John Nicks, English figure skater and skating coach
  April 23 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic and essayist (d. 2020)
  April 24
  Shammi, Indian actress (d. 2018)
  Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2006)
  April 25 – Abderrahmane Mahjoub, French and Moroccan international football (soccer) midfielder (d. 2011)
  April 26
  Alexandre Lamfalussy, Hungarian-Belgian economist and central banker (d. 2015)
  Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian (d. 2019)
  April 27 – Michael Harner, American anthropologist, author (d. 2018)
  April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, Mexican actress (d. 2017)
  April 30 – Klausjürgen Wussow, German theatre, television actor (d. 2007)
caption: Jane Powell
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