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Year '''1929''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXXIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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== Events of 1929 ==
===January-February===
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* [[January 1]] - [[University of California, Berkeley|California]] loses to [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets]] in the 15th [[Rose Bowl]] by a score of 8-7.
* [[January 2]] - [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] agree on a plan to preserve [[Niagara Falls]].
* [[January 9]] - [[The Seeing Eye]] is established with the mission to train [[dog]]s to assist the [[blindness|blind]] ([[Nashville, Tennessee]]).
* [[January 10]] - [[The Adventures of Tintin|Tintin]], a [[comic book]] [[fictional character|character]] created by [[Hergé]], makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 60 languages.
* [[January 15]] - [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] was born in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].
* [[January 15]] - First issue of ''[[Annales]] d'histoire économique et sociale'' published in [[France]] by [[Armand Colin]].
[[Image:Picture 0043.JPG|thumb|205px|right| [[January 2]]: [[Niagara Falls|Niagara]] agreement.]]
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* [[January 17]] - [[Popeye]], a [[comic strip]] character created by [[Elzie Crisler Segar]], makes his debut.
* [[January 18]] - Leon [[Trotsky]] expelled from [[Soviet Union]]; he moves to [[Turkey]] in [[January 29]] and applies for sanctuary in [[France]] and [[Germany]].
* [[January 29]] - [[Service dog|Seeing Eye Dog]] organization is formed.
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* [[February 11]]
**[[Italy]] and the [[Holy See|Vatican]] sign the [[Lateran Treaty]].
**[[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''Dynamo'' premieres in [[New York City|New York]].
* [[February 14]] - [[St. Valentine's Day Massacre]]: Seven [[gangster]]s, rivals of [[Al Capone]], are murdered in [[Chicago]].
* [[February 18]] - First [[Academy Awards]] are announced.
* [[February 26]] - The [[Grand Teton National Park]] is established by Congress.
[[Image:Park Dedication in 1929 in Grand Teton NP-NPS.jpg|180px|thumb| [[February 26|Feb.26]]: [[Grand Teton National Park]].]]
===March-April===
* [[March 3]] - Revolt attempt of Generals [[José Gonzalo Escobar]] and [[Jesús María Aguirre]] fails in [[Mexico]].
* [[March 4]] - [[Herbert Hoover]] is inaugurated as the 31st [[President of the United States]], succeeding [[Calvin Coolidge]].
* [[March 16]] - A [[part-talkie]] film version of ''[[Show Boat]]'', based on [[Edna Ferber]]'s novel rather than the musical, premieres in [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]]. The film stars [[Laura La Plante]] and [[Joseph Schildkraut]]. It is critically panned and not successful at the box office.
===May-June===
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* May - [[Wickersham Commission]] begins investigation of alcohol prohibition in U.S.
* [[May 13]] - [[National Crime Syndicate]] founded in [[Atlantic City]].
* [[May 14]] - [[Wilfred Rhodes]] takes his 4000th [[first-class cricket|first-class]] wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
* [[May 15]] - A fire at the [[Cleveland Clinic]] in [[Cleveland, Ohio]] kills 123.
* [[May 16]] - [[1st Academy Awards]] are presented at the [[Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel]] in [[Hollywood, California]], with ''[[Wings (film)|Wings]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
* [[May 17]] - Al Capone and bodyguard were arrested for concealing deadly weapons.
* [[May 31]] - [[United Kingdom general election, 1929|British general election]] returns a hung parliament yet again - Liberals will determine who has power.
* [[June 7]]'''
**In Britain [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]] concede power rather than ally with the Liberals.
**The [[Lateran Treaty]], making [[Vatican City]] a sovereign state, is ratified
* [[June 8]] - [[Ramsay MacDonald]] founds new [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government.
* [[June 12]] - [[Annelies Marie Frank]] (Anne Frank) was born in Frankfurt am Main.
* [[June 16]] - [[Otto E. Funk]], 62, ends marathon walk ([[New York City]] to [[San Francisco]], 4165 miles in 183 days).
* [[June 21]] - Agreement brokered by US ambassador [[Dwight Whitney Morrow]] ends the [[Cristero War]] in [[Mexico]]. In [[June 27]], church bells ring for the first time in years
* [[June 27]] - First public demonstration of color TV, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system was used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington.
===July-August===
* [[July 5]] - [[Scotland Yard]] seizes 12 nude paintings of [[D. H. Lawrence]] from the [[Mayfair]] gallery on grounds of indecency
* [[July 24]]
**French prime minister [[Raymond Poincaré]] resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by [[Aristide Briand]]
**The [[Kellogg-Briand Pact]], renouncing [[war]] as an instrument of [[foreign policy]], goes into effect (it was first signed in [[Paris]] on [[August 27]], [[1928]] by most leading world powers).
*[[July 25]] - [[Pope]] [[Pius XI]] emerges from the [[Apostolic Palace|Vatican]] and enters St. Peter's square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of papal self-imprisonment within the Vatican.
*[[July 27]] - [[Geneva Convention (1929)|Third Geneva Convention]].
* [[August 8]] - The [[Germany|German]] airship ''[[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|Graf Zeppelin]]'' begins a round-the-world flight (will end on [[August 29]]).
* [[August 19]] - The [[radio]] [[comedy]] show ''[[Amos and Andy]]'' makes its debut starring [[Freeman Gosden]] and [[Charles Correll]].
* [[August 23]] - The [[1929 Palestine riots]] of the [[Hebron]], [[Safed]], and [[Gaza]] Jewish communities got underway.
===September-October===
* [[September 5]] - [[Aristide Briand]] presents his plan of the ''United States of Europe''.
* [[September 7]] - Steamboat ''[[S/S Kuru|Kuru]]'' sinks in [[Näsijärvi]], [[Tampere]], [[Finland]] claiming 136 lives.
* [[September 17]] - Coup ousts [[Augustinas Voldemaras]] in [[Lithuania]]; new president is [[Antanas Smetona]]
* [[October 11]] - [[JC Penney]] opens Store #1252 in [[Milford, Delaware]], making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
* [[October 18]] - Women are announced to be persons by the [[privy council]] in Britain. Women can be appointed to the [[Canadian Senate]]. Achieved by five Canadian women called the [[Famous Five]].
* [[October 22]] - Government of [[Aristide Briand]] falls in France.
* [[October 24]] - The start of the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|Black Thursday]] [[stock market crash]] on the [[New York Stock Exchange]].
* [[October 28]] - [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|Black Monday]] [[stock market crash]] on the [[New York Stock Exchange]]
* [[October 29]] - [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|Black Tuesday]] [[stock market crash]] on the [[New York Stock Exchange]]
[[Image:Crowd outside nyse.jpg|thumb|right|The Wall Street Crash of 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression]].
===November-December===
*[[November 1]] [[Annual]] [[Solar Eclipse]] of 1929 Nov 01.
*November - [[Vladimir Zworykin]] takes out the first patent for color television.
* [[November 7]] - In [[New York City]], the [[Museum of Modern Art]] opens to the public.
* [[November 15]] - The [[Ambassador Bridge]] is opened to traffic.
* [[November 18]] - [[1929 Grand Banks earthquake]]: Off the south coast of [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] in the [[Atlantic Ocean]], a [[Richter magnitude]] 7.2 submarine [[earthquake]] centered on [[Grand Banks]], breaks 12 submarine [[transatlantic telegraph cable]]s and triggers a [[tsunami]] that destroys many south coast communities in the [[Burin Peninsula]] area, killing 28. As of [[1997]], it is [[Canada]]'s most lethal earthquake.[http://www.shunpiking.com/ol0103/1929_Tsunami_in_NF.pdf]
* [[November 29]] - [[Floyd Bennett]], US Admiral [[Richard Byrd]], Captain [[Ashley McKinley]], and [[Harold June]], become the first to fly over the [[South Pole]].
* [[December 2]] - First Lightpoles in London
* [[December 3]] - [[Great Depression]]: US President [[Herbert Hoover]] announces to [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] that the worst effects of the recent [[stock market]] crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the [[Economics|economy]].
* [[December 28]] - "[[Mau_movement#Black_Saturday|Black Saturday]]" in [[Samoa]]: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the [[Mau movement]] to demand independence for Samoa.<ref>Meleisea, Malama, ''Lagaga: A Short History of Western Samoa'', 1987, ISBN 982-02-0029-6, pp.137-8</ref>
* [[December 29]] - [[All India Congress]] in [[Lahore]] demands [[India]]n [[independence]]
* [[December 31]] - [[Guy Lombardo]] plays ''[[Auld Lang Syne]]'' for the first time
===Undated===
* The [[Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis]] is proposed.
* Greatest number of fatal [[air safety|civil aircraft crashes]] in US history.
* Civil war in [[Afghanistan]].
* [[Lapua Movement]] in [[Finland]].
*[[Ross County F.C.]]founded in Dingwall, Scotland. They initially play in the Highland League.
==Births==
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===January-February===
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*[[January 3]] - [[Sergio Leone]], Italian film director (d. [[1989]])
*[[January 6]] - [[Babrak Karmal]], General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, third [[President of Afghanistan]] (d. [[1996]])
*[[January 9]] - [[Brian Friel]], Irish dramatist
*[[January 15]] - [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], American civil rights leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1968]])
*[[January 17]] - [[Jacques Plante]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[1986]])
*[[January 20]] - [[Fireball Roberts]], American race car driver (d. [[1964]])
*[[January 22]] - [[Petr Eben]], Czech composer (d. [[2007]])
*[[January 23]] - [[John Charles Polanyi]], Canadian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[January 26]]
**[[Gordon Solie]], American wrestling commentator (d. [[1999]])
**[[Jules Feiffer]], American cartoonist and writer
*[[January 28]]
**[[Acker Bilk]], American jazz clarinetist
**[[Claes Oldenbourg]], Swedish sculptor
*[[January 27]] - [[Gastón Suárez]], Bolivian novelist and dramatist (d. [[1984]])
*[[January 31]]
**[[Rudolf Mössbauer]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
**[[Jean Simmons]], English actress
*[[February 3]] - [[Ken Shipp]], American football coach
*[[February 5]]
**[[Luc Ferrari]], French composer (d. [[2005]])
**[[Fred Sinowatz]], Austrian politician
*[[February 6]]
**[[Pierre Brice]], French actor
**[[Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta]], Venezuelan writer
*[[February 10]] - [[Jerry Goldsmith]], American composer (d. [[2004]])
*[[February 14]] - [[Vic Morrow]], American actor (d. [[1982]])
*[[February 15]] - [[Graham Hill]], English race car driver (d. [[1975]])
*[[February 17]]
**[[Chaim Potok]], American rabbi and author (d. [[2002]])
**[[Patricia Routledge]], English actress
*[[February 18]] - [[Len Deighton]], British author
*[[February 22]] - [[James Hong]], Chinese actor
*[[February 28]]
**[[Hayden Fry]], American football coach
**[[Frank Gehry]], Canadian-born architect
===March-April===
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*[[March 1]] - [[Georgi Markov]], Bulgarian dissident (d. [[1978]])
*[[March 4]]
**[[Bernard Haitink]], Dutch conductor
**[[Josep Mestres Quadreny]], Catalan composer
*[[March 9]] - [[Desmond Hoyte]], [[Prime Minister of Guyana|Prime Minister]] and [[President of Guyana]] (d. [[2002]])
*[[March 17]] - [[Peter L. Berger]], Austrian-born sociologist
*[[March 23]] - Sir [[Roger Bannister]], British runner
*[[March 26]] - [[Tom Foley]], former [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]]
* [[April 1]]
**[[Milan Kundera]], Czech-born author
**[[Bo Schembechler]], American football coach (d. [[2006]])
* [[April 5]]
**[[Nigel Hawthorne]], British actor (d. [[2001]])
**[[Ivar Giaever]], Norwegian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[April 6]] - [[Suchitra Sen]] (Roma Dasgupta), the legendary [[Bengali people|Bengali]] [[Actress]], is born in Pabna (now in [[Bangladesh]]).
* [[April 6]]
**[[André Previn]], German-born pianist, composer, and conductor
**[[Keijo Liinamaa]], prime minister of Finland (d. [[1980]])
* [[April 8]] - [[Walter Berry (opera singer)|Walter Berry]], Austrian bass-baritone (d. [[2000]])
* [[April 9]] - [[Fred Hollows]], [[ophthalmology|ophthalmologist]] (d. [[1993]])
* [[April 10]] - [[Max von Sydow]], Swedish actor
* [[April 17]] - [[Michael Forest]], American actor
* [[April 18]] - [[Peter Jeffrey]], British actor (d. [[1999]])
* [[April 24]] - [[Rajkumar]], Indian singer (d. [[2006]])
* [[April 29]] - [[Fred Hollows]], a famous [[Ophthalmologist]], is born in [[New Zealand]].
===May-June===
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*[[May 1]] - [[Ralf Dahrendorf]], German-British social scientist and member of the [[House of Lords]])
*[[May 4]]
**[[Audrey Hepburn]], Belgian actress (d. [[1993]])
**[[Emilio Enrico Belén]], Spanish painter and poet
**[[Sydney M. Lamb|Sydney MacDonald Lamb]], American linguist
*[[May 6]] - [[Paul Lauterbur]], American chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[May 8]] - [[Miyoshi Umeki]], Japanese actress (d. [[2007]])
*[[May 10]] - [[Antonine Maillet]], Canadian author
*[[May 14]]
**[[Gump Worsley]], Canadian hockey player
**[[Henry McGee]], English actor
*[[May 16]] - [[Adrienne Rich]], American poet
*[[May 21]] - [[Heinz Holliger]], Swiss oboist
*[[May 25]] - [[Beverly Sills]], American soprano (d. [[2007]])
*[[June 1]] - [[Nargis]], Indian actress (d. [[1981]])
*[[June 2]] - [[Norton Juster]], American author and architect
*[[June 3]] - [[Werner Arber]], Swiss microbiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[June 6]] - [[Sunil Dutt]], Indian actor and politician (d. [[2005]])
*[[June 10]] - [[Harald Juhnke]], German entertainer (d. [[2005]])
*[[June 12]]
**[[Brigid Brophy]], English author (d. [[1995]])
**[[Anne Frank]], German-born diarist and Holocaust victim (d. [[1945]])
*[[June 13]] - [[Alan Civil]], English French horn player (d. [[1989]])
*[[June 16]] - [[Ramon Bieri]], American actor (d. [[2001]])
*[[June 17]] - [[Tigran Petrosian]], Russian chess player (d. [[1984]])
*[[June 18]] - [[Jürgen Habermas]], German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism.
*[[June 21]] - [[Abdel Halim Hafez]], Egyptian singer and actor (d. [[1977]])
*[[June 23]] - [[June Carter Cash]], American singer (d. [[2003]])
*[[June 26]] - [[Milton Glaser]], American graphic designer
*[[June 29]] - [[Oriana Fallaci]], Italian journalist and writer (note - some sources indicate [[July 24]] as date of birth; d. [[2006]])
===July-August===
*[[July 1]] - [[Gerald Edelman]], American biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[July 2]] - [[Imelda Marcos]], First Lady of the Philippines
*[[July 4]] - [[Bill Tuttle]], baseball player
*[[July 5]] - [[Tony Lock]], English cricketer (d. [[1995]])
*[[July 9]] - King [[Hassan II of Morocco]] (d. [[1999]])
*[[July 11]] - [[Hermann Prey]], German bass-baritone (d. [[1998]])
*[[July 13]] - [[Sofia Muratova]], Soviet gymnast
*[[July 18]]
**[[Dick Button]], American figure skater
**[[Screamin' Jay Hawkins]], American musician (d. [[2000]])
*[[July 25]] - [[Somnath Chatterjee]], Indian politician
*[[July 26]] - [[Alexis Weissenberg]], Bulgarian-born pianist
*[[July 28]] - [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]], wife of [[John F Kennedy]] (d. [[1994]])
*[[July 31]] - [[Lynne Reid Banks]], British author
*[[August 1]] - [[Hafizullah Amin]], General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, second [[President of Afghanistan]] (d. [[1979]])
*[[August 8]] - [[Ronald Biggs]], British criminal
*[[August 9]] - [[Abdi İpekçi]], Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights (d. [[1979]])
*[[August 16]]
**[[Helmut Rahn]], German footballer (d. [[2003]])
**[[Bill Evans]], American jazz pianist (d. [[1980]])
*[[August 21]] - [[X. J. Kennedy]], American poet
*[[August 24]] - [[Yasser Arafat]], Palestinian leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[August 26]] - [[Maurice Tempelsman]], Belgian diamond merchant and financier
*[[August 27]] - [[Ira Levin]], American author (d. [[2007]])
*[[August 28]] - [[Istvan Kertesz]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1973]])
*[[August 29]] - [[Thom Gunn]], British poet (d. [[2004]])
===September-October===
*[[September 1]] - [[Anne Ramsey]], American actress (d. [[1988]])
*[[September 3]] - [[James J. Bulger]], FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive
*[[September 4]] - [[Thomas Eagleton]], American senator (d. [[2007]])
*[[September 5]]
**[[Bob Newhart]], American comedian and actor
**[[Andrian Nikolayev]], cosmonaut (d. [[2004]])
*[[September 6]] - [[Yash Johar]], Indian film producer (d. [[2004]])
*[[September 8]] - [[Christoph von Dohnanyi]], German conductor
*[[September 9]] - [[Claude Nougaro]], French singer (d. [[2004]])
*[[September 15]]
**[[Eva Burrows]], General of The Salvation Army
**[[Murray Gell-Mann]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[September 20]] - [[Anne Meara]], American comedienne and actress
*[[September 21]] - [[Bernard Williams]], British philosopher (d. [[2003]])
*[[September 25]]
**[[Ronnie Barker]], British comedian (d. [[2005]])
**[[Barbara Walters]], American journalist
*[[October 7]] - [[Robert Westall]], British author (d. [[1993]])
*[[October 11]] - [[Martha Newberry/Read]] 1957 murder victim
*[[October 12]]
**[[Robert Coles]], American psychologist and author
**[[Magnús Magnússon]], Icelandic-born British television presenter (d. [[2007]])
*[[October 14]] - [[Yvon Durelle]], Canadian boxer
*[[October 16]] - [[Fernanda Montenegro]], Brazilian actress
*[[October 21]] - [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], American author
*[[October 22]] - [[Lev Yashin]], Soviet footballer (d. [[1990]])
*[[October 24]]
**[[George Crumb]], American composer
**[[Yordan Radichkov]], Bulgarian writer and playwright (d. [[2004]])
*[[October 28]] - [[John Hollander]], American poet
*[[October 29]] - [[Yevgeny Primakov]], Russian politician and a former Prime Minister of Russia.
===November-December===
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*[[November 2]]
**[[Rachel Ames]], American actress
**[[Muhammad Rafiq Tarar]], [[President of Pakistan]]
**[[Richard E. Taylor]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[November 4]] - [[Doris Roberts]], American actress
*[[November 7]] - [[Eric R. Kandel]], Austrian-born neuroscientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[November 8]] - [[Lal Krishna Advani]], Indian politician
*[[November 9]] - [[Imre Kertesz]], Hungarian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[November 11]] - [[LaVern Baker]], American singer (d. [[1997]])
*[[November 12]] - [[Grace Kelly|Grace Patricia Kelly]], American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. [[1982]])
*[[November 13]] - [[Fred Phelps]], leader of the [[Westboro Baptist Church]]
*[[November 15]] - [[Ed Asner|Edward Asner]], American actor
*[[November 19]] - [[Norman Cantor]], Canadian medieval scholar (d. [[2004]])
*[[November 28]] - [[Berry Gordy]], Musician
*[[November 30]] - [[Dick Clark (entertainer)|Dick Clark]], American television entertainer
*[[December 6]] - [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt]], German-born conductor
*[[December 9]] - [[Bob Hawke]], twenty-third [[Prime Minister of Australia]]
*[[December 13]] - [[Christopher Plummer]], Canadian actor
*[[December 16]]
**[[Nicholas Courtney]], British actor
**[[James Moore]], British author
*[[December 17]] - [[Jacqueline Hill]], British actress (d. [[1993]])
*[[December 23]] - [[Chet Baker]], American jazz musician (d. [[1988]])
*[[December 25]] - [[Stuart Hall (television presenter)|Stuart Hall]], British radio and television presenter
*[[December 28]]
**[[Brian Redhead]], English journalist and broadcaster (d. [[1994]])
**[[Terry Sawchuk]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[1970]])
==Deaths==
===January - June=== <!-- DEATHS -->
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*[[January 5]] - [[Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov]], Grand Duke of Russia (b. [[1856]])
*[[January 13]] - [[Wyatt Earp]], American gunfighter (b. [[1848]])
*[[January 30]] - [[La Goulue]], French dancer (b. [[1866]])
*[[February 6]] - [[Maria Christina of Austria]], Queen Regent of Spain (b. [[1858]])
*[[February 11]] - [[Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein]] (b. [[1840]])
*[[February 12]] - [[Lillie Langtry]], British singer and actress (b. [[1853]])
*[[February 14]] - [[Tom Burke (athlete)|Tom Burke]], American runner (b. [[1875]])
*[[March 1]] - [[Royal H. Weller]], American politician (b. [[1881]])
*[[March 5]] - [[David Dunbar Buick]], Scottish-American inventor
*[[March 12]] - [[Asa Griggs Candler]], American businessman and politician (b. [[1851]])
*[[March 20]] - [[Ferdinand Foch]], French commander of Allied forces in World War I (b. [[1851]])
*[[April 4]] - [[Karl Benz]], German automotive pioneer (b. [[1844]])
*[[April 22]] -[[Henry Lerolle]], French painter (b. [[1848]])
*[[April 24]] - [[Caroline Rémy]], French feminist (b. [[1855]])
*[[May 21]] - [[Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery|Archibald Primrose]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1847]])
*[[June 8]] - [[Bliss Carman]], Canadian poet (b. [[1861]])
*[[June 11]] - [[William D. Boyce|William Dickson Boyce]], American entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. [[1858]])
*[[June 16]] - [[Bramwell Booth]], General of The Salvation Army (b. [[1856]])
*[[June 28]] - [[Edward Carpenter]], English poet (b. [[1844]])
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*[[July 15]] - [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]], Austrian writer (b. [[1874]])
*August - [[Mary MacLane]], Canadian feminist writer (b. [[1881]])
*[[August 3]] - [[Thorstein Veblen]], Norwegian-born economist (b. [[1857]])
*[[August 3]] - [[Emil Berliner]], German-born inventor (b. [[1851]])
*[[August 5]] - [[Millicent Fawcett]], British suffragist and feminist (b. [[1847]])
*[[August 26]] - Sir [[Ernest Satow]], British diplomat and scholar (b. [[1843]])
*[[August 27]] - [[Herman Potocnik|Herman Potočnik Noordung]], Slovenian rocket engineer (b. [[1892]])
*[[September 12]] - [[Rainis]], Latvian poet and playwright (b. [[1865]])
*[[September 23]] - [[Richard Adolf Zsigmondy]], Austrian-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1865]])
*[[September 24]] - [[Mahidol Adulyadej]], Thai doctor (b. [[1892]])
*[[September 29]] - [[Tanaka Giichi]], 26th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1863]])
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*[[October 1]] - [[Antoine Bourdelle]], French sculptor (b. [[1861]])
*[[October 3]] - [[Jeanne Eagels]], American actress (b. [[1890]])
*[[October 3]] - [[Gustav Stresemann]], [[Chancellor of Germany]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1878]])
*[[October 28]] - [[Bernhard von Bülow]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1849]])
*[[November 6]] - [[Prince Maximilian of Baden]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1867]])
*[[November 17]] - [[Herman Hollerith]], American businessman and inventor (b. [[1860]])
*[[November 24]] - [[Georges Clemenceau]], [[Premier of France]] (b. [[1841]])
*[[December 10]] - [[Harry Crosby]], American publisher and poet (b. [[1898]])
*[[December 20]] - [[Émile Loubet]], 7th [[President of France]] (b. [[1838]])
*[[December 29]] - [[Wilhelm Maybach]], German automobile designer (b. [[1846]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Arthur Harden]], [[Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Christiaan Eijkman]], Sir [[Frederick Gowland Hopkins]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Thomas Mann]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Frank Billings Kellogg]]
==Notes==
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==External links==
*About.com: [http://mutualfunds.about.com/od/1929marketcrash/ 1929 Stock Market Crash].
*[http://www.stock-market-crash.net/1929.htm Stock Market Crash of 1929]-Learn about the disastrous crash that lead to the [[Great Depression]].
*[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1929/1929fr.html The 1930s Timeline: 1929] — from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
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