1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) 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.

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

• March 22 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer and composer (d. 1973)

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