Year
1929 (
MCMXXIX) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
- Contents (full)
- 1 Events of 1929
- : - Jan. . Feb. . March . April
- : - May . June . July . Aug.
- : - Sept. . Oct. . Nov. . Dec.
- : - Undated . Ongoing .
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths
- 4 Nobel Prizes
- 5 See also - Notes - External links
Events of 1929
January-February
March-April
May-June
July-August
September-October


The Wall Street Crash of 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression
.
November-December
Undated
Births
January-February
- 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 23 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, 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 laureate
- Jean Simmons, English actress
- February 5
- Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
- Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
- February 6 - Pierre Brice, French actor
- 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
- 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 and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
- March 17 - Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born sociologist
- March 23 - Sir Roger Bannister, British runner
- 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 laureate
- April 6 - Suchitra Sen (Roma Dasgupta), the legendary 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, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000)
- April 9 - Fred Hollows, 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
- May 4
- Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
- Emilio Enrico Belén, Spanish painter and poet
- 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 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 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 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 victum
- 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
- November 2
- Rachel Ames, American actress
- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
- Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, 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 laureate
- November 11 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
- November 12 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
- November 13 - Fred Phelps, leader of the Westboro Baptist Church
- November 15 - Edward Asner, American actor
- November 19 - Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)
- November 30 - 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, 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
- 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 8 - Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
- February 12 - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
- February 14 - 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 24 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (b. 1855)
- May 21 - Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
- June 8 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
- June 11 - 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)
July - December
- 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 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 laureate (b. 1865)
- September 24 - Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai doctor (b. 1892)
- September 29 - Tanaka Giichi, 26th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1863)
- October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
- October 3
- Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1890)
- 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 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)
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Niagara Falls
The American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, and Horseshoe Falls.
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- 475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
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C. l. familiaris
Trinomial name
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(Linnaeus, 1758)
The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora.
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Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.
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