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1929
1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
February
March
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January
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January 3 - Sergio Leone, director (d. 1989)
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January 6 - Babrak Karmal, later third President of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
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January 15 - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader (d. 1968)
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January 17 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey star
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January 20 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, NASCAR race car driver (d. 1964)
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January 26 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer
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January 28 - Acker Bilk, musician
- January 28 - Claes Oldenbourg, artist
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January 31 - Jean Simmons, actress
February
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February 5 - Fred Sinowatz, politician
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February 6 - Pierre Brice, actor
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February 11 - Leonard Gregory Kastle , composer.
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February 14 - Vic Morrow, actor (d. 1982)
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February 15 - Graham Hill, Formula One racer (d. 1975)
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February 17 - Chaim Potok, author (d. 2002)
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February 17 - Patricia Routledge, actress
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February 18 - Len Deighton, author
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February 28 - Hayden Fry, college football coach
- February 28 - Frank Gehry, Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
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January 5 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia
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January 13 - Wyatt Earp, Western legend
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January 30 - La Goulue, Cancan dancer
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February 8 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain
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February 12 - Lillie Langtry, singer, actress
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February 14 - Tom Burke, American runner
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March 6 - David Buick , automobile pioneer
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March 20 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
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April 4 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer
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April 24 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist
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June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet
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June 11 - William Dickson Boyce,founder of the Boy Scouts of America
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August - Mary MacLane, feminist and bi-sexual writer
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August 3 - Thorstein Veblen, economist
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August 3 - Emil Berliner, inventor
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August 5 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist
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August 26 - Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar in East Asia
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August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics
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October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
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October 3 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress
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December 5 - Togo, one of the sled dogs from the 1925 serum run to Nome, which is commemorated by the Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska
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December 10 - Harry Crosby, publisher, poet
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