* 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1929 – André Previn, German composer and conductor

* 1866 – Princess Viktoria of Prussia ( d. 1929 )

* 1929 – Mukhran Machavariani, Georgian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1929 – Ira Levin, American author ( d. 2007 )

* 1929 – Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist ( The Foundations )

* 1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician ( d. 2007 )

* 1929 – Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician ( d. 1979 )

* 1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer ( d. 2006 )

* 1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, tapped to be the messianic " World Teacher ", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* 1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inverter and businessman, invented the phonograph ( b. 1851 )

* 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist ( b. 1857 )

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929 – 89, ( 1990 ), the major study in English excerpt and text search

* 1929 – Don Larsen, American baseball player

* 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.

* 1876 – Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest ( d. 1929 )

In 1928, having been invited to Turkey, Dr. G. Vissering, a member of the De Nederlandsche Bank ( Central Bank of Netherlands ), Board of Governors, highlighted in his report the necessity of an independent central bank not affiliated to the Government ; espoused, in 1929, by Italian expert Count Volpi who suggested that the establishment of a central bank was necessary to ensure stability of the Turkish currency.

Although use of Ä ä ( also used in Tatar, Turkmen, and Gagauz ) seems to be a simpler alternative as the schwa is absent in most character sets, particularly Turkish encoding, it was reintroduced ; the schwa had existed continuously from 1929 to 1991 to represent Azeri's most-common vowel, in both post-Arabic alphabets ( Latin and Cyrillic ) of Azerbaijan.

The Iraq Petroleum Company ( IPC ), prior to 1929 named the Turkish Petroleum Company ( TPC ); is an oil company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Kâmran İnan ( Hizan, Bitlis, 1929 ), a well known Turkish politician, diplomat, and scholar was from Bitlis.

Metin Erksan, born İsmail Metin Karamanbey, ( January 1, 1929 – August 4, 2012 ) was a Turkish film director and art historian.

* 1929 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet ( d. 2005 )

* 1929 – Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist ( d. 2006 )

* Kenneth Cook ( 1929 – 1987 ), Australian journalist and novelist

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (; ( 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929 ) was a French journalist, physician, and statesman.

* Peter Maas ( 1929 – 2001 ), American journalist and author

* Birthplace of T. P. O ' Connor ( 1848 – 1929 ), journalist and Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.

Eric Philbrook Kelly ( 16 March 1884 – 3 January 1960 ) was an American journalist, academic and author of books for young readers, whose book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1929.

From 1929 he was a contributing journalist of anti-Nazi newspaper Die Weltbühne ( World Stage ).

Magnus Magnusson KBE (; 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007 ) was an Icelandic television presenter, journalist, translator and writer.

Lucy Clifford ( 2 August 1846 – 21 April 1929 ), better known as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, was a British novelist and journalist, and the wife of William Kingdon Clifford.

* Raghuvir Sahay ( 1929 – 1990 ) was a versatile Hindi poet, translator, short-story writer and journalist.

Catharina Sturzenegger ( 1854 – 1929 ), journalist and emissary of the Red Cross

* John A. Robinson ( 1867 – 1929 ), Scottish-born educator, journalist and political figure in Newfoundland

Adrien Arcand ( October 3, 1899 – August 1, 1967 ) was a Montreal journalist who led a series of fascist political movements between 1929 and his death in 1967.

* November 24-William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia ( died 1929 )

As a journalist he was the chess columnist of the Manchester Guardian and with William Winter, the co-author of Modern Master Play ( 1929 ).

* John Morgan ( journalist ) ( 1929 – 1988 ), Welsh journalist and broadcaster

Bengt Linder, born 1929 in Härnösand, died 1985 was a Swedish writer and journalist.

Izabella Trojanowska ( 10 July 1929, Gdynia – 21 April 1995 ) was a Polish journalist writing for Dziennik Bałtycki ( The Baltic Daily ), Kashubia and Pomerania.

* Peter C. Newman ( born 1929 ), Austrian-born Canadian journalist

The brothers attended Merchant Taylors ' School, Northwood near London after which Edward and Ronald Hargreaves pursued successful careers in medicine, while Jack went to study at the Royal Veterinary College at London University in 1929, leaving the University to earn a living as a copywriter, journalist and script writer for radio and films.

Thomas Power O ' Connor ( 5 October 1848 – 18 November 1929 ), known as T. P. O ' Connor and occasionally as Tay Pay, was a journalist, an Irish nationalist political figure, and a Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for nearly fifty years.

Myron Cope ( January 23, 1929 – February 27, 2008 ), born Myron Sidney Kopelman, was an American sports journalist, radio personality, sportscaster He is best known for being " the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers.