* 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 – Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist ( d. 1979 )

* 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 Autry was singing on Tulsa ’ s radio station KVOO as " Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy ," and the Victor archives shows an October 9, 1929, entry stating that the vocal duet of Jimmie Long and Gene Autry with two Hawaiian guitars, directed by L. L. Watson, recorded “ My Dreaming of You ” ( Matrix 56761 ) and “ My Alabama ” ( Matrix 56762 ).

* Gene Scott ( William Eugene Scott, 1929 – 2005 ), American pastor and television evangelist

Elston Gene Howard ( February 23, 1929 – December 14, 1980 ) was an American Negro League and Major League Baseball catcher, left fielder and coach.

Gene Austin married his first wife, Kathryn Arnold, a dancer, in 1924 and divorced her in 1929.

He was a vocalist and composer whose compositions included the 1928 classic " Sweethearts on Parade ", which was number one for three weeks in 1929 on the U. S. pop charts, " Ridin ' Around in the Rain ", written with Gene Austin in 1934, the jazz and pop standards " Coquette ", " Boo Hoo ", and " Some Rainy Day ", and " Powder Your Face With Sunshine ( Smile, Smile, Smile )", written with Stanley Rochinski in 1948-49.

His best-known popular composition was The Lonesome Road, first sung by co-writer Gene Austin and later by Jules Bledsoe ( dubbing Stepin Fetchit ) in the final scene of the 1929 part-talkie film version of " Show Boat ", and recorded by more than two hundred artists, including Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Paul Robeson.

*" Singin ' in the Rain " Prologue-Cliff Edwards from The Hollywood Revue of 1929 ( 1929 ), Jimmy Durante with Sidney Toler from Speak Easily ( 1932 ), Judy Garland from Little Nellie Kelly and the main title sequence from Singin ' in the Rain ( Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O ' Connor )

Muller had in his 1922 article " Variation due to Change in the Individual Gene " already laid out all the basic properties of the heredity molecule that Schrödinger derives from first principles in What is Life ?, properties which Muller refined in his 1929 article " The Gene As The Basis of Life " and further clarified during the 1930s, long before the publication of What is Life?

In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

* 1929 – Robert W. Scott, American politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina ( d. 2009 )

He graduated ( with first class honours ) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under Charles Scott Sherrington at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1929.

* Battersea Power Station an iconic edifice designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, built between 1929 and 1939 ( featured, with flying pig, on the sleeve art of Pink Floyd's album Animals ).

In the next few years, Scott continued working as an extra and bit player in several films, including Weary River ( 1929 ) with Richard Barthelmess and The Virginian ( 1929 ) with Gary Cooper.

K3, introduced in 1929, again by Gilbert Scott was similar to K2 but was constructed from concrete and intended for nationwide use.

In 1929 he published an essay collection titled Litteratörer och Militärer ( Writers and Warriors ) with contributions on François Villon, Walter Scott, Joseph Conrad, and Stonewall Jackson.

Berliner was awarded the Franklin Institute's John Scott Medal in 1897, and later the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1913 and the Franklin Medal in 1929.

His other vocalists included Frank Sylvano, Billy Scott, Arthur Jarrett and Stone beginning in 1929 and in 1932, he added Joe Martin, another of the band's violinists, as a frequent vocalist.

In 1929, he opened his own agency, Harold Ober Associates, — representing authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, Philip Wylie, Pearl Buck and Walter D. Edmonds and J. D.

Scott made an agreement to buy the MEN in 1922 and gained full control of it in 1929.

C. P. Scott remained editor of the Manchester Guardian until 1 July 1929, at which time he was eighty-three years old and had been editor for exactly fifty-seven and a half years.

Robert Walter " Bob " Scott ( June 13, 1929 – January 23, 2009 ) was the 67th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1969 to 1973.

Even before 1934, several candidates ran and were elected under the Liberal-Progressive banner ( Frederick Sandy of Victoria South was first elected as a UFO MLA in 1919, was defeated in 1923 and returned to serve as a Liberal-Progressive from 1926-1929 ; Merton Elvin Scott of Oxford South served as a Liberal-Progressive MLA from 1926 to 1929 and UFO MLA David Munroe Ross of Oxford North was re-elected as a Liberal-Progressive in 1926 and 1929 ), however it was only in the 1934 election that a formal alliance between the Progressives and Liberals began, returning four Liberal-Progressive MLAs ( Nixon, Douglas Campbell of Kent East, Roland Patterson of Grey North and James Francis Kelly of Muskoka ).

Henry Scott Tuke, RA RWS ( 12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929 ), was a British visual artist ; primarily a painter, but also a photographer.

* Wainwright, David & Dinn, Catherine ( 1989 ) Henry Scott Tuke 1858 – 1929: under canvas, Sarema Press ISBN 1-870758-02-1

* Wallace, Catherine ( 2008 ) Catching the Light: the art and life of Henry Scott Tuke 1858 – 1929, Edinburgh: Atelier Books ISBN 1-873830-20-3

He published stories by such writers as Booth Tarkington and F. Scott Fitzgerald, nonfiction pieces by women such as Shirley Temple's mother and Eleanor Roosevelt, and articles on the Wall Street Crash of 1929 by men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and Eddie Cantor, as well as a complete novel in each issue.

Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1929.

* Robert W. Scott ( 1929 – 2009 ), American politician, former governor of North Carolina