* 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 – 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 )

* 2007 – Ira Levin, American novelist ( b. 1929 )

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

He introduced Irving Berlin's " Easter Parade " and George and Ira Gershwin's " I've Got a Crush on You " in Treasure Girl ( 1928 ); Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's " I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan " in The Little Show ( 1929 ) and " Louisiana Hayride " in Flying Colors ( 1932 ); and Irving Berlin's " Not for All the Rice in China " in As Thousands Cheer ( 1933 ).

From January 1 to January 7, 1929, Spaatz along with fellow Air Corps officers, Captain Ira Eaker and Lieutenant Elwood Quesada, both of whom would later become senior United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) generals, established an aviation record by keeping the airplane Question Mark in the air over the Los Angeles vicinity for over 150 hours.

On September 25, 1929, Kirkman Bey's wife reported to the Chicago police his apparent kidnapping by one Ira Johnson.

The United States Congress, in the Ratification Act of 1929, provided that until the Congress shall provide for the Government of the islands of American Samoa all civil, judicial, and military powers shall be vested in such person or persons and exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct.

* 1929 – Roy Hamilton, American singer ( d. 1969 )

* 1929 – Ed Townsend, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2003 )

* 1929 – Gene Scott, American pastor and broadcaster ( d. 2005 )

* 1929 – Bill Evans, American pianist and composer ( d. 1980 )

* 1929 – Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler ( d. 1997 )

* 1929 – Wyatt Tee Walker, American pastor, theologian, and activist

* 1859 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet ( d. 1929 )

* 1929 – Buck Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Buckaroos ) ( d. 2006 )

* 1929 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet and author

* 1929 – Marie Severin, American illustrator

* 1929 – Michael Forest, American actor

* 2000 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer ( The Jordanaires ) ( b. 1929 )

* 1929 – Joe Gallo, American gangster ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Joe Gallo, American gangster ( b. 1929 )

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

* Marvin J. Chomsky ( born 1929 ), American television and film director

* 1929 – Barry Harris, American bebop jazz pianist

* 2011 – Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician ( b. 1929 )