* 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 )

* German sociologist and philosopher, Jürgen Habermas ( born 1929 )

Since the 1960s the Frankfurt School has been guided by Jürgen Habermas ' ( born 1929 ) work on communicative reason, linguistic intersubjectivity and what Habermas calls " the philosophical discourse of modernity ".

* 1929 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer ( d. 2003 )

* 1929 – Ion N. Petrovici, German neurologist

* 1929 – James Last, German bandleader

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

* 1844 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader ( d. 1929 )

* Karl Benz ( 1844 – 1929 ), German engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who built the first patented automobile in 1885

In 1929 the Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski, who would solve the German Enigma cipher machine in December 1932, began studying actuarial statistics at Göttingen.

* 1929 – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor

* 2011 – Christa Wolf, German writer ( b. 1929 )

Its main competitors were the Bélinograf by Édouard Belin first, then since the 1930s the Hellschreiber, invented in 1929 by German inventor Rudolf Hell, a pioneer in mechanical image scanning and transmission.

* 1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German automotive designer ( d. 1929 )

* 1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, German politician, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1929 )

* 2012 – Vinzenz Guggenberger, German bishop ( b. 1929 )

* 1929 – Hermann Prey, German opera singer ( d. 1998 )

* 1929 – Wolfgang Peters, German footballer ( d. 2003 )

* 1858 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer ( d. 1929 )

( November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929 ) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz.

He continued with a series of pioneering projects, culminating in his two European masterworks: the temporary German Pavilion for the Barcelona exposition ( often called the Barcelona Pavilion ) in 1929 ( a 1986 reconstruction is now built on the original site ) and the elegant Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, completed in 1930.

** German Papiermark, German coinage from 1914 to 1929