* 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 )

* 1929 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1986 )

* 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor ( b. 1929 )

* October 9 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer ( b. 1929 )

* February 27 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player ( b. 1929 )

* Jacques Rigaut ( 1898 – 1929 ), poet

* The Kiss ( 1929 film ), a silent film directed by Jacques Feyder, starring Greta Garbo

It was founded by abbot Courtois ( under the alias Jacques Coeur in 1929.

Jacques Brel (; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978 ) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world.

Jacques Romain Georges Brel was born on 8 April 1929 in Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium to Romain Brel and Elisabeth Lambertine Brel.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

His father Raymond Legrand was a conductor and composer renowned for hits such as Irma la douce and his mother, Marcelle Der Mikaëlian ( sister of conductor Jacques Hélian ), who married Legrand Senior in 1929, was descended from the Armenian bourgeoisie.

Joseph Jacques Omer Plante ( January 17, 1929 – February 27, 1986 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.

Late in 1929, on the strength of Un Chien Andalou, Buñuel and Dalí were commissioned to make another short film by Marie-Laurie and Charles de Noailles, owners of a private cinema on the Place des États-Unis and financial supporters of productions by Jacques Manuel, Man Ray and Pierre Chenal.

* Jacques Drèze, economist ( born 1929 )

* Alan Kelly ; Jacques Klöters: His master's voice, the Dutch catalogue ; a complete numerical catalogue of Dutch and Belgian gramophone recordings made from 1900 to 1929 in Holland, Belgium, and elsewhere by the Gramophone Company Ltd. Westport, Conn.

* Jacques Brel, famous Belgian singer ( 1929 – 1978 )

After studies with Carl Flesch in Berlin ( 1929 – 32 ), he went to Paris to continue his training with Jacques Thibaud at the Conservatory, graduating with a premier prix in 1937.

Jacques de Larosière de Champfeu ( born November 2, 1929, Paris ) is a French civil servant.

In 1928 and 1929 the first two sections of Jacques Joseph ‘ s book on ‘ Nasal plastic surgery ’ were published at Curt Kabitzsch Publishers, Würzburg and Leipzig.

Jacques Brugnon and Henri Cochet associated in double in 1930 ( up ), Jean Borotra, « le Basque bondissant » ( the bounding Basque ), in 1931 ( down-left ), René Lacoste in 1929 ( down-right ).

In 1929, Cap Saint Jacques became a province, and in 1934 became a city ( commune ).

* Jacques Brel, ( b. 1929 ), Belgian singer of Flemish descent