* 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 )

** Joi Lansing, American actress ( b. 1929 )

The section north of Lansing was changed in 1929.

The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

In 1929 the BBC began recruiting for the new BBC Symphony Orchestra under Adrian Boult.

* Skyscraper Symphony ( short ), 1929

Monteux led the Boston Symphony Orchestra ( 1919 – 24 ), Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra ( 1924 – 34 ), Orchestre Symphonique de Paris ( 1929 – 38 ) and San Francisco Symphony ( 1936 – 52 ).

He conducted it until 1938, premiering many pieces, including Prokofiev's Third Symphony in 1929.

Some have mistakenly stated that many visual ideas, such as the quick editing, the close-ups of machinery, the store window displays, even the shots of a typewriter keyboard are borrowed from Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Great City ( 1927 ), which predates Man with a Movie Camera by two years, but as Vertov wrote to the German press in 1929, these techniques and images had been developed and employed by him in his Kino-Pravda newsreels and documentaries for the last ten years, all of which predate Berlin.

* Symphony No. 3 in C major ( 1929 )

He gave violin recitals and in 1929 was invited by Carlos Chávez to become assistant conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, a post he held until 1935.

# Abraham Lincoln: A Likeness in Symphony Form Lincoln ” Symphony ( 1929 )

Koussevitsky had been discussing a commission for the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Prokofiev in 1929.

* Metropolitan Symphony ( Tokai Kokyogaku ) ( 1929 )

Alberto Cavalcanti directed Rien que les heures ( 1926 ), Walter Ruttmann directed Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis ( 1927 ), and Dziga Vertov filmed Man With a Movie Camera ( 1929 ), experimental ¨ city symphonies ¨ of Paris, Berlin, and Moscow, respectively.

Kennedy numbers among the outstanding occasions of Harty's conductorship the English premieres of Mahler's Ninth Symphony ( 1930 ) and Shostakovich's First Symphony ( 1932 ), the Halle's first performances of Mahler ’ s Fourth Symphony ( 1927 ) and Das Lied von der Erde ( 1930 ); and the first public performance of Constant Lambert's The Rio Grande ( 1929 ), with Harty as pianist and the composer conducting.

Sean O ' Casey's The Silver Tassie and Ivor Novello's A Symphony in Two Flats both played in 1929.

Ionisation ( 1929 – 1931 ) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists, the first concert hall composition for percussion ensemble alone ( although Alexander Tcherepnin had composed an entire movement for percussion alone in his Symphony No. 1 from 1927 ).

A violinist who enjoyed music, Sidney Myer established free, open-air concerts with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1929, which were always well attended by Melbournians.

* Fox Theatre, San Diego, California, 1929, now Copley Symphony Hall

She was also recorded by HMV singing Bach's Mass in B Minor with Elisabeth Schumann and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates in sessions in 1929 at Kingsway Hall, London.

Kenneth Dewitt Schermerhorn ( ; November 20, 1929 – April 18, 2005 ) was an American composer and orchestra conductor, most notably for the Nashville Symphony.

The first European tour took place in 1929 and was sponsored by Dayton, Ohio philanthropist Katharine Houk Talbott and endorsed by Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra.