1929

Rulers:

• Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (1923-1929)

• Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (1929-1933)

Events:

• Museum of Modern Art established in New York.

• Thomas Mann (1875-1955): Nobel Prize in Literature.

Births:

• Ashby, Hal (1929-1988)

• Brel, Jacques (1929-1978)

Deray, Jacques (1929-2003)

• Dysart, Richard (1929-2015)

• Goldsmith, Jerry (1929-2004)

Goretta, Claude (1929-2019)

Grosbard, Ulu (1929-2012)

• Hardy, Joseph (1929)

• Hepburn, Audrey (1929-1993)

Jacobsson, Ulla (1929-1982)

• Kelly, Grace (1929-1982)

• McNamara, Maggie (1929-1978)

• Plowright, Joan (1929)

• Plummer, Christopher (1929-2021)

Simmons, Jean (1929-2010)

Till, Eric (1929)

• Yates, Peter (1929-2011)

Deaths:

Clemenceau, Georges (1841-1929)

La Goulue (1866-1929)

Literature:

• Faulkner, William (1897-1962): The Sound and the Fury (1929)

• García Lorca, Federico (1898-1936): Poeta en Nueva York (1929-30)

Art:

• Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976): Stacking Armchair (1929)

• Chagall, Marc (1887-1985): Le Cerf et la Vigne (1927-30)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978): Gladiatore (1929)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978): Villa al mare (1929)

• Léger, Fernand (1881-1955): Nature morte (1929)

• Magritte, René (1898-1967): La trahison des images (1929)

• Magritte, René (1898-1967): Le faux miroir (1929)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954): Henriette III (1929)

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944): Kragerø in Spring (1929)

O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986): The Lawrence Tree (1929)

Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955): Notre-Dame de Paris (1929)

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