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Events from the year 1929 in the United States.
* January 1 – In
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* February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American film, television actor (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* February 2 – John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* February 3 – Huntington Hardisty, American admiral (d. 2003 in the United States, 2003)
* February 4
** Jerry Adler, American actor
** Stanley Drucker, American clarinetist (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Thomas H. Paterniti, American politician (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* February 5 – Hal Blaine, American drummer and session musician (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* February 6 – Chuck Nergard, American politician (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* February 10
** Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004 in the United States, 2004)
** Jim Whittaker, mountaineer
** Lou Whittaker, mountaineer
* February 14
** Vic Morrow, American actor, director (d. 1982 in the United States, 1982)
** James Nelligan, American politician
* February 15 – James Schlesinger, American politician (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* February 22
** James Hong, Chinese-American actor, director
** Rebecca Schull, American actress
* February 28 – Hayden Fry, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
* March 1 – Lynwood E. Clark, American Air Force lieutenant general
* March 6 – Gale McArthur, basketball player (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* March 7 – Marion Marlowe, American singer and actress (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* March 8
** Elaine Edwards, American politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Nicodemo Scarfo, American mafioso (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* March 11 – Hugh Newell Jacobsen, American architect (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* March 13
** Peter Breck, American actor (d. 2012 in Canada)
** Joseph Mascolo, American musician, actor (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* March 14
** Michael D. Coe, archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher and author (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** Bob Goalby, golfer (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* March 16 – Betty Johnson, singer
* March 17 – Howie Winter, gang boss (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* March 19 – Michael M. Ryan, American actor (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* March 25
** Harris W. Fawell, American politician (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** Cecil Taylor, African-American jazz pianist, composer, and poet (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* March 26 – Edward Sorel, American illustrator and caricaturist
* March 27
** Rita Briggs, American baseball player (d. 1994 in the United States, 1994)
** Don Warden, American country musician and manager (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* March 29 – Richard Lewontin, American biologist, geneticist and academic
* March 31 – Bert Fields, American lawyer and author
* April 1
** Jane Powell, actress, singer, dancer (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (d. 2006 in the United States, 2006)
* April 2
** Ed Dorn, poet (d. 1999 in the United States, 1999)
** Frank Farrar, governor of South Dakota (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* April 4
** William F. Clinger Jr., politician (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** John Dee Holeman, Piedmont Blues musician (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* April 5 – Richard Jenrette, businessman (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* April 8 – Morton B. Panish, physical chemist
* April 9 – Paule Marshall, born Valenza Pauline Burke, novelist (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* April 12
** Tony Douglas (singer), Tony Douglas, country music singer (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
** Dale Haupt, American football coach (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* April 13 – Yvonne Clark, engineer (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* April 16
** Dorne Dibble, American football player (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Roy Hamilton, African-American singer (d. 1969 in the United States, 1969)
* April 20 – John Andreason, politician (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* April 27 – Michael Harner, anthropologist, author (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* April 29
** Tom Cornsweet, psychologist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
** Billy Mize, steel guitarist, band leader, vocalist, songwriter, TV show host (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* May 2 – Link Wray, rock and roll musician (d. 2005 in the United States, 2005)
* May 3
** Denise Lor, popular music singer, actress (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
** Emily Anne Staples, politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 4
** Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress and humanitarian (d. 1993 in Switzerland)
** Sydney Lamb, American linguist
** Paige Rense, American writer and editor (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* May 5 – Ilene Woods, American singer, actress (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* May 6 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
* May 7
** Sally Liberman Smith, educator (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
** Dick Williams, American baseball player (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* May 8
** Ethel D. Allen, African-American Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and physician (d. 1981 in the United States, 1981)
** John C. Bogle, American investor (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** Jane Roberts, American writer (d. 1984 in the United States, 1984)
* May 10 – Betty Foss, American female professional baseball player (d. 1998 in the United States, 1998)
* May 11 – Margaret Kerry, American actress, dancer, and motivational speaker
* May 15 – Frank Heart, American computer engineer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 16
** Betty Carter, African-American jazz singer (d. 1998 in the United States, 1998)
** John Conyers, African-American politician
** Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* May 18 – Walter Pitman, American educator, politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 22 – Neave Brown, American-British architect (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 25 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano, director of the New York City Opera (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
* May 27 – Thomas E. Brennan, American jurist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 30 – Marshall Loeb, American business journalist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* June 1
** James H. Billington, American academic and author (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Chuck Ortmann, American football player (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* June 2 – Norton Juster, American writer and academic (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* June 3 – Chuck Barris, American television game show host, producer (d. 2017)
* June 6 – Mary Hatcher, American soprano, actress (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* June 8 – Marion Marshall, American actress (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* June 9 – Johnny Ace, African-American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1954 in the United States, 1954)
* June 10
** James McDivitt, American astronaut (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Grace Mirabella, American fashion journalist (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** E. O. Wilson, American biologist (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* June 11 – Frank Thomas (outfielder), Frank Thomas, American baseball player (d. 2023 in the United States, 2023)
* June 16 – Paul Cain (minister), Paul Cain, American Pentecostal Christian evangelist (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* June 20 – Bonnie Bartlett, American actress
* June 21
** Bob Gain, American football player (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
** Stephen B. Wiley, American politician (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* June 22 – Alex P. Garcia, American politician (d. 1999 in the United States, 1999)
* June 23
** June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003 in the United States, 2003)
** Gail Peters, American competition swimmer
** Gerald Eustis Thomas, American naval officer, diplomat and academic (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* June 24
** Vic Carrabotta, American comic-book artist, advertising art director (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Connie Hall, American country music singer (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer
* June 25 – Eric Carle, American designer, illustrator and writer (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* June 26 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, illustrator and teacher (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* June 27 – J. C. Duncan, politician
* June 28 – Glenn D. Paige, political scientist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* June 29
** Pat Crawford Brown, actress (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** Pete George, weightlifter
* July 1 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* July 3
** Joanne Herring, American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and former television talk show host
** Lavelle White, American Texas blues and soul blues singer, songwriter
* July 4
** Peter Angelos, American trial lawyer
** Bill Tremel, American professional baseball player (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
* July 5 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* July 6 – Angelo LiPetri, American former professional baseball player (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* July 8 – Shirley Ann Grau, American writer (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* July 9 – Jesse McReynolds, American bluegrass musician
* July 11 – Sandy Frank, American television producer, distributor, and marketer of TV shows
* July 14 – Pat Scott, American pitcher (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* July 15 – Walter Hirsch, American basketball player (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* July 17 – Arthur Frommer, American writer, publisher and consumer advocate
* July 18 – Dick Button, American figure skater
* July 19 – Alice Pollitt, American female professional baseball player (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* July 21
** Antonia Handler Chayes, American lawyer, educator
** Paul V. Gadola, American judge (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* July 23 – Robert Quackenbush, American author and children's illustrator (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* July 26 – Patrick Flores, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American socialite, conservationist, 35th First Lady of the United States (d. 1994 in the United States, 1994)
* July 31 – Don Murray (actor), Don Murray, American actor
* August 1 – Samuel Charters, American writer, music historian and record producer (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* August 2 – Irwin Fridovich, American biochemist (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* August 4 – Joe Pignatano, American baseball player and coach (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* August 7
** Jo Baer, American artist
** Don Larsen, American baseball player (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
** Richard T. Schulze, politician
* August 9 – Fred Fredericks, cartoonist (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* August 10 – Vincent McEveety, director, producer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* August 12 – Buck Owens, singer, bandleader, and TV host (d. 2006 in the United States, 2006)
* August 13 – Pat Harrington Jr., voice actor (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* August 14
** Thomas Meehan (writer), Thomas Meehan, playwright (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
** Louise Slaughter, politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* August 15
** Louise Shivers, writer (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
** Marcia Hafif, painter (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* August 16 – Fritz Von Erich, wrestler (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* August 17 – Francis Gary Powers, Lockheed U-2, U-2 spy plane pilot (d. 1977 in the United States, 1977)
* August 21 – Marie Severin, comics artist and colorist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* August 23 – Vera Miles, American actress
* August 24 – Betty Dodson, American sex educator (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* August 26 – Chuck Renslow, American businessman, LGBT activist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* August 27 – Ralph T. Coe, American art historian of Native American art (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* August 28 – Roxie Roker, African-American actress (d. 1995 in the United States, 1995)
* August 29 – Yale Kamisar, American legal scholar (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* August 31 – C. C. Torbert Jr., American jurist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 1 – Murray Fromson, American journalist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 2 – Hal Ashby, American film director and editor (d. 1988 in the United States, 1988)
* September 3 – Whitey Bulger, Irish-American gangster and multiple murderer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 4 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
* September 5 – Bob Newhart, American comedian, actor
* September 6 – Dow Finsterwald, American professional golfer (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* September 9 – Stanford Parris, American lawyer and politician (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* September 10 – Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* September 11
** Eve Brent, American actress (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
** David S. Broder, American journalist (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* September 12 – Harvey Schmidt, American composer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 14
** Larry Collins (writer), Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005 in the United States, 2005)
** John Gutfreund, American banker, businessman and investor (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
** Mel Hancock, American politician (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* September 15 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* September 16
** Dale Kildee, American politician
** Maxine Kline, American female professional baseball player
* September 19
** Marge Roukema, American politician (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
** Mel Stewart, African-American actor (d. 2002 in the United States, 2002)
* September 20 – Anne Meara, American actress, comedian (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* September 22 – William E. Dannemeyer, American politician
* September 25
** Barbara Walters, American television journalist (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Kevin White (politician), Kevin White, American politician (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* September 26 – Meredith Gourdine, American athlete (d. 1998 in the United States, 1998)
* September 28 – Skip Bafalis, American politician
* September 30 – Helen M. Marshall, American politician (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* October 2 – Moses Gunn, African-American actor (d. 1993 in the United States, 1993)
* October 4
** Scotty Beckett, American actor (d. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
** Leroy Van Dyke, American country music singer and guitarist
** Judith Jarvis Thomson, American moral philosopher (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* October 5 – Richard F. Gordon Jr., American astronaut (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* October 8 – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* October 15 – Hubert Dreyfus, American philosopher (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* October 18 – Jay Last, American physicist (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* October 21 – Ursula K. Le Guin, American science fiction and fantasy author (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* October 22 – Patsy Elsener, American diver (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* October 24
** Jim Brosnan, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
** George Crumb, American composer and educator (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Gustav Ranis, American economist and academic (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
**Ronald E. Rosser, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* October 25
** LaDell Andersen, American college and basketball coach (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** David McReynolds, American political activist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* October 26 – Roland Hemond, American baseball executive (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* October 28 – Mitchell Torok, American country music singer
* November 1 – Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (d. 2003 in the United States, 2003)
* November 2
** Rachel Ames, American actress
** Harold Farberman, American conductor, composer and percussionist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* November 6 – June Squibb, American actress
* November 8
** Bert Berns, American songwriter, record producer (d. 1967 in the United States, 1967)
** Bobby Bowden, American football player and coach
* November 9 – Severn Darden, American comedian, actor (d. 1995 in the United States, 1995)
* November 11 – LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* November 12 – Grace Kelly, American actress (d. 1982 in the United States, 1982)
* November 13 – Fred Phelps, American pastor, activist (''Westboro Baptist Church'') (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* November 14 – Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* November 15
** Ed Asner, American actor (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** Joe Hinton, African-American soul music singer (d. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
* November 18 – John McMartin, American actor (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* November 23
** Hal Lindsey, Christian evangelist
** Gloria Lynne, American jazz singer (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
** Shirley Palesh, baseball player (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* November 24 – George Moscone, attorney, politician (d. 1978 in the United States, 1978)
* November 26 – Betta St. John, actress, singer and dancer
* November 28
** Berry Gordy, African-American record producer, songwriter
** Frederick D. Reese, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* November 30
** Dick Clark, American television entertainer (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
** Joan Ganz Cooney, television producer
* December 1 – David Doyle (actor), David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* December 2
** Dan Jenkins, American journalist and author (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** Leon Litwack, American historian and author
* December 9 – John Cassavetes, American actor (d. 1989 in the United States, 1989)
* December 17 – William Safire, American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter (d. 2009 in the United States, 2009)
* December 20 – David H. Gambrell, politician
* December 21 – Newton Morton, geneticist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* December 23 – Chet Baker, jazz musician (d. 1988 in the United States, 1988)
* December 26 – Kathleen Crowley, actress (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* December 29
** Theodore V. Buttrey Jr., American educator, classicist and numismatist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Susie Garrett, African-American actress (d. 2002 in the United States, 2002)
** Matt "Guitar" Murphy, American blues musician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* December 31 – Robert B. Silvers, American literary editor (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
Incumbents
Federal Government
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* President
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* President (education), a leader of a college or university
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: Calvin Coolidge
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) (until March 4), Herbert Hoover
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( R-California
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) (starting March 4)
* Vice President
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: Charles G. Dawes
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( R-Illinois
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) (until March 4), Charles Curtis
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( R-Kansas
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) (starting March 4)
* Chief Justice: William Howard Taft
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(Ohio
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* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nicholas Longworth
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* Senate Majority Leader
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: Charles Curtis
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) (until March 4), James Eli Watson
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( R-Indiana
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) (starting March 4)
* Congress
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: 70th (until March 4), 71st (starting March 4)
Events
January–March
* January 1 – In college football
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, California
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loses to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
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in the 27th Rose Bowl by a score of 8–7.
* January 29 – The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train guide dog
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s to assist the blind, by Dorothy Harrison Eustis
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and Morris Frank
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in Nashville, Tennessee
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.
* February 11 – Eugene O'Neill
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's ''Dynamo
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'' premieres in New York
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* February 14 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangster
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s, rivals of Al Capone
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, are murdered in Chicago
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* February 26 – The Grand Teton National Park
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in Wyoming
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is established by Congress.
* March 2 – The longest bridge in the world, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.
* March 4 – Herbert Hoover
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is sworn in as the 31st President of the United States
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, and Charles Curtis
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is sworn in as Vice President of the United States
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.
* March 16 – A part-talkie
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film version of ''Show Boat
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'', based on Edna Ferber
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's novel rather than the musical, premieres in Palm Beach (starring Laura La Plante
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and Joseph Schildkraut
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). It is critically panned and not successful at the box office.
April–June
* April 2-6 – The Bombing of Naco by Irish pilot Patrick Murphy, the first aerial assault on the United States by a foreign combatant * May 13 – TheNational Crime Syndicate
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is founded in Atlantic City
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.
* May 15 – Cleveland Clinic Fire of 1929
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** A leak and explosion of methyl chloride
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refrigerant in a Cleveland hospital kills one hundred and twenty-eight and becomes regarded as the catalyst for the development of chlorofluorocarbon
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refrigerants.
* May 16 – The 1st Academy Awards
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are presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
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in Hollywood, California
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, with William A. Wellman's ''Wings'' winning Academy Award for Best Picture
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. Joseph W. Farnham
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wins the only award ever given for Best Writing, Title Writing. Frank Borzage
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's '' 7th Heaven'' received the most nominations with five, while both it and F. W. Murnau
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He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at th ...
's ''Sunrise
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'' jointly received the most awards with three.
* May 17 – Al Capone
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and his bodyguard are arrested for concealing deadly weapons.
* May 20 – The Wickersham Commission
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begins its investigation of alcohol prohibition in the United States
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.
* May 27 – '' United States v. Schwimmer'' decided in the Supreme Court affirms that pacifism
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is sufficient ground to deny an applicant citizenship of the United States
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.
* June 12 – Lou Hoover
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has tea at the White House with Jessie De Priest, wife of Oscar De Priest, the first black congressman of the 20th century.
* June 16 – Otto E. Funk, 62, ends his marathon walk (New York City
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to San Francisco
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, 4,165 miles in 183 days).
* June 21 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War
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in Mexico
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.
* June 27 – The first public demonstration of color television
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is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories
Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984),
then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007),
is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...
in New York City. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag
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. A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington, D.C.
July–September
* August 11 – The firstBud Billiken Parade and Picnic
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, the oldest and largest US African-American parade, is held in Chicago.
* August 19 – The radio comedy show ''Amos and Andy
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'' makes its debut, starring Freeman Gosden
Freeman Fisher "Gozzie" Gosden (May 5, 1899 – December 10, 1982) was an American radio comedian, actor and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form. He is best known for his work in the radio series ''Amos 'n' Andy''.
Life and ...
and Charles Correll
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.
* August 31 – The Young Plan
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, which sets the total World War I reparations
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owed by Germany
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at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years, is finalized.
* September 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity inde ...
(DJIA) peaks at 381.17, a height it will not reach again until November 1954.
October–December
* October 11 –J. C. Penney
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opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware
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The Kent County portion of Milford is part of the Dover, DE ...
, making it a nationwide company with department stores in all 48 states.
* October 14 – The Philadelphia Athletics
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defeat the Chicago Cubs
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, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series Title.
* October 24–October 29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929
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: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
* October 24 – The Mount Hope Bridge
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, connecting Portsmouth
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Portsmouth is the most d ...
to Bristol
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in Rhode Island
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, opens to traffic.
* October 25 – Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery
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for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal
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, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.
* November 7 – The Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of t ...
in New York City opens to the public.
* November 15 – The Ambassador Bridge
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, connecting Detroit
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, Michigan
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, to Windsor, Ontario
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, opens to traffic.
* November 29 – Bernt Balchen
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, U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley, and Harold June
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, become the first to fly over the South Pole
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.
* December 3 – Great Depression
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: U.S. President Herbert Hoover
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announces to the U.S. Congress
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that the worst effects of the recent stock market
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crash are behind the nation, and that the American people have regained faith in the economy.
Undated
*Sunglasses
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mass-produced from celluloid
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are first made by Foster Grant
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for sale in Austin Texas
Ongoing
*Lochner era
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(c. 1897–c. 1937)
* On the roof gang, group of cryptologists and radiomen during World War II (1928–1941)
* U.S. occupation of Haiti
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(1915–1934)
* Prohibition
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(1920–1933)
* Roaring Twenties
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(1920–1929)
Sport
*March 29 - For the first time inStanley Cup
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history two American teams face off for hockey's ultimate prize when the Boston Bruins
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defeat the New York Rangers
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2 games to 0 for the Bruins first Stanley Cup victory. The deciding game is played in New York City
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's Madison Square Garden
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.
Births
January
* January 1
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– Joseph Lombardo
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, American mafioso (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* January 3
** Marilyn Lloyd, American politician and businesswoman (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Gordon Moore, American computing entrepreneur and benefactor
* January 4 – Darrell Mudra, American football coach (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* January 5
** Wilbert Harrison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1994 in the United States, 1994)
** Robert K. Massie, American journalist and historian (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* January 9 – Tom Riley (Iowa politician), Tom Riley, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* January 13
** Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994 in the United States, 1994)
** Moe Savransky, American baseball player (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* January 14 – Billy Walker (musician), Billy Walker, American country music singer (d. 2006 in the United States, 2006)
* January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
* January 17
** Eilaine Roth, American professional baseball player (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
** Elaine Roth, American professional baseball player (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
* January 19 – Red Amick, American race car driver (d. 1995 in the United States, 1995)
* January 20
* January 20
** Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
** Arte Johnson, American comedian and actor (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** Frank Kush, American football player and coach (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* January 21 – Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, writer and literary scholar (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* January 27 – Richard Ottinger, American politician
February
* February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American film, television actor (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* February 2 – John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* February 3 – Huntington Hardisty, American admiral (d. 2003 in the United States, 2003)
* February 4
** Jerry Adler, American actor
** Stanley Drucker, American clarinetist (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Thomas H. Paterniti, American politician (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* February 5 – Hal Blaine, American drummer and session musician (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* February 6 – Chuck Nergard, American politician (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* February 10
** Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004 in the United States, 2004)
** Jim Whittaker, mountaineer
** Lou Whittaker, mountaineer
* February 14
** Vic Morrow, American actor, director (d. 1982 in the United States, 1982)
** James Nelligan, American politician
* February 15 – James Schlesinger, American politician (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* February 22
** James Hong, Chinese-American actor, director
** Rebecca Schull, American actress
* February 28 – Hayden Fry, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
March
* March 1 – Lynwood E. Clark, American Air Force lieutenant general
* March 6 – Gale McArthur, basketball player (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* March 7 – Marion Marlowe, American singer and actress (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* March 8
** Elaine Edwards, American politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Nicodemo Scarfo, American mafioso (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* March 11 – Hugh Newell Jacobsen, American architect (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* March 13
** Peter Breck, American actor (d. 2012 in Canada)
** Joseph Mascolo, American musician, actor (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* March 14
** Michael D. Coe, archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher and author (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** Bob Goalby, golfer (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* March 16 – Betty Johnson, singer
* March 17 – Howie Winter, gang boss (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* March 19 – Michael M. Ryan, American actor (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* March 25
** Harris W. Fawell, American politician (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** Cecil Taylor, African-American jazz pianist, composer, and poet (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* March 26 – Edward Sorel, American illustrator and caricaturist
* March 27
** Rita Briggs, American baseball player (d. 1994 in the United States, 1994)
** Don Warden, American country musician and manager (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* March 29 – Richard Lewontin, American biologist, geneticist and academic
* March 31 – Bert Fields, American lawyer and author
April
* April 1
** Jane Powell, actress, singer, dancer (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (d. 2006 in the United States, 2006)
* April 2
** Ed Dorn, poet (d. 1999 in the United States, 1999)
** Frank Farrar, governor of South Dakota (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* April 4
** William F. Clinger Jr., politician (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** John Dee Holeman, Piedmont Blues musician (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* April 5 – Richard Jenrette, businessman (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* April 8 – Morton B. Panish, physical chemist
* April 9 – Paule Marshall, born Valenza Pauline Burke, novelist (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* April 12
** Tony Douglas (singer), Tony Douglas, country music singer (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
** Dale Haupt, American football coach (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* April 13 – Yvonne Clark, engineer (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* April 16
** Dorne Dibble, American football player (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Roy Hamilton, African-American singer (d. 1969 in the United States, 1969)
* April 20 – John Andreason, politician (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* April 27 – Michael Harner, anthropologist, author (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* April 29
** Tom Cornsweet, psychologist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
** Billy Mize, steel guitarist, band leader, vocalist, songwriter, TV show host (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
May
* May 2 – Link Wray, rock and roll musician (d. 2005 in the United States, 2005)
* May 3
** Denise Lor, popular music singer, actress (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
** Emily Anne Staples, politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 4
** Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress and humanitarian (d. 1993 in Switzerland)
** Sydney Lamb, American linguist
** Paige Rense, American writer and editor (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* May 5 – Ilene Woods, American singer, actress (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* May 6 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
* May 7
** Sally Liberman Smith, educator (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
** Dick Williams, American baseball player (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* May 8
** Ethel D. Allen, African-American Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and physician (d. 1981 in the United States, 1981)
** John C. Bogle, American investor (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** Jane Roberts, American writer (d. 1984 in the United States, 1984)
* May 10 – Betty Foss, American female professional baseball player (d. 1998 in the United States, 1998)
* May 11 – Margaret Kerry, American actress, dancer, and motivational speaker
* May 15 – Frank Heart, American computer engineer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 16
** Betty Carter, African-American jazz singer (d. 1998 in the United States, 1998)
** John Conyers, African-American politician
** Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* May 18 – Walter Pitman, American educator, politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 22 – Neave Brown, American-British architect (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 25 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano, director of the New York City Opera (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
* May 27 – Thomas E. Brennan, American jurist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 30 – Marshall Loeb, American business journalist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
June
* June 1
** James H. Billington, American academic and author (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Chuck Ortmann, American football player (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* June 2 – Norton Juster, American writer and academic (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* June 3 – Chuck Barris, American television game show host, producer (d. 2017)
* June 6 – Mary Hatcher, American soprano, actress (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* June 8 – Marion Marshall, American actress (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* June 9 – Johnny Ace, African-American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1954 in the United States, 1954)
* June 10
** James McDivitt, American astronaut (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Grace Mirabella, American fashion journalist (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** E. O. Wilson, American biologist (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* June 11 – Frank Thomas (outfielder), Frank Thomas, American baseball player (d. 2023 in the United States, 2023)
* June 16 – Paul Cain (minister), Paul Cain, American Pentecostal Christian evangelist (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* June 20 – Bonnie Bartlett, American actress
* June 21
** Bob Gain, American football player (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
** Stephen B. Wiley, American politician (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* June 22 – Alex P. Garcia, American politician (d. 1999 in the United States, 1999)
* June 23
** June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003 in the United States, 2003)
** Gail Peters, American competition swimmer
** Gerald Eustis Thomas, American naval officer, diplomat and academic (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* June 24
** Vic Carrabotta, American comic-book artist, advertising art director (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Connie Hall, American country music singer (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer
* June 25 – Eric Carle, American designer, illustrator and writer (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* June 26 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, illustrator and teacher (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* June 27 – J. C. Duncan, politician
* June 28 – Glenn D. Paige, political scientist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* June 29
** Pat Crawford Brown, actress (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** Pete George, weightlifter
July
* July 1 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* July 3
** Joanne Herring, American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and former television talk show host
** Lavelle White, American Texas blues and soul blues singer, songwriter
* July 4
** Peter Angelos, American trial lawyer
** Bill Tremel, American professional baseball player (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
* July 5 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* July 6 – Angelo LiPetri, American former professional baseball player (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* July 8 – Shirley Ann Grau, American writer (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* July 9 – Jesse McReynolds, American bluegrass musician
* July 11 – Sandy Frank, American television producer, distributor, and marketer of TV shows
* July 14 – Pat Scott, American pitcher (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* July 15 – Walter Hirsch, American basketball player (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* July 17 – Arthur Frommer, American writer, publisher and consumer advocate
* July 18 – Dick Button, American figure skater
* July 19 – Alice Pollitt, American female professional baseball player (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* July 21
** Antonia Handler Chayes, American lawyer, educator
** Paul V. Gadola, American judge (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* July 23 – Robert Quackenbush, American author and children's illustrator (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* July 26 – Patrick Flores, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American socialite, conservationist, 35th First Lady of the United States (d. 1994 in the United States, 1994)
* July 31 – Don Murray (actor), Don Murray, American actor
August
* August 1 – Samuel Charters, American writer, music historian and record producer (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* August 2 – Irwin Fridovich, American biochemist (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* August 4 – Joe Pignatano, American baseball player and coach (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* August 7
** Jo Baer, American artist
** Don Larsen, American baseball player (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
** Richard T. Schulze, politician
* August 9 – Fred Fredericks, cartoonist (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* August 10 – Vincent McEveety, director, producer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* August 12 – Buck Owens, singer, bandleader, and TV host (d. 2006 in the United States, 2006)
* August 13 – Pat Harrington Jr., voice actor (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* August 14
** Thomas Meehan (writer), Thomas Meehan, playwright (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
** Louise Slaughter, politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* August 15
** Louise Shivers, writer (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
** Marcia Hafif, painter (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* August 16 – Fritz Von Erich, wrestler (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* August 17 – Francis Gary Powers, Lockheed U-2, U-2 spy plane pilot (d. 1977 in the United States, 1977)
* August 21 – Marie Severin, comics artist and colorist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* August 23 – Vera Miles, American actress
* August 24 – Betty Dodson, American sex educator (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* August 26 – Chuck Renslow, American businessman, LGBT activist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* August 27 – Ralph T. Coe, American art historian of Native American art (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* August 28 – Roxie Roker, African-American actress (d. 1995 in the United States, 1995)
* August 29 – Yale Kamisar, American legal scholar (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* August 31 – C. C. Torbert Jr., American jurist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
September
* September 1 – Murray Fromson, American journalist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 2 – Hal Ashby, American film director and editor (d. 1988 in the United States, 1988)
* September 3 – Whitey Bulger, Irish-American gangster and multiple murderer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 4 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
* September 5 – Bob Newhart, American comedian, actor
* September 6 – Dow Finsterwald, American professional golfer (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* September 9 – Stanford Parris, American lawyer and politician (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* September 10 – Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* September 11
** Eve Brent, American actress (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
** David S. Broder, American journalist (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* September 12 – Harvey Schmidt, American composer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 14
** Larry Collins (writer), Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005 in the United States, 2005)
** John Gutfreund, American banker, businessman and investor (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
** Mel Hancock, American politician (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* September 15 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* September 16
** Dale Kildee, American politician
** Maxine Kline, American female professional baseball player
* September 19
** Marge Roukema, American politician (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
** Mel Stewart, African-American actor (d. 2002 in the United States, 2002)
* September 20 – Anne Meara, American actress, comedian (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* September 22 – William E. Dannemeyer, American politician
* September 25
** Barbara Walters, American television journalist (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Kevin White (politician), Kevin White, American politician (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* September 26 – Meredith Gourdine, American athlete (d. 1998 in the United States, 1998)
* September 28 – Skip Bafalis, American politician
* September 30 – Helen M. Marshall, American politician (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
October
* October 2 – Moses Gunn, African-American actor (d. 1993 in the United States, 1993)
* October 4
** Scotty Beckett, American actor (d. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
** Leroy Van Dyke, American country music singer and guitarist
** Judith Jarvis Thomson, American moral philosopher (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* October 5 – Richard F. Gordon Jr., American astronaut (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* October 8 – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* October 15 – Hubert Dreyfus, American philosopher (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* October 18 – Jay Last, American physicist (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* October 21 – Ursula K. Le Guin, American science fiction and fantasy author (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* October 22 – Patsy Elsener, American diver (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* October 24
** Jim Brosnan, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
** George Crumb, American composer and educator (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Gustav Ranis, American economist and academic (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
**Ronald E. Rosser, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* October 25
** LaDell Andersen, American college and basketball coach (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** David McReynolds, American political activist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* October 26 – Roland Hemond, American baseball executive (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* October 28 – Mitchell Torok, American country music singer
November
* November 1 – Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (d. 2003 in the United States, 2003)
* November 2
** Rachel Ames, American actress
** Harold Farberman, American conductor, composer and percussionist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* November 6 – June Squibb, American actress
* November 8
** Bert Berns, American songwriter, record producer (d. 1967 in the United States, 1967)
** Bobby Bowden, American football player and coach
* November 9 – Severn Darden, American comedian, actor (d. 1995 in the United States, 1995)
* November 11 – LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* November 12 – Grace Kelly, American actress (d. 1982 in the United States, 1982)
* November 13 – Fred Phelps, American pastor, activist (''Westboro Baptist Church'') (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* November 14 – Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* November 15
** Ed Asner, American actor (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** Joe Hinton, African-American soul music singer (d. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
* November 18 – John McMartin, American actor (d. 2016 in the United States, 2016)
* November 23
** Hal Lindsey, Christian evangelist
** Gloria Lynne, American jazz singer (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
** Shirley Palesh, baseball player (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* November 24 – George Moscone, attorney, politician (d. 1978 in the United States, 1978)
* November 26 – Betta St. John, actress, singer and dancer
* November 28
** Berry Gordy, African-American record producer, songwriter
** Frederick D. Reese, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* November 30
** Dick Clark, American television entertainer (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
** Joan Ganz Cooney, television producer
December
* December 1 – David Doyle (actor), David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* December 2
** Dan Jenkins, American journalist and author (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
** Leon Litwack, American historian and author
* December 9 – John Cassavetes, American actor (d. 1989 in the United States, 1989)
* December 17 – William Safire, American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter (d. 2009 in the United States, 2009)
* December 20 – David H. Gambrell, politician
* December 21 – Newton Morton, geneticist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* December 23 – Chet Baker, jazz musician (d. 1988 in the United States, 1988)
* December 26 – Kathleen Crowley, actress (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* December 29
** Theodore V. Buttrey Jr., American educator, classicist and numismatist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Susie Garrett, African-American actress (d. 2002 in the United States, 2002)
** Matt "Guitar" Murphy, American blues musician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* December 31 – Robert B. Silvers, American literary editor (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
Deaths
* January 5 – Marc McDermott, actor (born 1871 in Australia, 1871) * January 13 ** Wyatt Earp, gunfighter (born 1848 in the United States, 1848) ** Emil Fuchs (artist), Emil Fuchs, sculptor and painter (born 1866 in Austria) * January 15 ** Leonard Cline, novelist, poet and journalist (born 1893 in the United States, 1893; heart failure) ** George Cope (artist), George Cope, painter (born 1855 in the United States, 1855) * January 30 – Franklin J. Drake, admiral (born 1846 in the United States, 1846) * February 4 – William Rankin Ballard, businessman (born 1847 in the United States, 1847) * February 11 – Frank Putnam Flint, U.S. Senator from California from 1905 to 1911 (born 1862 in the United States, 1862) * February 14 – Thomas Burke (athlete), Thomas Burke, sprinter (born 1875 in the United States, 1875) * February 18 – William Russell (American actor), William Russell, silent film actor (born 1884 in the United States, 1884) * February 22 – Louise Upton Brumback, landscape painter (born 1867 in the United States, 1867) * February 24 ** Adaline Hohf Beery, songbook compiler (born 1859 in the United States, 1859) ** Frank Keenan, actor (born 1858 in the United States, 1858) * February 27 – Briton Hadden, co-founder of ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine (born 1898 in the United States, 1898) * March 1 – Royal Hurlburt Weller, politician (born 1881 in the United States, 1881) * March 5 – David Dunbar Buick, inventor (born 1854 in Scotland) * March 6 – Moses E. Clapp, politician (born 1851 in the United States, 1851) * March 12 – Asa Griggs Candler, businessman and politician (born 1851) * March 15 – Pinetop Smith, blues pianist (born 1904 in the United States, 1904; shot in dancehall brawl) * March 18 – William P. Cronan, Naval Governor of Guam (born 1879 in the United States, 1879) * March 28 – Katharine Lee Bates, librettist, author of "America the Beautiful" (born 1859 in the United States, 1859) * April 4 – William Michael Crose, United States Navy Commander (United States), Commander and 7th List of governors of American Samoa, Governor of American Samoa (born 1867) * April 28 – May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (born 1860 in Australia, 1860) * June 2 – Don Murray (clarinetist), Don Murray, jazz clarinettist (born 1894 in the United States, 1894; auto accident) * June 4 – Harry Frazee, Broadway producer and baseball owner (born 1881) * June 5 – Adolph Coors, brewer (born 1847 in Prussia; suicide) * June 9 – murder–suicide ** Louis Bennison, silent Western film actor (born 1884) ** Margaret Lawrence (actress), Margaret Lawrence, actress (born 1889 in the United States, 1889) * June 11 – William D. Boyce, entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America (born 1858) * July 2 – Gladys Brockwell, film actress (born 1894; auto accident) * July 3 – Dustin Farnum, silent Western film actor (born 1874 in the United States, 1874) * July 9 – Cack Henley, baseball player (born 1884 in the United States, 1884) * July 12 – Robert Henri, painter (born 1865 in the United States, 1865) *July 20 – Noble Drew Ali, prophet (born 1886 in the United States, 1886) * August 3 ** Emile Berliner, inventor (born 1851 in Hanover) ** Thorstein Veblen, economist (born 1857 in the United States, 1857) * August 19 – Chris Kelly (jazz), Chris Kelly, jazz trumpeter (born c.1890) * August 27 – James Knox Taylor, official architect (born 1857) * September 2 – Paul Leni, filmmaker (born 1885 in Germany) * September 4 – Frederick Freeman Proctor, vaudeville impresario (born 1851) * September 25 – Miller Huggins, baseball manager (born 1879) * October 3 – Jeanne Eagels, actress (born 1890 in the United States, 1890; addiction) * October 15 – Annie Lowrie Alexander, physician and educator (born 1864 in the United States, 1864) * November 14 – Joe McGinnity, baseball player (born 1871 in the United States, 1871) * November 17 – Herman Hollerith, businessman and inventor (born 1860 in the United States, 1860) * November 24 – Raymond Hitchcock (actor), Raymond Hitchcock, actor and producer (born 1865) * December 10 – Harry Crosby, publisher and poet (born 1898; suicide) * December 19 – Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician (born 1893; heart failure) * December 21 – I. L. Patterson, politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (born 1859) * Undated ** Timothy Francis Donovan Aaron, New Jersey politician (born 1853) ** Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, ceramicist (born 1865) ** Dallas Lore Sharp, nature writer (born 1870 in the United States, 1870)See also
* 1929 in American television * List of American films of 1929 * Timeline of United States history (1900–1929)References
External links
* * {{Year in North America, 1929 1929 in the United States, 1920s in the United States 1929 by country, United States 1929 in North America, United States Years of the 20th century in the United States