1929
1929 (
MCMXXIX) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
January
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January 2 -
Canada and the
United States agree on a plan to preserve
Niagara Falls.
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January 9 - The
Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train
dogs to assist the
blind (
Nashville, Tennessee).
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January 10 -
Tintin, a
comic book character created by
Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 60 languages, and loved across the world.
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January 15 - First issue of
Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in
France by
Armand Colin.
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January 17 -
Popeye, a
comic strip character created by
Elzie Crisler Segar, makes his debut.
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January 18 - Leon
Trotsky expelled from
Soviet Union; he moves to Turkey
January 29 and applies for sanctuary in France and Germany
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January 29 -
Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
February
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February 11 -
Italy and the
Vatican sign the
Lateran Treaty*
February 11 -
Eugene O'Neill's
Dynamo premieres in
New York*
February 14 -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven
gangsters, rivals of
Al Capone, are murdered in
Chicago, Illinois.
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February 18 - First
Academy Awards are announced
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February 26 - The
Grand Teton National Park is created.
March
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March 3 - Revolt attempt of Generals
José Gonzalo Escobar and
Jesús María Aguirre fails in
Mexico.
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March 4 -
Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st
President of the United States, succeeding
Calvin Coolidge.
May
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May 13 -
National Crime Syndicate founded in
Atlantic City.
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May 14 -
Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th
first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
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May 15 - A fire at the
Cleveland Clinic in
Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
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May 16 - First
Academy Awards *
May 31 - British
general election returns a hung parliament yet again - Liberals will determine who has power.
June
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June 7 - In Britain
Conservatives concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for fragile majority
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June 7 - The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified
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June 8 -
Ramsay MacDonald founds new
Labour government.
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June 21 - agreement brokered by US ambassador
Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the
Cristero War in
Mexico. In
June 27, church bells ring for the first time in years
July
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July 5 -
Scotland Yard seizes 12 nude paintings of
D.H. Lawrence from the
Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency
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July 24 - French prime minister
Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by
Aristide Briand*
July 24 - The
Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing
war as an instrument of
foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in
Paris on
August 27,
1928 by most leading world powers).
August
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August 8 - The
German airship
Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on
August 29).
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August 19 - The
radio comedy show
Amos and Andy makes its debut starring
Freeman Gosden and
Charles Correll.
September
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September 5 -
Aristide Briand presents his plan of the
United States of Europe*
September 7 - Steamboat
Kuru sinks in
Näsijärvi,
Tampere,
Finland - 136 drowned
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September 17 - Coup ousts
Augustinas Voldemaras in
Lithuania; new president is
Antanas Smetona |
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression |
October
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October 11 -
JC Penney opens Store #1252 in
Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
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October 22 - Government of
Aristide Briand falls in France
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October 29 -
Black Tuesday stock market crash on the
New York Stock ExchangeNovember
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November 7 - In
New York City, the
Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
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November 15 - The
Ambassador Bridge is opened to traffic.
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November 18 -
1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of
Newfoundland in the
Atlantic Ocean, a
Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine
earthquake centered on
Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine
transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a
tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the
Burin Peninsula area, killing 28. As of
1997, it is
Canada's most lethal earthquake.[
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November 29 - US Admiral
Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the
South Pole.
December
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December 2 - First
phone booths in
London*
December 3 -
Great Depression: US President
Herbert Hoover announces to
U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent
stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the
economy.
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December 29 -
All India Congress in
Lahore demands
Indian
independence*
December 31 -
Guy Lombardo plays
Auld Lang Syne for the first time
Unknown dates
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Third Geneva Convention* The
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is proposed.
* Greatest number of fatal
civil aircraft crashes in US history.
* Civil war in
Afghanistan*
Lapua Movement in
Finland*
Branch Davidian sect founded in Los Angeles
* Start of the
Soviet-Chinese Conflict* May -
Wickersham Commission began investigation of alcohol prohibition in U.S.
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Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television.
January
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January 3 -
Sergio Leone, Italian film director (d.
1989)
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January 6 -
Babrak Karmal, third
President of Afghanistan (d.
1996)
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January 9 -
Brian Friel, Northern Irish dramatist
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January 15 - Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1968)
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January 17 -
Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d.
1986)
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January 20 -
Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d.
1964)
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January 23 -
John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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January 26 -
Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
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January 28 -
Acker Bilk, American jazz clarinetist
* January 28 -
Claes Oldenbourg, Swedish sculptor
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January 27 -
Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (d.
1984)
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January 31 -
Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
* January 31 -
Jean Simmons, English actress
February
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February 5 -
Luc Ferrari, French composer (d.
2005)
* February 5 -
Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
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February 6 -
Pierre Brice, French actor
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February 14 -
Vic Morrow, American actor (d.
1982)
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February 15 -
Graham Hill, English race car driver (d.
1975)
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February 17 -
Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author (d.
2002)
* February 17 -
Patricia Routledge, English actress
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February 18 -
Len Deighton, British author
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February 28 -
Hayden Fry, American football coach
* February 28 -
Frank Gehry, Canadian-born architect
March
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March 1 -
Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d.
1978)
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March 4 -
Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
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March 9 -
Desmond Hoyte,
Prime Minister and
President of Guyana (d.
2002)
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March 17 -
Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born sociologist
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March 23 - Sir
Roger Bannister, British runner
April
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April 1 -
Milan Kundera, Czech-born author
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April 5 -
Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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April 6 -
André Previn, German-born pianist, composer, and conductor
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April 8 -
Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d.
2000)
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April 10 -
Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
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April 24 -
Dr. Rajkumar, Famous
Kannada film actor and singer (d.
2006)
May
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May 4 -
Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d.
1993)
* May 4 -
Sydney MacDonald Lamb, American linguist
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May 6 -
Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
May 10 -
Antonine Maillet, Canadian author
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May 14 -
Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player
* May 14 -
Henry McGee, English actor
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May 21 -
Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist
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May 25 -
Beverly Sills, American soprano
June
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June 1 -
Nargis, Indian actress (d.
1981)
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June 2 -
Norton Juster, American author and architect
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June 3 -
Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
June 6 -
Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d.
2005)
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June 10 -
Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (d.
2005)
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June 12 -
Brigid Brophy, English author (d.
1995)
* June 12 -
Anne Frank, German-born Dutch
Jewish diarist and
Holocaust victim (d.
1945)
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June 13 -
Alan Civil, English French horn player (d.
1989)
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June 16 -
Ramon Bieri, American actor (d.
2001)
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June 17 -
Tigran Petrosian, Russian chess player (d.
1984)
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June 21 -
Abdel Halim Hafez,
Egyptian singer and actor (d.
1977)
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June 23 -
June Carter Cash, American singer (d.
2003)
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June 26 -
Milton Glaser, American graphic designer
July
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July 1 -
Gerald Edelman, American biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
July 2 -
Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
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July 4 -
Bill Tuttle, baseball player
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July 5 -
Tony Lock, English cricketer (d.
1995)
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July 9 - King
Hassan II of Morocco (d.
1999)
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July 11 -
Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (d.
1998)
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July 13 -
Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast
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July 18 -
Dick Button, American figure skater
* July 18 -
Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American musician (d.
2000)
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July 24 -
Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author
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July 25 -
Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician
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July 26 -
Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist
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July 28 -
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of
John F Kennedy (d.
1994)
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July 31 -
Lynne Reid Banks, British author.
August
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August 1 -
Hafizullah Amin, second
President of Afghanistan (d.
1979)
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August 8 -
Ronald Biggs, British criminal
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August 16 -
Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d.
2003)
* August 16 -
Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (d.
1980)
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August 24 -
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
2004)
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August 26 -
Maurice Tempelsman, Belgian diamond merchant and financier
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August 28 -
Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d.
1973)
September
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September 1 -
Anne Ramsey, American actress (d.
1988)
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September 5 -
Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor
* September 5 -
Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (d.
2004)
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September 6 -
Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d.
2004)
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September 8 -
Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
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September 9 -
Claude Nougaro, French singer (d.
2004)
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September 15 -
Eva Burrows, the 13th General of
The Salvation Army* September 15 -
Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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September 20 -
Anne Meara, American comedienne and actress
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September 21 -
Bernard Williams, British philosopher (d.
2003)
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September 25 -
Ronnie Barker, British comedian (d.
2005)
* September 25 -
Barbara Walters, American journalist
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September 28 -
Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
October
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October 7 -
Robert Westall, British author (d.
1993)
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October 14 -
Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer
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October 16 -
Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
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October 22 -
Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d.
1990)
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October 24 -
George Crumb, American composer
* October 24 -
Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright (d.
2004)
November
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November 2 -
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar,
President of Pakistan* November 2 -
Richard E. Taylor, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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November 4 -
Doris Roberts, American actress
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November 7 -
Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
November 8 -
Lal Krishna Advani, Indian politician
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November 9 -
Imre Kertesz, Hungarian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate
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November 11 -
LaVern Baker, American singer (d.
1997)
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November 12 -
Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d.
1982)
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November 15 -
Edward Asner, American actor
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November 19 -
Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d.
2004)
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November 30 -
Dick Clark, American television entertainer
December
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December 6 -
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-born conductor
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December 9 -
Bob Hawke, twenty-third
Prime Minister of Australia*
December 16 -
Nicholas Courtney, British actor
* December 16 -
James Moore, British author
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December 17 -
Jacqueline Hill, British actress (d.
1993)
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December 23 -
Chet Baker, American jazz musician (d.
1988)
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December 28 -
Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (d.
1970)
* December 28 -
Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (d.
1994)
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January 5 -
Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (b.
1856)
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January 13 -
Wyatt Earp, American gunfighter (b.
1848)
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January 30 -
La Goulue, French dancer (b.
1866)
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February 8 -
Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain (b.
1858)
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February 12 -
Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b.
1853)
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February 14 -
Tom Burke, American runner (b.
1875)
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March 20 -
Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b.
1851)
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April 4 -
Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer (b.
1844)
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April 24 -
Caroline Rémy, French feminist (b.
1855)
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May 21 -
Archibald Primrose,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1847)
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June 8 -
Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b.
1861)
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June 11 -
William Dickson Boyce, American entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b.
1858)
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June 16 -
Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of
The Salvation Army (b.
1856)
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June 28 -
Edward Carpenter, English poet (b.
1844)
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July 15 -
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b.
1874)
* August -
Mary MacLane, Canadian feminist writer (b.
1881)
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August 3 -
Thorstein Veblen, Norwegian-born economist (b.
1857)
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August 3 -
Emil Berliner, German-born inventor (b.
1851)
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August 5 -
Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b.
1847)
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August 26 - Sir
Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar in East Asia (b.
1843)
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August 27 -
Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (b.
1892)
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September 12 -
Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b.
1865)
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September 23 -
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1865)
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September 24 -
Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai doctor (b.
1892)
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September 29 -
Tanaka Giichi, 26th
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1863)
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October 1 -
Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b.
1861)
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October 3 -
Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b.
1890)
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October 3 -
Gustav Stresemann,
Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1878)
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October 28 -
Bernhard von Bülow,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1849)
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November 6 -
Prince Maximilian of Baden,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1867)
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November 24 -
Georges Clemenceau,
Premier of France (b.
1841)
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December 10 -
Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b.
1898)
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December 20 -
Émile Loubet, 7th
President of France (b.
1838)
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December 29 -
Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b.
1846)
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Physics -
Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie*
Chemistry -
Arthur Harden,
Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin*
Physiology or Medicine -
Christiaan Eijkman, Sir
Frederick Gowland Hopkins*
Literature -
Thomas Mann*
Peace -
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