Historical figures in 1929

The atlas holds 79 people and 102 moments here, in 1929. The most recorded lives are Jomo Kenyatta, José Raúl Capablanca and Jawaharlal Nehru. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.

Notable people

  1. Henry Ford

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    American industrialist and founder of Ford Motor Company. Ford grew up in rural Michigan, worked in Detroit engineering and machine shops, developed…

  2. Herbert Hoover

    in 1929

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    Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…

  3. Hideki Yukawa

    in 1929

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    Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…

  4. Ho Chi Minh

    in 1929

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    Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…

  5. Howard Florey

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…

  6. Jawaharlal Nehru

    in 1929

    3 moments here

    Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…

  7. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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    Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…

  8. Jomo Kenyatta

    in 1929

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    Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…

  9. José Raúl Capablanca

    in 1929

    4 moments here

    Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…

  10. Juan Perón

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine army officer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and again from 1973 until his…

  11. Konstantin Chernenko

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Soviet Communist Party official and General Secretary of the CPSU from 13 February 1984 until his death.…

  12. Lata Mangeshkar

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Indian playback singer and occasional composer whose career spanned eight decades. Born in Indore, she moved to Mumbai in 1945 and became a central…

  13. Le Corbusier

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…

  14. Leon Trotsky

    in 1929

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    Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…

  15. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    in 1929

    2 moments here

    Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…

  16. Lu Xun

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren; 1881–1936) was a Chinese writer, critic, translator, lecturer, and civil servant whose work was central to modern Chinese…

  17. Mao Zedong

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…

  18. Marie Curie

    in 1929

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    Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…

  19. Martin Luther King Jr.

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…

  20. Maurice Wilkins

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…

  21. Maxim Gorky

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, publisher, and political activist.…

  22. Mother Teresa

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa or Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun.…

  23. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…

  24. Ngô Đình Diệm

    in 1929

    2 moments here

    Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese civil servant, nationalist politician, prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and first president of the Republic of…

Moments

  1. 1929 University Power House night work William Faulkner
  2. 1929 Move to Tsinghua Yuan Yang Chen-Ning
  3. 1929 Signing the Lateran Treaty Benito Mussolini
  4. 1929 Hospitalization at Hopital Cochin George Orwell
  5. 1929 Fort Myers visit with Edison and Firestone Henry Ford
  6. 1929 Departure from Mombasa for Britain Jomo Kenyatta
  7. 1929 Initial Turkish exile in Istanbul Leon Trotsky
  8. 1929 Celebrates birthday at Fort Myers Thomas Edison
  9. 1929 Return to Northampton after presidency Calvin Coolidge
  10. 1929 Birth in Taubaté Hebe Camargo
  11. 1929 Presidential inauguration Herbert Hoover
  12. 1929 Marriage to Princess Märtha Olav V
  13. 1929 Birth in Sungai Pinang P. Ramlee
  14. 1929 Birth in Matsumoto Yayoi Kusama
  15. 1929 Yanaros mansion residence Leon Trotsky
  16. 1929 Canadian education conference in Victoria Rabindranath Tagore
  17. 1929 Lectures in Vancouver Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 1929 Birth in Ixelles Audrey Hepburn
  19. 1929 Lecture visit to Peking Lu Xun
  20. 1929 Birth at Maingau Red Cross Clinic Anne Frank
  21. 1929 Early childhood home at Marbachweg 307 Anne Frank
  22. 1929 Berlin simultaneous display José Raúl Capablanca
  23. 1929 Visit to Solovki forced-labour camp Maxim Gorky
  24. 1929 Arrival for Sun Yat-sen's burial Soong Ching-ling
  25. 1929 Inspects Clinton Prison after riot Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  26. 1929 Birth in Srostki Vasily Shukshin
  27. 1929 Speaks at Nuremberg party rally Adolf Hitler
  28. 1929 Marries Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera
  29. 1929 Marriage to Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo
  30. 1929 Dissolution of the Order of the Star Jiddu Krishnamurti
  31. 1929 Begins recurring stays at Yalova Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  32. 1929 Birth in Cairo Yasser Arafat
  33. 1929 Medical post in Abengourou Félix Houphouët-Boigny
  34. 1929 Birth in Indore Lata Mangeshkar
  35. 1929 Visit to Borobudur Prajadhipok
  36. 1929 Ueno residence and Asakusa visits Yasunari Kawabata
  37. 1929 Investigation visit to Chalisgaon B. R. Ambedkar
  38. 1929 Meeting with Ramsay MacDonald at Rapidan Camp Herbert Hoover
  39. 1929 Buenos Aires lecture tour Le Corbusier
  40. 1929 Appears with President Hoover on second U.S. tour Marie Curie
  41. 1929 Dedicates Greenfield Village Thomas Edison
  42. 1929 Birth in Rivas Violeta Chamorro
  43. 1929 Executive officer to the Assistant Secretary of War Dwight D. Eisenhower
  44. 1929 Birth at Hahnemann University Hospital Grace Kelly
  45. 1929 All-India Trade Union Congress session Jawaharlal Nehru
  46. 1929 Ethics lecture Ludwig Wittgenstein
  47. 1929 Return to Berlin Soong Ching-ling
  48. 1929 Birth in Bordertown Bob Hawke
  49. 1929 Begins the Cuernavaca mural commission Diego Rivera
  50. 1929 Congress presidency at Lahore Jawaharlal Nehru

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