1929

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Years : 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932

Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Nobel Prize winners

  • Physics - Louis-Victor de Broglie, French physicist
  • Chemistry - Arthur Harden and Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
  • Medicine - Christiaan Eijkman (Dutch physicist) and Frederick Gowland Hopkins
  • Literature - Thomas Mann, German writer
  • Peace - Frank Billings Kellogg

[edit] Hit songs

  • "Am I Blue?" by Ethel Waters
  • "Button Up Your Overcoat" by Helen Kane
  • "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by Rudy Vallee
  • "I Want To Be Bad" by Annette Hanshaw
  • "I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by Aileen Stanley
  • "I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
  • "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
  • "Louise" by Maurice Chevalier
  • "Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys, featuring Bing Crosby
  • "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor
  • "Maybe, Who Knows?" by Kate Smith
  • "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith
  • "Piccolo Pete" by Ted Weems & His Orchestra
  • "Singin' In The Rain" by Cliff Edwards
  • "Stardust" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
  • "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
  • "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by Rudy Vallee