1929
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Art and culture
Trends and events
Film
- Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov
- Un chien andalou by Luis Buñuel
- New Babylon
- Melody of the World by Walter Ruttmann
Literature
Non-fiction
- "Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia" by Walter Benjamin
- First issue of DOCUMENTS
- First issue of Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
- The Big Toe, a text by Georges Bataille accompanied by three photos by Jacques-André Boiffard
- "Les mots et les images", a visual essay by René Magritte
Fiction
- Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Visual culture
- Airliner no. 4, Norman Bel Geddes with Otto Koller
- The Barcelona Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Les abattoirs de La Villette by Eli Lotar
Births
- Martin Luther King, Jr., African-American activist (d. 1968)
- Régine Zylberberg, Belgian entertainer (1929 - )
- Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (d. 2007)
- Frank Gehry, American architect (1929 - )
- Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher (1929 - )
- Sergio Leone, Italian film director (d. 1989)
- René Laloux, French film animator (d. 2004)
- José Ramón Larraz, Spanish film director (d. 2013)
- Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
- Herschell Gordon Lewis, American filmmaker
Deaths
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