List of Famous people who died in 1929

Franz Rosenzweig was a German-Jewish theologian, philosopher, and translator.

Walter George Frank Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore,, known as Sir Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baronet, from 1885 to 1918, was a British lawyer and judge.

André Joseph Lefèvre was a French politician who was Minister of War in 1920.

Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, also known as Max of Baden, was a German prince, general and politician. He was heir presumptive to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Baden, and in October and November 1918 briefly served as Chancellor of the German Empire. He sued for peace on Germany's behalf at the end of World War I based on U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, which included immediately transforming the government into a parliamentary system, by handing over the title of chancellor to SPD Chairman Friedrich Ebert and unilaterally proclaiming the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II. Both events took place on 9 November 1918, the beginning of the Weimar Republic.

Wilhelm Maybach (help·info) was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of Designers".

Paul Leni was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionism, making Hintertreppe (1921) and Waxworks (1924) in Germany, and The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Chinese Parrot (1927), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and The Last Warning (1928) in the United States.

Karl Heun was a German mathematician who introduced Heun's equation, Heun functions, and Heun's method.

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian-Hungarian chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1925. The crater Zsigmondy on the Moon is named in his honour.

Ulysses Simpson "Buck" Grant Jr. was an American attorney and entrepreneur. He was the second son of President Ulysses S. Grant.