List of Famous people who died in 1929

Alice Washburn (1860-1929) was an American stage and film actress. She worked at the Edison, Vitagraph and Kalem studios. Her final film Snow White was her only known feature film. She died of heart attack in November 1929.

Augustine Mary Moore Stack was an Irish republican and politician who served as Minister for Home Affairs from 1921 to 1922. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1927.

Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay was a Polish and Russian linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.

Admiral of the Fleet The Honourable Sir Hedworth Meux was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he was present at the bombardment of Alexandria during the Anglo-Egyptian War.

John Wells was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904 he won the bronze medal in the double sculls, with his partner Joseph Ravannack.

Siegfried Graf von Clary und Aldringen was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat during the time before World War I.

General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, was a British Army officer and colonial governor. He served in the Mahdist War in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and in the First World War. As military governor in Ireland, he played a key part in the response to the 1916 Irish Easter Rising, including ordering the execution of the leaders of the rising. He retired in 1922.

General Sir William Dillon Otter was a professional Canadian soldier who became the first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Militia.

William Hauber was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1913 and 1928. He was born in Brownsville, Minnesota, and died in California in a plane crash during aerial scouting for film locations during the production of the film The Aviator in 1929.