List of Famous people who died in 1929

Elek Benedek

First Name Elek
Last Name Benedek
Born on September 30, 1859
Died on August 17, 1929 (aged 69)

Benedek Elek, western name order "Elek Benedek" [Hungarian], Born on was a Hungarian journalist and writer, widely known as "The Great Folk-Tale Teller" of The "Szekely_Hungarian" Fairy-Tales.

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Bernhard von Bülow

Bernhard Heinrich Martin Karl von Bülow
First Name Bernhard
Last Name Bülow
Born on May 3, 1849
Died on October 28, 1929 (aged 80)
Born in Germany, Hamburg, Altona

Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin von Bülow, created Fürst von Bülow in 1905, was a German statesman who served as Foreign Minister for three years and then as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909. A fervent supporter of Weltpolitik, Bülow single-mindedly devoted his chancellorship to making Germany a leading power on the world stage. Despite presiding over sustained economic growth and technological advancement within his country, his government's foreign policy did much to antagonize the international community and significantly contributed to the outbreak of the First World War.

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Arthur Leveson

First Name Arthur
Last Name Leveson
Born on January 27, 1868
Died on June 26, 1929 (aged 61)

Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson GCB was a senior officer in the Royal Navy. He was the Rear Admiral Commanding His Majesty's Australian Fleet from 9 January 1917 to 3 September 1918 and later Commander in Chief, China Station from 10 September 1922 to 22 April 1925.

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Oscar Underwood

First Name Oscar
Last Name Underwood
Born on May 6, 1862
Died on January 25, 1929 (aged 66)

Oscar Wilder Underwood was an American lawyer and politician from Alabama, and also a candidate for President of the United States in 1912 and 1924. He was the first formally designated floor leader in the United States Senate, and the only individual to serve as the Democratic leader in both the Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

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André Messager

First Name André
Last Name Messager
Died on February 24, 1929

André Charles Prosper Messager was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet Les Deux Pigeons (1886) and opéra comique Véronique (1898) have had lasting success; Les P'tites Michu (1897) and Monsieur Beaucaire (1919) were also popular internationally.

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Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa

First Name Manuel
Last Name Costa
Born on January 14, 1863
Died on December 17, 1929 (aged 66)
Born in Portugal, Lisbon

Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, commonly known as Manuel Gomes da Costa or just Gomes da Costa, was a Portuguese army officer and politician, the tenth President of the Portuguese Republic and the second of the National Dictatorship.

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Alfred Jodrell

First Name Alfred
Born on August 13, 1847
Died on January 1, 1929 (aged 81)

Sir Alfred Jodrell, 4th Baronet (1847-1929) was the fourth and last of the Jodrell Baronets, assuming the title in 1882. The title became extinct on his death. Jodrell married Jane Grimston, daughter of James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam.

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Alfred Percy Allsopp

First Name Alfred
Born on August 26, 1861
Died on February 22, 1929 (aged 67)

Alfred Percy Allsopp was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician.

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Habibullāh Kalakāni

First Name Habibullāh
Born on January 19, 1890
Died on November 2, 1929 (aged 39)
Born in Afghanistan, Kabul

Habibullāh Kalakāni, also known by his nickname "Bacha-ye Saqao" was a ruler of Afghanistan from 17 January to 13 October 1929, as well as a leader of the Saqqawists. During the Afghan Civil War, he captured vast swathes of Afghanistan and ruled Kabul during what is known in historiography as the "Saqqawist period". He was an ethnic Tajik. No country recognized Kalakani as ruler of Afghanistan.

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Kate Perugini

Catherine Dickens
First Name Kate
Last Name Perugini
Born on October 29, 1839
Died on May 9, 1929 (aged 89)

Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Catherine Dickens and Charles Dickens.

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