List of Famous people who died in 1929

Archibald Campbell, 4th Baron Blythswood KCVO was the son of Barrington Campbell, 3rd Baron Blythswood, and grandson of Archibald Douglas of Mains.

David Dunbar Buick was a Scottish-born American Detroit-based inventor, best known for founding the Buick Motor Company. He headed this company and its predecessor from 1899–1906, thereby helping to create one of the most successful nameplates in United States motor vehicle history.

Jean Alexandre Michel André Castaigne was a French artist and engraver, a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. Subsequently he became a leading illustrator in the United States. He is often recalled as the original illustrator of the first edition of The Phantom of the Opera.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Anglo-Zulu War he established an early reputation as a pioneer of ship-to-ship wireless technology. Later he became the first person to achieve ship-to-ship wireless communications and demonstrated continuous communication with another vessel up to three miles away. He went on to be Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy, then Director of the Royal Naval War College and subsequently Chief of the Admiralty War Staff. He was advisor on overseas expeditions planning attacks on Germany's colonial possessions at the start of the First World War and was selected as the surprise successor to Admiral Lord Fisher upon the latter's spectacular resignation in May 1915 following the failure of the Gallipoli Campaign. He had a cordial working relationship with First Lord of the Admiralty Arthur Balfour, but largely concerned himself with administrative matters and his prestige suffered when German destroyers appeared in the Channel, as a result of which he was replaced in December 1916.

Colonel Charles John Coventry, CB was a British Army officer who played cricket for England in the first two Test matches they played against South Africa.

Charles James Murray was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat.

Charles Joseph Leicester Stanhope, 10th Earl of Harrington MC, DL, was a British captain and peer.

Sir Charles Tertius Mander, 1st Baronet JP, DL was a Midland manufacturer, philanthropist and public servant, of Wolverhampton, England.

Tsuda Umeko was a Japanese educator, Christian, and pioneer in education for women in Meiji period Japan. Originally named Tsuda Ume, with mume or ume referring to the Japanese plum, she went by the name Ume Tsuda while studying in the United States before changing her name to Umeko in 1902.

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.