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Events in April 1929 12
1844 – 1929Carl Benz (1844-1929)Died 4 April 1929, aged 84German engineer who built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen of 1885, widely regarded as the first practical automobile. His company merged with Daimler in 1926 to form Daimler-Benz.
1929 – 2021Jane Powell (1929-2021)American singer and actress, a star of MGM musicals, including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
1929Jane Powell born in PortlandJane Powell is born in Portland.
1929 – 2023Milan KunderaCzech-French NovelistCzech-born French novelist, essayist and playwright. His novels, including The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, explored themes of identity, exile and the fragility of human existence under totalitarianism. Stripped of his Czechoslovak citizenship after the Soviet invasion, he lived in France from 1975 and became a French citizen in 1981.
1929Milan Kundera born in BrnoBorn in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now Czechia). His father was a prominent musicologist and pianist.
1929Carl Benz diesFifty-seven years of marriageCarl Benz dies at Ladenburg at eighty-four, five decades after the engine first ran on that New Year's Eve. Bertha outlives him by fifteen years.
1929 – 2001Nigel Hawthorne (1929-2001)Died 26 December 2001, aged 72Hawthorne was a British actor best known as the scheming civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby in the sitcoms Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. On stage and screen he played the title role in The Madness of King George, earning an Oscar nomination. He came to leading roles relatively late in life.
1929 – 2019Andre Previn (1929-2019)Died 28 February 2019, aged 89Andre Previn was a German-born American conductor, pianist, and composer who led major orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and won four Academy Awards for film scoring. He worked across classical, jazz, and film music with equal acclaim. He died at his home in New York.
1929Bhagat Singh bombs the Central Legislative AssemblyRevolutionaries throw bombs in Delhi and court arrestBhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two low-intensity bombs into the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and scattered leaflets, shouting "Inquilab Zindabad". Nobody was killed, and they made no attempt to escape. Bhagat Singh was executed in 1931 for an earlier killing.
1929 – 2020Max von Sydow (1929-2020)Died 8 March 2020, aged 90Max von Sydow was a Swedish actor renowned for his collaborations with director Ingmar Bergman, including The Seventh Seal, and later roles in The Exorcist and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He died on 8 March 2020.
1929 – 1959Mike HawthornThe Bow Tie Driver1958 World Champion and Britain’s first-ever F1 champion.
1929First Monaco Grand PrixMotor race through the streets of Monte CarloThe first Monaco Grand Prix was held on a street circuit through Monte Carlo and won by William Grover-Williams in a Bugatti. The race became one of the most famous events in motor sport.