Timeline October 1929

Events in October 1929 8

• 1866 – 1929 Aby Warburg (1866-1929) Died 26 October 1929, aged 63 German art historian and cultural theorist. His research library became the Warburg Institute in London, and his work helped found modern iconology.
• 1878 – 1929 Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) Died 3 October 1929, aged 51 German statesman who served as Chancellor and then Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic. He shared the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize for the Locarno Treaties.
• 1929 Kingdom renamed Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes takes a new name King Alexander I renamed his state the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and replaced the historic provinces with nine new administrative regions called banovinas. The change was meant to suppress ethnic and regional identities in favour of a single Yugoslav nation.
• 1929 The Sound and the Fury published Faulkner's modernist novel of the Compson family William Faulkner's novel about the decline of the Compson family of Mississippi was published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. Its stream-of-consciousness structure made it a landmark of American modernism.
• 1929 – 2023 Betty Boothroyd (1929-2023) Died 26 February 2023, aged 93 British politician and the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons.
• 1929 – 2025 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1929-2025) Died 14 June 2025, aged 95 Nicaraguan newspaper publisher and politician who was president from 1990 to 1997, Central America's first woman head of state.
• 1929 – 2018 Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) Died 22 January 2018, aged 88 American author renowned for science fiction and fantasy works including the Earthsea series and The Left Hand of Darkness. Her writing explored anarchism, gender and ecology, influencing generations of writers. She died in Portland, Oregon.
• 1929 – 1990 Lev Yashin The Black Spider The only goalkeeper to ever win the Ballon d'Or (1963).