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The most popular American athlete of the 1920s was baseball player Babe Ruth. His characteristic home-run hitting heralded a new epoch in the history of the sport (the "live-ball era"), and his high style of living fascinated the nation and made him one of the highest-profile figures of the decade. Fans were enthralled in 1927 when Ruth hit 60 ...
Denise Lor, popular music singer, actress (d. 2015) Emily Anne Staples, politician (d. 2018) May 4. Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress and humanitarian (d. 1993 in Switzerland) Sydney Lamb, American linguist; Paige Rense, American writer and editor (d. 2021) May 5 – Ilene Woods, American singer, actress (d. 2010)
The following is a list of living centenarians (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than just their longevity. For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians.
The general top-30 list of people (above, now extended to top-100) included 23 living people as of January 2020. This is a feature of the "nascent" Wikipedia. In the course of generations, such top-lists will contain only people who have died, [citation needed] for view-count continues posthumously.
1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.
The following is a list of notable people born, ... (1929–2021), ... (1929–2013), swing and bebop drummer best known for his 29 years on The Tonight Show Starring ...
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
Elgin Baylor § (1934–2021) – basketball player; Charles Baxter (born 1947) – author; John C. Beale (born 1948) – EPA consultant, convicted felon; Dick Beardsley (born 1956) – former world-class marathoner, motivational speaker; Tracy Beckman (born 1945) – government official, politician, business owner and manager