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List of events
Events in the year 1929 in
Japan. It corresponds to
Shōwa 4 (昭和4年) in the
Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Films
Births
- January 1 –
Haruo Nakajima, actor, stuntman, and choreographer (d.
2017)
- January 16 –
Shigeru Koyama, actor (d. 2017)
- January 20 –
Masaharu Kawakatsu, zoologist
- January 23 –
Kenji Suzuki, announcer
- January 26 –
Sumiteru Taniguchi,
survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, and anti–nuclear weapons activist (d.
2017)
- January 30 –
Isamu Akasaki, physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2021)
- February 13 –
Frankie Sakai, comedian, actor, and musician (d.
1996)
- February 14
- March 20 –
Kazue Takahashi, voice actress (d.
1999)
- March 22 –
Yayoi Kusama, artist
- March 28 –
Takehiro Irokawa, writer (d.
1989)
- April 3 –
Shinichiro Sakurai, automotive engineer (d.
2011)
- April 6 –
Shoichi Ozawa, actor, radio host and singer (d.
2012)
- April 10 –
Yozo Aoki, football player (d.
2014)
- May 8 –
Miyoshi Umeki, actress (d.
2007)
- June 1 –
Tatsuro Toyoda, businessman (d.
2017)
- June 4 –
Nakamura Tomijūrō V,
Kabuki actor (d. 2011)
- July 5 –
Chikao Ohtsuka, voice actor (d.
2015)
- September 29 –
Tōru Ōhira, voice actor (d.
2016)
- September 30 –
Kazuko, Princess Taka, later "Kazuko Takatsukasa", daughter of
Emperor Shōwa (d. 1989)
- October 4 –
Chokei Kishaba,
Okinawan martial arts master (d.
2000)
- November 7 –
Akio Suzuki, medical scientist, educator (d.
2010)
- November 17 –
Gorō Naya, voice actor (d.
2013)
- November 28 –
Kuniko Mukōda, screenwriter (d.
1981)
- December 12 –
Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist
- Unknown –
Akihiko Okamura, photographer (d.
1985)
Deaths
- February 10 –
Nagai Nagayoshi, chemist and pharmacologist (b. 1844)
- March 22 –
Inoue Yoshika,
Marshal Admiral (b. 1845)
- April 13 –
Gotō Shinpei, politician and scouting pioneer (b. 1857)
- April 27 –
Hōjō Tokiyuki, educator, mathematician and politician (b. 1858)
- June 29 –
Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, prince and field marshal
[2] (b. 1873)
- July 25 –
Shōzō Makino silent film director and producer (b. 1878)
- August 16 –
Tsuda Umeko, educator (b. 1864)
- August 26 –
Ernest Mason Satow, British scholar, diplomat and
Japanologist (b. 1843)
- September 29 –
Tanaka Giichi, general and
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1864)
- October 31 –
Senshō Murakami, Buddhist scholar and priest
- November 22 –
Kamakichi Kishinouye, marine biologist and cnidariologist (b.
1867)
- December 20 –
Ryūsei Kishida, painter (b. 1891)
See also
References
References