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The year 1929 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1929.
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Global television events
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| June || 27 || Herbert Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City demonstrate color mechanical television (this was first achieved by John Logie Baird the previous year). The 50-line color images are of a bouquet of roses and an American flag. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington, D.C.
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|rowspan="2"| August
| 20 || First transmissions of Baird's 30-line television system by the BBC in London.
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| 25 || Westinghouse station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, begins broadcasting movies on a daily basis, 60 lines per picture, 16 pictures per second.
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Births
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| January 11 || Nicoletta Orsomando || Italy's first TV continuity announcer (died 2021)
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| January 20 || Arte Johnson || U.S. comic actor (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In) (died 2019)
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| February 4 || Jerry Adler || U.S. actor (The Sopranos) (died 2025)
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| February 22 || Rebecca Schull || U.S. actress (Wings)
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| March 5 || Raymond Allen || U.S. actor (Sanford and Son) (died 2020)
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| April 3 || Lee Leonard || U.S. television personality (died 2018)
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| April 10 || Liz Sheridan || U.S. actress (died 2022)
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| June 3 || Chuck Barris || U.S. game show host (The Dating Game) (died 2017)
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| June 23 || June Carter Cash || U.S. singer and actress (The Johnny Cash Show) (died 2003)
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| July 5 || Katherine Helmond || U.S. actress (Soap, Who's the Boss?) (died 2019)
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|July 28 || Jacqueline Kennedy || 35th First Lady of the United States (died 1994)
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| July 31 || Don Murray || U.S. actor (The Outcasts, Knots Landing) (died 2024)
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| August 17 || Julianna McCarthy || U.S. actress (The Young and the Restless)
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| September 5 || Bob Newhart || U.S. comedian and actor (The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart) (died 2024)
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| rowspan="2" | September 25 || Ronnie Barker || British comedian, half of The Two Ronnies (died 2005)
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|Barbara Walters
|U.S. journalist and TV personality (died 2022)
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| October 16 || Nicholas von Hoffman || American journalist (died 2018)
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| October 23 || Merv Adelson || American producer (died 2015)
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| November 2 || Rachel Ames || U.S. actress (General Hospital)
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| November 15 || Ed Asner || U.S. actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant) (died 2021)
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| November 20 || Jerry Hardin || U.S. actor (The X-Files)
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| November 25 || Jack Hogan || U.S. actor (Combat!) (died 2023)
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| November 27 || Alan Simpson || British comedy scriptwriter (died 2017)
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| November 28 || Berry Gordy || U.S. producer
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| November 29 || Claus Toksvig || Danish foreign correspondent (died 1988)
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| rowspan="2"| November 30 || Dick Clark || U.S. TV host (American Bandstand) (died 2012)
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| Joan Ganz Cooney || U.S. producer (Sesame Street)
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| rowspan="2"| December 31 || Mies Bouwman || Dutch television presenter (died 2018)
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| David Nixon || British magician and television personality (died 1978)
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