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Contents 1 Art and culture 1.1 Trends and events 1.2 Film 1.3 Literature 1.3.1 Non-fiction 1.3.2 Fiction 1.4 Visual culture 2 Births 3 Deaths

Art and culture

Trends and events

• James Joyce meets Sergei Eisenstein
• The Great Depression

Film

• Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov
• Un chien andalou by Luis Buñuel
• New Babylon
• Melody of the World by Walter Ruttmann

Literature

Non-fiction

• "Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia" by Walter Benjamin
• First issue of DOCUMENTS
• First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre)
• The Big Toe by Jacques-André Boiffard

Fiction

• Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Visual culture

• Airliner no. 4, Norman Bel Geddes with Otto Koller
• The Barcelona Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• Les abattoirs de La Villette by Eli Lotar

Births

• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)
• Régine Zylberberg (1929 - )
• Jean Baudrillard (1929 - 2007)
• Frank Gehry (1929 - )
• Jürgen Habermas (1929 - )
• Sergio Leone (1929 – 1989)
• René Laloux (1929 - 2004)
• José Ramón Larraz (1929 - )
• Jacques Brel (1929 - 1978)

Deaths