2029 in public domain

{{Short description|Overview of works entering public domain}}

{{more citations needed|date=May 2023}}

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works is not uniform. The following lists include creators whose works entered the public domain in 2029 under the most common copyright regimes.

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

{{See also|2009 in public domain#Entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years|label 1=Creators whose works entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years in 2009}}

Except for Belarus (Life + 50 years) and Spain (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988), a work enters the public domain in Europe 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime. In addition, several other countries have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.

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!Names

!Country

!Birth

!Death

!Occupation

!Notable work

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1872|09|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|06|04|format=dmy}}

| novelist, poet, short story writer

| Molly Make-Believe, But Once A Year: Christmas Stories

Johannes R. Becher

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1891|05|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|10|11|format=dmy}}

| politician, novelist, and poet

| Auferstanden aus Ruinen

James Branch Cabell

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1879|04|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|05|05|format=dmy}}

| fantasy writer

| Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice, Biography of the Life of Manuel

Virginia Brindis de Salas

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1908|09|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|04|06|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| Pregón de Marimorena

Harry Cohn

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1891|07|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|02|27|format=dmy}}

| Filmmaker

|

E. Everett Evans

|{{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1893|11|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|02|format=dmy}}

|Science fiction author

|

Margiad Evans

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1909|03|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|03|17|format=dmy}}

| illustrator, novelist, poet

| Country Dance, Autobiography, A Ray of Darkness, The Nightingale Silenced

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1879|02|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|11|09|format=dmy}}

| literary critic, memoirist, novelist, short story writer, translator

| Understood Betsy

Marjorie Flack

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1897|10|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|08|29|format=dmy}}

| children's writer, illustrator

| writer of The Story About Ping, illustrator of The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

Lion Feuchtwanger

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1884|7|7|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|21|format=dmy}}

| writer, journalist, novelist and playwright

| author of Jud Süß (Süss, the Jew)

Angelina Weld Grimké

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1880|02|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|06|10|format=dmy}}

| playwright, poet

| Rachel

Michael Joseph

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1897|09|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|03|15|format=dmy}}

| Writer, publisher

| How to Write Serial Fiction, Puss in Books: A collection of stories about cats, The Sword in the Scabbard

Maxim Kopf

| {{flag|Austria-Hungary}}
{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}
{{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1892|01|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|07|06|format=dmy}}

| Painter, graphic artist and sculptor

| paintings from Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands

Cyril M. Kornbluth

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1923|07|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|03|21|format=dmy}}

| science fiction writer

| The Little Black Bag, The Marching Morons

Henry Kuttner

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1915|04|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|02|03|format=dmy}}

| Writer of fantasy, horror fiction, and science fiction.

| The Graveyard Rats, Mimsy Were the Borogoves

{{ill|Charles Kvapil|fr}}

| {{flag|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1884|11|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|21|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Rose Macaulay

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1881|08|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|10|30|format=dmy}}

| biographer, novelist, travel writer

| The World My Wilderness, The Towers of Trebizond

Johnston McCulley

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1883|02|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|11|23|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Zorro

G. E. Moore

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1873|11|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|10|24|format=dmy}}

| journal editor, philosopher

| Principia Ethica, A Defence of Common Sense

Charles Langbridge Morgan

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1894|01|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|02|06|format=dmy}}

| novelist, playwright

| The Burning Glass

Alfred Noyes

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1880|09|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|06|25|format=dmy}}

| playwright, poet, short story writer

| The Highwayman, Shakespeare's Kingdom

Seumas O'Sullivan

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| {{dts|1879|07|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|03|24|format=dmy}}

| magazine editor, poet

| Twilight People, Verses Sacred and Profane

Elliot Paul

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1891|02|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|04|07|format=dmy}}

| journalist, novelist, screenwriter

| Life and Death of a Spanish Town, Linden on the Saugus Branch

H. G. Peter

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1880|03|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|01|02|format=dmy}}

| Cartoonist

| Wonder Woman

Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen

| {{flag|Romania}}

| {{dts|1881|08|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|08|format=dmy}}

| social scientist

| Accidente profesionale (Work-related Accidents), Câteva considerațiuni asupra socialismului și asupra roadelor sale (Some Musings on Socialism and Its Results

Rudolph Rocker

| {{flag|Germany}}
{{flag|United Kingdom}}
{{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|03|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|09|19|format=dmy}}

| anarchist publisher and activist

| Nationalism and Culture

Peig Sayers

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| {{dts|1873

|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|08|format=dmy}}

| seanchaí (traditional Gaelic storyteller and historian)

| Peig, Machnamh Seanmhná (An Old Woman's Reflections)

Robert W. Service

| {{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1874|01|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|09|11|format=dmy}}

| poet

| The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Cremation of Sam McGee

J. C. Squire

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1884|04|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|20|format=dmy}}

| historian, literary critic, magazine editor, poet

| Robin Hood: a farcical romantic pastoral , Shakespeare as a Dramatist

John Reed Swanton

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|02|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|05|02|format=dmy}}

| anthropologist, folklorist, linguist

| The Indian Tribes of North America, Emanuel Swedenborg, Prophet of the Higher Evolution

Ethel Turner

| {{flag|Australia}}

| {{dts|1870|01|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|04|08|format=dmy}}

| children's writer, novelist

| Seven Little Australians

Ralph Vaughan Williams

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1872|10|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|08|26|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| A London Symphony

Geoffrey Willans

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1911|02|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|08|06|format=dmy}}

| children's writer, humorist, novelist, screenwriter

| Down with Skool! A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their Parents, Whizz for Atomms: A Guide to Survival in the 20th Century for Fellow Pupils, their Doting Maters, Pompous Paters and Any Others who are Interested

Countries with life + 60 years

In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.

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! Names

! Country

! Birth

! Death

! Occupation

! Notable work

Peter Arno

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|01|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|02|22|format=dmy}}

| Cartoonist

|

Karl Barth

| {{flag|Switzerland}}

| {{dts|1886|05|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Theologian

| Church Dogmatics

Enid Blyton

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1897|08|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|28|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, Noddy

Hugo Butler

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1914|05|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|01|07|format=dmy}}

| Screenwriter

| Lassie Come Home

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1895|04|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|16|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Les Guitares bien tempérées

Juan José Castro

| {{flag|Argentina}}

| {{dts|1895|03|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|09|03|format=dmy}}

| Composer

|

Cho Chi-hun

| {{flag|South Korea}}

| {{dts|1920|12|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|05|17|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|

Randolph Churchill

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1911|05|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|06|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, politician

| Lord Derby: King of Lancashire

Carmelo de Arzadun

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1888|07|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|16|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Kees van Dongen

| {{flag|Netherlands}}

| {{dts|1877|01|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|05|28|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| Woman with Large Hat

Carl Theodor Dreyer

| {{flag|Denmark}}

| {{dts|1889|02|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|20|format=dmy}}

| Film Director

| Michael

Marcel Duchamp

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1887|07|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|02|format=dmy}}

| Artist, writer

| Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Fountain

Margaret Duley

| {{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1894|09|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|22|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| §Works

Edna Ferber

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1885|08|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|04|15|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, playwright

| So Big, Show Boat

Red Foley

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1910|06|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|09|19|format=dmy}}

| Singer-songwriter

| Old Shep

Lucio Fontana

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1899|02|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|09|07|format=dmy}}

| Painter, sculptor

Ruth France

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1913|06|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|08|19|format=dmy}}

| Librarian, poet, novelist

| The Race

George Gamow

| {{flag|Soviet Union}}
{{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|03|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|08|19|format=dmy}}

| Physicist, Science writer

| One Two Three... Infinity and Mr. Tompkins series

Alice Guy-Blaché

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1873|07|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|24|format=dmy}}

| Filmmaker, screenwriter

| La Fée aux Choux

Otto Hahn

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1879|03|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|07|28|format=dmy}}

| Chemist

| Applied Radiochemistry

John Heartfield

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1891|06|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|04|26|format=dmy}}

| Artist

|

Fannie Hurst

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1885|10|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|02|23|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Imitation of Life, Lummox

Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi

| {{flag|Iran}}
{{flag|Iraq}}

| 1889

| {{dts|1968|04|04|format=dmy}}

| Religious teacher, poet

| Tā'liqāt fī mustafīḍah al-fiqh wa-al-uṣūl

W. E. Johns

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1893|02|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|21|format=dmy}}

| Writer, aviator

| The Biggles series

Anna Kavan

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1901|04|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|05|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Ice

Helen Keller

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1880|06|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|01|format=dmy}}

| Author, activist

| The Story of My Life

Robert F. Kennedy

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1925|11|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|06|format=dmy}}

| Politician, lawyer, author

| The Enemy Within

Martin Luther King Jr.

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1929|01|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|04|04|format=dmy}}

| Civil rights leader, minister

| Why We Can't Wait

Robert Z. Leonard

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1889|10|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|08|27|format=dmy}}

| Film Director, screenwriter

| The Great Ziegfeld

Albert Lewin

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1894|09|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|05|09|format=dmy}}

| Director, screenwriter

| The Picture of Dorian Gray

Trygve Lie

| {{flag|Norway}}

| {{dts|1896|07|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|30|format=dmy}}

| Politician, author

| In the Cause of Peace: Seven Years With The United Nations

Howard Lindsay

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1889|03|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|02|11|format=dmy}}

| Playwright, librettist

| State of the Union

Little Walter

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1930|05|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|02|15|format=dmy}}

| Blues musician

| Juke

Dorothea Mackellar

| {{flag|Australia}}

| {{dts|1885|07|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|01|14|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| My Country

Archie Mayo

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1891|01|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|04|format=dmy}}

| Film director, actor

| Night After Night

Ramón Menéndez Pidal

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1869|03|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|14|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| La España del Cid

Thomas Merton

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1915|01|31|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Monk, author

| The Seven Storey Mountain

{{Interlanguage link|José Monegal|es}}

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1892|07|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|04|format=dmy}}

| Writer, journalist

| Memorias de Juan Pedro Camargo

Wes Montgomery

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1923|03|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|15|format=dmy}}

| Jazz guitarist

| The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

Elsie K. Morton

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1885|10|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|08|21|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, writer

| Along the Road: a book of New Zealand life and travel

Walter Nash

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1882|02|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|04|format=dmy}}

| Politician

| New Zealand: a working democracy

Edwin O'Connor

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1918|07|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|23|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, journalist

| The Last Hurrah, The Edge of Sadness

Erwin Panofsky

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1892|03|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|14|format=dmy}}

| Art Historian

| Early Netherlandish Painting

Mervyn Peake

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1911|07|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|17|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Gormenghast Trilogy

Salvatore Quasimodo

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1901|08|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|14|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Giorno dopo giorno

Herbert Read

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1893|12|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|12|format=dmy}}

| Art Historian

| To Hell With Culture

Conrad Richter

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1890|10|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|30|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| The Town

Nelle Scanlan

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1882|01|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|05|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, journalist

| The Pencarrow series

Upton Sinclair

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1878|09|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|25|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Jungle

John Steinbeck

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1902|02|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|20|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath

Tian Han

| {{flag|China}}

| {{dts|1898|03|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Playwright

| March of the Volunteers, Xie Yaohuan

Rose Wilder Lane

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1886|12|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|30|format=dmy}}

| Writer, Political Theorist

| The Discovery of Freedom

Clare Winger Harris

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1891|01|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Away From the Here and Now

{{Interlanguage link|Justino Zavala Muniz|es}}

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1898|07|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|23|format=dmy}}

| Writer, playwright, historian, journalist, politician

| La cruz de los caminos, Alto Alegre

Karl Zuchardt

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1887|02|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|12|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Wie lange noch, Bonaparte?

Countries with life + 50 years

{{expand section|date=January 2025}}

In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, New Zealand, Egypt, and Uruguay, a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death.

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!Names

!Country

!Birth

!Death

!Occupation

!Notable work

Leigh Brackett

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1915|12|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|03|24|format=dmy}}

| Writer, screenwriter

| Shadow Over Mars

Edmund Crispin

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1921|10|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|09|15|format=dmy}}

| Writer, composer

| Gervase Fen stories

Pope John Paul I

| {{flag|Italy}}
{{flag|Vatican City}}

| {{dts|1912|10|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|09|28|format=dmy}}

| Pope

| Illustrissimi

Jane Lane

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1905|05|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|01|06|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| He Stooped to Conquer

Amelia Reynolds Long

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|11|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|03|26|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Behind the Evidence

Margaret Mead

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1901|12|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|11|15|format=dmy}}

| Anthropologist

| Coming of Age in Samoa

William Middleton

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1891|12|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|08|12|format=dmy}}

| Illustrator

| The Railway Series

Hope Mirrlees

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1887|04|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|08|01|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Lud-in-the-Mist

Ward Moore

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1903|08|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|01|29|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Bring the Jubilee

Carola Oman

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1897|05|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|06|11|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Road Royal

Pak Mok-wol

| {{flag|South Korea}}

| {{dts|1916|01|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|03|24|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|

Juancho Polo Valencia

| {{flag|Colombia}}

| {{dts|1918|09|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|07|22|format=dmy}}

| Songwriter

| "Alicia Adorada"

Eric Frank Russell

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1905|01|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|02|28|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| "Allamagoosa"

Jack L. Warner

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1892|08|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|09|09|format=dmy}}

| Filmmaker

|

Armin T. Wegner

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1886|10|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|05|17|format=dmy}}

| Writer, human rights activist

| Five Fingers Over You

Countries with life + 80 years

{{See also|2019_in_public_domain#Entering_the_public_domain_in_countries_with_life_+_70_years|label 1=Works that entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years in 2019}}

Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea, a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.

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! Names

! Country

! Birth

! Death

! Occupation

! Notable work

Alexander Aaronsohn

| {{flag|Israel}}

| 1888

| 1948

| Author

| With the Turks in Palestine

Sabahattin Ali

| {{flag|Turkey}}

| {{dts|1907|02|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|02|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| §Works

Francisco Alonso

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1887|05|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|18|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Las Leandras

Carl Thomas Anderson

|{{flag|United States}}

|{{dts|1865|02|14|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1948|11|04|format=dmy}}

|Cartoonist

|Henry

Antonin Artaud

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1896|09|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|04|format=dmy}}

| Dramatist

| §Works

Kan'ichi Asakawa

| {{flag|Japan}}

| {{dts|1873|12|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|10|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues

Gertrude Atherton

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1857|10|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|14|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| §Works

Jatindramohan Bagchi

| {{flag|India}}

| {{dts|1878|11|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|01|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|

Milan Begović

| {{flag|Croatia}}

| {{dts|1876|01|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|13|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Pustolov pred vratima

Hulusi Behçet

| {{flag|Turkey}}

| {{dts|1889|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|08|format=dmy}}

| Physician

| Clinical and Practical Syphilis, Diagnosis and Related Dermatoses

Ruth Benedict

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1887|06|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|17|format=dmy}}

| Anthropologist

| The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Frank Benford

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1883|05|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|04|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

| The law of anomalous numbers

Gertrude Barrows Bennett

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1884|07|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|02|format=dmy}}

| Writer of science fiction and fantasy

| The Citadel of Fear, The Heads of Cerberus, Claimed

Nikolai Berdyaev

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1874|03|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|24|format=dmy}}

| Philosopher

| §Works

Folke Bernadotte

| {{flag|Sweden}}

| {{dts|1895|01|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|17|format=dmy}}

| Diplomat, nobleman

| §Works

Georges Bernanos

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1888|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|05|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Diary of a Country Priest

Hendrik van der Bijl

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| {{dts|1887|11|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|02|format=dmy}}

| Engineer

| Theory and Operating Characteristics of the Thermionic Amplifier

Nasib al-Bitar

| {{flag|Palestine}}

| {{dts|1890|06|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|26|format=dmy}}

| Jurist

| Al-Fareeda Fi Hisab Al-Fareedhah

André Bloch

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1893|11|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|11|format=dmy}}

| Mathematician

| La conception actuelle de la theorie des fonctions entieres et meromorphes

Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1862|02|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|19|format=dmy}}

| Botanist

| Beiträge zur Flora Mazedoniens

Gordon Bottomley

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1874|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|25|format=dmy}}

| Poet, playwright

| The Crier By Night

Harry Brearley

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1871|02|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|14|format=dmy}}

| Metallurgist

| Knotted String

Sophonisba Breckinridge

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1866|04|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|30|format=dmy}}

| Economist, social scientist

| Marriage and the Civic Rights of Women

Robert Briffault

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1876|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|11|format=dmy}}

| Anthropologist, novelist

| The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions

Abraham Brill

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1874|10|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|02|format=dmy}}

| Psychiatrist

| Psychoanalysis: Its Theories and Practical Application

Alice Brown

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1857|12|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|21|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| §Works

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

| {{flag|India}}

| {{dts|1904|08|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|15|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| Jhansi Ki Rani

Hiram Alfred Cody

| {{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1872|07|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|09|format=dmy}}

| Writer, Clergyman

| The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon

Umberto Coromaldi

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1870|09|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|05|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| Happy Mother

Osamu Dazai

| {{flag|Japan}}

| {{dts|1909|06|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|13|format=dmy}}

| Author

| The Setting Sun, No Longer Human

Mary Angela Dickens

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1862|10|31|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|07|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Cross Currents

Dildar

| {{flag|Iraq}}

| {{dts|1918|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|12|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| Ey Reqîb

Janus Djurhuus

| {{flag|Faroe Islands}}

| {{dts|1881|02|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|01|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|

Lawrence Donovan

|{{flag|United States}}

|{{dts|1866|07|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1948|03|11|format=dmy}}

|Novelist and pulp fiction author

|

Rheta Childe Dorr

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1866|11|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|08|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, Suffragist

| What Eight Million Women Want

O. Douglas

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1877|03|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|24|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Olivia in India

Sergei Eisenstein

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1898|01|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|11|format=dmy}}

| Film Director

| Battleship Potemkin

Pompeu Fabra

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1868|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|25|format=dmy}}

| Grammarian

| Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

| {{flag|Bulgaria}}

| {{dts|1861|02|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|10|format=dmy}}

| King of Bulgaria (1887–1918), author, botanist, entomologist

|

Jacques Feyder

| {{flag|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1885|07|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|24|format=dmy}}

| Film Director, screenwriter,

| Crainquebille

William Arms Fisher

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1861|04|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|18|format=dmy}}

| Composer, writer

|

Zelda Fitzgerald

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1900|07|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|10|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Save Me the Waltz

Gustaf Fjæstad

| {{flag|Sweden}}

| {{dts|1868|12|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|17|format=dmy}}

| Artist

|

Karl Gebhardt

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1897|11|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|02|format=dmy}}

| Doctor

| Chirurgische krankengymnastik

Umberto Giordano

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1867|08|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|12|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Andrea Chénier

Susan Glaspell

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1876|07|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|28|format=dmy}}

| Playwright, novelist

| Trifles

Arshile Gorky

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|04|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|21|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| The Liver is the Cock's Comb

D. W. Griffith

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1875|01|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|23|format=dmy}}

| Film director, producer

| The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms

Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim

| {{flag|Ukraine}}

| {{dts|1888|03|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|04|format=dmy}}

| Botanist

|

Frederick Philip Grove

| {{flag|Germany}}
{{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1879|02|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|09|format=dmy}}

| Writer, translator

| Settlers of the Marsh

Uzeyir Hajibeyov

| {{flag|Azerbaijan}}

| {{dts|1885|09|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|23|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Leyli and Majnun

Thomas William Hanforth

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1867|03|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|05|format=dmy}}

| Composer

|

Ernest George Henham

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1870|12|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|03|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Furze the Cruel

Ernst Herzfeld

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1879|07|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|21|format=dmy}}

| Archaeologist

| Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra

Johan Hjort

| {{flag|Norway}}

| {{dts|1869|02|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|07|format=dmy}}

| Marine Biologist

| The Depths of the Ocean

Seth Hoffman

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1895|09|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|02|format=dmy}}

| Artist

|

Vicente Huidobro

| {{flag|Chile}}

| {{dts|1893|01|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|02|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas

Victor Ido

| {{flag|Indonesia}}

| {{dts|1869|02|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|20|format=dmy}}

| Writer, journalist

| De paupers

William Henry Irwin

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|09|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|24|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, writer

| The House That Shadows Built

Susan Sutherland Isaacs

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1885|05|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|12|format=dmy}}

| Psychologist

| Intellectual Growth in Young Children

Hédi Khayachi

| {{flag|Tunisia}}

| 1882

| 1948

| Painter

|

Kan Kikuchi

| {{flag|Japan}}

| {{dts|1888|12|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|06|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Tōjūrō no Koi

Egon Kisch

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1885|04|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|31|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, writer

| Schreib das auf, Kisch!

August Köhler

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1866|3|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|12|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

|Gedanken zu einem neuen Beleuchtungsverfahren für mikrophotographische Zwecke

Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1870|04|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|16|format=dmy}}

| General

| Mit dem Turken zum Suezkanal

Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1873|05|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|08|format=dmy}}

| Entomologist

| The Eurasian Arctic Fauna and Its Origin

Franz Lehár

| {{flag|Hungary}}

| {{dts|1870|04|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|24|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| List of operas and operettas

Rudolf Franz Lehnert

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1878|07|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|16|format=dmy}}

| Photographer

|

Maximilian Lenz

| {{flag|Austria}}

| {{dts|1860|10|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|19|format=dmy}}

| Artist

| A World, A Song of Spring

Monteiro Lobato

| {{flag|Brazil}}

| {{dts|1882|04|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|04|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, publisher

| Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (novel series)

Ross Lockridge Jr.

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1914|04|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|06|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Raintree County

Emil Ludwig

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1881|01|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|17|format=dmy}}

| Biographer

| Bismarck

Edith Balfour Lyttelton

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1865|04|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|02|format=dmy}}

| Writer, spiritualist

|

Rikard Magnussen

| {{flag|Denmark}}

| {{dts|1885|4|2|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|5|26|format=dmy}}

| Sculptor

| Ole Syversen Monument

Nikola Marinov

| {{flag|Bulgaria}}

| {{dts|1879|07|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|16|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Jan Masaryk

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1886|09|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|10|format=dmy}}

| Politician

| Speaking to My Country

Ilya Mashkov

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1881|07|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1944|03|20|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

A. E. W. Mason

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1865|05|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|22|format=dmy}}

| Author, politician

| The Four Feathers

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1897|03|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|25|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| La cumparsita

Claude McKay

| {{flag|Jamaica}}

| {{dts|1889|09|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|22|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|§Works

Ernest Merritt

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1865|04|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|05|format=dmy}}

| Physicist, educator

|

Kerry Mills

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1869|02|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|05|format=dmy}}

| Composer

|

Harry A. Millis

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|04|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|25|format=dmy}}

| Economist

|

Wesley Clair Mitchell

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1874|08|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|29|format=dmy}}

| Economist

| The Role of Money in Economic Theory

Thomas Mofolo

| {{flag|Lesotho}}

| {{dts|1876|12|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|08|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Chaka

Prosper Montagné

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1865|11|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|22|format=dmy}}

| Chef, Gastronome

| Larousse Gastronomique

Sylvanus Morley

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1883|06|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|02|format=dmy}}

| Archeologist

| The Ancient Maya

Na Hye-sŏk

| {{flag|South Korea}}

| {{dts|1896|04|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| Works

Baldassarre Negroni

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1877|01|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|18|format=dmy}}

| Film director

| The Courier of Moncenisio

Fred Niblo

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1877|01|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|07|format=dmy}}

| Film Director, actor

| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Alan Odle

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| 1888

| 1948

| Illustrator

|

Edith Olivier

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1872|12|31|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|10|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Alexander the Corrector: The Eccentric Life of Alexander Cruden

Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| {{dts|1874|04|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|18|format=dmy}}

| Dramatist, novelist

| Adam of Dublin

Margaret Pedler

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| 1877

| {{dts|1948|12|28|format=dmy}}

| Romance Author

| Barbarian Lover

John J. Pershing

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1860|03|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|15|format=dmy}}

| General

| My Experiences in the World War

Albert Pollard

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1869|12|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|03|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| The Evolution of Parliament

Manuel Ponce

| {{flag|Mexico}}

| {{dts|1882|12|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|24|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Estrellita

Abram Ranovich

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1885|12|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|29|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| On Early Christianity

Charles Herbert Reilly

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1874|03|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|02|format=dmy}}

| Architect

| Representative British Architects of the Present Day

Charles Grant Robertson

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| 1869

| {{dts|1948|02|29|format=dmy}}

| Historian, novelist

| England under the Hanoverians

J.-H. Rosny jeune

| {{flag|Belgium}}
{{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1859|07|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|21|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|

Sultanzade Sabahaddin

| {{flag|Turkey}}

| {{dts|1879|02|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|30|format=dmy}}

| Sociologist

| The Witness

Husain Salaahuddin

| {{flag|Maldives}}

| {{dts|1881|04|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|20|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Story of Thakurufaan the Great

Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira

| {{flag|Portugal}}

| {{dts|1881|05|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|17|format=dmy}}

| Writer, feminist

| Problema Feminista

Kurt Schwitters

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1887|06|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|08|format=dmy}}

| Artist

| Das Undbild

Antonin Sertillanges

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1863|11|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|26|format=dmy}}

| Priest, author

| What Jesus Saw from the Cross

Lamed Shapiro

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1878|03|10|format=dmy}}

| 1948

| Author

| Di yidishe melukhe un andere zakhn

D. D. Sheehan

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| {{dts|1873|05|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|28|format=dmy}}

| Politician, author

| Ireland since Parnell

David Shterenberg

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1881|07|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|01|format=dmy}}

| Painter and graphic artist

| §Works

Charles Silvestre

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1889|02|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|31|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| §Works

Annie M. P. Smithson

|{{flag|Ireland}}

|26 September 1873

|21 February 1948

|Author, nurse.

|The Walk of a Queen

Marjory Stephenson

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1885|01|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|12|format=dmy}}

| Biochemist

|

Montague Summers

|{{flag|United Kingdom}}

|{{dts|1880|04|10|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1948|08|10|format=dmy}}

|Author and clergyman

|Malleus Maleficarum

Alexander du Toit

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| {{dts|1878|03|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|25|format=dmy}}

| Geologist

| Our Wandering Continents; An Hypothesis of Continental Drifting

Richard C. Tolman

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1881|03|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|05|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

| The Principles of Statistical Mechanics

Karl Valentin

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1882|06|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|09|format=dmy}}

| Comedian

| §Works

José Vianna da Motta

| {{flag|Portugal}}

| {{dts|1868|04|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|01|format=dmy}}

| Pianist, composer

| §Works

Franco Vittadini

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1884|04|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|30|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Anima Allegra

Augusto Weberbauer

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1871|11|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|16|format=dmy}}

| Botanist

| Die Pflanzenwelt der peruanischen Anden in ihren Grundzügen

Paul Wegener

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1874|12|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|13|format=dmy}}

| Film Director, screenwriter

| The Student of Prague

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1876|01|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|21|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Il segreto di Susanna

George MacKinnon Wrong

| {{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1860|06|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|29|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| The Conquest of New France

Muhammad Amin Zaki

| {{flag|Iraq}}

| 1880

| 1948

| Historian

| A Short History of the Kurds and Kurdistan

Andrei Zhdanov

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1896|02|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|31|format=dmy}}

| Politician

|Советская литература,
Стахановцы настоящие большевики производства

United States

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Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1933, films released in 1933, and other works published in 1933, will enter the public domain in 2029.{{cite web |title=Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States |publisher=Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center |last=Hirtle |first=Peter B. |url=https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain |date=3 January 2020 |accessdate=17 December 2020}}{{cite web |title=Copyright and the Public Domain |publisher=Public Domain Information Project |url=http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801121535/http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php |archive-date=2014-08-01 |url-status=dead }} Sound recordings published in 1928 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1958 will also enter the public domain.

Notable films entering the public domain in 2029 include the original King Kong and its sequel Son of Kong, Lloyd Bacon's musical films 42nd Street and Footlight Parade, Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Universal Pictures' The Invisible Man with Claude Rains, Best Picture Academy Award-winner Cavalcade, Alfred E. Green's Baby Face with Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, George Cukor's adaptation of Little Women with Kathrine Hepburn, the Marx Brothers musical comedy Duck Soup, Ecstasy with Hedy Lamarr in her acting debut, the John Ford films Doctor Bull and Pilgrimage, Mervyn LeRoy's Tugboat Annie and Gold Diggers of 1933 (the latter of which he co-directed with Busby Berkeley), the Mae West films She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel, Frank Tuttle's Roman Scandals, Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (the first British film to win an Oscar), Lowell Sherman's Morning Glory, the original State Fair (which inspired the more famous 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical film), William J. Cowen's Oliver Twist, Cukor's Dinner at Eight, Frank Capra's Lady for a Day and The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Raoul Walsh's Going Hollywood with Marion Davies and Bing Crosby, Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct, Walt Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Three Little Pigs, and the first animated Popeye cartoons.

Literary works entering the public domain include H. G. Wells's sci-fi novel The Shape of Things to Come, James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon introducing Shangri-La, Dashiell Hammett's novel The Thin Man introducing Nick and Nora Charles, George Orwell's first novel Down and Out in Paris and London, Virginia Woolf's novel Flush: A Biography, Ernest Hemingway's short story collection Winner Take Nothing, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery novel Lord Edgware Dies, Raymond Chandler's short story Blackmailers Don't Shoot, John Steinbeck's novel To a God Unknown and Dorothy Wall's children's novel Blinky Bill.

Artworks entering the public domain include Diego Rivera's destroyed mural Man at the Crossroads and his Detroit Industry Murals, René Magritte's painting The Human Condition, and Henri Cartier-Bresson's photograph Seville, Spain.

Among the better-known songs entering the public domain are "We're in the Money", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "I've Got the World on a String" and "42nd Street". Additionally, the entry of Three Little Pigs will also bring along the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", the first hit song from Disney's studio and an anthem of the Great Depression.

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