1387 On August - 29 birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)
1434 On August - 29 birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator
1476 On this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)
1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on this day in history.
1609 On this day in history birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)
1619 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on August - 29.
1628 On this day in history birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1632 John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on August - 29.
0029 On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded
0886 On August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies
1093 On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 On August - 29 death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)
1395 On this day in history death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 On this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1523 On August - 29 ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35
1526 Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.