Famous Birthdays In August - 29

1387  On August - 29 birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)  

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on this day in history.  

1476  On August - 29 birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)  

1561  On August - 29 birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)  

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on this day in history.  

1619  On August - 29 birth of jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron  

1628  On August - 29 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.  

1686  On August - 29 birth of wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer  

1694  On August - 29 birth of charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)  

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1725  Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767) was born on this day in history.  

1728  On this day in history birth of maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)  

1756  Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845) was born on August - 29.  

1756  Jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830) was born on this day in history.  

1773  On this day in history birth of raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)  

1777  On this day in history birth of nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)  

1780  On this day in history birth of jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)  

1805  Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872) was born on August - 29.  

1808  On August - 29 birth of hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer  

1809  On August - 29 birth of oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)  

1811  On August - 29 birth of henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA  

1815  Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction) was born on this day in history.  

1842  Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) was born on August - 29.  

1843  David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910) was born on August - 29.  

1844  Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929) was born on August - 29.  

1849  Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97) was born on this day in history.  

1851  Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer was born on this day in history.  

1855  On August - 29 birth of emil Pauer, composer  

1857  Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937) was born on this day in history.  

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) was born on August - 29.  

1862  Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928) was born on this day in history.  

1871  On this day in history birth of albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)  

1874  Walter Field was born on this day in history.  

1876  Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter) was born on August - 29.  

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0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on August - 29.  

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on this day in history.  

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.  

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on August - 29.  

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.