Famous Birthdays In August - 29

1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on August - 29.  

1434  On August - 29 birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator  

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on this day in history.  

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on August - 29.  

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

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on August - 29.  

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on August - 29.  

1632  On this day in history birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance  

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

1694  Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715) was born on August - 29.  

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1725  On this day in history birth of charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)  

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  On this day in history birth of jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)  

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

1777  On August - 29 birth of nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)  

1780  On August - 29 birth of jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)  

1805  On this day in history birth of frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)  

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

1809  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) was born on this day in history.  

1811  Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA was born on August - 29.  

1815  On August - 29 birth of anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)  

1842  Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) was born on this day in history.  

1843  On this day in history birth of david B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)  

1844  On August - 29 birth of edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)  

1849  On this day in history birth of titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)  

1851  On this day in history birth of willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer  

1855  On August - 29 birth of emil Pauer, composer  

1857  Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937) was born on August - 29.  

1862  On this day in history birth of p M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)  

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  On this day in history birth of walter Field  

1876  Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter) was born on this day in history.  

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0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on this day in history.  

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.  

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

1123  On this day in history 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 August - 29 death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)  

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on August - 29.  

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on August - 29.