Famous Birthdays In August - 29

1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on this day in history.  

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on August - 29.  

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.  

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on this day in history.  

1609  On August - 29 birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)  

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on this day in history.  

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.  

1686  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 August - 29.  

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 this day in history.  

1756  On this day in history birth of jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)  

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) was born on this day in history.  

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  Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872) was born on this day in history.  

1808  Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer was born on this day in history.  

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

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  On this day in history birth of alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)  

1843  On August - 29 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  Emil Pauer, composer was born on this day in history.  

1857  On August - 29 birth of sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)  

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) was born on this day in history.  

1862  On August - 29 birth of andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)  

1871  Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950) was born on this day in history.  

1874  Walter Field was born on this day in history.  

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 August - 29.  

0886  On August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies  

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.  

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  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.  

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 August - 29.