Famous Personalities Born In August - 29
Thursday, 12 February 2026
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 August - 29. 

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

1619 On this day in history 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 Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer was born on August - 29. 

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

1725 Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767) was born on August - 29. 

1728 Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797) was born on this day in history. 

1756 Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845) was born on this day in history. 

1756 Jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830) was born on August - 29. 

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

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

1808 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer was born on August - 29. 

1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) was born on August - 29. 

1811 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) 

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

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 August - 29. 

1851 Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer was born on August - 29. 

1855 Emil Pauer, composer was born on this day in history. 

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

1862 On August - 29 birth of p M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) 

1862 On this day in history birth of andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928) 

1871 On August - 29 birth of albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950) 

1874 Walter Field was born on August - 29. 

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

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