Famous Birthdays In August - 29
Monday, 06 February 2023
1387 Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on August - 29.
1434 Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on August - 29.
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 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 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.
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 Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715) was born on this day in history.
1725 Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767) was born on August - 29.
1728 On August - 29 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 Jan Śniadecki, 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 this day in history 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 On August - 29 birth of oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
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 Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) was born on August - 29.
1843 On August - 29 birth of david B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 On this day in history birth of edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
1849 Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97) was born on August - 29.
1851 On this day in history birth of willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer
1855 Emil Pauer, composer was born on August - 29.
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 August - 29.
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 On August - 29 birth of charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)