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 this day in history.  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.  

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

1686  On this day in history birth of wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer  

1694  Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715) was born on this day in history.  

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

1728  On August - 29 birth of maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)  

1756  On this day in history birth of heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)  

1756  On August - 29 birth of jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)  

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) was born on August - 29.  

1777  Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853) was born on August - 29.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1843  David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910) was born on this day in history.  

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

1855  Emil Pauer, composer was born on August - 29.  

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

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 August - 29.  

1871  Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950) was born on August - 29.  

1874  On August - 29 birth of walter Field  

1876  On this day in history birth of charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)  

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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 this day in history.  

1123  On August - 29 death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)  

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on August - 29.  

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on August - 29.  

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.