Famous Personalities Born In August - 29

1387  On August - 29 birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)   

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

1619  On August - 29 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 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 this day in history.   

1728  Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797) was born on August - 29.   

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 August - 29 birth of raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)   

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

1780  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather) was born on August - 29.   

1805  Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872) was born on this day in history.   

1808  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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  David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910) was born on August - 29.   

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 this day in history.   

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  On August - 29 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  On August - 29 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  On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)   

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 August - 29.   

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

1526  On August - 29 louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20