Famous Birthdays In August - 29

1387  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)  

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

1619  On August - 29 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 this day in history.  

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

1725  On August - 29 birth of charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)  

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 August - 29.  

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

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

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

1808  On this day in history birth of hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer  

1809  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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  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 this day in history.  

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

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  On August - 29 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 this day in history.  

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  On this day in history basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies  

1093  On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)  

1123  On August - 29 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  On this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)  

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

1526  On this day in history louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20