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 August - 29 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  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on August - 29.  

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  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 August - 29.  

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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 August - 29.  

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

1780  On August - 29 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 this day in history birth of hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer  

1809  On August - 29 birth of oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)  

1811  Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA was born on August - 29.  

1815  Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction) was born on August - 29.  

1842  Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) was born on this day in history.  

1843  On August - 29 birth of david B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)  

1844  Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929) was born on this day in history.  

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

1862  On this day in history 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  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  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  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.  

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

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.