Famous Personalities Born In August - 29
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
1387 On August - 29 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 this day in history birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)
1619 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on this day in history.
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 On August - 29 birth of wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer
1694 Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715) was born on August - 29.
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 Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) was born on August - 29.
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 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 August - 29.
1857 Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937) was born on this day in history.
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 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)