Famous Birthdays In August - 29

1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on August - 29.  

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  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  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  On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance  

1686  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1728  On August - 29 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 this day in history birth of jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)  

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

1777  Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853) was born on this day in history.  

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

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  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 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 August - 29.  

1843  On this day in history birth of david B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)  

1844  On August - 29 birth of edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)  

1849  On August - 29 birth of titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)  

1851  On August - 29 birth of willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer  

1855  On August - 29 birth of emil Pauer, composer  

1857  Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937) was born on this day in history.  

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) was born on this day in history.  

1862  On August - 29 birth of andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)  

1871  On this day in history birth of albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)  

1874  On August - 29 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 this day in history.  

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.  

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

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on this day in history.  

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on this day in history.  

1442  On August - 29 death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)  

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on this day in history.  

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