Famous Personalities Born In August - 29

1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on this day in history.   

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  On August - 29 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  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.   

1632  On this day in history 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.   

1725  On this day in history birth of charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)   

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 August - 29.   

1756  Jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830) was born on August - 29.   

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) was born on August - 29.   

1777  On this day in history birth of nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)   

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  Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer was born on this day in history.   

1809  On August - 29 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  On this day in history birth of anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)   

1842  On this day in history birth of alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)   

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  On this day in history birth of titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)   

1851  Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer was born on this day in history.   

1855  On August - 29 birth of emil Pauer, composer   

1857  Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937) was born on August - 29.   

1862  On this day in history 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 this day in history birth of albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)   

1874  Walter Field was born on August - 29.   

1876  Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter) was born on this day in history.   

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0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on August - 29.   

0886  On August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies   

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.   

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 this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

1523  On this day in history ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35   

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