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 August - 29.  

1476  On August - 29 birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)  

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 this day in history 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  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 this day in history.  

1725  Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767) was born on August - 29.  

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 this day in history.  

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  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  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  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 August - 29.  

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

1844  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer  

1855  Emil Pauer, composer was born on August - 29.  

1857  On August - 29 birth of sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)  

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) was born on August - 29.  

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

1871  Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950) was born on this day in history.  

1874  Walter Field was born on this day in history.  

1876  On August - 29 birth of charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)  

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0029  On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded  

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on this day in history.  

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.  

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on August - 29.  

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on August - 29.  

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on August - 29.  

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

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