Famous Birthdays In August - 29

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

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  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on this day in history.  

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on this day in history.  

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 August - 29.  

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  On this day in history birth of charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)  

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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 August - 29.  

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

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

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 August - 29 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 this day in history.  

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  Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97) was born on this day in history.  

1851  Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer was born on August - 29.  

1855  On this day in history birth of emil Pauer, composer  

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 this day in history.  

1862  On this day in history 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  Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter) was born on August - 29.  

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0029  On August - 29 death of john the Baptist, beheaded  

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

1093  On this day in history 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 August - 29 death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)  

1442  On this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)  

1523  On August - 29 ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35  

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