Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

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

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

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

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

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on August - 29.   

1533  On August - 29 death of atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors   

1542  On August - 29 death of cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)   

1653  Death of Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 on August - 29.   

1657  On this day in history death of john Lilburne, English dissenter   

1712  On this day in history gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63   

1738  On August - 29 georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81   

1758  On this day in history gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75   

1769  On this day in history edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)   

1780  On August - 29 death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)   

1782  On this day in history death of richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)   

1799  Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71 on August - 29.   

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

1844  Death of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762) on August - 29.   

1856  Death of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778) on this day in history.   

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1865  On August - 29 john Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54   

1877  Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies on this day in history.   

1889  Death of Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815) on August - 29.   

1891  On August - 29 death of pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)   

1893  On August - 29 aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]   

1904  Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies on August - 29.   

1909  On this day in history emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies   

1910  On August - 29 allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies   

1914  ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle on August - 29.   

1918  Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1921  Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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

1434  On this day in history birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.   

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on August - 29.   

1609  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history.