Famous Deaths 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 this day in history.  

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 August - 29.  

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 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  

1533  Death of Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors on August - 29.  

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

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1653  On August - 29 death of gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49  

1657  Death of John Lilburne, English dissenter on August - 29.  

1712  Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on August - 29.  

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

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1769  On August - 29 edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)  

1780  Death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713) on August - 29.  

1782  Death of Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718) on August - 29.  

1799  Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1821  On this day in history horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86  

1844  On August - 29 death of edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)  

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

1861  On this day in history franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63  

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  On August - 29 death of stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)  

1891  Death of Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844) on August - 29.  

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

1904  On August - 29 murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies  

1909  Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies on August - 29.  

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

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

1918  On this day in history max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51  

1921  Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83 on August - 29.  

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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 this day in history.  

1476  On this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)  

1561  On August - 29 birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)  

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on August - 29.  

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on August - 29.  

1628  On August - 29 birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)  

1632  On this day in history birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance