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 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 this day in history.  

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.  

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

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.  

1533  Death of Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors on this day in history.  

1542  Death of Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516) on this day in history.  

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

1657  On August - 29 death of john Lilburne, English dissenter  

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

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on August - 29.  

1758  On August - 29 gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75  

1769  Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown) on this day in history.  

1780  On this day in history death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)  

1782  On August - 29 death of richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)  

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

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on August - 29.  

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

1856  On this day in history death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)  

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

1865  John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on August - 29.  

1877  On this day in history brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies  

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 this day in history.  

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

1904  On this day in history murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies  

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

1910  Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies on this day in history.  

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

1918  On August - 29 max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51  

1921  On this day in history joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83  

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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 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 this day in history.  

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on this day in history.  

1628  On this day in history 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.