Famous Deaths In August - 29

0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1395  On this day in history death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)  

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  On this day in history 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)  

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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  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

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

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

1780  Death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713) on this day in history.  

1782  Death of Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718) on this day in history.  

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

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

1844  On this day in history 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 August - 29.  

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on August - 29.  

1865  John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on this day in history.  

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

1889  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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 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 this day in history birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)  

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

1628  On this day in history 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